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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 236 247
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -47
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 589 389 778
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.17% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.39% 4.25% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 392 272 479
10th Percentile £47,930 £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,131 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.74%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £83,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £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 17,381 9,156 22,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.64% 27.48% 30.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 6,398 17,000
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +95 284 £75,000 +15.38% 71
North West +61 131 £72,500 +11.54% 34
Yorkshire +40 129 £80,000 +33.33% 19
Midlands +6 95 £55,000 - 30
South East -54 74 £65,000 +8.33% 30
South West -49 69 £62,500 +4.17% 48
East Midlands +26 64 £55,000 +4.76% 12
Wales -25 40 £53,171 +2.25% 6
West Midlands -42 31 £57,500 -6.12% 18
North East -23 24 £75,000 +15.38% 18
East of England -35 20 £60,000 -11.11% 8
Scotland -8 13 £70,000 +27.27% 12
Northern Ireland - 2 £95,000 - 10
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 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.38%) Apache
2 14 (2.38%) Confluence
3 12 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.36%) SAS
5 5 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.68%) JBoss
6 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 423 (71.82%) AWS
2 281 (47.71%) AWS Lambda
3 213 (36.16%) Amazon S3
4 193 (32.77%) Azure
5 149 (25.30%) Amazon ECS
6 130 (22.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 105 (17.83%) Azure Functions
8 90 (15.28%) GitHub
9 88 (14.94%) AWS Step Functions
10 68 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
11 63 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (10.36%) Amazon EC2
13 56 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
14 55 (9.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (9.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 51 (8.66%) GCP
17 50 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
18 47 (7.98%) Power Platform
19 44 (7.47%) Amazon ECR
20 41 (6.96%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.38%) Network Security
1 14 (2.38%) VPN
2 8 (1.36%) MQTT
3 7 (1.19%) AMQP
3 7 (1.19%) Firewall
4 4 (0.68%) IPv4
4 4 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.51%) DHCP
5 3 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.51%) LTE
5 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.51%) VLAN
6 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.34%) WAN
6 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.17%) HTTP
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) VoIP
7 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (20.20%) DynamoDB
2 50 (8.49%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (8.15%) NoSQL
4 45 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (7.30%) SQL Server
6 38 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
7 30 (5.09%) Relational Database
8 25 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.57%) Power BI
10 18 (3.06%) Big Data
11 17 (2.89%) MySQL
12 14 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.70%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.70%) Spark SQL
15 6 (1.02%) Cloudera CDH
15 6 (1.02%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 110 (18.68%) Jenkins
2 107 (18.17%) Git
3 65 (11.04%) GitLab
4 42 (7.13%) SonarQube
5 38 (6.45%) Cypress.io
6 31 (5.26%) Maven
7 29 (4.92%) JIRA
8 22 (3.74%) Snyk
9 15 (2.55%) JUnit
9 15 (2.55%) Selenium
10 14 (2.38%) Crashlytics
10 14 (2.38%) XCTest
11 13 (2.21%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.87%) Postman
13 10 (1.70%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.36%) JMeter
15 7 (1.19%) Mockito
16 6 (1.02%) Claude Code
17 4 (0.68%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 139 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 63 (10.70%) Public Sector
3 51 (8.66%) Finance
4 39 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.04%) Law
7 9 (1.53%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.02%) Banking
10 5 (0.85%) Legal
11 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.68%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.51%) Advertising
12 3 (0.51%) Publishing
12 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.34%) Games
13 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 230 (39.05%) Developer
2 166 (28.18%) Senior
3 89 (15.11%) Java Developer
4 82 (13.92%) Lead
5 74 (12.56%) Senior Developer
6 73 (12.39%) Software Engineer
7 71 (12.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (10.53%) Architect
9 39 (6.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 35 (5.94%) AWS Developer
11 34 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
12 33 (5.60%) Software Developer
13 31 (5.26%) Data Engineer
14 27 (4.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (4.24%) Cloud Security Architect
15 25 (4.24%) Security Architect
16 24 (4.07%) Senior Architect
17 23 (3.90%) .NET Developer
17 23 (3.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 23 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (25.47%) Node.js
2 130 (22.07%) React
3 124 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 107 (18.17%) AngularJS
5 94 (15.96%) Spring
6 91 (15.45%) REST
7 76 (12.90%) .NET
8 41 (6.96%) Jest
9 38 (6.45%) Gherkin
10 35 (5.94%) HTML
11 33 (5.60%) AWS CDK
11 33 (5.60%) RESTful
12 32 (5.43%) Kafka
13 24 (4.07%) CSS
14 23 (3.90%) Next.js
15 21 (3.57%) Ruby on Rails
16 20 (3.40%) ASP.NET
16 20 (3.40%) Swagger
16 20 (3.40%) Vue
17 19 (3.23%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 135 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.64%) Greenfield Project
4 30 (5.09%) Product Ownership
5 27 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.24%) Data Centre
7 24 (4.07%) Mobile App
8 18 (3.06%) Mainframe
9 14 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (2.04%) Podcast
11 12 (2.04%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.53%) IoT
14 8 (1.36%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.36%) Robotics
14 8 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.19%) Low-Code
16 6 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
17 5 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.79%) Linux
2 26 (4.41%) Windows
3 14 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.21%) VMS
5 6 (1.02%) CentOS
5 6 (1.02%) Debian
5 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.68%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (60.27%) CI/CD
2 274 (46.52%) Agile
3 264 (44.82%) DevOps
4 184 (31.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 146 (24.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 135 (22.92%) Microservices
7 129 (21.90%) Software Engineering
8 128 (21.73%) AI
9 122 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (20.20%) Mentoring
11 113 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (17.83%) Observability
12 105 (17.83%) Test Automation
13 103 (17.49%) Containerisation
14 93 (15.79%) Scrum
15 80 (13.58%) Event-Driven
16 79 (13.41%) Clean Code
16 79 (13.41%) TDD
17 77 (13.07%) DevSecOps
18 69 (11.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 200 (33.96%) Python
2 181 (30.73%) Java
3 159 (26.99%) TypeScript
4 152 (25.81%) SQL
5 126 (21.39%) JavaScript
6 85 (14.43%) C#
7 65 (11.04%) Bash
8 46 (7.81%) Kotlin
9 45 (7.64%) Groovy
10 28 (4.75%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.74%) Bicep
12 21 (3.57%) Ruby
13 14 (2.38%) Swift
14 13 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (1.87%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.70%) PHP
16 10 (1.70%) Rust
17 8 (1.36%) Go
18 6 (1.02%) Scala
19 5 (0.85%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 68 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.85%) AWS Certification
2 58 (9.85%) Degree
3 54 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.07%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (3.40%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.55%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.36%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.68%) CCNA
12 4 (0.68%) OSCP
12 4 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.74%) GRC
3 21 (3.57%) GDPR
3 21 (3.57%) QA
4 18 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.87%) WCAG
7 5 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 5 (0.85%) NCSC
8 4 (0.68%) NIST
9 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 185 (31.41%) Docker
2 28 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.72%) vSphere
5 12 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.68%) iptables
6 4 (0.68%) Squid
6 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.51%) Firmware
8 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 170 (28.86%) Terraform
2 108 (18.34%) Kubernetes
3 55 (9.34%) Ansible
4 29 (4.92%) HP Fortify
5 22 (3.74%) Grafana
6 20 (3.40%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.89%) Puppet
8 13 (2.21%) Kibana
8 13 (2.21%) Packer
9 7 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.68%) Podman
10 4 (0.68%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.51%) Scalr
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.34%) Nagios
13 1 (0.17%) Control-M
13 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 83 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.58%) Tenable
3 26 (4.41%) Oracle
4 22 (3.74%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.74%) Palo Alto
5 18 (3.06%) Splunk
6 16 (2.72%) VMware
7 14 (2.38%) Amplitude
7 14 (2.38%) Braze
8 13 (2.21%) Databricks
9 12 (2.04%) Google
9 12 (2.04%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.70%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.53%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.36%) IBM
14 7 (1.19%) HubSpot
14 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
15 6 (1.02%) SaltStack
16 5 (0.85%) OneLogin