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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 281 225
Rank change year-on-year +37 -56 -58
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 578 291 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.84% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.43% 3.15% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 392 199 259
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £74,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 16,828 9,226 14,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.46% 26.55% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,911 6,170 8,207
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +86 289 £67,500 +3.85% 172
North West +47 131 £66,124 +1.73% 109
Yorkshire +29 105 £80,000 +13.48% 47
South East -21 77 £65,000 -8.77% 102
South West -44 75 £67,500 +12.50% 68
Midlands -9 71 £62,500 - 64
North East -21 53 £67,500 -1.46% 16
Wales -30 47 £55,000 +4.76% 21
West Midlands -48 40 £62,500 - 35
East Midlands 0 31 £65,000 - 29
Scotland -1 10 £67,500 -6.90% 51
East of England -56 10 £57,500 - 35
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 22 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.63%) Confluence
3 19 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.94%) Apache
4 17 (2.94%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) nginx
6 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) CMS
7 3 (0.52%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.35%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.17%) Finacle
4 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 419 (72.49%) AWS
2 304 (52.60%) AWS Lambda
3 199 (34.43%) Amazon S3
4 196 (33.91%) Azure
5 138 (23.88%) Amazon ECS
6 133 (23.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 114 (19.72%) GitHub
8 113 (19.55%) Azure Functions
9 90 (15.57%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (12.46%) AWS Step Functions
12 65 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 64 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
14 60 (10.38%) Amazon EKS
14 60 (10.38%) Amazon SQS
15 52 (9.00%) GCP
16 51 (8.82%) Power Platform
17 47 (8.13%) Azure Logic Apps
18 41 (7.09%) SaaS
19 38 (6.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.11%) VPN
2 11 (1.90%) Firewall
3 9 (1.56%) DNS
3 9 (1.56%) MQTT
4 8 (1.38%) Network Security
5 7 (1.21%) AMQP
5 7 (1.21%) DHCP
5 7 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.21%) VLAN
5 7 (1.21%) VoIP
6 4 (0.69%) IPv4
6 4 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.52%) HTTP
7 3 (0.52%) LTE
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) WAN
8 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (18.34%) DynamoDB
2 66 (11.42%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (9.86%) SQL Server
4 49 (8.48%) NoSQL
5 44 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (7.61%) Relational Database
6 41 (7.09%) Amazon Athena
7 36 (6.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.63%) Spark SQL
10 19 (3.29%) Power BI
11 18 (3.11%) MySQL
12 17 (2.94%) MongoDB
13 13 (2.25%) Metadata
14 11 (1.90%) Big Data
14 11 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.73%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.73%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 134 (23.18%) Git
2 90 (15.57%) Jenkins
3 53 (9.17%) GitLab
4 35 (6.06%) JIRA
5 30 (5.19%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.81%) SonarQube
7 16 (2.77%) JMeter
7 16 (2.77%) JUnit
7 16 (2.77%) Snyk
8 14 (2.42%) Selenium
9 13 (2.25%) Postman
10 11 (1.90%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.90%) Maven
11 10 (1.73%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.38%) Mockito
13 7 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.87%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.87%) git-flow
14 5 (0.87%) XCTest
15 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 141 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 94 (16.26%) Public Sector
3 66 (11.42%) Finance
4 58 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.67%) Law
7 16 (2.77%) Banking
8 15 (2.60%) Aviation
8 15 (2.60%) Retail
9 12 (2.08%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.69%) Legal
11 4 (0.69%) Local Government
11 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (34.43%) Developer
2 149 (25.78%) Senior
3 75 (12.98%) Software Engineer
4 65 (11.25%) Senior Developer
5 64 (11.07%) Lead
6 63 (10.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 60 (10.38%) Java Developer
8 54 (9.34%) Architect
9 49 (8.48%) Data Engineer
10 40 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (5.54%) Software Developer
14 28 (4.84%) AWS Developer
14 28 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 26 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
16 24 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (3.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 21 (3.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 19 (3.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (32.35%) Terraform
2 134 (23.18%) Node.js
3 111 (19.20%) React
4 109 (18.86%) Spring Boot
5 94 (16.26%) Spring
6 91 (15.74%) .NET
7 82 (14.19%) REST
8 79 (13.67%) AngularJS
9 42 (7.27%) Kafka
10 39 (6.75%) RESTful
11 37 (6.40%) AWS CDK
12 36 (6.23%) PySpark
13 35 (6.06%) Jest
14 32 (5.54%) Ruby on Rails
15 27 (4.67%) Next.js
16 26 (4.50%) HTML
16 26 (4.50%) OpenAPI
17 24 (4.15%) Gherkin
18 23 (3.98%) ASP.NET
18 23 (3.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 181 (31.31%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 39 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (4.15%) Mainframe
8 19 (3.29%) Data Centre
8 19 (3.29%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.08%) Podcast
11 12 (2.08%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.73%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.56%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.38%) Robotics
14 8 (1.38%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.40%) Linux
2 31 (5.36%) Windows
3 13 (2.25%) VMS
4 11 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.21%) AIX
5 7 (1.21%) CentOS
5 7 (1.21%) Debian
5 7 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (63.32%) CI/CD
2 298 (51.56%) Agile
3 246 (42.56%) DevOps
4 187 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 152 (26.30%) Software Engineering
6 151 (26.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 142 (24.57%) AI
8 139 (24.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (23.01%) Mentoring
10 129 (22.32%) Microservices
11 114 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
12 100 (17.30%) Observability
13 97 (16.78%) Scrum
13 97 (16.78%) Test Automation
14 87 (15.05%) Containerisation
15 82 (14.19%) Roadmaps
16 81 (14.01%) Event-Driven
17 80 (13.84%) Cloud Security
18 78 (13.49%) Analytics
19 73 (12.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 186 (32.18%) Python
2 176 (30.45%) Java
3 168 (29.07%) SQL
4 144 (24.91%) TypeScript
5 132 (22.84%) JavaScript
6 117 (20.24%) C#
7 59 (10.21%) Bash
8 36 (6.23%) Ruby
9 31 (5.36%) Kotlin
10 27 (4.67%) PowerShell
11 25 (4.33%) Bicep
12 20 (3.46%) Groovy
13 17 (2.94%) C++
14 13 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (2.25%) Shell Script
15 12 (2.08%) Rust
16 10 (1.73%) Scala
17 8 (1.38%) Go
18 6 (1.04%) COBOL
18 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 88 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.48%) AWS Certification
4 46 (7.96%) Degree
5 35 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 31 (5.36%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.38%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (1.21%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 4 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.06%) QA
3 31 (5.36%) GDPR
4 27 (4.67%) WCAG
5 16 (2.77%) GRC
6 12 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.04%) NCSC
8 4 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.69%) NIST
9 2 (0.35%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 169 (29.24%) Docker
2 34 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.77%) vSphere
5 12 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.69%) Squid
7 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 53 (9.17%) Ansible
3 18 (3.11%) Puppet
4 13 (2.25%) Packer
5 12 (2.08%) Grafana
6 10 (1.73%) HP Fortify
6 10 (1.73%) Kibana
6 10 (1.73%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.21%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.87%) Podman
9 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.69%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 103 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.81%) Google
2 22 (3.81%) Oracle
3 20 (3.46%) Splunk
3 20 (3.46%) Tenable
4 19 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.94%) VMware
6 16 (2.77%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (2.77%) Databricks
6 16 (2.77%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.42%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.08%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.90%) OneLogin
11 7 (1.21%) SaltStack
12 6 (1.04%) Confluent
12 6 (1.04%) Veeam
13 5 (0.87%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.87%) Braze
13 5 (0.87%) HubSpot