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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 158 245
Rank change year-on-year -69 +87 -35
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 474 464 753
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.78% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.59% 5.44% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 294 295 487
10th Percentile £50,725 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,950 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £79,375 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 18,279 8,531 22,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.81% 32.79% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,729 6,349 17,322
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,359 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 14 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 14 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 +62 260 £75,000 +20.00% 77
Yorkshire +34 163 £75,000 +30.43% 22
North West +14 91 £75,000 +8.30% 47
Midlands -18 90 £55,000 - 14
East Midlands -6 62 £60,000 +4.35% 6
South West -62 44 £62,500 +4.17% 23
South East -154 39 £82,500 +37.50% 49
West Midlands -41 28 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Scotland -25 19 £76,783 +33.53% 8
East of England -55 19 £60,100 -29.29% 19
Wales -21 15 £41,740 -16.52% 6
North East -33 6 £92,500 +48.00% 9
Northern Ireland - 6 £95,000 - 1
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 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.95%) Apache
3 11 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.90%) SAS
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.63%) Confluence
7 3 (0.63%) JBoss
8 2 (0.42%) CMS
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 376 (79.32%) AWS
2 244 (51.48%) AWS Lambda
3 204 (43.04%) Amazon S3
4 167 (35.23%) Azure
5 126 (26.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 125 (26.37%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (17.93%) AWS Step Functions
8 74 (15.61%) GitHub
9 64 (13.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (13.29%) Amazon EKS
11 60 (12.66%) Amazon SQS
12 56 (11.81%) Azure Functions
13 50 (10.55%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (10.34%) GCP
15 48 (10.13%) Amazon ECR
16 46 (9.70%) Apigee
17 44 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
18 43 (9.07%) Azure Logic Apps
18 43 (9.07%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (8.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.69%) Network Security
2 7 (1.48%) AMQP
3 5 (1.05%) Firewall
4 2 (0.42%) DHCP
4 2 (0.42%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.42%) VLAN
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
4 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (22.57%) DynamoDB
2 51 (10.76%) NoSQL
2 51 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.17%) SQL Server
5 27 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (5.06%) Relational Database
8 15 (3.16%) Big Data
8 15 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.74%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.53%) Power BI
11 10 (2.11%) MySQL
12 8 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.48%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (1.27%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 99 (20.89%) Jenkins
2 70 (14.77%) Git
3 58 (12.24%) GitLab
4 46 (9.70%) SonarQube
5 40 (8.44%) Maven
6 39 (8.23%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.32%) JIRA
7 11 (2.32%) Snyk
8 10 (2.11%) Crashlytics
8 10 (2.11%) XCTest
9 9 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.48%) JUnit
11 6 (1.27%) Storybook
12 4 (0.84%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.84%) git-flow
12 4 (0.84%) JMeter
12 4 (0.84%) Mockito
12 4 (0.84%) Selenium
13 3 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 118 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 40 (8.44%) Finance
3 36 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.38%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.90%) Legal
7 8 (1.69%) Marketing
8 6 (1.27%) Advertising
9 5 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.05%) Banking
9 5 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
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
13 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 205 (43.25%) Developer
2 109 (23.00%) Senior
3 80 (16.88%) Java Developer
4 69 (14.56%) Lead
5 57 (12.03%) Architect
6 55 (11.60%) Senior Developer
7 52 (10.97%) Software Engineer
8 49 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 36 (7.59%) AWS Developer
10 29 (6.12%) .NET Developer
11 28 (5.91%) Python Developer
12 24 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
13 23 (4.85%) Software Developer
14 22 (4.64%) Technical Leader
15 19 (4.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (4.01%) Lead Developer
16 18 (3.80%) Data Engineer
16 18 (3.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (3.59%) Cloud Engineer
17 17 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (30.38%) React
2 120 (25.32%) Node.js
3 95 (20.04%) Spring Boot
4 93 (19.62%) AngularJS
5 75 (15.82%) REST
6 70 (14.77%) Spring
7 62 (13.08%) .NET
8 48 (10.13%) HTML
9 39 (8.23%) Gherkin
9 39 (8.23%) Jest
10 37 (7.81%) RESTful
11 35 (7.38%) CSS
12 34 (7.17%) AWS CDK
13 26 (5.49%) Vue
14 21 (4.43%) Next.js
15 20 (4.22%) .NET Core
16 19 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (3.80%) Django
17 18 (3.80%) Kafka
17 18 (3.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 94 (19.83%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.85%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.32%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.84%) IoT
12 4 (0.84%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.63%) NHS
13 3 (0.63%) PKI
14 2 (0.42%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.33%) Linux
2 10 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.48%) Windows
4 6 (1.27%) CentOS
4 6 (1.27%) Debian
4 6 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 237 (50.00%) DevOps
3 212 (44.73%) Agile
4 152 (32.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (27.00%) Microservices
6 113 (23.84%) Mentoring
7 109 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 98 (20.68%) Software Engineering
10 88 (18.57%) Containerisation
11 87 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (13.92%) Test Automation
13 60 (12.66%) Observability
13 60 (12.66%) TDD
14 54 (11.39%) Scrum
15 52 (10.97%) SDLC
16 51 (10.76%) Computer Science
17 48 (10.13%) Data Modelling
18 47 (9.92%) AI
18 47 (9.92%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 169 (35.65%) Python
2 154 (32.49%) Java
2 154 (32.49%) TypeScript
3 134 (28.27%) JavaScript
4 120 (25.32%) SQL
5 63 (13.29%) C#
6 51 (10.76%) Bash
7 44 (9.28%) Groovy
8 34 (7.17%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.95%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.11%) Swift
11 7 (1.48%) PHP
12 5 (1.05%) C++
12 5 (1.05%) Perl
13 4 (0.84%) Bicep
13 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.63%) C
14 3 (0.63%) VB
15 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (14.77%) AWS Certification
2 56 (11.81%) Degree
3 45 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (8.86%) Security Cleared
5 31 (6.54%) SC Cleared
6 28 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (5.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.06%) Azure Certification
9 22 (4.64%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (4.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 20 (4.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (2.74%) DBS Check
13 11 (2.32%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.90%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.63%) IIBA
16 2 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 2 (0.42%) CCSP
16 2 (0.42%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.80%) QA
3 11 (2.32%) GRC
3 11 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.27%) WCAG
6 5 (1.05%) GDPR
7 4 (0.84%) NIST
8 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.63%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 173 (36.50%) Docker
2 15 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.84%) iptables
5 3 (0.63%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 123 (25.95%) Terraform
2 86 (18.14%) Kubernetes
3 39 (8.23%) HP Fortify
4 33 (6.96%) Ansible
5 16 (3.38%) Grafana
5 16 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.32%) Kibana
6 11 (2.32%) Puppet
7 7 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.27%) Packer
9 4 (0.84%) Argo
9 4 (0.84%) Control-M
9 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.63%) Nagios
10 3 (0.63%) Scalr
11 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.74%) Oracle
3 12 (2.53%) Tenable
4 11 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (2.32%) Palo Alto
5 10 (2.11%) Amplitude
5 10 (2.11%) Braze
6 9 (1.90%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.69%) Databricks
7 8 (1.69%) Google
7 8 (1.69%) IBM
8 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.27%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.05%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.05%) Informatica
10 4 (0.84%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.84%) Splunk
11 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.63%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.42%) Pega