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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 185 194
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 -29
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 801 742 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.98% 1.88% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.34% 5.40% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 529 574 887
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,225 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £116,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 23,983 13,741 29,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.36% 34.78% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,818 9,829 24,157
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £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% -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 18 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 18 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 -48 316 £82,500 -8.33% 140
North of England +79 265 £75,000 +15.38% 73
Yorkshire +44 153 £75,000 +25.00% 22
North West +60 105 £75,000 - 42
Midlands +1 102 £55,000 - 20
East Midlands +22 71 £55,000 - 7
South East -63 57 £62,500 +4.17% 47
South West -73 44 £63,750 +6.25% 34
West Midlands -43 31 £50,000 -9.09% 13
East of England -30 20 £60,050 -29.35% 5
North East -35 7 £95,000 +52.00% 9
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 (3.50%) Apache
2 24 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.62%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.00%) SAS
7 7 (0.87%) Confluence
8 4 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.50%) JBoss
9 3 (0.37%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.75%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 582 (72.66%) AWS
2 394 (49.19%) AWS Lambda
3 292 (36.45%) Amazon S3
4 266 (33.21%) Azure
5 194 (24.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 153 (19.10%) Amazon ECS
7 120 (14.98%) AWS Step Functions
8 119 (14.86%) Azure Functions
9 114 (14.23%) GitHub
10 97 (12.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
12 88 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
14 76 (9.49%) SaaS
15 73 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
15 73 (9.11%) Azure Logic Apps
16 69 (8.61%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (8.61%) GCP
17 58 (7.24%) Datadog
18 57 (7.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.62%) Firewall
2 16 (2.00%) Network Security
3 13 (1.62%) DSL
4 10 (1.25%) AMQP
5 7 (0.87%) VPN
6 6 (0.75%) Internet
6 6 (0.75%) VoIP
7 5 (0.62%) DNS
7 5 (0.62%) MQTT
7 5 (0.62%) WAN
8 3 (0.37%) Broadband
8 3 (0.37%) LTE
9 2 (0.25%) 4G
9 2 (0.25%) 5G
9 2 (0.25%) DHCP
9 2 (0.25%) IPv4
9 2 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.25%) VLAN
9 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (21.97%) DynamoDB
2 80 (9.99%) NoSQL
3 77 (9.61%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (7.62%) SQL Server
6 40 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
7 39 (4.87%) Power BI
8 37 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 35 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (4.12%) Relational Database
11 27 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.62%) Big Data
12 21 (2.62%) MySQL
13 19 (2.37%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.75%) MongoDB
14 14 (1.75%) Spark SQL
15 13 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.50%) Delta Lake
17 10 (1.25%) Metadata
18 9 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 171 (21.35%) Jenkins
2 131 (16.35%) Git
3 113 (14.11%) GitLab
4 52 (6.49%) SonarQube
5 50 (6.24%) Maven
6 47 (5.87%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.37%) CircleCI
8 24 (3.00%) Snyk
9 18 (2.25%) JIRA
10 13 (1.62%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.62%) XCTest
11 11 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.25%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.25%) JUnit
13 7 (0.87%) JMeter
13 7 (0.87%) MLflow
13 7 (0.87%) Mockito
14 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.62%) Gradle
16 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 195 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 114 (14.23%) Finance
3 58 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (3.50%) Banking
7 15 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (1.87%) Publishing
8 14 (1.75%) Advertising
8 14 (1.75%) Health Technology
9 12 (1.50%) Law
10 11 (1.37%) Legal
11 10 (1.25%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.87%) Billing
12 7 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.75%) Retail
14 5 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 277 (34.58%) Developer
2 243 (30.34%) Senior
3 112 (13.98%) Architect
4 109 (13.61%) Lead
5 97 (12.11%) Java Developer
6 88 (10.99%) Senior Developer
7 67 (8.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (8.36%) Software Engineer
8 62 (7.74%) AWS Developer
9 60 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (5.99%) Data Engineer
10 48 (5.99%) Senior Architect
11 43 (5.37%) Cloud Architect
12 42 (5.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 40 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 40 (4.99%) Security Architect
14 37 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.49%) Software Developer
16 35 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
16 35 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (21.72%) React
2 162 (20.22%) Node.js
3 119 (14.86%) Spring Boot
4 116 (14.48%) .NET
5 106 (13.23%) AngularJS
6 105 (13.11%) REST
7 92 (11.49%) Spring
8 76 (9.49%) RESTful
9 71 (8.86%) Kafka
10 56 (6.99%) AWS CDK
11 50 (6.24%) HTML
12 45 (5.62%) .NET Core
12 45 (5.62%) Gherkin
12 45 (5.62%) Jest
13 42 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (4.49%) CSS
15 33 (4.12%) JSON
15 33 (4.12%) PySpark
16 31 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (3.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 163 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.87%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 24 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.25%) Blockchain
6 18 (2.25%) Web3
7 17 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.75%) IoT
12 6 (0.75%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.74%) Linux
2 17 (2.12%) Windows
3 15 (1.87%) VMS
4 13 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.62%) CentOS
6 5 (0.62%) Debian
6 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (59.18%) CI/CD
2 379 (47.32%) DevOps
3 290 (36.20%) Agile
4 284 (35.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 198 (24.72%) Microservices
6 193 (24.09%) Mentoring
7 169 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (19.60%) Containerisation
8 157 (19.60%) Software Engineering
9 155 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 145 (18.10%) Test Automation
11 132 (16.48%) Observability
12 127 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (14.73%) AI
14 108 (13.48%) Analytics
15 98 (12.23%) Event-Driven
16 90 (11.24%) TDD
17 87 (10.86%) SDLC
18 83 (10.36%) DevSecOps
19 77 (9.61%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 308 (38.45%) Python
2 218 (27.22%) SQL
3 215 (26.84%) TypeScript
4 187 (23.35%) Java
5 159 (19.85%) JavaScript
6 118 (14.73%) C#
7 79 (9.86%) Bash
8 52 (6.49%) Groovy
9 43 (5.37%) Kotlin
10 42 (5.24%) Go
11 32 (4.00%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.50%) Rust
13 18 (2.25%) Bicep
14 15 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.62%) Swift
16 12 (1.50%) PHP
16 12 (1.50%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.75%) C++
18 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 101 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.99%) Degree
3 86 (10.74%) AWS Certification
4 72 (8.99%) SC Cleared
5 59 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.99%) Azure Certification
7 37 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (2.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 18 (2.25%) DV Cleared
13 15 (1.87%) OSCP
14 13 (1.62%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (1.50%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.99%) QA
3 35 (4.37%) GDPR
4 24 (3.00%) GRC
5 16 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.50%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.50%) NIST
9 4 (0.50%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 254 (31.71%) Docker
2 33 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.50%) iptables
5 3 (0.37%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.25%) Squid
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 246 (30.71%) Terraform
2 182 (22.72%) Kubernetes
3 84 (10.49%) Ansible
4 56 (6.99%) Prometheus
5 50 (6.24%) Grafana
6 41 (5.12%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.62%) Kibana
8 15 (1.87%) Puppet
9 8 (1.00%) Packer
9 8 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.50%) Podman
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.37%) Nagios
11 3 (0.37%) Scalr
12 2 (0.25%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.49%) Databricks
3 29 (3.62%) Tenable
4 27 (3.37%) Palo Alto
5 24 (3.00%) CrowdStrike
6 20 (2.50%) Oracle
7 13 (1.62%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.62%) Braze
8 12 (1.50%) Splunk
9 11 (1.37%) Google
10 9 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.00%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.00%) IBM
11 8 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.62%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.50%) NVIDIA
15 3 (0.37%) Zscaler