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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 130 230
Rank change year-on-year -93 +100 -64
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 364 767 562
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 2.18% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.61% 6.65% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 233 262 424
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £79,063
90th Percentile £84,500 £89,750 £90,875
UK median annual salary £72,250 £76,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.93% +8.57% -6.67%

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 13,950 11,531 15,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.42% 32.72% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,011 6,271 12,927
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 25 January 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 25 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
North of England +67 183 £75,000 +22.45% 117
Yorkshire +58 125 £75,000 +41.51% 48
Midlands -9 58 £60,000 +9.09% 64
North West +12 54 £75,000 +20.00% 54
South West -97 42 £62,500 -10.71% 67
South East -132 40 £65,000 +6.12% 153
West Midlands +6 30 £60,000 +9.09% 29
East Midlands -4 28 £60,000 +9.09% 34
East of England -45 16 £60,100 -9.28% 78
Wales -2 15 £41,740 +51.78% 30
Scotland -38 14 £85,000 +16.44% 26
Northern Ireland -7 6 £95,000 +11.76% 13
North East -2 4 £68,500 +9.60% 15
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 17 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.40%) Apache
3 15 (4.12%) SharePoint
4 12 (3.30%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.92%) Confluence
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 285 (78.30%) AWS
2 176 (48.35%) AWS Lambda
3 172 (47.25%) Azure
4 147 (40.38%) Amazon S3
5 85 (23.35%) Amazon ECS
5 85 (23.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (18.13%) GitHub
7 59 (16.21%) Amazon EKS
8 55 (15.11%) Azure Functions
9 54 (14.84%) AWS Step Functions
10 47 (12.91%) Amazon SQS
11 43 (11.81%) Azure Logic Apps
12 42 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (10.71%) GCP
15 35 (9.62%) SaaS
16 32 (8.79%) Azure Service Bus
17 30 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (6.59%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.20%) Internet
2 7 (1.92%) AMQP
3 4 (1.10%) Firewall
3 4 (1.10%) Network Security
3 4 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (18.68%) DynamoDB
2 55 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (10.99%) NoSQL
4 35 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (8.79%) SQL Server
6 30 (8.24%) Relational Database
7 25 (6.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.57%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.75%) MySQL
11 9 (2.47%) Big Data
12 8 (2.20%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.20%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.92%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.92%) Power BI
14 6 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
15 5 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 68 (18.68%) Jenkins
2 60 (16.48%) Git
3 31 (8.52%) GitLab
4 23 (6.32%) SonarQube
5 22 (6.04%) Cypress.io
5 22 (6.04%) Maven
6 14 (3.85%) JUnit
7 10 (2.75%) JMeter
7 10 (2.75%) Mockito
8 7 (1.92%) JIRA
9 6 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.65%) git-flow
9 6 (1.65%) Storybook
10 3 (0.82%) MLflow
11 2 (0.55%) DBeaver
12 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.27%) MSTest
12 1 (0.27%) NUnit
12 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 104 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 36 (9.89%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.97%) Finance
4 27 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.92%) Legal
5 7 (1.92%) Marketing
6 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.37%) Law
7 4 (1.10%) Advertising
7 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.10%) Automotive
7 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.10%) Publishing
8 3 (0.82%) Banking
8 3 (0.82%) Billing
8 3 (0.82%) Retail
8 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (45.88%) Developer
2 65 (17.86%) Senior
3 51 (14.01%) Java Developer
4 46 (12.64%) Lead
5 45 (12.36%) Software Engineer
6 44 (12.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 43 (11.81%) Architect
8 38 (10.44%) Senior Developer
9 34 (9.34%) .NET Developer
10 27 (7.42%) AWS Developer
11 25 (6.87%) Python Developer
12 22 (6.04%) Software Developer
13 21 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (5.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 19 (5.22%) Lead Developer
15 14 (3.85%) Applications Architect
16 13 (3.57%) Data Engineer
17 12 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
17 12 (3.30%) Technical Leader
18 11 (3.02%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (35.16%) React
2 82 (22.53%) Node.js
3 72 (19.78%) .NET
4 68 (18.68%) Spring Boot
5 65 (17.86%) AngularJS
6 61 (16.76%) HTML
7 58 (15.93%) Spring
8 56 (15.38%) REST
9 43 (11.81%) CSS
10 31 (8.52%) RESTful
11 27 (7.42%) Vue
12 26 (7.14%) AWS CDK
13 24 (6.59%) .NET Core
13 24 (6.59%) Blazor
14 22 (6.04%) Gherkin
14 22 (6.04%) Jest
14 22 (6.04%) Web Services
15 21 (5.77%) Kafka
16 20 (5.49%) ASP.NET
17 17 (4.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 84 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.79%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.57%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.37%) IoT
8 5 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.82%) Animation
9 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.82%) Life Science
9 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.32%) Linux
2 5 (1.37%) CentOS
2 5 (1.37%) Debian
2 5 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.37%) Ubuntu
2 5 (1.37%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (59.89%) CI/CD
2 183 (50.27%) DevOps
3 170 (46.70%) Agile
4 127 (34.89%) Microservices
5 122 (33.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 98 (26.92%) Mentoring
7 82 (22.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 82 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (22.53%) Software Engineering
8 75 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 48 (13.19%) Migration
11 45 (12.36%) TDD
12 44 (12.09%) Data Modelling
13 43 (11.81%) Scrum
14 42 (11.54%) Application Security
15 40 (10.99%) SDLC
16 38 (10.44%) Computer Science
17 37 (10.16%) Architectural Patterns
18 32 (8.79%) AI
Programming Languages
1 141 (38.74%) Python
2 136 (37.36%) JavaScript
3 124 (34.07%) Java
4 118 (32.42%) TypeScript
5 94 (25.82%) SQL
6 83 (22.80%) C#
7 32 (8.79%) Bash
8 21 (5.77%) Groovy
9 16 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.92%) Bicep
12 5 (1.37%) C++
12 5 (1.37%) Go
13 3 (0.82%) PHP
13 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.82%) VB
14 2 (0.55%) C
15 1 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 63 (17.31%) AWS Certification
2 44 (12.09%) Degree
3 36 (9.89%) Azure Certification
3 36 (9.89%) Security Cleared
4 35 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (7.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (7.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (6.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 21 (5.77%) SC Cleared
9 18 (4.95%) AWS Certified Developer
10 11 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (2.20%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.82%) IIBA
14 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 1 (0.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 13 (3.57%) QA
2 7 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.65%) WCAG
4 3 (0.82%) GDPR
5 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.55%) NIST
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 118 (32.42%) Docker
2 10 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.55%) iptables
Systems Management
1 91 (25.00%) Terraform
2 77 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.87%) Ansible
4 22 (6.04%) HP Fortify
5 13 (3.57%) Kibana
6 11 (3.02%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.47%) Grafana
8 7 (1.92%) Puppet
9 6 (1.65%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.10%) Argo
10 4 (1.10%) Control-M
11 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.55%) Nagios
13 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.02%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.75%) Google
3 10 (2.75%) Oracle
3 10 (2.75%) Splunk
4 7 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.37%) Informatica
5 5 (1.37%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.37%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.10%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.10%) Pega
6 4 (1.10%) WSO2
7 2 (0.55%) Databricks
7 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.27%) Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) SAP
8 1 (0.27%) StreamSets