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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 230 244
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 -50
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 529 376 783
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.33% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 4.59% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 340 273 481
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -

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 18,265 8,193 22,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.23% 28.91% 32.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,634 5,503 17,439
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,887
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +79 277 £75,000 +15.38% 56
Yorkshire +45 157 £75,000 +25.00% 20
North West +53 111 £75,000 - 30
Midlands +7 105 £55,000 - 22
East Midlands +24 71 £55,000 - 10
South East -55 63 £65,000 +8.33% 45
South West -64 45 £62,500 +4.17% 24
West Midlands -48 34 £52,500 -4.55% 12
East of England -20 20 £60,050 -29.35% 5
Wales -34 15 £51,619 +0.43% 5
Scotland -10 14 £76,783 +39.60% 11
North East -38 9 £90,000 +44.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 7
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 14 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.46%) Apache
3 12 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.51%) SAS
6 5 (0.95%) Confluence
7 4 (0.76%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.76%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.76%) JBoss
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 401 (75.80%) AWS
2 263 (49.72%) AWS Lambda
3 223 (42.16%) Amazon S3
4 163 (30.81%) Azure
5 148 (27.98%) Amazon ECS
6 132 (24.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 101 (19.09%) AWS Step Functions
8 72 (13.61%) Azure Functions
9 67 (12.67%) Amazon SQS
10 66 (12.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 62 (11.72%) GitHub
12 61 (11.53%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (11.15%) Amazon EC2
14 53 (10.02%) Amazon ECR
15 51 (9.64%) Apigee
16 46 (8.70%) GCP
17 43 (8.13%) Azure Logic Apps
18 42 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
18 42 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
19 39 (7.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.27%) Network Security
2 6 (1.13%) AMQP
2 6 (1.13%) Firewall
2 6 (1.13%) MQTT
3 3 (0.57%) IPv4
3 3 (0.57%) LTE
3 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.38%) DHCP
4 2 (0.38%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.38%) VLAN
4 2 (0.38%) WAN
4 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Internet
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (22.31%) DynamoDB
2 59 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (8.51%) NoSQL
5 43 (8.13%) SQL Server
6 34 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (5.86%) Relational Database
8 30 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.40%) Power BI
11 17 (3.21%) Big Data
12 11 (2.08%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.89%) Spark SQL
14 9 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.51%) MySQL
15 8 (1.51%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.95%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (21.17%) Jenkins
2 89 (16.82%) Git
3 68 (12.85%) GitLab
4 51 (9.64%) SonarQube
5 44 (8.32%) Cypress.io
6 42 (7.94%) Maven
7 22 (4.16%) Snyk
8 13 (2.46%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.46%) JIRA
8 13 (2.46%) XCTest
9 10 (1.89%) JUnit
10 9 (1.70%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.70%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.32%) JMeter
11 7 (1.32%) Mockito
12 4 (0.76%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.76%) Postman
12 4 (0.76%) Selenium
12 4 (0.76%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 113 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 42 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 34 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (6.43%) Finance
4 26 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (1.51%) Legal
6 7 (1.32%) Aerospace
6 7 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.13%) Advertising
7 6 (1.13%) Banking
8 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
8 4 (0.76%) Publishing
9 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.38%) Billing
10 2 (0.38%) Games
10 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.38%) Marketing
10 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (40.83%) Developer
2 136 (25.71%) Senior
3 93 (17.58%) Java Developer
4 89 (16.82%) Lead
5 65 (12.29%) Software Engineer
6 60 (11.34%) Architect
7 55 (10.40%) Senior Developer
8 51 (9.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (6.99%) AWS Developer
10 33 (6.24%) Cloud Architect
10 33 (6.24%) Software Developer
11 29 (5.48%) .NET Developer
12 27 (5.10%) Data Engineer
13 26 (4.91%) Senior Architect
14 25 (4.73%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (4.73%) Security Architect
15 24 (4.54%) Technical Leader
16 22 (4.16%) Senior Security Architect
16 22 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (24.57%) Node.js
2 125 (23.63%) React
3 111 (20.98%) Spring Boot
4 105 (19.85%) AngularJS
5 87 (16.45%) REST
6 84 (15.88%) Spring
7 69 (13.04%) .NET
8 45 (8.51%) Gherkin
9 41 (7.75%) Jest
10 37 (6.99%) HTML
11 33 (6.24%) AWS CDK
11 33 (6.24%) RESTful
12 29 (5.48%) Kafka
13 23 (4.35%) Web Services
14 22 (4.16%) CSS
15 21 (3.97%) Next.js
16 20 (3.78%) .NET Core
16 20 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (3.21%) ASP.NET
18 16 (3.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.75%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.54%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.54%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.32%) IoT
9 6 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.57%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.81%) Linux
2 13 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.89%) Windows
4 5 (0.95%) CentOS
4 5 (0.95%) Debian
4 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (59.55%) CI/CD
2 239 (45.18%) DevOps
3 224 (42.34%) Agile
4 154 (29.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (23.82%) Mentoring
5 126 (23.82%) Microservices
6 115 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 112 (21.17%) Software Engineering
8 109 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (17.58%) Containerisation
11 83 (15.69%) Test Automation
12 79 (14.93%) AI
13 74 (13.99%) Observability
14 72 (13.61%) SDLC
15 71 (13.42%) TDD
16 66 (12.48%) Scrum
17 61 (11.53%) Clean Code
18 59 (11.15%) Event-Driven
19 58 (10.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 193 (36.48%) Python
2 171 (32.33%) Java
3 152 (28.73%) TypeScript
4 138 (26.09%) SQL
5 131 (24.76%) JavaScript
6 72 (13.61%) C#
7 57 (10.78%) Bash
8 51 (9.64%) Groovy
9 42 (7.94%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.46%) Swift
13 9 (1.70%) PHP
14 8 (1.51%) Rust
15 4 (0.76%) Perl
15 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.57%) C
16 3 (0.57%) C++
16 3 (0.57%) Ruby
16 3 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (12.67%) AWS Certification
2 66 (12.48%) Degree
3 49 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (7.37%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 26 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (4.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (3.97%) Azure Certification
11 16 (3.02%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (2.27%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.89%) DV Cleared
15 9 (1.70%) Master's Degree
16 6 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
17 3 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 3 (0.57%) CISM
17 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.16%) GRC
3 20 (3.78%) GDPR
4 16 (3.02%) QA
5 12 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.57%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 192 (36.29%) Docker
2 23 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.76%) iptables
5 3 (0.57%) Firmware
5 3 (0.57%) Squid
5 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.57%) vSphere
6 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 128 (24.20%) Terraform
2 99 (18.71%) Kubernetes
3 43 (8.13%) Ansible
4 40 (7.56%) HP Fortify
5 20 (3.78%) Grafana
5 20 (3.78%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.84%) Puppet
7 13 (2.46%) Kibana
8 9 (1.70%) Packer
9 7 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.76%) Control-M
10 4 (0.76%) Podman
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.57%) Nagios
11 3 (0.57%) Scalr
11 3 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.10%) Tenable
3 25 (4.73%) Oracle
4 22 (4.16%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (4.16%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.65%) Databricks
6 13 (2.46%) Amplitude
6 13 (2.46%) Braze
7 10 (1.89%) Splunk
8 9 (1.70%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.51%) IBM
9 8 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.32%) Google
10 7 (1.32%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.95%) Informatica
11 5 (0.95%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.76%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.57%) VMware
14 2 (0.38%) OpenAI