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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 215 205
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 -54
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 973 632 930
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.96% 1.46% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 4.48% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 607 435 502
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -0.69% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year +2.84% -1.05% +1.79%

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 24,540 14,096 22,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.14% 32.62% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 17,022 9,863 14,254
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 18 September 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 September 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 -32 399 £84,500 +12.67% 547
North of England +82 314 £72,500 +11.54% 140
North West +63 138 £67,500 +3.85% 97
Yorkshire +30 123 £80,000 +23.08% 27
South East -19 85 £65,000 -8.77% 77
Midlands -9 80 £62,500 +2.04% 55
South West -62 71 £60,500 +0.83% 68
North East -22 53 £67,500 -1.82% 16
West Midlands -43 44 £62,500 +2.04% 28
East Midlands -7 36 £65,000 - 27
East of England -62 12 £59,450 +1.19% 23
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 38 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.67%) Apache
4 19 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.75%) Confluence
6 11 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.51%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.51%) CMS
7 5 (0.51%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.51%) SAS
8 4 (0.41%) nginx
8 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.31%) JBoss
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) IIS
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 678 (69.68%) AWS
2 461 (47.38%) AWS Lambda
3 367 (37.72%) Azure
4 305 (31.35%) Amazon S3
5 226 (23.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 206 (21.17%) Amazon ECS
7 198 (20.35%) Azure Functions
8 133 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
9 130 (13.36%) Amazon EC2
9 130 (13.36%) GitHub
10 107 (11.00%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (10.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 96 (9.87%) AWS Step Functions
12 96 (9.87%) GCP
13 94 (9.66%) SaaS
14 92 (9.46%) Power Platform
15 83 (8.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 79 (8.12%) Amazon SQS
17 76 (7.81%) PaaS
18 71 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.29%) Firewall
2 31 (3.19%) VPN
3 24 (2.47%) Network Security
4 23 (2.36%) DNS
5 22 (2.26%) Internet
6 16 (1.64%) VoIP
7 14 (1.44%) DHCP
7 14 (1.44%) VLAN
8 9 (0.92%) MQTT
8 9 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.82%) AMQP
10 7 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.62%) BGP
11 6 (0.62%) IPsec
12 5 (0.51%) SAN
13 4 (0.41%) IPv4
13 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.31%) HTTP
14 3 (0.31%) SSL
14 3 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (16.44%) DynamoDB
2 96 (9.87%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (9.25%) NoSQL
4 84 (8.63%) SQL Server
5 64 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
6 56 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (4.93%) Relational Database
8 47 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (3.70%) Power BI
11 32 (3.29%) Big Data
12 30 (3.08%) Spark SQL
13 27 (2.77%) MongoDB
14 26 (2.67%) Data Lake
15 25 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (2.36%) MySQL
17 21 (2.16%) Hadoop
18 18 (1.85%) Metadata
19 11 (1.13%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 200 (20.55%) Git
2 125 (12.85%) Jenkins
3 73 (7.50%) GitLab
4 36 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.29%) JIRA
6 29 (2.98%) Cypress.io
7 27 (2.77%) Maven
8 25 (2.57%) Snyk
9 14 (1.44%) JMeter
10 12 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.23%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.13%) JUnit
11 11 (1.13%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.03%) Mockito
12 10 (1.03%) Postman
13 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.72%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.72%) Crashlytics
14 7 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 230 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 191 (19.63%) Finance
3 105 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 89 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.76%) Law
7 51 (5.24%) Banking
8 39 (4.01%) Marketing
9 25 (2.57%) Retail
10 18 (1.85%) Legal
11 16 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.54%) Aviation
13 14 (1.44%) Military
14 13 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.92%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.72%) Advertising
19 7 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 289 (29.70%) Senior
2 266 (27.34%) Developer
3 130 (13.36%) Lead
4 105 (10.79%) Architect
5 91 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 82 (8.43%) Senior Developer
7 80 (8.22%) Data Engineer
8 79 (8.12%) Java Developer
9 71 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 69 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
11 66 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 59 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 41 (4.21%) AWS Developer
13 41 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
13 41 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
13 41 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 41 (4.21%) Senior Architect
13 41 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (4.11%) Consultant
15 39 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (36.59%) Terraform
2 166 (17.06%) Node.js
3 153 (15.72%) .NET
4 137 (14.08%) React
5 125 (12.85%) REST
6 104 (10.69%) AngularJS
7 95 (9.76%) Spring Boot
8 83 (8.53%) Spring
9 80 (8.22%) RESTful
10 77 (7.91%) Kafka
11 54 (5.55%) AWS CDK
12 53 (5.45%) PySpark
13 42 (4.32%) JSON
14 36 (3.70%) Jest
15 34 (3.49%) OAuth
16 32 (3.29%) Gherkin
17 31 (3.19%) HTML
18 30 (3.08%) OAuth2
18 30 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
18 30 (3.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 262 (26.93%) Cloud Native
2 78 (8.02%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (7.71%) Onboarding
4 48 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 42 (4.32%) AI Agents
6 38 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 32 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (3.19%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (2.06%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.85%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.54%) Blog
14 15 (1.54%) Low-Code
14 15 (1.54%) Mobile App
15 14 (1.44%) Security Posture
16 13 (1.34%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.23%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.50%) Linux
2 44 (4.52%) Windows
3 14 (1.44%) VMS
3 14 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.72%) CentOS
5 7 (0.72%) Debian
5 7 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (58.38%) CI/CD
2 461 (47.38%) DevOps
3 374 (38.44%) Agile
4 346 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 280 (28.78%) AI
6 258 (26.52%) Mentoring
7 219 (22.51%) Software Engineering
8 212 (21.79%) Microservices
9 192 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
10 181 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 172 (17.68%) Test Automation
12 164 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 162 (16.65%) Observability
14 155 (15.93%) Analytics
15 153 (15.72%) Event-Driven
16 146 (15.01%) Containerisation
17 135 (13.87%) Cloud Security
18 128 (13.16%) Roadmaps
19 113 (11.61%) Migration
20 111 (11.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 361 (37.10%) Python
2 286 (29.39%) SQL
3 212 (21.79%) Java
4 200 (20.55%) TypeScript
5 182 (18.71%) C#
6 177 (18.19%) JavaScript
7 103 (10.59%) Bash
8 46 (4.73%) Bicep
9 43 (4.42%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.21%) Kotlin
11 39 (4.01%) Groovy
12 30 (3.08%) Ruby
13 27 (2.77%) PHP
14 24 (2.47%) C++
15 20 (2.06%) Go
16 19 (1.95%) Perl
17 17 (1.75%) Shell Script
18 14 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
19 12 (1.23%) Rust
20 11 (1.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 184 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 130 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 101 (10.38%) Degree
4 85 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 53 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 53 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 43 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.62%) CISM
14 6 (0.62%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) MBA
15 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.47%) GDPR
3 56 (5.76%) QA
4 27 (2.77%) GRC
5 26 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.82%) NIST
8 8 (0.82%) WCAG
9 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.51%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.21%) PMO
11 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 253 (26.00%) Docker
2 44 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.64%) vSphere
6 12 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 186 (19.12%) Kubernetes
2 102 (10.48%) Ansible
3 36 (3.70%) Grafana
3 36 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 24 (2.47%) Puppet
5 20 (2.06%) Packer
6 18 (1.85%) HP Fortify
7 14 (1.44%) Kibana
8 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.51%) Argo
10 5 (0.51%) Podman
10 5 (0.51%) SCCM
11 4 (0.41%) Rancher
11 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.21%) Scalr
13 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 195 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.52%) Databricks
3 37 (3.80%) Oracle
4 34 (3.49%) Tenable
5 32 (3.29%) OpenAI
6 27 (2.77%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
7 25 (2.57%) Palo Alto
7 25 (2.57%) VMware
8 24 (2.47%) Google
9 23 (2.36%) Splunk
10 18 (1.85%) IBM
10 18 (1.85%) SAP
11 16 (1.64%) Red Hat
12 14 (1.44%) AppDynamics
13 12 (1.23%) HP
13 12 (1.23%) ScienceLogic
14 10 (1.03%) Salesforce
15 8 (0.82%) Veeam
16 7 (0.72%) Foundry