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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 232 259
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 -56
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 545 381 787
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 1.29% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.38% 4.50% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 357 268 481
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,175 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -

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 16,147 8,464 23,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.32% 28.74% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,145 5,803 17,904
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +87 267 £75,000 +15.38% 60
Yorkshire +33 135 £75,000 +25.00% 17
North West +63 117 £75,000 +15.38% 35
Midlands +25 109 £55,000 - 15
East Midlands +37 72 £55,000 +2.33% 7
South East -47 67 £67,500 +12.50% 45
South West -47 52 £62,500 +4.17% 28
West Midlands -34 37 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Wales -33 24 £51,619 -0.73% 7
East of England -30 21 £60,000 -29.41% 6
North East -34 15 £75,000 +20.00% 8
Scotland -2 13 £76,783 +39.60% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £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 13 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.20%) Apache
3 11 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.65%) Confluence
5 8 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.47%) SAS
6 7 (1.28%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.73%) JBoss
7 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.37%) nginx
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 406 (74.50%) AWS
2 269 (49.36%) AWS Lambda
3 214 (39.27%) Amazon S3
4 164 (30.09%) Azure
5 145 (26.61%) Amazon ECS
6 124 (22.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 91 (16.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 82 (15.05%) Azure Functions
9 73 (13.39%) GitHub
10 63 (11.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (11.56%) Amazon SQS
11 59 (10.83%) Amazon EC2
11 59 (10.83%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (8.26%) Azure Logic Apps
15 43 (7.89%) Amazon ECR
16 42 (7.71%) GCP
17 40 (7.34%) Apigee
18 39 (7.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Network Security
2 7 (1.28%) Firewall
3 6 (1.10%) AMQP
3 6 (1.10%) MQTT
3 6 (1.10%) VPN
4 4 (0.73%) IPv4
4 4 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.55%) DHCP
5 3 (0.55%) DNS
5 3 (0.55%) LTE
5 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.55%) VLAN
6 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.37%) WAN
6 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) VoIP
7 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (20.37%) DynamoDB
2 52 (9.54%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (8.07%) NoSQL
4 43 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 37 (6.79%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (5.50%) Relational Database
8 20 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.49%) Power BI
10 17 (3.12%) Big Data
11 14 (2.57%) MySQL
12 13 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (2.39%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.83%) Spark SQL
14 9 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.47%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.92%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.92%) Redis
16 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 103 (18.90%) Jenkins
2 97 (17.80%) Git
3 61 (11.19%) GitLab
4 39 (7.16%) SonarQube
5 35 (6.42%) Cypress.io
6 30 (5.50%) Maven
7 22 (4.04%) JIRA
7 22 (4.04%) Snyk
8 14 (2.57%) Crashlytics
8 14 (2.57%) XCTest
9 11 (2.02%) JUnit
10 10 (1.83%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.65%) Selenium
12 8 (1.47%) JMeter
13 7 (1.28%) Mockito
13 7 (1.28%) Postman
14 4 (0.73%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.73%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 127 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 52 (9.54%) Public Sector
3 42 (7.71%) Finance
4 37 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.47%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.28%) Banking
7 7 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.10%) Advertising
9 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.92%) Legal
10 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.73%) Law
10 4 (0.73%) Publishing
11 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.37%) Billing
12 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.37%) Games
12 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 217 (39.82%) Developer
2 144 (26.42%) Senior
3 88 (16.15%) Java Developer
4 81 (14.86%) Lead
5 67 (12.29%) Software Engineer
6 61 (11.19%) Architect
6 61 (11.19%) Senior Developer
7 56 (10.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (6.61%) AWS Developer
8 36 (6.61%) Software Developer
9 34 (6.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 32 (5.87%) Cloud Architect
11 27 (4.95%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.59%) Cloud Security Architect
12 25 (4.59%) Security Architect
13 24 (4.40%) .NET Developer
14 23 (4.22%) Senior Architect
15 22 (4.04%) Senior Cloud Architect
15 22 (4.04%) Senior Security Architect
15 22 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (26.24%) Node.js
2 122 (22.39%) React
3 106 (19.45%) Spring Boot
4 98 (17.98%) AngularJS
5 87 (15.96%) REST
6 81 (14.86%) Spring
7 70 (12.84%) .NET
8 40 (7.34%) HTML
9 36 (6.61%) Jest
10 35 (6.42%) Gherkin
11 32 (5.87%) AWS CDK
12 28 (5.14%) Kafka
12 28 (5.14%) RESTful
13 25 (4.59%) CSS
14 20 (3.67%) Next.js
15 19 (3.49%) Web Services
16 17 (3.12%) .NET Core
16 17 (3.12%) ASP.NET
16 17 (3.12%) Vue
17 16 (2.94%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 109 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (8.07%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.40%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.65%) IoT
10 7 (1.28%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.10%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.73%) Podcast
13 4 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.16%) Linux
2 15 (2.75%) Windows
3 14 (2.57%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.92%) CentOS
5 5 (0.92%) Debian
5 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.92%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.92%) VMS
6 4 (0.73%) Unix
7 2 (0.37%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (59.82%) CI/CD
2 239 (43.85%) DevOps
3 226 (41.47%) Agile
4 168 (30.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (23.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 124 (22.75%) Microservices
7 122 (22.39%) Mentoring
8 115 (21.10%) Software Engineering
9 110 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (18.35%) AI
12 99 (18.17%) Test Automation
13 93 (17.06%) Containerisation
14 87 (15.96%) Observability
15 72 (13.21%) Event-Driven
16 71 (13.03%) Clean Code
17 70 (12.84%) TDD
18 69 (12.66%) Scrum
19 68 (12.48%) SDLC
20 66 (12.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 196 (35.96%) Python
2 165 (30.28%) Java
3 150 (27.52%) SQL
4 148 (27.16%) TypeScript
5 129 (23.67%) JavaScript
6 74 (13.58%) C#
7 55 (10.09%) Bash
8 46 (8.44%) Kotlin
9 42 (7.71%) Groovy
10 19 (3.49%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.57%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.57%) Swift
12 11 (2.02%) Bicep
12 11 (2.02%) Ruby
13 10 (1.83%) PHP
14 8 (1.47%) Rust
15 5 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.73%) Go
16 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (12.11%) Degree
2 58 (10.64%) AWS Certification
3 54 (9.91%) Security Cleared
4 43 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 41 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (3.85%) Azure Certification
9 21 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.20%) DBS Check
10 12 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.02%) DV Cleared
11 11 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (1.10%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.73%) CCNA
15 4 (0.73%) OSCP
15 4 (0.73%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.04%) GRC
3 20 (3.67%) GDPR
4 16 (2.94%) QA
5 13 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.73%) WCAG
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.55%) NIST
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 181 (33.21%) Docker
2 23 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.47%) vSphere
5 4 (0.73%) iptables
5 4 (0.73%) Squid
5 4 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.55%) Firmware
7 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 141 (25.87%) Terraform
2 98 (17.98%) Kubernetes
3 44 (8.07%) Ansible
4 28 (5.14%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.85%) Grafana
6 20 (3.67%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.75%) Puppet
8 12 (2.20%) Kibana
9 10 (1.83%) Packer
10 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.73%) Control-M
11 4 (0.73%) Podman
11 4 (0.73%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.55%) Scalr
13 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 71 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.95%) Oracle
2 27 (4.95%) Tenable
3 22 (4.04%) CrowdStrike
3 22 (4.04%) Palo Alto
4 14 (2.57%) Amplitude
4 14 (2.57%) Braze
4 14 (2.57%) Databricks
5 13 (2.39%) Splunk
6 9 (1.65%) AppDynamics
6 9 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.65%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.47%) Google
7 8 (1.47%) IBM
7 8 (1.47%) VMware
8 7 (1.28%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.92%) Informatica
9 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.92%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.73%) ScienceLogic