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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 104 144
Rank change year-on-year -125 +40 +62
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 45 250 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.44% 2.72% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 8.30% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11 81 96
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -12.28% +9.62%
75th Percentile £69,375 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.96% +11.85% -10.00%

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 3,208 3,011 2,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.06% 32.73% 33.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 1,633 2,212
10th Percentile £28,400 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -64 31 £67,500 +8.00% 12
Berkshire -55 27 £63,750 +2.00% 5
Middlesex - 6 - - 1
Oxfordshire +20 4 £67,500 +22.73% 3
Surrey -14 4 £58,750 +6.82%
East Sussex +8 2 £62,000 +24.00% 6
Hampshire +15 1 £80,000 +33.33% 1
Kent -64 1 - -
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 6 (13.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 36 (80.00%) AWS
2 20 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
3 19 (42.22%) Amazon EKS
3 19 (42.22%) Amazon S3
4 17 (37.78%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (37.78%) Azure
5 15 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (28.89%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (17.78%) Azure Functions
7 8 (17.78%) Entra ID
8 7 (15.56%) Azure App Service
8 7 (15.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (13.33%) GitHub
9 6 (13.33%) PaaS
9 6 (13.33%) SaaS
10 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (11.11%) GCP
11 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.22%) NAS
2 1 (2.22%) SAN
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (26.67%) RDBMS
4 6 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 6 (13.33%) MySQL
5 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.22%) DB2
6 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.89%) JUnit
3 12 (26.67%) Git
3 12 (26.67%) JMeter
3 12 (26.67%) Mockito
4 5 (11.11%) git-flow
5 3 (6.67%) MLflow
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.22%) GitLab
6 1 (2.22%) Gradle
General
1 15 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Games
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (71.11%) Developer
2 20 (44.44%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (40.00%) Java Developer
4 15 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 12 (26.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 10 (22.22%) Senior
7 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
8 5 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.44%) Lead
10 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
10 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (2.22%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (51.11%) HTML
2 20 (44.44%) Spring
3 19 (42.22%) React
3 19 (42.22%) REST
3 19 (42.22%) Spring Boot
4 17 (37.78%) Web Services
5 13 (28.89%) .NET
6 12 (26.67%) ActiveMQ
6 12 (26.67%) Apache Camel
6 12 (26.67%) CSS
6 12 (26.67%) Hibernate
6 12 (26.67%) jQuery
6 12 (26.67%) JSON
6 12 (26.67%) WireMock
6 12 (26.67%) XML
7 11 (24.44%) Kafka
8 6 (13.33%) .NET Framework
8 6 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (13.33%) Mustache
8 6 (13.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Animation
4 3 (6.67%) Life Science
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) IVR
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) Agile
2 28 (62.22%) CI/CD
3 26 (57.78%) Microservices
4 22 (48.89%) DevOps
4 22 (48.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (42.22%) TDD
6 18 (40.00%) SDLC
7 13 (28.89%) BDD
8 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (26.67%) Process Management
8 12 (26.67%) Workflow
9 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (20.00%) Coaching
10 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 7 (15.56%) User Experience
12 6 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (13.33%) Fintech
12 6 (13.33%) Machine Learning
12 6 (13.33%) Scrum
12 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) JavaScript
2 21 (46.67%) Java
3 20 (44.44%) Python
4 13 (28.89%) C#
5 12 (26.67%) Shell Script
6 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.67%) C++
7 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.44%) Bash
8 2 (4.44%) SQL
9 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (44.44%) Docker
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Firmware
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (26.67%) Kibana
3 5 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (6.67%) Kubeflow
5 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.44%) Terraform
6 1 (2.22%) Podman
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Splunk
2 12 (26.67%) Dynatrace
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) Avaya
4 1 (2.22%) Genesys
4 1 (2.22%) NetApp
4 1 (2.22%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) VMware