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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 108 167
Rank change year-on-year -94 +59 -41
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 596 1,235 910
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.13% 2.57% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 7.07% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 381 534 710
10th Percentile £51,804 £51,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £76,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £102,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,875 £98,875
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.96% +7.86% -6.67%

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 18,498 17,473 20,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.20% 36.42% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,306 10,328 16,816
10th Percentile £28,875 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

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 January 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 January 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 -64 269 £76,000 -17.84% 124
North of England +78 172 £75,000 +27.66% 107
Yorkshire +61 117 £75,000 +42.18% 51
Midlands +6 55 £60,000 +9.09% 49
North West +21 51 £72,966 +16.75% 43
South East -129 43 £67,500 +10.20% 146
South West -88 42 £62,500 -9.09% 61
West Midlands +8 32 £58,750 +6.82% 24
East Midlands -11 23 £65,000 +13.04% 25
East of England -46 15 £58,800 -5.92% 65
North East 0 4 £68,500 +9.60% 13
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 32 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.52%) Apache
2 21 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.52%) Confluence
4 14 (2.35%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.51%) WebSphere
7 7 (1.17%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.34%) nginx
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 457 (76.68%) AWS
2 305 (51.17%) AWS Lambda
3 245 (41.11%) Azure
4 221 (37.08%) Amazon S3
5 112 (18.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 99 (16.61%) GitHub
7 98 (16.44%) Amazon ECS
8 95 (15.94%) Azure Functions
9 79 (13.26%) Amazon EC2
10 78 (13.09%) Amazon EKS
11 75 (12.58%) AWS Step Functions
12 70 (11.74%) Amazon SQS
12 70 (11.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 63 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
14 58 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (9.56%) SaaS
16 50 (8.39%) GCP
16 50 (8.39%) Power Platform
17 49 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
18 39 (6.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.68%) AMQP
1 10 (1.68%) Firewall
1 10 (1.68%) Internet
2 8 (1.34%) Broadband
2 8 (1.34%) Network Security
3 7 (1.17%) SSL
3 7 (1.17%) VPN
4 6 (1.01%) Wireless
5 4 (0.67%) WAN
6 3 (0.50%) DNS
6 3 (0.50%) DSL
6 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (17.45%) DynamoDB
2 80 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (12.42%) Amazon RDS
4 67 (11.24%) NoSQL
5 47 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (7.55%) SQL Server
8 40 (6.71%) Relational Database
9 23 (3.86%) MongoDB
10 21 (3.52%) Data Lake
11 20 (3.36%) Big Data
11 20 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (3.36%) MySQL
12 19 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (3.19%) Power BI
13 17 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (2.68%) RDBMS
15 14 (2.35%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.51%) DB2
Development Applications
1 104 (17.45%) Jenkins
2 87 (14.60%) Git
3 52 (8.72%) GitLab
4 31 (5.20%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.69%) JIRA
6 21 (3.52%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.36%) Maven
8 17 (2.85%) JUnit
9 16 (2.68%) JMeter
10 13 (2.18%) Mockito
11 12 (2.01%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.17%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.17%) MLflow
13 5 (0.84%) git-flow
13 5 (0.84%) Vite
14 4 (0.67%) Mocha
14 4 (0.67%) Postman
14 4 (0.67%) Selenium
14 4 (0.67%) webpack
15 3 (0.50%) ESLint
General
1 167 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.93%) Finance
3 55 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 44 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.20%) Tech for Good
6 29 (4.87%) Publishing
7 27 (4.53%) Health Technology
8 19 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.68%) Banking
10 15 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.52%) Law
10 15 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.01%) Legal
12 9 (1.51%) Advertising
12 9 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.51%) Retail
13 8 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.01%) Automotive
14 6 (1.01%) Billing
15 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (40.77%) Developer
2 143 (23.99%) Senior
3 88 (14.77%) Architect
4 84 (14.09%) Lead
5 70 (11.74%) Senior Developer
6 62 (10.40%) AWS Developer
7 56 (9.40%) Python Developer
8 52 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 52 (8.72%) Java Developer
9 50 (8.39%) AWS Engineer
10 44 (7.38%) Data Engineer
11 42 (7.05%) Software Engineer
12 40 (6.71%) Lead Developer
13 39 (6.54%) Software Developer
14 36 (6.04%) .NET Developer
14 36 (6.04%) React Developer
15 29 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (4.03%) Lead Python Developer
16 24 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
17 22 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (27.18%) React
2 104 (17.45%) .NET
3 103 (17.28%) Node.js
4 84 (14.09%) Spring Boot
5 80 (13.42%) HTML
6 77 (12.92%) Spring
7 75 (12.58%) RESTful
8 74 (12.42%) REST
9 71 (11.91%) AngularJS
10 62 (10.40%) CSS
11 40 (6.71%) .NET Core
11 40 (6.71%) AWS CDK
12 38 (6.38%) Kafka
13 32 (5.37%) Vue
14 29 (4.87%) Jest
15 27 (4.53%) Web Services
16 26 (4.36%) FastAPI
17 25 (4.19%) Blazor
18 24 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
19 23 (3.86%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 138 (23.15%) Cloud Native
2 53 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.85%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.51%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.51%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.34%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.17%) IoT
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.38%) Linux
2 16 (2.68%) Windows
3 15 (2.52%) Unix
4 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.84%) VMS
6 3 (0.50%) CentOS
6 3 (0.50%) Debian
6 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (56.88%) CI/CD
2 270 (45.30%) DevOps
3 255 (42.79%) Agile
4 172 (28.86%) Microservices
5 168 (28.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 163 (27.35%) Mentoring
7 136 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (18.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 107 (17.95%) Containerisation
10 105 (17.62%) Software Engineering
11 103 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (15.77%) TDD
13 90 (15.10%) Scrum
14 86 (14.43%) AI
15 81 (13.59%) SDLC
16 69 (11.58%) Data Modelling
16 69 (11.58%) Migration
17 68 (11.41%) Observability
18 66 (11.07%) Computer Science
19 64 (10.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 257 (43.12%) Python
2 194 (32.55%) JavaScript
3 167 (28.02%) TypeScript
4 149 (25.00%) Java
5 143 (23.99%) SQL
6 113 (18.96%) C#
7 44 (7.38%) Bash
8 28 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.19%) Groovy
10 18 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.68%) Go
12 15 (2.52%) Scala
13 11 (1.85%) Bicep
14 6 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.67%) C++
16 4 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.67%) PHP
16 4 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 114 (19.13%) AWS Certification
2 80 (13.42%) Degree
3 69 (11.58%) Security Cleared
4 54 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 44 (7.38%) Azure Certification
7 39 (6.54%) SC Cleared
8 36 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (5.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (4.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 21 (3.52%) DV Cleared
12 13 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.17%) MCP
15 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.84%) SnowPro
17 4 (0.67%) OSCP
18 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.73%) QA
2 22 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.02%) GDPR
4 14 (2.35%) SLA
5 11 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.84%) WCAG
9 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.34%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 178 (29.87%) Docker
2 14 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.34%) HDFS
3 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.34%) iptables
5 1 (0.17%) vCloud
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (26.85%) Terraform
2 124 (20.81%) Kubernetes
3 41 (6.88%) Ansible
4 30 (5.03%) Grafana
5 29 (4.87%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.52%) Kibana
7 20 (3.36%) HP Fortify
8 7 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.84%) Puppet
10 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.50%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.17%) Argo
12 1 (0.17%) Nagios
12 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 103 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.86%) Databricks
3 17 (2.85%) Dynatrace
3 17 (2.85%) Splunk
4 16 (2.68%) Atlassian
4 16 (2.68%) Google
5 15 (2.52%) Oracle
6 10 (1.68%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.51%) IBM
7 9 (1.51%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.51%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.17%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.67%) Pega
10 4 (0.67%) WSO2
10 4 (0.67%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.50%) SAP
12 2 (0.34%) ServiceNow