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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 101 195
Rank change year-on-year -112 +94 -47
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 667 1,206 1,130
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.03% 3.07% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 8.13% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 434 599 895
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,900 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +4.14% -3.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £101,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £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 21,421 14,838 27,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.93% 37.83% 37.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,781 10,107 23,317
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £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 £81,000 £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 12 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 12 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 -75 275 £82,500 -13.16% 168
North of England +54 219 £72,500 +16.00% 93
Yorkshire +42 147 £73,750 +31.11% 35
Midlands -19 76 £60,000 +6.67% 24
North West +1 66 £72,966 +5.37% 49
East Midlands -8 50 £60,000 -2.04% 6
South West -109 44 £62,500 +4.17% 35
South East -166 35 £67,500 +12.50% 66
West Midlands -26 26 £53,750 -2.27% 18
East of England -61 15 £60,100 -9.28% 11
North East -21 6 £66,750 +6.80% 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 30 (4.50%) Apache
1 30 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.10%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.05%) Confluence
6 5 (0.75%) SAS
7 3 (0.45%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.45%) JBoss
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.60%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 526 (78.86%) AWS
2 350 (52.47%) AWS Lambda
3 265 (39.73%) Amazon S3
4 243 (36.43%) Azure
5 162 (24.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 124 (18.59%) GitHub
7 115 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
8 97 (14.54%) Azure Functions
9 95 (14.24%) AWS Step Functions
10 84 (12.59%) Amazon SQS
11 79 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 77 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
13 74 (11.09%) GitHub Actions
14 73 (10.94%) Azure Logic Apps
15 72 (10.79%) Amazon EKS
16 68 (10.19%) GCP
17 61 (9.15%) SaaS
18 56 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
19 55 (8.25%) Power Platform
20 41 (6.15%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.95%) DSL
2 12 (1.80%) Firewall
3 11 (1.65%) AMQP
3 11 (1.65%) Network Security
4 7 (1.05%) VPN
5 5 (0.75%) Broadband
6 4 (0.60%) WAN
7 3 (0.45%) Internet
7 3 (0.45%) SSL
8 2 (0.30%) DNS
9 1 (0.15%) 4G
9 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (19.19%) DynamoDB
2 83 (12.44%) NoSQL
3 74 (11.09%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 46 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 38 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (5.40%) Power BI
9 32 (4.80%) Relational Database
10 26 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
11 25 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (3.60%) MySQL
13 20 (3.00%) MongoDB
14 19 (2.85%) Big Data
15 17 (2.55%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
17 10 (1.50%) Metadata
17 10 (1.50%) RDBMS
18 9 (1.35%) Hadoop
19 7 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 137 (20.54%) Jenkins
2 93 (13.94%) Git
3 92 (13.79%) GitLab
4 37 (5.55%) Cypress.io
5 35 (5.25%) Maven
6 34 (5.10%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.15%) CircleCI
8 15 (2.25%) JIRA
9 10 (1.50%) JUnit
10 9 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.35%) MLflow
11 6 (0.90%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.90%) JMeter
11 6 (0.90%) Mockito
11 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.90%) XCTest
12 5 (0.75%) git-flow
13 4 (0.60%) webpack
14 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.45%) Mocha
General
1 183 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 92 (13.79%) Finance
3 52 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.15%) Banking
6 19 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (2.85%) Publishing
7 16 (2.40%) Health Technology
7 16 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.40%) Tech for Good
8 14 (2.10%) Law
8 14 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.80%) Advertising
10 9 (1.35%) Legal
11 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.75%) Retail
13 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 265 (39.73%) Developer
2 163 (24.44%) Senior
3 90 (13.49%) Architect
4 80 (11.99%) Lead
5 74 (11.09%) Senior Developer
6 73 (10.94%) Java Developer
7 65 (9.75%) AWS Developer
8 64 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 63 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (8.10%) Software Engineer
11 48 (7.20%) Python Developer
12 42 (6.30%) Lead Developer
13 40 (6.00%) Data Engineer
14 34 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 34 (5.10%) Software Developer
15 32 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
15 32 (4.80%) React Developer
16 31 (4.65%) .NET Developer
17 28 (4.20%) AWS Architect
18 26 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (26.24%) React
2 140 (20.99%) Node.js
3 108 (16.19%) .NET
4 98 (14.69%) Spring Boot
5 82 (12.29%) AngularJS
6 79 (11.84%) Spring
7 74 (11.09%) HTML
8 68 (10.19%) REST
9 67 (10.04%) RESTful
10 63 (9.45%) CSS
11 57 (8.55%) AWS CDK
12 51 (7.65%) Kafka
13 49 (7.35%) .NET Core
14 37 (5.55%) Jest
15 33 (4.95%) Gherkin
16 30 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
17 25 (3.75%) FastAPI
17 25 (3.75%) Flask
17 25 (3.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 148 (22.19%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.40%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (4.05%) Data Structures
6 22 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.85%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.80%) Blockchain
8 12 (1.80%) Web3
9 11 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.05%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.80%) Linux
2 15 (2.25%) VMS
2 15 (2.25%) Windows
3 8 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (1.20%) Unix
4 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.75%) CentOS
5 5 (0.75%) Debian
5 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (57.42%) CI/CD
2 316 (47.38%) DevOps
3 272 (40.78%) Agile
4 229 (34.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 185 (27.74%) Microservices
6 179 (26.84%) Mentoring
7 161 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 137 (20.54%) Containerisation
10 135 (20.24%) Software Engineering
11 116 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (14.09%) Observability
13 84 (12.59%) Analytics
14 81 (12.14%) Test Automation
15 78 (11.69%) AI
16 73 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
16 73 (10.94%) TDD
17 71 (10.64%) Data Modelling
18 70 (10.49%) Scrum
19 66 (9.90%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 274 (41.08%) Python
2 192 (28.79%) JavaScript
3 185 (27.74%) TypeScript
4 175 (26.24%) SQL
5 162 (24.29%) Java
6 109 (16.34%) C#
7 66 (9.90%) Bash
8 36 (5.40%) Go
9 32 (4.80%) Groovy
10 29 (4.35%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.60%) Kotlin
12 15 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (2.10%) Rust
14 9 (1.35%) PHP
15 8 (1.20%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.05%) Bicep
17 6 (0.90%) C++
17 6 (0.90%) Scala
17 6 (0.90%) Swift
18 5 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 104 (15.59%) AWS Certification
2 87 (13.04%) Degree
3 73 (10.94%) Security Cleared
4 56 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (6.60%) SC Cleared
6 40 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (5.85%) Azure Certification
8 35 (5.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (3.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (3.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 21 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 19 (2.85%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (2.40%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.10%) OSCP
14 9 (1.35%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.35%) Master's Degree
15 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.15%) QA
2 34 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.00%) GDPR
4 13 (1.95%) SOC 2
5 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.90%) SLA
8 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) NIST
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 222 (33.28%) Docker
2 17 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.60%) iptables
5 3 (0.45%) Firmware
5 3 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 203 (30.43%) Terraform
2 158 (23.69%) Kubernetes
3 62 (9.30%) Ansible
4 43 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.15%) Grafana
6 33 (4.95%) HP Fortify
7 18 (2.70%) Kibana
8 10 (1.50%) Puppet
9 7 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.45%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.45%) Nagios
11 2 (0.30%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.15%) Databricks
3 13 (1.95%) Google
4 11 (1.65%) Oracle
5 9 (1.35%) Palo Alto
5 9 (1.35%) Splunk
6 7 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.90%) Amplitude
7 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (0.75%) Fortinet
8 5 (0.75%) Pega
8 5 (0.75%) SaltStack
8 5 (0.75%) WSO2
9 4 (0.60%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.45%) IBM
10 3 (0.45%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.30%) Apple