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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 197 205
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -36
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 839 706 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 1.79% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 5.23% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 568 513 859
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,100 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £112,500
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 22,342 13,489 31,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.06% 34.20% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,795 9,535 24,724
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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 £103,900 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 13 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 13 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 -46 317 £82,500 -2.94% 119
North of England +82 271 £75,000 +15.38% 62
Yorkshire +37 137 £75,000 +25.00% 18
North West +60 119 £75,000 +15.38% 37
Midlands +27 109 £55,000 - 14
East Midlands +39 72 £55,000 +2.33% 6
South East -36 67 £67,500 +12.50% 43
South West -49 53 £62,500 +4.17% 40
West Midlands -35 37 £52,500 -8.70% 8
East of England -28 21 £60,000 -29.41% 8
North East -30 15 £75,000 +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 28 (3.34%) Apache
2 25 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.43%) Confluence
6 8 (0.95%) SAS
7 7 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.48%) JBoss
8 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (0.83%) PlantUML
3 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 601 (71.63%) AWS
2 412 (49.11%) AWS Lambda
3 297 (35.40%) Amazon S3
4 288 (34.33%) Azure
5 194 (23.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 164 (19.55%) Amazon ECS
7 143 (17.04%) Azure Functions
8 117 (13.95%) GitHub
9 115 (13.71%) AWS Step Functions
10 100 (11.92%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (11.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 85 (10.13%) Amazon SQS
13 83 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
14 79 (9.42%) SaaS
15 77 (9.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 77 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
16 71 (8.46%) GCP
17 70 (8.34%) Amazon EKS
18 64 (7.63%) Power Platform
19 58 (6.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.50%) Firewall
2 15 (1.79%) Network Security
3 13 (1.55%) DSL
4 10 (1.19%) VPN
5 8 (0.95%) AMQP
6 7 (0.83%) VoIP
7 6 (0.72%) DNS
7 6 (0.72%) Internet
7 6 (0.72%) MQTT
8 4 (0.48%) Broadband
8 4 (0.48%) IPv4
8 4 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.36%) DHCP
9 3 (0.36%) LTE
9 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.36%) VLAN
10 2 (0.24%) 4G
10 2 (0.24%) 5G
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (20.74%) DynamoDB
2 83 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (9.65%) NoSQL
4 64 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
5 63 (7.51%) SQL Server
6 49 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
7 44 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (4.65%) Power BI
9 36 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (4.05%) Relational Database
11 30 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (3.22%) MySQL
13 23 (2.74%) Big Data
14 18 (2.15%) Data Lake
15 16 (1.91%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.79%) Spark SQL
17 13 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (1.31%) Delta Lake
19 10 (1.19%) Metadata
20 8 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 162 (19.31%) Jenkins
2 147 (17.52%) Git
3 103 (12.28%) GitLab
4 41 (4.89%) SonarQube
5 39 (4.65%) Maven
6 35 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.10%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.98%) JIRA
8 25 (2.98%) Snyk
9 14 (1.67%) Crashlytics
9 14 (1.67%) XCTest
10 13 (1.55%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.07%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.95%) JUnit
14 7 (0.83%) JMeter
14 7 (0.83%) MLflow
14 7 (0.83%) Mockito
15 6 (0.72%) Selenium
16 5 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 207 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 127 (15.14%) Finance
3 59 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (7.03%) Public Sector
4 41 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (3.69%) Banking
6 17 (2.03%) Law
7 14 (1.67%) Advertising
8 10 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.07%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.07%) Publishing
10 8 (0.95%) Aerospace
10 8 (0.95%) Legal
10 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.83%) Billing
11 7 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.60%) Marketing
12 5 (0.60%) Retail
13 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 279 (33.25%) Developer
2 260 (30.99%) Senior
3 108 (12.87%) Architect
4 105 (12.51%) Lead
5 96 (11.44%) Senior Developer
6 95 (11.32%) Java Developer
7 76 (9.06%) Software Engineer
8 72 (8.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
10 52 (6.20%) AWS Developer
11 51 (6.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 50 (5.96%) Data Engineer
13 43 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (5.13%) Senior Architect
14 42 (5.01%) Cloud Architect
15 41 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
15 41 (4.89%) Security Architect
16 38 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (4.41%) Software Developer
18 35 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (20.38%) Node.js
2 169 (20.14%) React
3 128 (15.26%) .NET
4 107 (12.75%) Spring Boot
5 106 (12.63%) AngularJS
5 106 (12.63%) REST
6 85 (10.13%) Spring
7 72 (8.58%) Kafka
8 65 (7.75%) RESTful
9 52 (6.20%) AWS CDK
10 49 (5.84%) HTML
11 39 (4.65%) .NET Core
12 38 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (4.41%) CSS
13 37 (4.41%) Gherkin
14 36 (4.29%) Jest
14 36 (4.29%) PySpark
15 32 (3.81%) JSON
16 29 (3.46%) YAML
17 25 (2.98%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 187 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.96%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (2.98%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 19 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.03%) Blockchain
7 17 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.03%) Web3
8 16 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.19%) IoT
12 9 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 59 (7.03%) Linux
2 24 (2.86%) Windows
3 16 (1.91%) VMS
4 14 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.60%) CentOS
7 5 (0.60%) Debian
7 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (59.83%) CI/CD
2 393 (46.84%) DevOps
3 309 (36.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 290 (34.56%) Agile
5 196 (23.36%) Mentoring
6 192 (22.88%) Microservices
7 174 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
8 172 (20.50%) Software Engineering
9 170 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 162 (19.31%) Test Automation
11 154 (18.36%) Containerisation
12 142 (16.92%) AI
13 141 (16.81%) Observability
14 126 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 117 (13.95%) Event-Driven
16 116 (13.83%) Analytics
17 93 (11.08%) Cloud Security
18 90 (10.73%) DevSecOps
19 83 (9.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 83 (9.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 328 (39.09%) Python
2 239 (28.49%) SQL
3 215 (25.63%) TypeScript
4 180 (21.45%) Java
5 163 (19.43%) JavaScript
6 131 (15.61%) C#
7 83 (9.89%) Bash
8 49 (5.84%) Kotlin
9 45 (5.36%) Groovy
10 43 (5.13%) Go
11 41 (4.89%) PowerShell
12 30 (3.58%) Bicep
13 21 (2.50%) Rust
14 16 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.79%) PHP
16 14 (1.67%) Swift
17 11 (1.31%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.72%) C++
19 6 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.80%) Degree
3 76 (9.06%) SC Cleared
4 73 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 52 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (4.65%) Azure Certification
7 38 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 25 (2.98%) DV Cleared
10 24 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (2.15%) Master's Degree
13 17 (2.03%) OSCP
14 12 (1.43%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
15 9 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 5 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.65%) GDPR
3 35 (4.17%) QA
4 25 (2.98%) GRC
5 15 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.07%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.60%) NIST
9 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 244 (29.08%) Docker
2 31 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (2.62%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) vSphere
5 4 (0.48%) iptables
5 4 (0.48%) Squid
5 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 270 (32.18%) Terraform
2 178 (21.22%) Kubernetes
3 87 (10.37%) Ansible
4 55 (6.56%) Prometheus
5 50 (5.96%) Grafana
6 30 (3.58%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.38%) Kibana
8 17 (2.03%) Packer
9 15 (1.79%) Puppet
10 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.60%) Argo
12 4 (0.48%) Podman
12 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.36%) Scalr
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
15 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 111 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.05%) Databricks
3 30 (3.58%) Tenable
4 25 (2.98%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (2.98%) Palo Alto
5 24 (2.86%) Oracle
6 16 (1.91%) Splunk
7 14 (1.67%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.67%) Braze
8 12 (1.43%) Google
8 12 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.07%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.95%) IBM
12 8 (0.95%) VMware
13 7 (0.83%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
15 4 (0.48%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.48%) Salesforce