Serverless Job Trends in the North of England

Serverless Computing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 164 189
Rank change year-on-year +50 +25 -66
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 217 90 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.51% 1.33% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.29% 3.82% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 133 59 135
10th Percentile £56,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,875
90th Percentile £83,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,061 2,358 5,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.21% 34.77% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,344 1,666 4,605
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,125 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Serverless job vacancy trend in the North of England

Serverless
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in the North of England

Serverless
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Yorkshire +44 148 £75,000 +33.33% 35
North West -1 64 £75,000 +9.69% 50
North East -27 5 £68,500 +9.60% 16
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (5.53%) OpenStack
2 10 (4.61%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.15%) Apache
4 3 (1.38%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.92%) JBoss
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (86.64%) AWS
2 106 (48.85%) AWS Lambda
3 96 (44.24%) Amazon S3
4 86 (39.63%) Azure
5 76 (35.02%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (32.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 62 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
8 46 (21.20%) GitHub
9 38 (17.51%) Amazon SQS
10 34 (15.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (15.67%) Amazon ECR
10 34 (15.67%) Apigee
11 31 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (10.60%) GCP
14 19 (8.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 19 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (8.76%) Azure Functions
15 18 (8.29%) SaaS
16 17 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.84%) AMQP
2 1 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (35.02%) DynamoDB
2 32 (14.75%) NoSQL
3 31 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 18 (8.29%) Relational Database
6 16 (7.37%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.76%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.30%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.84%) Big Data
12 4 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.84%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.84%) MySQL
12 4 (1.84%) Power BI
13 3 (1.38%) GIS
13 3 (1.38%) QGIS
13 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (28.11%) Jenkins
2 42 (19.35%) Git
3 36 (16.59%) GitLab
4 33 (15.21%) Cypress.io
4 33 (15.21%) Maven
4 33 (15.21%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.38%) Selenium
6 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 64 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.37%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.45%) Finance
4 9 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.30%) Legal
6 4 (1.84%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.92%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.92%) Retail
7 2 (0.92%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (50.23%) Developer
2 57 (26.27%) Java Developer
3 46 (21.20%) Senior
4 33 (15.21%) Architect
5 30 (13.82%) Software Engineer
6 27 (12.44%) Lead
7 22 (10.14%) AWS Developer
7 22 (10.14%) Senior Developer
8 21 (9.68%) .NET Developer
9 20 (9.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (8.29%) Python Developer
11 15 (6.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 11 (5.07%) Applications Architect
12 11 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (4.61%) Software Architect
14 9 (4.15%) Data Engineer
15 8 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (3.69%) Technical Leader
16 7 (3.23%) Lead Developer
16 7 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (32.26%) React
2 66 (30.41%) Spring Boot
3 63 (29.03%) AngularJS
4 61 (28.11%) Node.js
5 42 (19.35%) Spring
6 37 (17.05%) REST
7 35 (16.13%) .NET
8 33 (15.21%) Gherkin
8 33 (15.21%) Jest
9 24 (11.06%) RESTful
10 19 (8.76%) Django
10 19 (8.76%) Vue
11 18 (8.29%) FastAPI
12 17 (7.83%) .NET Core
13 16 (7.37%) CSS
13 16 (7.37%) Flask
13 16 (7.37%) HTML
14 15 (6.91%) Blazor
15 14 (6.45%) AWS CDK
16 13 (5.99%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (6.91%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.61%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.38%) NHS
8 2 (0.92%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.46%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.84%) CentOS
1 4 (1.84%) Debian
1 4 (1.84%) Linux
1 4 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (1.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (60.83%) CI/CD
2 117 (53.92%) DevOps
3 116 (53.46%) Agile
4 83 (38.25%) Microservices
5 64 (29.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (25.81%) Mentoring
7 50 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (20.74%) Containerisation
9 39 (17.97%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (17.97%) Software Engineering
10 38 (17.51%) TDD
11 34 (15.67%) Application Security
12 32 (14.75%) Architectural Patterns
13 31 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (14.29%) Scrum
14 30 (13.82%) Data Modelling
15 28 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
15 28 (12.90%) Migration
16 27 (12.44%) Computer Science
17 26 (11.98%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 103 (47.47%) Java
2 95 (43.78%) TypeScript
3 78 (35.94%) JavaScript
4 65 (29.95%) Python
5 55 (25.35%) SQL
6 36 (16.59%) C#
7 32 (14.75%) Bash
7 32 (14.75%) Groovy
8 17 (7.83%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.38%) PHP
10 2 (0.92%) Bicep
10 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 61 (28.11%) AWS Certification
2 26 (11.98%) Degree
3 24 (11.06%) Azure Certification
4 23 (10.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 23 (10.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (9.68%) TOGAF Certification
7 19 (8.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 17 (7.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (7.83%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (6.91%) Security Cleared
10 11 (5.07%) SC Cleared
11 5 (2.30%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.38%) IIBA
13 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.30%) QA
3 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 104 (47.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (30.41%) Terraform
2 33 (15.21%) HP Fortify
3 32 (14.75%) Kubernetes
4 14 (6.45%) Ansible
5 4 (1.84%) Grafana
5 4 (1.84%) Puppet
6 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.92%) Packer
7 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.30%) Pega
2 5 (2.30%) WSO2
3 4 (1.84%) Google
3 4 (1.84%) Red Hat
3 4 (1.84%) SaltStack
4 2 (0.92%) Databricks
5 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.46%) Informatica