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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 157 193
Rank change year-on-year -52 +36 -28
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 748 784 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 2.07% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 5.73% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 489 611 907
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £86,250 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 24,962 13,673 29,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.22% 36.15% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,231 10,149 24,274
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -83 297 £82,500 -10.81% 138
North of England +47 257 £75,000 +15.38% 69
Yorkshire +30 155 £75,000 +30.43% 17
North West +14 95 £75,000 - 46
Midlands -14 94 £55,000 - 16
East Midlands +10 68 £60,000 +9.09% 9
South East -97 41 £70,000 +16.67% 40
South West -73 40 £62,500 +4.17% 29
West Midlands -57 26 £50,000 -11.11% 7
East of England -33 19 £60,100 -29.29% 9
North East -35 7 £95,000 +52.00% 6
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 (3.61%) Apache
2 25 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.60%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.07%) SAS
7 4 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.53%) Confluence
7 4 (0.53%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.53%) JBoss
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.80%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 554 (74.06%) AWS
2 377 (50.40%) AWS Lambda
3 283 (37.83%) Amazon S3
4 256 (34.22%) Azure
5 180 (24.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 139 (18.58%) Amazon ECS
7 121 (16.18%) GitHub
8 113 (15.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 113 (15.11%) Azure Functions
9 97 (12.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 95 (12.70%) Amazon SQS
11 85 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
12 76 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
13 75 (10.03%) Amazon EC2
14 71 (9.49%) Azure Logic Apps
15 68 (9.09%) SaaS
16 64 (8.56%) GCP
17 63 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
18 58 (7.75%) Datadog
18 58 (7.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.01%) Firewall
2 13 (1.74%) DSL
2 13 (1.74%) Network Security
3 10 (1.34%) AMQP
4 8 (1.07%) VPN
5 6 (0.80%) WAN
6 5 (0.67%) DNS
7 3 (0.40%) Broadband
7 3 (0.40%) Internet
8 2 (0.27%) 4G
8 2 (0.27%) 5G
8 2 (0.27%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) VoIP
8 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.13%) Intranet
9 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (22.73%) DynamoDB
2 85 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 79 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.35%) Amazon Athena
7 39 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (5.08%) Power BI
9 36 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (3.61%) Relational Database
12 22 (2.94%) Data Lake
13 21 (2.81%) MySQL
14 19 (2.54%) Big Data
15 17 (2.27%) MongoDB
16 12 (1.60%) Spark SQL
17 11 (1.47%) Delta Lake
18 10 (1.34%) Metadata
19 9 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
20 7 (0.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 154 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 112 (14.97%) Git
3 104 (13.90%) GitLab
4 48 (6.42%) SonarQube
5 47 (6.28%) Maven
6 44 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 26 (3.48%) CircleCI
8 17 (2.27%) Snyk
9 16 (2.14%) JIRA
10 12 (1.60%) Crashlytics
10 12 (1.60%) XCTest
11 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.94%) MLflow
14 6 (0.80%) JUnit
14 6 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.53%) Gradle
15 4 (0.53%) Selenium
15 4 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 192 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.97%) Finance
3 56 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.61%) Banking
7 18 (2.41%) Publishing
8 17 (2.27%) Health Technology
8 17 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.01%) Advertising
10 14 (1.87%) Tech for Good
11 11 (1.47%) Legal
11 11 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.34%) Law
13 7 (0.94%) Billing
13 7 (0.94%) Retail
14 6 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.53%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 267 (35.70%) Developer
2 214 (28.61%) Senior
3 106 (14.17%) Architect
3 106 (14.17%) Lead
4 86 (11.50%) Java Developer
5 84 (11.23%) Senior Developer
6 66 (8.82%) AWS Developer
7 62 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
9 57 (7.62%) Software Engineer
10 47 (6.28%) Data Engineer
11 41 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 41 (5.48%) Senior Architect
12 39 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
13 38 (5.08%) Lead Developer
14 36 (4.81%) Python Developer
15 34 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
16 33 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
16 33 (4.41%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (23.13%) React
2 156 (20.86%) Node.js
3 108 (14.44%) .NET
4 106 (14.17%) Spring Boot
5 99 (13.24%) AngularJS
6 95 (12.70%) REST
7 79 (10.56%) Spring
8 78 (10.43%) RESTful
9 62 (8.29%) Kafka
10 57 (7.62%) AWS CDK
11 51 (6.82%) HTML
12 45 (6.02%) .NET Core
13 44 (5.88%) Jest
14 42 (5.61%) Gherkin
14 42 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (5.35%) CSS
16 30 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (4.01%) PySpark
17 26 (3.48%) JSON
18 25 (3.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.07%) Mobile App
6 19 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.27%) Blockchain
7 17 (2.27%) Web3
8 16 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.94%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.80%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.41%) Linux
2 16 (2.14%) VMS
3 15 (2.01%) Windows
4 12 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.67%) CentOS
6 5 (0.67%) Debian
6 5 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (58.96%) CI/CD
2 360 (48.13%) DevOps
3 273 (36.50%) Agile
4 261 (34.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 190 (25.40%) Microservices
6 178 (23.80%) Mentoring
7 171 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
8 153 (20.45%) Containerisation
9 151 (20.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 142 (18.98%) Software Engineering
11 129 (17.25%) Test Automation
12 124 (16.58%) Observability
13 117 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (14.44%) Analytics
15 102 (13.64%) AI
16 90 (12.03%) Event-Driven
17 83 (11.10%) TDD
18 79 (10.56%) Continuous Integration
19 72 (9.63%) Computer Science
20 71 (9.49%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 290 (38.77%) Python
2 211 (28.21%) TypeScript
3 210 (28.07%) SQL
4 172 (22.99%) Java
5 159 (21.26%) JavaScript
6 110 (14.71%) C#
7 72 (9.63%) Bash
8 48 (6.42%) Groovy
9 40 (5.35%) Go
9 40 (5.35%) Kotlin
10 32 (4.28%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.27%) Bicep
12 16 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.87%) Rust
14 12 (1.60%) Swift
15 11 (1.47%) PHP
16 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.53%) C++
18 4 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (12.17%) AWS Certification
2 90 (12.03%) Degree
3 79 (10.56%) Security Cleared
4 60 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 34 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
11 21 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (1.87%) OSCP
14 12 (1.60%) DBS Check
14 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.60%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.02%) QA
2 44 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.61%) GDPR
4 17 (2.27%) GRC
5 15 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.74%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 243 (32.49%) Docker
2 28 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.53%) iptables
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 225 (30.08%) Terraform
2 172 (22.99%) Kubernetes
3 71 (9.49%) Ansible
4 47 (6.28%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.48%) Grafana
5 41 (5.48%) HP Fortify
6 17 (2.27%) Kibana
7 10 (1.34%) Puppet
8 8 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.80%) Packer
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.40%) Nagios
10 3 (0.40%) Scalr
11 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.68%) Databricks
3 22 (2.94%) Palo Alto
4 18 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
4 18 (2.41%) Tenable
5 13 (1.74%) Oracle
6 12 (1.60%) Amplitude
6 12 (1.60%) Braze
7 11 (1.47%) Google
8 9 (1.20%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.07%) IBM
9 8 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.80%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.67%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.67%) Splunk
13 4 (0.53%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.53%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.40%) Atlassian