Serverless Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Serverless Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 251 235
Rank change year-on-year +24 -16 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 589 359 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.05% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.27% 3.85% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 386 256 374
10th Percentile £47,750 £41,250 £35,704
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £61,084
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +2.32% -9.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £79,313
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +2.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,010 9,317 17,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.08% 27.17% 28.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,793 6,505 12,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Serverless job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
North of England +89 292 £75,000 +15.38% 78
North West +62 129 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Yorkshire +39 123 £80,000 +33.33% 22
Midlands +3 88 £58,750 -2.08% 25
South East -25 83 £65,000 -3.70% 40
South West -61 64 £61,500 +2.50% 32
East Midlands +22 55 £55,000 +46.67% 7
North East -15 40 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Wales -35 40 £60,000 +15.38% 10
West Midlands -46 33 £62,500 - 18
East of England -43 15 £59,450 +1.19% 12
Scotland +1 13 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (3.06%) Confluence
2 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.87%) Apache
4 9 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.36%) SAS
6 5 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.85%) JBoss
7 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 429 (72.84%) AWS
2 285 (48.39%) AWS Lambda
3 206 (34.97%) Amazon S3
4 190 (32.26%) Azure
5 157 (26.66%) Amazon ECS
6 135 (22.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 102 (17.32%) GitHub
8 97 (16.47%) Azure Functions
9 77 (13.07%) AWS Step Functions
10 68 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
11 66 (11.21%) Amazon SQS
12 65 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
13 60 (10.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 58 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
15 56 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (8.66%) GCP
17 44 (7.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 44 (7.47%) SaaS
18 41 (6.96%) Power Platform
19 39 (6.62%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.89%) VPN
2 11 (1.87%) Network Security
3 9 (1.53%) MQTT
4 7 (1.19%) Firewall
5 4 (0.68%) AMQP
5 4 (0.68%) DNS
5 4 (0.68%) IPv4
5 4 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.51%) DHCP
6 3 (0.51%) LTE
6 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.51%) VLAN
6 3 (0.51%) WAN
7 2 (0.34%) HTTP
7 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) VoIP
8 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (20.54%) DynamoDB
2 59 (10.02%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (8.32%) NoSQL
4 45 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (6.28%) Amazon Athena
7 34 (5.77%) Relational Database
8 27 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (3.23%) MySQL
12 18 (3.06%) Power BI
13 17 (2.89%) MongoDB
14 16 (2.72%) Big Data
15 14 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.70%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.70%) Spark SQL
17 6 (1.02%) DocumentDB
17 6 (1.02%) Redis
18 5 (0.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 115 (19.52%) Git
2 109 (18.51%) Jenkins
3 64 (10.87%) GitLab
4 38 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 34 (5.77%) Cypress.io
5 34 (5.77%) JIRA
6 25 (4.24%) Maven
7 22 (3.74%) Snyk
8 15 (2.55%) JUnit
8 15 (2.55%) Selenium
9 14 (2.38%) Crashlytics
9 14 (2.38%) XCTest
10 13 (2.21%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.87%) Postman
12 10 (1.70%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.36%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.36%) JMeter
14 7 (1.19%) Mockito
15 6 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 148 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 71 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 57 (9.68%) Finance
4 45 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.89%) Law
7 8 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.02%) Legal
9 5 (0.85%) Aviation
9 5 (0.85%) Banking
10 4 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.68%) Retail
11 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.34%) Advertising
12 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.34%) Games
13 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 216 (36.67%) Developer
2 163 (27.67%) Senior
3 81 (13.75%) Lead
4 80 (13.58%) Java Developer
5 73 (12.39%) Senior Developer
6 72 (12.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 68 (11.54%) Software Engineer
8 62 (10.53%) Architect
9 40 (6.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
11 32 (5.43%) Data Engineer
12 31 (5.26%) Software Developer
13 30 (5.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.92%) AWS Developer
15 28 (4.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (4.24%) Cloud Security Architect
17 25 (4.24%) Security Architect
18 23 (3.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (23.94%) Node.js
2 122 (20.71%) React
3 119 (20.20%) Spring Boot
4 97 (16.47%) AngularJS
5 93 (15.79%) REST
5 93 (15.79%) Spring
6 77 (13.07%) .NET
7 41 (6.96%) Jest
8 40 (6.79%) AWS CDK
9 36 (6.11%) Kafka
10 33 (5.60%) RESTful
11 32 (5.43%) Gherkin
12 30 (5.09%) HTML
13 27 (4.58%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (4.41%) Next.js
15 22 (3.74%) ASP.NET
15 22 (3.74%) CSS
16 21 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
17 20 (3.40%) Swagger
18 19 (3.23%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.15%) Greenfield Project
3 46 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.11%) Product Ownership
5 30 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.24%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.74%) Mainframe
7 22 (3.74%) Mobile App
8 18 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.72%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.04%) Podcast
10 12 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.53%) IoT
12 8 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.36%) Robotics
13 7 (1.19%) Digital Wallet
13 7 (1.19%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.13%) Linux
2 28 (4.75%) Windows
3 14 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.21%) VMS
5 7 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.85%) AIX
7 4 (0.68%) CentOS
7 4 (0.68%) Debian
7 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (59.59%) CI/CD
2 281 (47.71%) Agile
3 257 (43.63%) DevOps
4 191 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (24.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 141 (23.94%) AI
7 131 (22.24%) Software Engineering
8 129 (21.90%) Microservices
9 121 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (20.54%) Mentoring
10 117 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (18.85%) Observability
12 109 (18.51%) Test Automation
13 102 (17.32%) Containerisation
14 91 (15.45%) Scrum
15 83 (14.09%) TDD
16 82 (13.92%) Clean Code
16 82 (13.92%) Event-Driven
17 79 (13.41%) DevSecOps
18 76 (12.90%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 199 (33.79%) Python
2 174 (29.54%) Java
3 155 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 150 (25.47%) SQL
5 122 (20.71%) JavaScript
6 86 (14.60%) C#
7 63 (10.70%) Bash
8 44 (7.47%) Kotlin
9 39 (6.62%) Groovy
10 28 (4.75%) PowerShell
10 28 (4.75%) Ruby
11 22 (3.74%) Bicep
12 14 (2.38%) Swift
13 13 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (2.21%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.87%) Rust
15 10 (1.70%) PHP
16 8 (1.36%) Go
17 6 (1.02%) COBOL
17 6 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 83 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.71%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.51%) AWS Certification
3 56 (9.51%) Degree
4 29 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 21 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 21 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.72%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.87%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.53%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.36%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.75%) QA
3 23 (3.90%) GDPR
4 22 (3.74%) GRC
5 21 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.55%) WCAG
8 6 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.02%) NCSC
9 4 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.68%) NIST
10 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 187 (31.75%) Docker
2 28 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.72%) vSphere
5 12 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.68%) Squid
6 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.51%) Firmware
7 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 188 (31.92%) Terraform
2 113 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 57 (9.68%) Ansible
4 23 (3.90%) HP Fortify
5 20 (3.40%) Grafana
6 17 (2.89%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.55%) Puppet
8 14 (2.38%) Kibana
9 13 (2.21%) Packer
10 5 (0.85%) Podman
11 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.68%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.51%) Scalr
13 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.17%) logstash
14 1 (0.17%) Nagios
14 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.58%) Tenable
3 23 (3.90%) Oracle
4 22 (3.74%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.74%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.23%) Splunk
6 17 (2.89%) VMware
7 16 (2.72%) Google
8 14 (2.38%) Amplitude
8 14 (2.38%) Braze
8 14 (2.38%) Databricks
8 14 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 12 (2.04%) ScienceLogic
10 9 (1.53%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.53%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.53%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.36%) IBM
12 7 (1.19%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.19%) OneLogin
13 4 (0.68%) NVIDIA