Serverless Job Trends in the South East

Serverless Computing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 169 174
Rank change year-on-year -77 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 50 113 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.35% 1.47% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 5.36% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 33 62 117
10th Percentile £55,000 - £46,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £88,950 £102,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,855 2,107 5,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.62% 27.43% 30.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,177 1,353 4,012
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,644 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.39% +7.21% -11.54%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Serverless job vacancy trend in the South East

Serverless
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in the South East

Serverless
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley -30 30 £82,500 +32.00% 7
Berkshire -28 23 £82,500 +30.95% 4
Hampshire -23 18 £58,500 -2.50% 9
Buckinghamshire -5 6 £82,500 +65.00% 1
Oxfordshire -8 1 £87,500 +59.09% 2
Surrey -19 1 £62,500 -13.79%
East Sussex -19 1 £61,500 +23.00% 3
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (14.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.00%) JBoss
2 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 40 (80.00%) AWS
2 25 (50.00%) Azure
3 22 (44.00%) Amazon S3
3 22 (44.00%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (42.00%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (38.00%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (28.00%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (20.00%) Azure Functions
8 8 (16.00%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (14.00%) SaaS
10 6 (12.00%) GCP
11 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (6.00%) Datadog
12 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (4.00%) Fivetran
13 2 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) MQTT
1 2 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (28.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (22.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.00%) MySQL
6 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.00%) Power BI
7 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 30 (60.00%) Git
2 21 (42.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (20.00%) GitLab
3 10 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 6 (12.00%) JIRA
4 6 (12.00%) JUnit
5 5 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (8.00%) Artifactory
6 4 (8.00%) JMeter
6 4 (8.00%) Mockito
6 4 (8.00%) Postman
6 4 (8.00%) SpecFlow
7 3 (6.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (2.00%) git-flow
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Developer
2 14 (28.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (18.00%) Lead
4 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Java Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Software Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (58.00%) REST
2 17 (34.00%) .NET
2 17 (34.00%) React
3 16 (32.00%) Spring
4 15 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 14 (28.00%) Web Services
6 13 (26.00%) AngularJS
7 11 (22.00%) JSON
8 9 (18.00%) Kafka
8 9 (18.00%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (18.00%) YAML
9 7 (14.00%) Mustache
9 7 (14.00%) Node.js
10 5 (10.00%) Apache Camel
10 5 (10.00%) HTML
11 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (8.00%) jQuery
11 4 (8.00%) RESTful
11 4 (8.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 34 (68.00%) Agile
3 28 (56.00%) Microservices
4 22 (44.00%) TDD
5 20 (40.00%) DevOps
6 16 (32.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (32.00%) SDLC
7 15 (30.00%) BDD
7 15 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (28.00%) Mentoring
9 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (26.00%) Scrum
10 12 (24.00%) Test Automation
11 11 (22.00%) API Management
11 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (22.00%) Event-Driven
12 10 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (18.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 8 (16.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 20 (40.00%) Java
2 20 (40.00%) SQL
3 17 (34.00%) C#
4 13 (26.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.00%) Groovy
5 6 (12.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.00%) Perl
6 4 (8.00%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.00%) Rust
7 3 (6.00%) Bash
7 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) Azure Certification
3 7 (14.00%) Degree
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) QA
2 5 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (64.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (34.00%) Terraform
3 15 (30.00%) Ansible
4 8 (16.00%) Kibana
5 7 (14.00%) Grafana
5 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.00%) Packer
6 4 (8.00%) Puppet
7 3 (6.00%) Scalr
8 2 (4.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Oracle
2 9 (18.00%) AppDynamics
3 8 (16.00%) IBM
3 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (8.00%) Splunk
4 4 (8.00%) Tenable
5 2 (4.00%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks