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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 227 241
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -43
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 494 400 796
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 1.39% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 4.48% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 310 295 493
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £41,050
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,950 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 18,041 8,937 22,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.57% 31.09% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9,339 6,212 17,437
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,925 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 12 May 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 12 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
North of England +82 261 £75,000 +15.38% 74
Yorkshire +30 151 £75,000 +30.43% 25
North West +42 103 £75,000 - 42
Midlands -4 98 £55,000 - 23
East Midlands +24 68 £60,000 +9.09% 10
South East -64 51 £62,000 +3.33% 47
South West -58 43 £63,750 +6.25% 32
West Midlands -51 30 £50,000 -9.09% 13
East of England -27 20 £60,050 -29.35% 8
Scotland -8 17 £76,783 +39.60% 7
Wales -26 14 £51,619 +1.82% 3
North East -35 7 £95,000 +52.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £95,000 - 2
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 14 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.23%) Apache
2 11 (2.23%) OpenStack
3 9 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.62%) SAS
5 4 (0.81%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.81%) JBoss
6 3 (0.61%) Confluence
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 373 (75.51%) AWS
2 245 (49.60%) AWS Lambda
3 208 (42.11%) Amazon S3
4 159 (32.19%) Azure
5 132 (26.72%) Amazon ECS
6 126 (25.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 93 (18.83%) AWS Step Functions
8 67 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 67 (13.56%) Azure Functions
9 62 (12.55%) GitHub
10 61 (12.35%) Amazon SQS
11 54 (10.93%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
13 50 (10.12%) Amazon EC2
13 50 (10.12%) Apigee
14 44 (8.91%) GCP
15 43 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
16 42 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
16 42 (8.50%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (7.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.23%) Network Security
2 5 (1.01%) AMQP
2 5 (1.01%) Firewall
3 2 (0.40%) DHCP
3 2 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.40%) LTE
3 2 (0.40%) MQTT
3 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.40%) VLAN
3 2 (0.40%) WAN
3 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.20%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) IPv4
4 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (22.27%) DynamoDB
2 57 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (9.72%) NoSQL
4 47 (9.51%) Amazon RDS
5 39 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 31 (6.28%) Amazon Athena
7 28 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (5.06%) Relational Database
9 19 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (3.44%) Power BI
11 14 (2.83%) Big Data
12 11 (2.23%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.82%) Spark SQL
14 8 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.42%) MySQL
15 7 (1.42%) RDBMS
16 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
16 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 101 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 80 (16.19%) Git
3 62 (12.55%) GitLab
4 50 (10.12%) SonarQube
5 42 (8.50%) Cypress.io
6 41 (8.30%) Maven
7 22 (4.45%) Snyk
8 12 (2.43%) Crashlytics
8 12 (2.43%) XCTest
9 11 (2.23%) JIRA
10 9 (1.82%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.42%) JUnit
12 4 (0.81%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.81%) JMeter
12 4 (0.81%) Mockito
12 4 (0.81%) Postman
12 4 (0.81%) Selenium
12 4 (0.81%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 110 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 37 (7.49%) Finance
3 36 (7.29%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.62%) Legal
7 7 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.21%) Advertising
8 6 (1.21%) Banking
9 5 (1.01%) Marketing
10 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.81%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.81%) Publishing
11 3 (0.61%) Billing
11 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.40%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (41.09%) Developer
2 129 (26.11%) Senior
3 85 (17.21%) Java Developer
4 81 (16.40%) Lead
5 62 (12.55%) Architect
6 54 (10.93%) Senior Developer
7 52 (10.53%) Software Engineer
8 46 (9.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (7.69%) AWS Developer
10 35 (7.09%) Cloud Architect
11 28 (5.67%) Software Developer
12 27 (5.47%) .NET Developer
13 26 (5.26%) Data Engineer
13 26 (5.26%) Senior Architect
14 25 (5.06%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (5.06%) Security Architect
15 23 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 23 (4.66%) Technical Leader
16 22 (4.45%) Senior Cloud Architect
16 22 (4.45%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (25.30%) React
2 121 (24.49%) Node.js
3 102 (20.65%) Spring Boot
4 98 (19.84%) AngularJS
5 80 (16.19%) REST
6 75 (15.18%) Spring
7 63 (12.75%) .NET
8 42 (8.50%) Gherkin
9 40 (8.10%) Jest
10 36 (7.29%) HTML
11 35 (7.09%) AWS CDK
12 30 (6.07%) RESTful
13 23 (4.66%) CSS
14 22 (4.45%) Kafka
14 22 (4.45%) Next.js
15 21 (4.25%) Web Services
16 19 (3.85%) .NET Core
16 19 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (3.44%) Vue
18 16 (3.24%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 86 (17.41%) Cloud Native
2 42 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (7.49%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.86%) Data Centre
5 23 (4.66%) Mobile App
6 19 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.81%) IoT
12 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.81%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.61%) NHS
13 3 (0.61%) PKI
14 2 (0.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.87%) Linux
2 12 (2.43%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.62%) Windows
4 4 (0.81%) CentOS
4 4 (0.81%) Debian
4 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.81%) Unix
5 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (59.11%) CI/CD
2 226 (45.75%) DevOps
3 205 (41.50%) Agile
4 143 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 117 (23.68%) Microservices
6 115 (23.28%) Mentoring
7 107 (21.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 107 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (20.24%) Software Engineering
9 93 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (17.21%) Containerisation
11 79 (15.99%) Test Automation
12 69 (13.97%) SDLC
13 68 (13.77%) AI
13 68 (13.77%) Observability
14 64 (12.96%) TDD
15 58 (11.74%) Computer Science
16 57 (11.54%) Clean Code
17 54 (10.93%) Event-Driven
18 53 (10.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 177 (35.83%) Python
2 156 (31.58%) Java
3 149 (30.16%) TypeScript
4 132 (26.72%) SQL
5 119 (24.09%) JavaScript
6 68 (13.77%) C#
7 55 (11.13%) Bash
8 47 (9.51%) Groovy
9 39 (7.89%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.83%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.43%) Swift
12 10 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.42%) PHP
14 4 (0.81%) Perl
14 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Rust
15 3 (0.61%) C
15 3 (0.61%) C++
15 3 (0.61%) VB
16 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (13.36%) AWS Certification
2 62 (12.55%) Degree
3 46 (9.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (7.89%) Security Cleared
5 32 (6.48%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.66%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (4.45%) Azure Certification
10 17 (3.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (3.04%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (2.43%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.82%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.62%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.61%) CCSP
16 3 (0.61%) CISM
16 3 (0.61%) CISSP
16 3 (0.61%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.45%) GRC
3 18 (3.64%) GDPR
4 17 (3.44%) QA
5 11 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.61%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.61%) NIST
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 176 (35.63%) Docker
2 23 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.81%) iptables
5 3 (0.61%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (23.28%) Terraform
2 88 (17.81%) Kubernetes
3 40 (8.10%) HP Fortify
4 35 (7.09%) Ansible
5 18 (3.64%) Grafana
5 18 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.43%) Puppet
7 10 (2.02%) Kibana
8 7 (1.42%) Packer
8 7 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.81%) Control-M
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.61%) Nagios
10 3 (0.61%) Scalr
11 2 (0.40%) Podman
12 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.26%) Tenable
3 22 (4.45%) CrowdStrike
3 22 (4.45%) Oracle
3 22 (4.45%) Palo Alto
4 13 (2.63%) Databricks
5 12 (2.43%) Amplitude
5 12 (2.43%) Braze
6 9 (1.82%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.62%) IBM
8 6 (1.21%) Google
8 6 (1.21%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.01%) Informatica
9 5 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.01%) Splunk
10 4 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.40%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.40%) WSO2