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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 224 207
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 -55
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 965 603 913
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.93% 1.39% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 4.33% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 614 410 478
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% +0.71% -

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 24,095 13,937 21,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.18% 32.23% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,939 9,675 13,444
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,860 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -26 413 £82,500 +10.00% 569
North of England +79 292 £69,973 +7.65% 158
North West +47 136 £67,500 +3.85% 105
Yorkshire +27 102 £80,000 +13.48% 38
South East -27 81 £65,000 -10.34% 101
Midlands -16 78 £62,500 -1.96% 66
South West -41 73 £62,500 +4.17% 76
North East -13 54 £67,500 -1.46% 15
West Midlands -41 44 £62,500 -1.96% 33
East Midlands -6 34 £65,000 - 33
East of England -66 10 £57,500 - 26
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 39 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.90%) Apache
4 22 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.76%) Confluence
6 11 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.73%) CMS
7 7 (0.73%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.31%) SAS
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Camunda
11 2 (0.21%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.10%) Finacle
4 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 664 (68.81%) AWS
2 444 (46.01%) AWS Lambda
3 372 (38.55%) Azure
4 291 (30.16%) Amazon S3
5 220 (22.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 197 (20.41%) Azure Functions
7 187 (19.38%) Amazon ECS
8 134 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
9 127 (13.16%) GitHub
10 126 (13.06%) Amazon EC2
11 105 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
12 102 (10.57%) GCP
13 96 (9.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 94 (9.74%) Power Platform
15 93 (9.64%) SaaS
16 86 (8.91%) PaaS
17 84 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
18 79 (8.19%) Azure Logic Apps
19 75 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
20 67 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.42%) VPN
2 30 (3.11%) Firewall
3 25 (2.59%) Network Security
4 23 (2.38%) DNS
5 22 (2.28%) Internet
6 16 (1.66%) VoIP
7 13 (1.35%) DHCP
7 13 (1.35%) VLAN
8 9 (0.93%) MQTT
9 8 (0.83%) AMQP
9 8 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.62%) BGP
10 6 (0.62%) IPsec
10 6 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.52%) SAN
12 4 (0.41%) IPv4
12 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.31%) HTTP
13 3 (0.31%) LTE
14 2 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (14.72%) DynamoDB
2 101 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
3 89 (9.22%) NoSQL
4 87 (9.02%) SQL Server
5 70 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
6 52 (5.39%) Relational Database
7 51 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
8 50 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (4.15%) Power BI
12 30 (3.11%) Big Data
13 25 (2.59%) MongoDB
13 25 (2.59%) Spark SQL
14 24 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (2.28%) Data Lake
16 21 (2.18%) Hadoop
16 21 (2.18%) Metadata
16 21 (2.18%) MySQL
17 15 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 195 (20.21%) Git
2 109 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 63 (6.53%) GitLab
4 27 (2.80%) JIRA
5 25 (2.59%) Snyk
6 24 (2.49%) SonarQube
7 22 (2.28%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.97%) Maven
9 15 (1.55%) JMeter
10 13 (1.35%) Claude Code
10 13 (1.35%) JUnit
11 12 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.24%) Mockito
12 11 (1.14%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.04%) Postman
14 8 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.73%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.73%) Selenium
16 6 (0.62%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.62%) Gradle
General
1 223 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 192 (19.90%) Finance
3 107 (11.09%) Public Sector
4 88 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (5.91%) Law
7 55 (5.70%) Banking
8 39 (4.04%) Marketing
9 25 (2.59%) Retail
10 21 (2.18%) Legal
11 16 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.55%) Aviation
13 14 (1.45%) Military
14 13 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.93%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.73%) Billing
18 7 (0.73%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.62%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 292 (30.26%) Senior
2 242 (25.08%) Developer
3 121 (12.54%) Lead
4 113 (11.71%) Architect
5 104 (10.78%) Software Engineer
6 81 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 78 (8.08%) Senior Developer
8 72 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
9 66 (6.84%) Java Developer
10 65 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 63 (6.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 59 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
13 47 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 44 (4.56%) Senior Architect
15 43 (4.46%) Cloud Architect
15 43 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 40 (4.15%) Consultant
16 40 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
17 39 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
18 37 (3.83%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (37.20%) Terraform
2 163 (16.89%) Node.js
3 150 (15.54%) .NET
4 138 (14.30%) React
5 117 (12.12%) REST
6 90 (9.33%) AngularJS
6 90 (9.33%) Spring Boot
7 85 (8.81%) Spring
8 80 (8.29%) RESTful
9 79 (8.19%) Kafka
10 54 (5.60%) AWS CDK
11 50 (5.18%) PySpark
12 40 (4.15%) JSON
13 31 (3.21%) Swagger
14 30 (3.11%) Jest
15 29 (3.01%) OAuth
16 27 (2.80%) HTML
17 26 (2.69%) .NET Framework
17 26 (2.69%) Next.js
17 26 (2.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 269 (27.88%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.98%) Onboarding
3 75 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (4.97%) Product Ownership
5 47 (4.87%) AI Agents
6 39 (4.04%) Enterprise Cloud
7 38 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (3.32%) Data Centre
9 30 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (2.18%) Management Information System
11 21 (2.18%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.66%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.55%) Blog
13 15 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.55%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.24%) Podcast
16 11 (1.14%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 67 (6.94%) Linux
2 42 (4.35%) Windows
3 13 (1.35%) VMS
3 13 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.73%) CentOS
4 7 (0.73%) Debian
4 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (58.76%) CI/CD
2 455 (47.15%) DevOps
3 375 (38.86%) Agile
4 354 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 282 (29.22%) AI
6 256 (26.53%) Mentoring
7 240 (24.87%) Software Engineering
8 214 (22.18%) Microservices
9 190 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 185 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (17.72%) Test Automation
12 163 (16.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 162 (16.79%) Observability
14 156 (16.17%) Analytics
15 153 (15.85%) Event-Driven
16 143 (14.82%) Cloud Security
17 141 (14.61%) Containerisation
18 140 (14.51%) Roadmaps
19 122 (12.64%) Migration
20 114 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 351 (36.37%) Python
2 274 (28.39%) SQL
3 197 (20.41%) Java
4 188 (19.48%) TypeScript
5 183 (18.96%) C#
6 169 (17.51%) JavaScript
7 96 (9.95%) Bash
8 49 (5.08%) Bicep
9 42 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 32 (3.32%) Kotlin
11 30 (3.11%) Ruby
12 28 (2.90%) Groovy
13 27 (2.80%) PHP
14 26 (2.69%) C++
15 20 (2.07%) Go
16 16 (1.66%) Perl
16 16 (1.66%) Shell Script
17 13 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (1.24%) Rust
18 12 (1.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 184 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 130 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 97 (10.05%) Degree
4 77 (7.98%) AWS Certification
5 58 (6.01%) Azure Certification
6 55 (5.70%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.62%) CISM
16 6 (0.62%) CISSP
16 6 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 68 (7.05%) GDPR
3 50 (5.18%) QA
4 28 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.80%) GRC
6 14 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.93%) NIST
8 8 (0.83%) WCAG
9 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.52%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 245 (25.39%) Docker
2 43 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.66%) vSphere
6 12 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.83%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 187 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 100 (10.36%) Ansible
3 41 (4.25%) Grafana
4 37 (3.83%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.49%) Puppet
6 18 (1.87%) Packer
7 13 (1.35%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.14%) HP Fortify
8 11 (1.14%) Kibana
8 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.62%) Rancher
10 5 (0.52%) Argo
10 5 (0.52%) Podman
10 5 (0.52%) SCCM
11 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 207 (21.45%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.15%) Databricks
3 36 (3.73%) Oracle
4 35 (3.63%) Dynatrace
5 34 (3.52%) Tenable
6 31 (3.21%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
7 25 (2.59%) Palo Alto
7 25 (2.59%) VMware
8 24 (2.49%) Google
9 23 (2.38%) Splunk
10 21 (2.18%) SAP
11 14 (1.45%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.24%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.14%) HP
13 11 (1.14%) IBM
14 10 (1.04%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.93%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.73%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.73%) SaltStack