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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 236 257
Rank change year-on-year +33 +21 -57
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 560 379 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.26% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 4.41% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 367 267 486
10th Percentile £48,173 £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,175 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% 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 16,425 8,596 23,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.24% 28.58% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,542 5,919 18,115
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,920 £66,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +89 275 £75,000 +15.38% 45
Yorkshire +35 132 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +58 123 £75,000 +15.38% 24
Midlands +19 105 £55,000 - 16
East Midlands +29 72 £55,000 +2.33% 6
South East -42 68 £67,500 +12.50% 44
South West -53 60 £62,500 +4.17% 25
West Midlands -33 33 £52,500 -6.67% 10
Wales -35 26 £51,619 -0.73% 7
East of England -28 21 £60,000 -27.27% 6
North East -33 20 £75,000 +20.00% 7
Scotland -4 13 £58,565 +6.48% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £95,000 - 27
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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.32%) Apache
3 11 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.96%) Confluence
4 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.43%) SAS
5 7 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.71%) JBoss
8 3 (0.54%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.36%) nginx
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 411 (73.39%) AWS
2 274 (48.93%) AWS Lambda
3 216 (38.57%) Amazon S3
4 175 (31.25%) Azure
5 145 (25.89%) Amazon ECS
6 122 (21.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 90 (16.07%) AWS Step Functions
7 90 (16.07%) Azure Functions
8 79 (14.11%) GitHub
9 63 (11.25%) Amazon SQS
10 62 (11.07%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 56 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
14 47 (8.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (8.21%) GCP
16 45 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
17 41 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
17 41 (7.32%) SaaS
18 38 (6.79%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.50%) Network Security
2 10 (1.79%) VPN
3 7 (1.25%) Firewall
3 7 (1.25%) MQTT
4 6 (1.07%) AMQP
5 4 (0.71%) IPv4
5 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.54%) DHCP
6 3 (0.54%) DNS
6 3 (0.54%) LTE
6 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.54%) VLAN
7 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
7 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) Internet
8 1 (0.18%) VoIP
8 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 51 (9.11%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (8.21%) NoSQL
5 42 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 39 (6.96%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (5.36%) Relational Database
9 21 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.57%) Power BI
11 17 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (3.04%) Big Data
12 16 (2.86%) MySQL
13 13 (2.32%) MongoDB
14 11 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.79%) Spark SQL
16 9 (1.61%) RDBMS
17 6 (1.07%) Redis
18 5 (0.89%) Cloudera CDH
18 5 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 103 (18.39%) Git
1 103 (18.39%) Jenkins
2 58 (10.36%) GitLab
3 38 (6.79%) SonarQube
4 33 (5.89%) Cypress.io
5 28 (5.00%) Maven
6 24 (4.29%) JIRA
7 22 (3.93%) Snyk
8 14 (2.50%) Crashlytics
8 14 (2.50%) XCTest
9 12 (2.14%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.96%) JUnit
11 10 (1.79%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.79%) Selenium
12 8 (1.43%) JMeter
12 8 (1.43%) Postman
13 7 (1.25%) Mockito
14 4 (0.71%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
14 4 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 130 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 54 (9.64%) Public Sector
3 47 (8.39%) Finance
4 37 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.43%) Aerospace
6 8 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (1.43%) Law
7 6 (1.07%) Banking
8 5 (0.89%) Legal
9 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.71%) Publishing
10 3 (0.54%) Advertising
10 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.36%) Billing
11 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.36%) Games
11 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 222 (39.64%) Developer
2 151 (26.96%) Senior
3 90 (16.07%) Java Developer
4 83 (14.82%) Lead
5 69 (12.32%) Software Engineer
6 64 (11.43%) Senior Developer
7 63 (11.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (11.07%) Architect
9 38 (6.79%) AWS Developer
10 37 (6.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 36 (6.43%) Software Developer
12 34 (6.07%) Cloud Architect
13 28 (5.00%) Data Engineer
14 25 (4.46%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.46%) Security Architect
15 24 (4.29%) Senior Architect
16 23 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Architect
17 22 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
17 22 (3.93%) Senior Security Architect
17 22 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (26.43%) Node.js
2 127 (22.68%) React
3 110 (19.64%) Spring Boot
4 104 (18.57%) AngularJS
5 88 (15.71%) REST
6 85 (15.18%) Spring
7 70 (12.50%) .NET
8 40 (7.14%) HTML
9 35 (6.25%) Gherkin
10 34 (6.07%) Jest
11 31 (5.54%) RESTful
12 30 (5.36%) Kafka
13 28 (5.00%) AWS CDK
14 25 (4.46%) CSS
15 21 (3.75%) Next.js
16 20 (3.57%) Vue
17 18 (3.21%) Web Services
18 17 (3.04%) ARM Templates
19 16 (2.86%) OpenAPI
19 16 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 114 (20.36%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (7.86%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (4.46%) Data Centre
5 24 (4.29%) Mobile App
6 23 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.79%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.61%) IoT
11 9 (1.61%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.43%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.43%) Podcast
13 7 (1.25%) Low-Code
14 6 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.07%) Robotics
14 6 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.79%) Linux
2 20 (3.57%) Windows
3 14 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.61%) VMS
5 6 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.89%) CentOS
6 5 (0.89%) Debian
6 5 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.54%) Unix
8 2 (0.36%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (59.82%) CI/CD
2 245 (43.75%) DevOps
3 239 (42.68%) Agile
4 170 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 136 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 127 (22.68%) Microservices
7 122 (21.79%) Mentoring
8 121 (21.61%) Software Engineering
9 113 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (19.46%) AI
10 109 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (18.04%) Test Automation
12 96 (17.14%) Containerisation
13 94 (16.79%) Observability
14 76 (13.57%) Scrum
15 75 (13.39%) Clean Code
15 75 (13.39%) TDD
16 74 (13.21%) Event-Driven
17 73 (13.04%) DevSecOps
18 68 (12.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 203 (36.25%) Python
2 171 (30.54%) Java
3 158 (28.21%) SQL
4 148 (26.43%) TypeScript
5 131 (23.39%) JavaScript
6 77 (13.75%) C#
7 58 (10.36%) Bash
8 48 (8.57%) Kotlin
9 42 (7.50%) Groovy
10 23 (4.11%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.86%) Bicep
12 14 (2.50%) Swift
13 13 (2.32%) Shell Script
14 12 (2.14%) Ruby
15 10 (1.79%) PHP
16 9 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (1.61%) Rust
17 6 (1.07%) Go
18 5 (0.89%) Scala
19 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (11.96%) Degree
2 60 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 54 (9.64%) AWS Certification
4 47 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 39 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (4.11%) Azure Certification
9 21 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
10 19 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.50%) DV Cleared
11 14 (2.50%) Master's Degree
12 12 (2.14%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (1.07%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.71%) CCNA
16 4 (0.71%) OSCP
16 4 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.82%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.93%) GRC
3 21 (3.75%) GDPR
4 18 (3.21%) QA
5 14 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.89%) WCAG
7 4 (0.71%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.36%) NCSC
9 2 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 179 (31.96%) Docker
2 23 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.14%) vSphere
4 8 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.71%) iptables
5 4 (0.71%) Squid
5 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.54%) Firmware
7 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 147 (26.25%) Terraform
2 97 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 46 (8.21%) Ansible
4 26 (4.64%) HP Fortify
5 22 (3.93%) Grafana
6 20 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.68%) Puppet
8 13 (2.32%) Kibana
9 11 (1.96%) Packer
10 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.71%) Podman
11 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.54%) Control-M
12 3 (0.54%) Scalr
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.36%) Nagios
14 1 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 77 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.82%) Tenable
3 26 (4.64%) Oracle
4 22 (3.93%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.93%) Palo Alto
5 16 (2.86%) Splunk
6 14 (2.50%) Amplitude
6 14 (2.50%) Braze
6 14 (2.50%) Databricks
7 12 (2.14%) VMware
8 10 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.79%) Google
9 9 (1.61%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.43%) IBM
10 8 (1.43%) ScienceLogic
11 7 (1.25%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.07%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.89%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.71%) Informatica