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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 274 239
Rank change year-on-year +38 -35 -55
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 611 314 553
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.91% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.47% 3.41% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 401 217 278
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,000 £35,575
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,250 £88,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year +2.84% -1.05% +1.79%

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 17,628 9,202 15,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.86% 26.75% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 12,071 6,251 9,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £41,000
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 £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +82 314 £72,500 +11.54% 137
North West +63 138 £67,500 +3.85% 93
Yorkshire +30 123 £80,000 +23.08% 28
South East -19 85 £65,000 -8.77% 75
Midlands -9 80 £62,500 +2.04% 53
South West -62 71 £60,500 +0.83% 63
North East -22 53 £67,500 -1.82% 16
Wales -36 46 £55,000 +5.77% 16
West Midlands -43 44 £62,500 +2.04% 27
East Midlands -7 36 £65,000 - 26
East of England -62 12 £59,450 +1.19% 22
Scotland -3 10 £70,000 -3.45% 49
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 21 (3.44%) Confluence
1 21 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.96%) Apache
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.65%) nginx
5 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.49%) JBoss
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.16%) Finacle
4 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 440 (72.01%) AWS
2 321 (52.54%) AWS Lambda
3 212 (34.70%) Amazon S3
4 209 (34.21%) Azure
5 154 (25.20%) Amazon ECS
6 143 (23.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 115 (18.82%) Azure Functions
8 114 (18.66%) GitHub
9 93 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
10 80 (13.09%) AWS Step Functions
11 78 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
12 69 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 68 (11.13%) Amazon EKS
14 63 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
15 62 (10.15%) Amazon SQS
16 54 (8.84%) GCP
17 50 (8.18%) Azure Logic Apps
17 50 (8.18%) Power Platform
18 45 (7.36%) SaaS
19 42 (6.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.78%) VPN
2 14 (2.29%) Firewall
3 11 (1.80%) DNS
4 9 (1.47%) DHCP
4 9 (1.47%) MQTT
4 9 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.47%) VLAN
5 8 (1.31%) Network Security
6 7 (1.15%) AMQP
6 7 (1.15%) VoIP
7 4 (0.65%) IPv4
7 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.49%) HTTP
8 3 (0.49%) LTE
8 3 (0.49%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) LAN
10 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (19.48%) DynamoDB
2 63 (10.31%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (9.66%) SQL Server
4 48 (7.86%) NoSQL
5 43 (7.04%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (7.04%) Relational Database
6 42 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (3.76%) Spark SQL
11 19 (3.11%) MongoDB
11 19 (3.11%) MySQL
12 17 (2.78%) Power BI
13 13 (2.13%) Big Data
14 12 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.64%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.64%) Metadata
15 10 (1.64%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 139 (22.75%) Git
2 105 (17.18%) Jenkins
3 62 (10.15%) GitLab
4 40 (6.55%) JIRA
5 35 (5.73%) Cypress.io
6 34 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.60%) Snyk
8 17 (2.78%) Maven
9 16 (2.62%) JUnit
10 15 (2.45%) JMeter
11 14 (2.29%) Postman
11 14 (2.29%) Selenium
12 11 (1.80%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.47%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.31%) Mockito
15 7 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.98%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.98%) XCTest
17 5 (0.82%) git-flow
General
1 149 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 93 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 69 (11.29%) Finance
4 60 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.42%) Law
7 15 (2.45%) Aviation
7 15 (2.45%) Retail
8 13 (2.13%) Banking
9 12 (1.96%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.98%) Legal
10 6 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.65%) Local Government
11 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 216 (35.35%) Developer
2 160 (26.19%) Senior
3 74 (12.11%) Lead
4 70 (11.46%) Java Developer
4 70 (11.46%) Software Engineer
5 67 (10.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 67 (10.97%) Senior Developer
6 60 (9.82%) Architect
7 50 (8.18%) Data Engineer
8 38 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 37 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (5.40%) Cloud Architect
11 32 (5.24%) Software Developer
12 29 (4.75%) AWS Developer
12 29 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (4.09%) Cloud Security Architect
13 25 (4.09%) Security Architect
14 24 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.76%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (33.39%) Terraform
2 135 (22.09%) Node.js
3 115 (18.82%) Spring Boot
4 109 (17.84%) React
5 95 (15.55%) REST
5 95 (15.55%) Spring
6 93 (15.22%) .NET
6 93 (15.22%) AngularJS
7 41 (6.71%) Kafka
8 39 (6.38%) Jest
8 39 (6.38%) RESTful
9 37 (6.06%) AWS CDK
9 37 (6.06%) PySpark
10 31 (5.07%) Ruby on Rails
11 30 (4.91%) Gherkin
12 29 (4.75%) HTML
13 27 (4.42%) JSON
14 26 (4.26%) OpenAPI
15 24 (3.93%) Next.js
16 23 (3.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 173 (28.31%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (4.09%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.76%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.78%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.96%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.96%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.96%) Podcast
12 12 (1.96%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.31%) Digital Wallet
14 8 (1.31%) Robotics
14 8 (1.31%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.87%) Linux
2 33 (5.40%) Windows
3 13 (2.13%) VMS
3 13 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.15%) CentOS
4 7 (1.15%) Debian
4 7 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.98%) AIX
5 6 (0.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (62.52%) CI/CD
2 309 (50.57%) Agile
3 261 (42.72%) DevOps
4 198 (32.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (25.04%) AI
6 146 (23.90%) Software Engineering
7 145 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 141 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 136 (22.26%) Mentoring
10 134 (21.93%) Microservices
11 124 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
12 106 (17.35%) Observability
13 105 (17.18%) Test Automation
14 99 (16.20%) Scrum
15 94 (15.38%) Containerisation
16 88 (14.40%) Event-Driven
17 86 (14.08%) Cloud Security
18 84 (13.75%) Roadmaps
19 81 (13.26%) Analytics
20 80 (13.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 202 (33.06%) Python
2 190 (31.10%) Java
3 183 (29.95%) SQL
4 150 (24.55%) TypeScript
5 137 (22.42%) JavaScript
6 115 (18.82%) C#
7 67 (10.97%) Bash
8 37 (6.06%) Kotlin
9 35 (5.73%) Ruby
10 32 (5.24%) Groovy
11 29 (4.75%) PowerShell
12 25 (4.09%) Bicep
13 16 (2.62%) C++
14 15 (2.45%) Shell Script
15 13 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (1.96%) Rust
17 8 (1.31%) Go
18 7 (1.15%) Scala
19 6 (0.98%) COBOL
19 6 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 91 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.67%) AWS Certification
4 51 (8.35%) Degree
5 35 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (5.24%) DV Cleared
7 30 (4.91%) Azure Certification
8 19 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.31%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.65%) CCNA
16 4 (0.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.55%) QA
3 34 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 32 (5.24%) GDPR
5 26 (4.26%) WCAG
6 22 (3.60%) GRC
7 14 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (0.98%) NCSC
10 4 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.65%) NIST
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 181 (29.62%) Docker
2 36 (5.89%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.62%) vSphere
5 12 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.65%) Squid
7 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 61 (9.98%) Ansible
3 18 (2.95%) Puppet
4 16 (2.62%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.29%) Grafana
5 14 (2.29%) Kibana
5 14 (2.29%) Packer
6 12 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.82%) Podman
8 5 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.65%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.33%) Scalr
11 1 (0.16%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 99 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.26%) Tenable
3 25 (4.09%) Oracle
4 22 (3.60%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.60%) Palo Alto
5 21 (3.44%) Google
6 20 (3.27%) Splunk
7 17 (2.78%) Databricks
7 17 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.78%) VMware
8 14 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.13%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.96%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.64%) OneLogin
12 9 (1.47%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.31%) IBM
13 8 (1.31%) Veeam
14 7 (1.15%) HubSpot
14 7 (1.15%) SaltStack
15 6 (0.98%) Braze