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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 107 237
Rank change year-on-year -119 +130 -40
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 436 689 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 2.66% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.58% 7.90% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 268 278 484
10th Percentile £50,468 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% 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 16,874 8,724 21,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.37% 33.64% 34.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8,145 6,261 16,861
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,752 £72,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +40 231 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +42 158 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -34 79 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North West -4 70 £75,000 +11.11% 47
East Midlands -5 55 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -115 43 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -174 35 £67,500 +12.50% 61
West Midlands -39 24 £51,875 -5.68% 18
Scotland -37 20 £76,783 +33.53% 9
East of England -67 19 £60,100 -10.96% 20
Wales -19 15 £41,740 -3.87%
Northern Ireland -27 7 £95,000 -
North East -31 3 £51,000 -18.40% 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 (3.44%) Apache
1 15 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.98%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.06%) SAS
5 4 (0.92%) Confluence
5 4 (0.92%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) JBoss
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.46%) CMS
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 359 (82.34%) AWS
2 222 (50.92%) AWS Lambda
3 189 (43.35%) Amazon S3
4 164 (37.61%) Azure
5 122 (27.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 114 (26.15%) Amazon ECS
7 77 (17.66%) AWS Step Functions
7 77 (17.66%) GitHub
8 61 (13.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 59 (13.53%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (13.07%) Amazon SQS
11 53 (12.16%) Azure Functions
12 45 (10.32%) GCP
13 44 (10.09%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (9.86%) Amazon ECR
15 41 (9.40%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (9.17%) Apigee
16 40 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
17 38 (8.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.61%) Network Security
2 6 (1.38%) AMQP
3 3 (0.69%) Firewall
4 2 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VLAN
5 1 (0.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (22.02%) DynamoDB
2 51 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (11.24%) NoSQL
4 44 (10.09%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (7.80%) SQL Server
6 26 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (5.50%) Relational Database
8 23 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.21%) Big Data
11 12 (2.75%) Power BI
12 11 (2.52%) MySQL
13 9 (2.06%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.83%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (1.15%) Data Lake
17 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
17 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 94 (21.56%) Jenkins
2 68 (15.60%) Git
3 52 (11.93%) GitLab
4 39 (8.94%) Maven
4 39 (8.94%) SonarQube
5 38 (8.72%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.06%) Crashlytics
6 9 (2.06%) JUnit
6 9 (2.06%) XCTest
7 8 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.61%) JIRA
9 6 (1.38%) git-flow
9 6 (1.38%) Storybook
10 5 (1.15%) JMeter
10 5 (1.15%) Mockito
11 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.92%) MLflow
11 4 (0.92%) Selenium
12 2 (0.46%) Postman
12 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 116 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 37 (8.49%) Finance
3 35 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.06%) Legal
6 8 (1.83%) Marketing
7 6 (1.38%) Advertising
8 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.92%) Publishing
10 3 (0.69%) Banking
10 3 (0.69%) Billing
10 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.46%) Games
11 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.46%) Retail
11 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 204 (46.79%) Developer
2 84 (19.27%) Senior
3 77 (17.66%) Java Developer
4 63 (14.45%) Lead
5 54 (12.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 52 (11.93%) Senior Developer
7 46 (10.55%) Software Engineer
8 45 (10.32%) Architect
9 34 (7.80%) AWS Developer
10 32 (7.34%) Python Developer
11 27 (6.19%) .NET Developer
12 24 (5.50%) Software Developer
13 22 (5.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 22 (5.05%) Technical Leader
14 19 (4.36%) Lead Developer
15 18 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (3.44%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (32.80%) React
2 114 (26.15%) Node.js
3 91 (20.87%) Spring Boot
4 84 (19.27%) AngularJS
5 66 (15.14%) Spring
6 64 (14.68%) .NET
7 59 (13.53%) REST
8 58 (13.30%) HTML
9 45 (10.32%) CSS
10 38 (8.72%) Gherkin
10 38 (8.72%) Jest
11 35 (8.03%) AWS CDK
12 34 (7.80%) RESTful
13 28 (6.42%) Vue
14 21 (4.82%) .NET Core
15 20 (4.59%) Next.js
16 19 (4.36%) Django
16 19 (4.36%) FastAPI
16 19 (4.36%) Flask
17 18 (4.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 88 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (4.36%) Mobile App
6 18 (4.13%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.44%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.15%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.69%) Animation
12 3 (0.69%) IoT
12 3 (0.69%) Life Science
12 3 (0.69%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.69%) NHS
12 3 (0.69%) PKI
13 2 (0.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.73%) Linux
2 9 (2.06%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.38%) Windows
4 5 (1.15%) CentOS
4 5 (1.15%) Debian
4 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.92%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (57.34%) CI/CD
2 224 (51.38%) DevOps
3 208 (47.71%) Agile
4 143 (32.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 123 (28.21%) Microservices
6 119 (27.29%) Mentoring
7 109 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 102 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (20.64%) Software Engineering
10 86 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 79 (18.12%) Containerisation
12 57 (13.07%) Test Automation
13 54 (12.39%) TDD
14 53 (12.16%) Scrum
15 50 (11.47%) Computer Science
15 50 (11.47%) Observability
16 46 (10.55%) Data Modelling
17 44 (10.09%) SDLC
18 40 (9.17%) Clean Code
18 40 (9.17%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 156 (35.78%) Python
2 148 (33.94%) TypeScript
3 147 (33.72%) JavaScript
4 146 (33.49%) Java
5 109 (25.00%) SQL
6 67 (15.37%) C#
7 50 (11.47%) Bash
8 37 (8.49%) Groovy
9 31 (7.11%) Kotlin
10 14 (3.21%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.06%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.06%) Swift
12 7 (1.61%) PHP
13 6 (1.38%) C++
14 5 (1.15%) Bicep
15 3 (0.69%) C
15 3 (0.69%) VB
16 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.23%) Perl
17 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (16.97%) AWS Certification
2 55 (12.61%) Degree
3 44 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (8.03%) Security Cleared
5 31 (7.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (6.42%) Azure Certification
7 25 (5.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (5.28%) SC Cleared
10 21 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (4.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (4.59%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (2.98%) DBS Check
13 12 (2.75%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.83%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.69%) IIBA
16 1 (0.23%) HND
16 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.44%) QA
3 10 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.38%) WCAG
6 4 (0.92%) GDPR
7 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 163 (37.39%) Docker
2 10 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.92%) iptables
3 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.69%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 111 (25.46%) Terraform
2 73 (16.74%) Kubernetes
3 38 (8.72%) HP Fortify
4 28 (6.42%) Ansible
5 15 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.21%) Grafana
7 10 (2.29%) Puppet
8 9 (2.06%) Kibana
9 7 (1.61%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.92%) Argo
10 4 (0.92%) Control-M
11 3 (0.69%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.69%) Nagios
12 2 (0.46%) Packer
12 2 (0.46%) Scalr
13 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.29%) Oracle
3 9 (2.06%) Amplitude
4 6 (1.38%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.38%) Google
5 5 (1.15%) Databricks
5 5 (1.15%) Informatica
5 5 (1.15%) Pega
5 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.15%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.15%) Splunk
5 5 (1.15%) WSO2
6 4 (0.92%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.23%) Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) HP
8 1 (0.23%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.23%) Sage
8 1 (0.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.23%) Veeam