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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 98 186
Rank change year-on-year -111 +88 -25
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 692 1,150 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.00% 3.15% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 8.32% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 449 596 909
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% 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 22,639 13,818 28,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.70% 37.85% 36.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12,295 10,128 23,813
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,163 £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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -90 280 £82,500 -13.16% 153
North of England +36 234 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +33 160 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -25 79 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North West -1 71 £72,966 +5.37% 47
East Midlands -9 55 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -121 44 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -175 35 £67,500 +12.50% 61
West Midlands -42 24 £51,875 -5.68% 18
East of England -77 19 £60,100 -14.14% 20
North East -31 3 £51,000 -18.40% 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 28 (4.05%) Apache
1 28 (4.05%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.30%) SAS
6 6 (0.87%) Confluence
7 4 (0.58%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.43%) JBoss
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.58%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 548 (79.19%) AWS
2 365 (52.75%) AWS Lambda
3 281 (40.61%) Amazon S3
4 245 (35.40%) Azure
5 170 (24.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 131 (18.93%) GitHub
7 128 (18.50%) Amazon ECS
8 104 (15.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 101 (14.60%) Azure Functions
10 90 (13.01%) Amazon SQS
11 89 (12.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 83 (11.99%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (10.55%) Azure Logic Apps
15 71 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
16 66 (9.54%) GCP
17 60 (8.67%) SaaS
18 57 (8.24%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.23%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.02%) Firewall
2 13 (1.88%) DSL
3 11 (1.59%) AMQP
3 11 (1.59%) Network Security
4 8 (1.16%) VPN
5 6 (0.87%) Broadband
6 5 (0.72%) WAN
7 4 (0.58%) DNS
7 4 (0.58%) SSL
8 2 (0.29%) Internet
9 1 (0.14%) 4G
9 1 (0.14%) 5G
9 1 (0.14%) DHCP
9 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.14%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (20.95%) DynamoDB
2 84 (12.14%) NoSQL
3 81 (11.71%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (7.51%) SQL Server
6 44 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (5.20%) Power BI
9 32 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
10 30 (4.34%) Relational Database
11 27 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (3.76%) MySQL
13 21 (3.03%) Big Data
14 20 (2.89%) Data Lake
15 18 (2.60%) MongoDB
16 10 (1.45%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.45%) Metadata
17 9 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.30%) Hadoop
17 9 (1.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 146 (21.10%) Jenkins
2 97 (14.02%) GitLab
3 96 (13.87%) Git
4 43 (6.21%) Cypress.io
5 42 (6.07%) Maven
6 40 (5.78%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.32%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.88%) JIRA
9 10 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.30%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.30%) JUnit
10 9 (1.30%) MLflow
10 9 (1.30%) XCTest
11 6 (0.87%) git-flow
11 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.72%) JMeter
12 5 (0.72%) Mockito
13 4 (0.58%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.58%) Selenium
13 4 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 189 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 102 (14.74%) Finance
3 53 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 22 (3.18%) Banking
6 19 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.75%) Publishing
7 17 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.31%) Health Technology
8 16 (2.31%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.88%) Advertising
11 10 (1.45%) Law
11 10 (1.45%) Legal
12 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.72%) Retail
14 4 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 275 (39.74%) Developer
2 169 (24.42%) Senior
3 92 (13.29%) Lead
4 87 (12.57%) Architect
5 82 (11.85%) Java Developer
6 78 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 68 (9.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 66 (9.54%) AWS Developer
9 60 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (7.80%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.94%) Python Developer
12 40 (5.78%) Data Engineer
13 39 (5.64%) Lead Developer
14 35 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (4.77%) React Developer
16 33 (4.77%) Software Developer
17 30 (4.34%) .NET Developer
17 30 (4.34%) AWS Architect
18 27 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (24.86%) React
2 145 (20.95%) Node.js
3 107 (15.46%) .NET
4 105 (15.17%) Spring Boot
5 89 (12.86%) AngularJS
6 80 (11.56%) Spring
7 73 (10.55%) REST
8 72 (10.40%) HTML
9 70 (10.12%) RESTful
10 62 (8.96%) CSS
11 57 (8.24%) AWS CDK
12 51 (7.37%) Kafka
13 49 (7.08%) .NET Core
14 43 (6.21%) Jest
15 39 (5.64%) Gherkin
16 31 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (3.76%) Flask
18 25 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
18 25 (3.61%) Vue
19 24 (3.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 147 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.90%) Data Structures
6 25 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.75%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.88%) Blockchain
8 13 (1.88%) Web3
9 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.87%) Reinsurance
12 6 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.77%) Linux
2 17 (2.46%) Windows
3 16 (2.31%) VMS
4 10 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.87%) Unix
7 5 (0.72%) CentOS
7 5 (0.72%) Debian
7 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (58.38%) CI/CD
2 334 (48.27%) DevOps
3 277 (40.03%) Agile
4 239 (34.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 191 (27.60%) Mentoring
6 182 (26.30%) Microservices
7 166 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 139 (20.09%) Containerisation
10 132 (19.08%) Software Engineering
11 121 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (15.17%) Observability
13 96 (13.87%) Test Automation
14 94 (13.58%) Analytics
15 80 (11.56%) AI
16 78 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
17 75 (10.84%) TDD
18 71 (10.26%) Data Modelling
19 69 (9.97%) Event-Driven
19 69 (9.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 281 (40.61%) Python
2 190 (27.46%) SQL
2 190 (27.46%) TypeScript
3 189 (27.31%) JavaScript
4 171 (24.71%) Java
5 107 (15.46%) C#
6 73 (10.55%) Bash
7 39 (5.64%) Groovy
8 37 (5.35%) Go
9 33 (4.77%) Kotlin
9 33 (4.77%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.02%) Rust
12 10 (1.45%) Bicep
12 10 (1.45%) PHP
13 9 (1.30%) Swift
14 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.87%) C++
15 6 (0.87%) Scala
16 5 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 106 (15.32%) AWS Certification
2 90 (13.01%) Degree
3 76 (10.98%) Security Cleared
4 58 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (7.23%) SC Cleared
6 38 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (5.20%) Azure Certification
8 33 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (3.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.47%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (3.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 20 (2.89%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (2.02%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.02%) Master's Degree
13 14 (2.02%) OSCP
14 13 (1.88%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.07%) QA
2 36 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.47%) GDPR
4 14 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) NIST
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 234 (33.82%) Docker
2 17 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) iptables
5 3 (0.43%) Firmware
5 3 (0.43%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 211 (30.49%) Terraform
2 155 (22.40%) Kubernetes
3 64 (9.25%) Ansible
4 45 (6.50%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.21%) Grafana
6 39 (5.64%) HP Fortify
7 17 (2.46%) Kibana
8 10 (1.45%) Puppet
9 8 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.43%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.43%) Nagios
12 2 (0.29%) Packer
12 2 (0.29%) Scalr
13 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.05%) Databricks
3 11 (1.59%) Google
4 9 (1.30%) Amplitude
4 9 (1.30%) Oracle
4 9 (1.30%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 7 (1.01%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.01%) Splunk
7 6 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.87%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.72%) Pega
8 5 (0.72%) SaltStack
8 5 (0.72%) WSO2
9 4 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.58%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.58%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.43%) IBM
11 2 (0.29%) Apple