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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 275 242
Rank change year-on-year +37 -33 -54
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 598 311 584
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.91% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.40% 3.42% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 397 215 306
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £35,818
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £46,250
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 £83,750 £73,886
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.35% +3.21% -

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 17,594 9,092 15,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.80% 26.58% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,967 6,178 10,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
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 £69,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.97% -2.07%

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 4 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 4 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 +97 300 £75,000 +15.38% 105
North West +53 131 £70,000 +7.69% 68
Yorkshire +35 117 £80,000 +28.00% 24
South East -22 84 £65,000 -10.34% 49
Midlands -2 83 £62,500 +4.17% 40
South West -54 66 £61,500 -1.60% 50
North East -12 52 £62,500 -13.79% 13
Wales -38 46 £55,000 +5.77% 5
East Midlands +7 43 £65,000 +73.33% 19
West Midlands -32 40 £62,500 - 21
East of England -53 16 £59,450 -0.92% 21
Scotland 0 10 £70,000 -3.45% 44
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 20 (3.34%) Confluence
2 17 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.01%) Apache
5 11 (1.84%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.84%) SAS
8 4 (0.67%) nginx
8 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.50%) JBoss
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Finacle
4 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 430 (71.91%) AWS
2 306 (51.17%) AWS Lambda
3 202 (33.78%) Amazon S3
4 197 (32.94%) Azure
5 149 (24.92%) Amazon ECS
6 140 (23.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 111 (18.56%) GitHub
8 106 (17.73%) Azure Functions
9 85 (14.21%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (12.21%) AWS Step Functions
12 63 (10.54%) Amazon EKS
13 60 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 60 (10.03%) Amazon SQS
14 59 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
15 50 (8.36%) GCP
16 48 (8.03%) Power Platform
17 46 (7.69%) SaaS
18 45 (7.53%) Azure Logic Apps
19 39 (6.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.84%) VPN
2 11 (1.84%) Firewall
3 9 (1.51%) MQTT
4 8 (1.34%) DNS
4 8 (1.34%) Network Security
5 7 (1.17%) DHCP
5 7 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.17%) VLAN
6 5 (0.84%) AMQP
6 5 (0.84%) VoIP
7 4 (0.67%) IPv4
7 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.50%) HTTP
8 3 (0.50%) LTE
8 3 (0.50%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.17%) LAN
10 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (19.40%) DynamoDB
2 63 (10.54%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (9.03%) SQL Server
4 46 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 41 (6.86%) Relational Database
6 40 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
8 31 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (3.85%) Spark SQL
12 19 (3.18%) Power BI
13 18 (3.01%) MySQL
14 17 (2.84%) MongoDB
15 15 (2.51%) Big Data
16 12 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.67%) Metadata
18 9 (1.51%) RDBMS
19 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
19 6 (1.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 128 (21.40%) Git
2 99 (16.56%) Jenkins
3 55 (9.20%) GitLab
4 37 (6.19%) JIRA
5 33 (5.52%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.85%) Cypress.io
7 22 (3.68%) Snyk
8 16 (2.68%) Maven
9 15 (2.51%) JUnit
10 13 (2.17%) Selenium
11 11 (1.84%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.67%) Crashlytics
12 10 (1.67%) Postman
12 10 (1.67%) XCTest
13 8 (1.34%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.34%) JMeter
14 7 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (1.17%) Mockito
15 5 (0.84%) git-flow
General
1 150 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.38%) Public Sector
3 69 (11.54%) Finance
4 54 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.52%) Law
7 13 (2.17%) Aviation
8 12 (2.01%) Retail
9 11 (1.84%) Banking
10 10 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.17%) Legal
12 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (34.78%) Developer
2 153 (25.59%) Senior
3 80 (13.38%) Lead
4 68 (11.37%) Java Developer
4 68 (11.37%) Software Engineer
5 66 (11.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 66 (11.04%) Senior Developer
6 61 (10.20%) Architect
7 45 (7.53%) Data Engineer
8 37 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 34 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (5.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 32 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
12 32 (5.35%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.52%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.18%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.18%) Security Architect
15 23 (3.85%) Senior Architect
15 23 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (33.61%) Terraform
2 130 (21.74%) Node.js
3 112 (18.73%) Spring Boot
4 110 (18.39%) React
5 94 (15.72%) .NET
6 93 (15.55%) Spring
7 91 (15.22%) REST
8 89 (14.88%) AngularJS
9 39 (6.52%) AWS CDK
10 38 (6.35%) Kafka
11 36 (6.02%) Jest
12 34 (5.69%) RESTful
13 32 (5.35%) PySpark
14 31 (5.18%) Ruby on Rails
15 29 (4.85%) HTML
16 26 (4.35%) Next.js
17 24 (4.01%) Gherkin
17 24 (4.01%) OpenAPI
18 23 (3.85%) ASP.NET
18 23 (3.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 158 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (5.85%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (5.85%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.18%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.85%) Mainframe
8 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.68%) Mobile App
10 12 (2.01%) Podcast
10 12 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.34%) Digital Wallet
12 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.34%) Robotics
12 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.69%) Linux
2 31 (5.18%) Windows
3 13 (2.17%) VMS
4 11 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.00%) AIX
7 5 (0.84%) CentOS
7 5 (0.84%) Debian
7 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (62.04%) CI/CD
2 298 (49.83%) Agile
3 252 (42.14%) DevOps
4 202 (33.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 147 (24.58%) AI
6 140 (23.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 137 (22.91%) Software Engineering
9 133 (22.24%) Mentoring
10 125 (20.90%) Microservices
11 121 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (18.39%) Observability
13 104 (17.39%) Test Automation
14 98 (16.39%) Containerisation
15 93 (15.55%) Scrum
16 90 (15.05%) Event-Driven
17 85 (14.21%) Cloud Security
18 80 (13.38%) Analytics
19 78 (13.04%) Roadmaps
19 78 (13.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 201 (33.61%) Python
2 178 (29.77%) Java
3 174 (29.10%) SQL
4 141 (23.58%) TypeScript
5 125 (20.90%) JavaScript
6 112 (18.73%) C#
7 65 (10.87%) Bash
8 38 (6.35%) Kotlin
9 35 (5.85%) Ruby
10 31 (5.18%) Groovy
11 29 (4.85%) PowerShell
12 23 (3.85%) Bicep
13 15 (2.51%) C++
14 14 (2.34%) Shell Script
15 13 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (2.01%) Rust
17 10 (1.67%) Swift
18 8 (1.34%) Go
19 7 (1.17%) Scala
20 6 (1.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 92 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 78 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.20%) Degree
4 52 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 28 (4.68%) Azure Certification
8 24 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (2.17%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (1.34%) ISTQB
15 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (1.00%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 4 (0.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.85%) QA
3 29 (4.85%) GDPR
4 27 (4.52%) Accessibility
5 22 (3.68%) GRC
5 22 (3.68%) WCAG
6 14 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.00%) NCSC
8 4 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.67%) NIST
9 2 (0.33%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 180 (30.10%) Docker
2 34 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.68%) vSphere
5 12 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) Squid
7 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (18.06%) Kubernetes
2 59 (9.87%) Ansible
3 16 (2.68%) Grafana
3 16 (2.68%) Puppet
4 15 (2.51%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.17%) Kibana
6 12 (2.01%) Packer
6 12 (2.01%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.84%) Podman
8 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.50%) Scalr
10 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 94 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.35%) Tenable
3 25 (4.18%) Oracle
4 22 (3.68%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.68%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.18%) Google
5 19 (3.18%) Splunk
6 18 (3.01%) Databricks
7 17 (2.84%) VMware
8 14 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 12 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.01%) ScienceLogic
10 10 (1.67%) Amplitude
10 10 (1.67%) Braze
10 10 (1.67%) OneLogin
11 9 (1.51%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.34%) IBM
13 7 (1.17%) HubSpot
14 6 (1.00%) Veeam