Serverless Job Trends in England

Serverless Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 103 183
Rank change year-on-year -104 +80 -14
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 729 1,059 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.99% 2.90% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 7.69% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 471 615 913
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,740 13,768 28,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.28% 37.66% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12,836 10,196 24,002
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Serverless job vacancy trend in England

Serverless
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in England over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in England

Serverless
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the England region over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -85 287 £82,500 -13.16% 153
North of England +49 255 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +50 169 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -29 85 £55,000 - 22
North West 0 81 £75,000 +8.30% 47
East Midlands -15 58 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -118 45 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -154 41 £82,500 +37.50% 61
West Midlands -33 27 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East of England -74 19 £60,100 -29.29% 20
North East -28 5 £90,000 +44.00% 11
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.57%) Apache
3 23 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 15 (2.06%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.23%) SAS
7 5 (0.69%) Confluence
8 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.41%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.41%) JBoss
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) nginx
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) IIS
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.69%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 564 (77.37%) AWS
2 374 (51.30%) AWS Lambda
3 286 (39.23%) Amazon S3
4 261 (35.80%) Azure
5 170 (23.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 140 (19.20%) Amazon ECS
7 131 (17.97%) GitHub
8 108 (14.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 108 (14.81%) Azure Functions
9 94 (12.89%) Amazon SQS
10 92 (12.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 83 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (10.97%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (10.43%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (10.43%) Azure Logic Apps
14 72 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
15 67 (9.19%) GCP
16 61 (8.37%) SaaS
17 59 (8.09%) Power Platform
18 52 (7.13%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.33%) Firewall
2 13 (1.78%) DSL
3 11 (1.51%) AMQP
3 11 (1.51%) Network Security
4 8 (1.10%) VPN
5 6 (0.82%) WAN
6 5 (0.69%) Broadband
6 5 (0.69%) DNS
7 2 (0.27%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) Internet
7 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.27%) SSL
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.14%) 4G
8 1 (0.14%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (21.12%) DynamoDB
2 85 (11.66%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.97%) Amazon RDS
4 67 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (7.27%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (5.08%) Power BI
8 36 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
8 36 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (4.66%) Relational Database
10 29 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (3.43%) MySQL
12 21 (2.88%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.74%) Big Data
14 18 (2.47%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.51%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.37%) Metadata
17 9 (1.23%) Hadoop
17 9 (1.23%) Spark SQL
18 8 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 156 (21.40%) Jenkins
2 109 (14.95%) Git
3 101 (13.85%) GitLab
4 47 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 44 (6.04%) Maven
6 43 (5.90%) Cypress.io
7 23 (3.16%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.19%) JIRA
9 10 (1.37%) MLflow
10 9 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.23%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.23%) XCTest
11 7 (0.96%) JUnit
11 7 (0.96%) Snyk
12 6 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.55%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.55%) git-flow
13 4 (0.55%) JMeter
13 4 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 195 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 102 (13.99%) Finance
3 59 (8.09%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.16%) Banking
7 19 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (2.61%) Publishing
8 16 (2.19%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.19%) Tech for Good
9 15 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.78%) Advertising
11 11 (1.51%) Legal
12 10 (1.37%) Law
13 9 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.82%) Retail
15 5 (0.69%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.55%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.55%) Billing
16 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 285 (39.09%) Developer
2 187 (25.65%) Senior
3 98 (13.44%) Architect
3 98 (13.44%) Lead
4 91 (12.48%) Java Developer
5 80 (10.97%) Senior Developer
6 70 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (9.19%) AWS Developer
8 59 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
9 57 (7.82%) Software Engineer
10 48 (6.58%) Python Developer
11 41 (5.62%) Lead Developer
12 40 (5.49%) Data Engineer
13 36 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 33 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (4.53%) React Developer
15 33 (4.53%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.39%) AWS Architect
17 31 (4.25%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (24.42%) React
2 151 (20.71%) Node.js
3 109 (14.95%) .NET
4 108 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 99 (13.58%) AngularJS
6 90 (12.35%) REST
7 83 (11.39%) Spring
8 75 (10.29%) RESTful
9 69 (9.47%) HTML
10 58 (7.96%) CSS
11 56 (7.68%) Kafka
12 54 (7.41%) AWS CDK
13 49 (6.72%) .NET Core
14 44 (6.04%) Jest
15 40 (5.49%) Gherkin
15 40 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
17 27 (3.70%) Flask
17 27 (3.70%) PySpark
18 26 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 150 (20.58%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 22 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.74%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.92%) Blockchain
8 14 (1.92%) Web3
9 11 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.10%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.94%) Linux
2 17 (2.33%) Windows
3 16 (2.19%) VMS
4 9 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.69%) CentOS
6 5 (0.69%) Debian
6 5 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.41%) Unix
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (59.12%) CI/CD
2 363 (49.79%) DevOps
3 288 (39.51%) Agile
4 256 (35.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 196 (26.89%) Microservices
6 189 (25.93%) Mentoring
7 171 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 149 (20.44%) Containerisation
10 137 (18.79%) Software Engineering
11 123 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (15.36%) Observability
13 110 (15.09%) Test Automation
14 98 (13.44%) Analytics
15 95 (13.03%) AI
16 83 (11.39%) TDD
17 82 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
18 78 (10.70%) Event-Driven
19 73 (10.01%) Scrum
20 72 (9.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 297 (40.74%) Python
2 204 (27.98%) SQL
3 196 (26.89%) TypeScript
4 184 (25.24%) JavaScript
5 179 (24.55%) Java
6 107 (14.68%) C#
7 75 (10.29%) Bash
8 46 (6.31%) Groovy
9 38 (5.21%) Go
10 35 (4.80%) Kotlin
10 35 (4.80%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.92%) Rust
13 12 (1.65%) Bicep
14 10 (1.37%) PHP
15 9 (1.23%) Swift
16 8 (1.10%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.82%) C++
18 5 (0.69%) Perl
18 5 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 101 (13.85%) AWS Certification
2 91 (12.48%) Degree
3 83 (11.39%) Security Cleared
4 61 (8.37%) SC Cleared
5 60 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (2.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (2.06%) Master's Degree
14 14 (1.92%) OSCP
15 13 (1.78%) DBS Check
16 11 (1.51%) DV Cleared
17 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 7 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
19 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.45%) QA
2 36 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.29%) GDPR
4 15 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.78%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.96%) GRC
8 6 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 4 (0.55%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 253 (34.71%) Docker
2 19 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.55%) iptables
5 3 (0.41%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 234 (32.10%) Terraform
2 175 (24.01%) Kubernetes
3 78 (10.70%) Ansible
4 46 (6.31%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.17%) Grafana
6 40 (5.49%) HP Fortify
7 19 (2.61%) Kibana
8 10 (1.37%) Puppet
9 8 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.82%) Packer
11 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.41%) Nagios
12 3 (0.41%) Scalr
13 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.53%) Databricks
3 15 (2.06%) Palo Alto
4 11 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (1.51%) Google
5 10 (1.37%) Oracle
6 9 (1.23%) Amplitude
6 9 (1.23%) AppDynamics
6 9 (1.23%) Braze
6 9 (1.23%) IBM
7 8 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.10%) Tenable
8 7 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.82%) Pega
9 6 (0.82%) Splunk
9 6 (0.82%) WSO2
10 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.69%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.55%) Zscaler