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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 197 207
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -39
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 870 714 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.03% 1.77% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 5.21% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 587 521 857
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 23,187 13,706 30,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.38% 33.97% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 15,453 9,755 24,438
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,270
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.20%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -48 330 £83,500 +2.77% 119
North of England +88 277 £75,000 +15.38% 49
Yorkshire +34 129 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +60 126 £75,000 +15.38% 27
Midlands +9 102 £55,000 - 19
South East -45 71 £67,500 +12.50% 50
East Midlands +36 70 £55,000 +4.76% 7
South West -42 67 £62,500 +4.17% 24
West Midlands -33 32 £52,500 -8.70% 12
North East -22 22 £75,000 +15.38% 8
East of England -34 20 £60,000 -20.00% 7
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 (3.45%) Apache
2 28 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.61%) Confluence
5 13 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.03%) SAS
8 5 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.46%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) WordPress
11 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.80%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 621 (71.38%) AWS
2 422 (48.51%) AWS Lambda
3 308 (35.40%) Azure
4 300 (34.48%) Amazon S3
5 197 (22.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 174 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
7 159 (18.28%) Azure Functions
8 124 (14.25%) GitHub
9 114 (13.10%) AWS Step Functions
10 103 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (11.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
12 85 (9.77%) Amazon SQS
12 85 (9.77%) SaaS
13 78 (8.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 78 (8.97%) GCP
14 76 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
15 73 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
16 72 (8.28%) Power Platform
17 60 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.41%) Firewall
2 20 (2.30%) Network Security
2 20 (2.30%) VPN
3 11 (1.26%) DSL
4 9 (1.03%) AMQP
4 9 (1.03%) Internet
5 8 (0.92%) DNS
6 7 (0.80%) MQTT
6 7 (0.80%) VoIP
7 5 (0.57%) Broadband
8 4 (0.46%) IPv4
8 4 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.34%) DHCP
9 3 (0.34%) LTE
9 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.34%) VLAN
10 2 (0.23%) 4G
10 2 (0.23%) BGP
10 2 (0.23%) IPsec
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (20.34%) DynamoDB
2 87 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 81 (9.31%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (7.47%) SQL Server
5 63 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (5.75%) Amazon Athena
7 44 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (4.83%) Power BI
9 41 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (3.79%) Relational Database
12 28 (3.22%) MySQL
13 27 (3.10%) Big Data
14 21 (2.41%) Data Lake
15 17 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.72%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.72%) Spark SQL
17 13 (1.49%) Delta Lake
17 13 (1.49%) Metadata
18 10 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 159 (18.28%) Jenkins
2 155 (17.82%) Git
3 100 (11.49%) GitLab
4 41 (4.71%) SonarQube
5 38 (4.37%) Maven
6 34 (3.91%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.10%) JIRA
8 26 (2.99%) CircleCI
9 25 (2.87%) Snyk
10 14 (1.61%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.61%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.61%) XCTest
11 11 (1.26%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.26%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.92%) JUnit
12 8 (0.92%) Selenium
13 7 (0.80%) JMeter
13 7 (0.80%) MLflow
13 7 (0.80%) Mockito
13 7 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 219 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.32%) Finance
3 59 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 43 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.68%) Banking
7 25 (2.87%) Law
8 13 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.26%) Advertising
9 11 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.03%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.03%) Legal
10 9 (1.03%) Marketing
11 8 (0.92%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.92%) Publishing
12 7 (0.80%) Billing
13 6 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.69%) Military
14 5 (0.57%) Retail
15 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 279 (32.07%) Senior
2 278 (31.95%) Developer
3 112 (12.87%) Lead
4 105 (12.07%) Architect
5 99 (11.38%) Senior Developer
6 95 (10.92%) Java Developer
7 85 (9.77%) Software Engineer
8 77 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (7.70%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (6.21%) Data Engineer
11 52 (5.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 51 (5.86%) AWS Developer
13 45 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
14 42 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
15 40 (4.60%) Senior Architect
16 39 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
16 39 (4.48%) Security Architect
16 39 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (4.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (19.77%) Node.js
2 170 (19.54%) React
3 129 (14.83%) .NET
4 110 (12.64%) AngularJS
5 109 (12.53%) REST
5 109 (12.53%) Spring Boot
6 87 (10.00%) Spring
7 75 (8.62%) Kafka
8 68 (7.82%) RESTful
9 50 (5.75%) AWS CDK
10 47 (5.40%) HTML
11 39 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
12 38 (4.37%) Gherkin
12 38 (4.37%) PySpark
13 35 (4.02%) .NET Core
13 35 (4.02%) CSS
13 35 (4.02%) Jest
14 33 (3.79%) JSON
15 29 (3.33%) YAML
16 26 (2.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 204 (23.45%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.87%) Mobile App
7 22 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.84%) Blockchain
10 16 (1.84%) Web3
11 14 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.49%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.49%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.38%) IoT
13 12 (1.38%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.01%) Linux
2 32 (3.68%) Windows
3 24 (2.76%) VMS
4 14 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.57%) CentOS
7 5 (0.57%) Debian
7 5 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (60.80%) CI/CD
2 415 (47.70%) DevOps
3 326 (37.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 310 (35.63%) Agile
5 205 (23.56%) Mentoring
6 203 (23.33%) Microservices
7 187 (21.49%) Software Engineering
8 179 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
9 177 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
10 173 (19.89%) AI
11 168 (19.31%) Test Automation
12 164 (18.85%) Containerisation
13 159 (18.28%) Observability
14 135 (15.52%) Analytics
15 132 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 126 (14.48%) Event-Driven
17 107 (12.30%) Cloud Security
18 93 (10.69%) DevSecOps
19 86 (9.89%) TDD
20 84 (9.66%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 345 (39.66%) Python
2 252 (28.97%) SQL
3 213 (24.48%) TypeScript
4 188 (21.61%) Java
5 160 (18.39%) JavaScript
6 136 (15.63%) C#
7 95 (10.92%) Bash
8 50 (5.75%) Kotlin
8 50 (5.75%) PowerShell
9 47 (5.40%) Go
10 46 (5.29%) Groovy
11 39 (4.48%) Bicep
12 24 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (2.41%) PHP
14 20 (2.30%) Rust
15 14 (1.61%) Swift
16 10 (1.15%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.92%) Perl
17 8 (0.92%) Ruby
17 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 95 (10.92%) Degree
3 79 (9.08%) SC Cleared
4 69 (7.93%) AWS Certification
5 46 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (4.37%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 28 (3.22%) DV Cleared
9 25 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.41%) Master's Degree
12 15 (1.72%) OSCP
13 11 (1.26%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 5 (0.57%) CISSP
16 5 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.06%) GDPR
3 38 (4.37%) QA
4 25 (2.87%) GRC
5 17 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.69%) NIST
10 5 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 252 (28.97%) Docker
2 32 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.84%) vSphere
5 12 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) iptables
6 4 (0.46%) Squid
6 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.34%) Firmware
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 293 (33.68%) Terraform
2 189 (21.72%) Kubernetes
3 92 (10.57%) Ansible
4 55 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 50 (5.75%) Grafana
6 29 (3.33%) HP Fortify
7 19 (2.18%) Kibana
8 18 (2.07%) Packer
9 17 (1.95%) Puppet
10 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.57%) Argo
12 4 (0.46%) Podman
12 4 (0.46%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.34%) Scalr
14 2 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.23%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) logstash
15 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.02%) Databricks
3 30 (3.45%) Tenable
4 25 (2.87%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.87%) Oracle
4 25 (2.87%) Palo Alto
5 19 (2.18%) Splunk
6 17 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 17 (1.95%) VMware
7 14 (1.61%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.61%) Braze
8 13 (1.49%) Google
9 12 (1.38%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.38%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.15%) IBM
12 9 (1.03%) AppDynamics
13 7 (0.80%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.57%) Foundry
14 5 (0.57%) SaltStack