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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 155 245
Rank change year-on-year -70 +90 -36
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 479 476 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.84% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 5.61% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 298 293 491
10th Percentile £51,025 £46,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £86,625 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 17,956 8,491 22,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.88% 32.89% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8,680 6,324 17,270
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +48 264 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +47 170 £75,000 +30.43% 34
North West +8 89 £75,000 +8.30% 47
Midlands -29 88 £55,000 - 22
East Midlands -6 62 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -65 44 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -145 41 £76,250 +27.08% 61
West Midlands -41 26 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Scotland -21 20 £76,783 +33.53% 9
East of England -69 19 £60,100 -29.29% 20
Wales -23 15 £41,740 -16.52%
Northern Ireland - 6 £95,000 -
North East -31 5 £90,000 +44.00% 11
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 15 (3.13%) Apache
1 15 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.92%) OpenStack
3 12 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.88%) SAS
5 4 (0.84%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.63%) Confluence
6 3 (0.63%) JBoss
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 385 (80.38%) AWS
2 245 (51.15%) AWS Lambda
3 205 (42.80%) Amazon S3
4 173 (36.12%) Azure
5 129 (26.93%) Amazon ECS
6 126 (26.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 84 (17.54%) AWS Step Functions
8 77 (16.08%) GitHub
9 68 (14.20%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (13.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 60 (12.53%) Amazon SQS
12 57 (11.90%) Azure Functions
13 51 (10.65%) Amazon EC2
14 48 (10.02%) GCP
15 47 (9.81%) Amazon ECR
16 45 (9.39%) Apigee
17 44 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
17 44 (9.19%) Azure Logic Apps
18 43 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (8.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.46%) AMQP
1 7 (1.46%) Network Security
2 5 (1.04%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) DHCP
3 2 (0.42%) DNS
3 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.42%) VLAN
3 2 (0.42%) WAN
3 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (22.13%) DynamoDB
2 56 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (10.65%) NoSQL
4 48 (10.02%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (7.31%) SQL Server
6 29 (6.05%) Relational Database
7 27 (5.64%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.13%) Big Data
10 13 (2.71%) MongoDB
11 12 (2.51%) Power BI
12 10 (2.09%) MySQL
13 8 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.46%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.25%) Cloudera CDH
15 6 (1.25%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (1.04%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 105 (21.92%) Jenkins
2 76 (15.87%) Git
3 58 (12.11%) GitLab
4 46 (9.60%) SonarQube
5 40 (8.35%) Maven
6 39 (8.14%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.30%) JIRA
8 10 (2.09%) Crashlytics
8 10 (2.09%) XCTest
9 9 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.46%) JUnit
10 7 (1.46%) Snyk
11 6 (1.25%) Storybook
12 4 (0.84%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.84%) git-flow
12 4 (0.84%) JMeter
12 4 (0.84%) MLflow
12 4 (0.84%) Mockito
12 4 (0.84%) Selenium
General
1 120 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 40 (8.35%) Public Sector
3 39 (8.14%) Finance
4 35 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.88%) Legal
7 8 (1.67%) Marketing
8 6 (1.25%) Advertising
8 6 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.84%) Banking
10 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.84%) Publishing
11 3 (0.63%) Billing
11 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.42%) Games
12 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 2 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (44.68%) Developer
2 105 (21.92%) Senior
3 85 (17.75%) Java Developer
4 69 (14.41%) Lead
5 55 (11.48%) Senior Developer
6 54 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (10.86%) Architect
8 51 (10.65%) Software Engineer
9 36 (7.52%) AWS Developer
10 32 (6.68%) Python Developer
11 29 (6.05%) .NET Developer
12 23 (4.80%) Software Developer
13 21 (4.38%) Technical Leader
14 20 (4.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 20 (4.18%) Lead Developer
15 19 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
15 19 (3.97%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 18 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (31.11%) React
2 125 (26.10%) Node.js
3 99 (20.67%) Spring Boot
4 97 (20.25%) AngularJS
5 80 (16.70%) REST
6 74 (15.45%) Spring
7 63 (13.15%) .NET
8 53 (11.06%) HTML
9 40 (8.35%) CSS
10 39 (8.14%) Gherkin
10 39 (8.14%) Jest
11 37 (7.72%) RESTful
12 34 (7.10%) AWS CDK
13 29 (6.05%) Vue
14 22 (4.59%) Django
14 22 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (4.59%) Web Services
15 21 (4.38%) FastAPI
15 21 (4.38%) Next.js
16 20 (4.18%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 93 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.02%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (5.01%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.80%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.84%) IoT
11 4 (0.84%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.63%) Animation
12 3 (0.63%) Life Science
12 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.47%) Linux
2 10 (2.09%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.46%) Windows
4 6 (1.25%) CentOS
4 6 (1.25%) Debian
4 6 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (57.41%) CI/CD
2 243 (50.73%) DevOps
3 221 (46.14%) Agile
4 158 (32.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 132 (27.56%) Microservices
6 120 (25.05%) Mentoring
7 114 (23.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 112 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (20.25%) Software Engineering
10 90 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (18.58%) Containerisation
12 68 (14.20%) Test Automation
13 65 (13.57%) TDD
14 60 (12.53%) Observability
14 60 (12.53%) Scrum
15 51 (10.65%) Computer Science
16 49 (10.23%) Data Modelling
17 48 (10.02%) SDLC
18 45 (9.39%) Clean Code
18 45 (9.39%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 174 (36.33%) Python
2 158 (32.99%) Java
3 154 (32.15%) TypeScript
4 143 (29.85%) JavaScript
5 123 (25.68%) SQL
6 64 (13.36%) C#
7 51 (10.65%) Bash
8 44 (9.19%) Groovy
9 34 (7.10%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.09%) Swift
12 7 (1.46%) PHP
13 6 (1.25%) C++
14 5 (1.04%) Bicep
14 5 (1.04%) Perl
15 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.63%) C
16 3 (0.63%) VB
17 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (14.61%) AWS Certification
2 56 (11.69%) Degree
3 45 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (8.98%) Security Cleared
5 32 (6.68%) SC Cleared
6 28 (5.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (5.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 25 (5.22%) Azure Certification
9 22 (4.59%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (4.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 20 (4.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (2.71%) DBS Check
12 12 (2.51%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.88%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.63%) IIBA
15 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.21%) CISM
15 1 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.76%) QA
3 10 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.46%) GRC
5 6 (1.25%) WCAG
6 5 (1.04%) GDPR
7 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.63%) NIST
8 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 181 (37.79%) Docker
2 12 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.84%) iptables
5 3 (0.63%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 131 (27.35%) Terraform
2 91 (19.00%) Kubernetes
3 39 (8.14%) Ansible
3 39 (8.14%) HP Fortify
4 16 (3.34%) Grafana
4 16 (3.34%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.30%) Kibana
5 11 (2.30%) Puppet
6 7 (1.46%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.25%) Packer
8 4 (0.84%) Argo
8 4 (0.84%) Control-M
8 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.63%) Nagios
9 3 (0.63%) Scalr
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.71%) Oracle
3 10 (2.09%) Amplitude
3 10 (2.09%) Braze
4 9 (1.88%) AppDynamics
5 8 (1.67%) Databricks
5 8 (1.67%) Google
5 8 (1.67%) IBM
5 8 (1.67%) Tenable
6 7 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (1.46%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.25%) Pega
7 6 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.25%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.25%) WSO2
8 5 (1.04%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.04%) Informatica
9 4 (0.84%) PagerDuty
9 4 (0.84%) Splunk
10 3 (0.63%) HubSpot