Serverless Job Trends in the South West

Serverless Computing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 95 216
Rank change year-on-year -62 +121 -97
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 43 58 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.58% 2.18% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 6.61% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 46
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £68,800 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,799 878 2,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.39% 33.02% 29.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 733 2,130
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,375 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
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 South West

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

Serverless job vacancy trend in the South West

Serverless
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the South West over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in the South West

Serverless
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
Bristol -36 12 £67,500 +22.73% 8
Devon -18 10 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Gloucestershire -31 6 £65,000 -31.58% 7
Wiltshire -14 4 £62,500 +25.00% 2
Somerset -35 1 £60,000 -22.58% 2
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (6.98%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) CMS
3 1 (2.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 34 (79.07%) AWS
2 30 (69.77%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (60.47%) Amazon S3
4 19 (44.19%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (41.86%) Azure
6 9 (20.93%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (18.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (18.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (13.95%) GitHub
9 6 (13.95%) SaaS
10 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
10 5 (11.63%) GCP
10 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (9.30%) CloudFront
11 4 (9.30%) IaaS
11 4 (9.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Network Security
2 2 (4.65%) DHCP
2 2 (4.65%) DNS
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.65%) VLAN
2 2 (4.65%) WAN
2 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.33%) AMQP
3 1 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (18.60%) NoSQL
3 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.65%) MySQL
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.65%) Power BI
6 2 (4.65%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.33%) Big Data
7 1 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.98%) Git
3 3 (6.98%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) DBeaver
5 1 (2.33%) GitLab
5 1 (2.33%) JUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Maven
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Finance
5 3 (6.98%) Billing
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (6.98%) Head of Software Engineering
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) Spring
2 10 (23.26%) React
3 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
4 7 (16.28%) Node.js
5 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
6 5 (11.63%) .NET
7 4 (9.30%) REST
7 4 (9.30%) RESTful
8 3 (6.98%) CSS
8 3 (6.98%) HTML
8 3 (6.98%) jQuery
8 3 (6.98%) OpenAPI
8 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.98%) Swagger
9 2 (4.65%) 802.1X
9 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.65%) LESS
9 2 (4.65%) Sass
9 2 (4.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (39.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) IoT
2 3 (6.98%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.65%) BYOD
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) CentOS
4 1 (2.33%) Debian
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) CI/CD
2 26 (60.47%) DevOps
3 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 20 (46.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
5 15 (34.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (32.56%) Mentoring
6 14 (32.56%) Software Engineering
7 10 (23.26%) Microservices
8 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
9 8 (18.60%) Front End Development
10 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
11 6 (13.95%) Design Patterns
12 5 (11.63%) Cloud Security
12 5 (11.63%) Code Quality
12 5 (11.63%) Scrum
12 5 (11.63%) SDLC
13 4 (9.30%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Python
2 16 (37.21%) Java
2 16 (37.21%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.26%) TypeScript
4 8 (18.60%) Bash
5 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.63%) C#
6 5 (11.63%) SQL
7 3 (6.98%) PHP
8 2 (4.65%) VB
9 1 (2.33%) Bicep
9 1 (2.33%) Go
9 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.98%) ISO 9001
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) iptables
3 3 (6.98%) Firmware
4 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (46.51%) Kubernetes
2 16 (37.21%) Terraform
3 6 (13.95%) Ansible
3 6 (13.95%) Grafana
3 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.63%) Progress Chef
4 5 (11.63%) Puppet
5 2 (4.65%) Kibana
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Aruba
3 2 (4.65%) HP
3 2 (4.65%) Veeam
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.33%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.33%) SAP