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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 232 243
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -49
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 506 387 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.34% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 4.42% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 316 285 488
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,350 £41,175
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,313 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,500 £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 18,112 8,764 22,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.43% 30.24% 32.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,419 6,042 17,404
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,676 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,441 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +8.88% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
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% -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 16 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 16 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 +86 264 £75,000 +15.38% 77
Yorkshire +37 153 £75,000 +27.66% 28
North West +54 104 £75,000 - 44
Midlands +8 102 £55,000 - 23
East Midlands +29 72 £57,500 +4.55% 8
South East -62 57 £62,500 +4.17% 53
South West -61 44 £63,750 +6.25% 31
West Midlands -61 30 £50,000 -9.09% 15
East of England -24 20 £60,050 -29.35% 6
Scotland -13 16 £76,783 +39.60% 10
Wales -26 14 £51,619 +0.43% 3
North East -38 7 £95,000 +52.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 4
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 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.37%) Apache
2 12 (2.37%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.58%) SAS
5 4 (0.79%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.79%) Confluence
5 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.79%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 386 (76.28%) AWS
2 250 (49.41%) AWS Lambda
3 212 (41.90%) Amazon S3
4 156 (30.83%) Azure
5 141 (27.87%) Amazon ECS
6 128 (25.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 95 (18.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 66 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 66 (13.04%) Azure Functions
9 63 (12.45%) Amazon SQS
10 61 (12.06%) GitHub
11 60 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
13 52 (10.28%) Amazon ECR
14 50 (9.88%) Apigee
15 45 (8.89%) GCP
16 43 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
17 42 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
17 42 (8.30%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (7.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.37%) Network Security
2 6 (1.19%) AMQP
2 6 (1.19%) Firewall
3 5 (0.99%) MQTT
4 2 (0.40%) DHCP
4 2 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) IPv4
4 2 (0.40%) LTE
4 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.40%) VLAN
4 2 (0.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (22.33%) DynamoDB
2 60 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (8.50%) NoSQL
5 38 (7.51%) SQL Server
6 30 (5.93%) Amazon Athena
7 29 (5.73%) Relational Database
8 27 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.16%) Power BI
11 15 (2.96%) Big Data
12 11 (2.17%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.98%) Spark SQL
14 8 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.58%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.19%) MySQL
16 5 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.99%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (21.34%) Jenkins
2 83 (16.40%) Git
3 66 (13.04%) GitLab
4 51 (10.08%) SonarQube
5 43 (8.50%) Cypress.io
6 42 (8.30%) Maven
7 22 (4.35%) Snyk
8 13 (2.57%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.57%) XCTest
9 12 (2.37%) JIRA
10 10 (1.98%) JUnit
11 9 (1.78%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.58%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.38%) JMeter
13 7 (1.38%) Mockito
14 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.79%) Postman
14 4 (0.79%) Selenium
14 4 (0.79%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 111 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 39 (7.71%) Public Sector
3 36 (7.11%) Finance
4 34 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.58%) Legal
7 7 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.19%) Advertising
8 6 (1.19%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.19%) Banking
9 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.79%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.79%) Publishing
10 3 (0.59%) Billing
10 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.59%) Marketing
11 2 (0.40%) Games
11 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 205 (40.51%) Developer
2 132 (26.09%) Senior
3 90 (17.79%) Java Developer
4 83 (16.40%) Lead
5 59 (11.66%) Architect
6 56 (11.07%) Software Engineer
7 55 (10.87%) Senior Developer
8 49 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (7.51%) AWS Developer
10 34 (6.72%) Cloud Architect
11 29 (5.73%) Software Developer
12 26 (5.14%) .NET Developer
12 26 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 26 (5.14%) Senior Architect
13 25 (4.94%) Cloud Security Architect
13 25 (4.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (4.94%) Security Architect
14 23 (4.55%) Technical Leader
15 22 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Architect
15 22 (4.35%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (25.10%) Node.js
1 127 (25.10%) React
2 108 (21.34%) Spring Boot
3 100 (19.76%) AngularJS
4 85 (16.80%) REST
5 81 (16.01%) Spring
6 61 (12.06%) .NET
7 43 (8.50%) Gherkin
8 41 (8.10%) Jest
9 38 (7.51%) HTML
10 34 (6.72%) AWS CDK
11 32 (6.32%) RESTful
12 25 (4.94%) Kafka
13 23 (4.55%) Web Services
14 22 (4.35%) CSS
15 21 (4.15%) Next.js
16 20 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (3.56%) .NET Core
18 16 (3.16%) JSON
18 16 (3.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 86 (17.00%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.91%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.74%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.74%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.99%) IoT
11 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.79%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.79%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.72%) Linux
2 13 (2.57%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.78%) Windows
4 5 (0.99%) CentOS
4 5 (0.99%) Debian
4 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.79%) Unix
5 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (59.68%) CI/CD
2 231 (45.65%) DevOps
3 215 (42.49%) Agile
4 150 (29.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 122 (24.11%) Mentoring
6 121 (23.91%) Microservices
7 112 (22.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 106 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
9 103 (20.36%) Software Engineering
10 95 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (17.79%) Containerisation
12 83 (16.40%) Test Automation
13 73 (14.43%) Observability
13 73 (14.43%) SDLC
14 72 (14.23%) AI
15 69 (13.64%) TDD
16 61 (12.06%) Clean Code
16 61 (12.06%) Scrum
17 57 (11.26%) Computer Science
18 55 (10.87%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 183 (36.17%) Python
2 163 (32.21%) Java
3 150 (29.64%) TypeScript
4 130 (25.69%) SQL
5 123 (24.31%) JavaScript
6 64 (12.65%) C#
7 57 (11.26%) Bash
8 49 (9.68%) Groovy
9 40 (7.91%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.96%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.77%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.57%) Swift
13 8 (1.58%) PHP
14 7 (1.38%) Rust
15 4 (0.79%) Perl
15 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.59%) C
16 3 (0.59%) C++
16 3 (0.59%) VB
17 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 65 (12.85%) AWS Certification
2 63 (12.45%) Degree
3 46 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (7.31%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.95%) Azure Certification
11 16 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (2.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (2.37%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.78%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.78%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 3 (0.59%) CISM
16 3 (0.59%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.35%) GRC
3 19 (3.75%) GDPR
4 16 (3.16%) QA
5 11 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.59%) NIST
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 184 (36.36%) Docker
2 23 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.79%) iptables
5 3 (0.59%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.40%) Squid
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (24.51%) Terraform
2 96 (18.97%) Kubernetes
3 41 (8.10%) Ansible
4 40 (7.91%) HP Fortify
5 20 (3.95%) Grafana
5 20 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.96%) Puppet
7 13 (2.57%) Kibana
8 8 (1.58%) Packer
9 7 (1.38%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.79%) Control-M
10 4 (0.79%) Podman
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.59%) Nagios
11 3 (0.59%) Scalr
12 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.34%) Tenable
3 23 (4.55%) Oracle
4 22 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.77%) Databricks
6 13 (2.57%) Amplitude
6 13 (2.57%) Braze
7 9 (1.78%) AppDynamics
7 9 (1.78%) Splunk
8 8 (1.58%) IBM
9 7 (1.38%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.38%) Google
9 7 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.19%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.99%) Informatica
11 5 (0.99%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.79%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.40%) HP