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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 231 263
Rank change year-on-year +15 +32 -63
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 549 374 795
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.25% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 4.37% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 359 262 489
10th Percentile £48,458 £41,825 £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 £93,750 £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 16,284 8,551 23,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.15% 28.57% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,411 5,881 18,118
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,250 £37,101
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 £69,840 £66,438
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% -9.45%

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 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 18 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 +78 270 £75,000 +15.38% 49
Yorkshire +39 134 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +61 120 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Midlands +19 106 £55,000 - 15
East Midlands +35 72 £55,000 +2.33% 6
South East -37 67 £67,500 +12.50% 44
South West -55 55 £62,500 +4.17% 25
West Midlands -33 34 £52,500 -6.67% 9
Wales -36 25 £51,619 -0.73% 7
East of England -31 21 £60,000 -28.36% 6
North East -35 16 £75,000 +20.00% 9
Scotland -2 13 £76,783 +39.60% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £95,000 - 22
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 13 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.19%) Apache
3 11 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.82%) Confluence
5 8 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.46%) SAS
6 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.73%) JBoss
8 3 (0.55%) 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 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 405 (73.77%) AWS
2 272 (49.54%) AWS Lambda
3 215 (39.16%) Amazon S3
4 166 (30.24%) Azure
5 146 (26.59%) Amazon ECS
6 123 (22.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 92 (16.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 87 (15.85%) Azure Functions
9 77 (14.03%) GitHub
10 64 (11.66%) Amazon SQS
11 62 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 60 (10.93%) Amazon EC2
13 56 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
14 50 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
15 46 (8.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 45 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (7.83%) GCP
18 42 (7.65%) Amazon ECR
19 40 (7.29%) SaaS
20 39 (7.10%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.37%) Network Security
2 8 (1.46%) VPN
3 7 (1.28%) Firewall
4 6 (1.09%) AMQP
4 6 (1.09%) MQTT
5 4 (0.73%) IPv4
5 4 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.55%) DHCP
6 3 (0.55%) DNS
6 3 (0.55%) LTE
6 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.55%) 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
1 111 (20.22%) DynamoDB
2 52 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (8.01%) NoSQL
5 43 (7.83%) SQL Server
6 39 (7.10%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (5.46%) Relational Database
9 20 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (3.46%) Power BI
11 17 (3.10%) Big Data
12 15 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (2.73%) MySQL
13 13 (2.37%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.82%) Spark SQL
15 9 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.64%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.09%) Redis
17 5 (0.91%) Hadoop
17 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 103 (18.76%) Jenkins
2 98 (17.85%) Git
3 58 (10.56%) GitLab
4 38 (6.92%) SonarQube
5 34 (6.19%) Cypress.io
6 29 (5.28%) Maven
7 23 (4.19%) JIRA
8 22 (4.01%) Snyk
9 14 (2.55%) Crashlytics
9 14 (2.55%) XCTest
10 11 (2.00%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.00%) JUnit
11 10 (1.82%) Selenium
12 9 (1.64%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.46%) JMeter
13 8 (1.46%) Postman
14 7 (1.28%) Mockito
15 4 (0.73%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.73%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 128 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 53 (9.65%) Public Sector
3 44 (8.01%) Finance
4 37 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.46%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.09%) Banking
8 6 (1.09%) Law
9 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.91%) Legal
10 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.73%) Publishing
11 3 (0.55%) Advertising
11 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.36%) Billing
12 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.36%) Games
12 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 220 (40.07%) Developer
2 148 (26.96%) Senior
3 91 (16.58%) Java Developer
4 82 (14.94%) Lead
5 66 (12.02%) Software Engineer
6 63 (11.48%) Senior Developer
7 62 (11.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (10.93%) Architect
9 38 (6.92%) AWS Developer
10 36 (6.56%) Software Developer
11 34 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 32 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
13 28 (5.10%) Data Engineer
14 25 (4.55%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.55%) Security Architect
15 23 (4.19%) Senior Architect
16 22 (4.01%) Senior Cloud Architect
16 22 (4.01%) Senior Java Developer
16 22 (4.01%) Senior Security Architect
16 22 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (26.41%) Node.js
2 123 (22.40%) React
3 109 (19.85%) Spring Boot
4 102 (18.58%) AngularJS
5 88 (16.03%) REST
6 83 (15.12%) Spring
7 68 (12.39%) .NET
8 40 (7.29%) HTML
9 36 (6.56%) Gherkin
10 35 (6.38%) Jest
11 29 (5.28%) AWS CDK
11 29 (5.28%) Kafka
12 28 (5.10%) RESTful
13 25 (4.55%) CSS
14 20 (3.64%) Next.js
15 19 (3.46%) Vue
16 18 (3.28%) Web Services
17 17 (3.10%) ARM Templates
17 17 (3.10%) OpenAPI
18 16 (2.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 111 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (8.01%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.37%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.37%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.64%) IoT
11 8 (1.46%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.09%) Podcast
14 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.92%) Linux
2 18 (3.28%) Windows
3 14 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.28%) VMS
5 6 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.91%) CentOS
6 5 (0.91%) Debian
6 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.73%) Unix
8 2 (0.36%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 240 (43.72%) DevOps
3 233 (42.44%) Agile
4 169 (30.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (23.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (22.22%) Microservices
7 121 (22.04%) Mentoring
8 116 (21.13%) Software Engineering
9 109 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (19.13%) AI
12 99 (18.03%) Test Automation
13 93 (16.94%) Containerisation
14 91 (16.58%) Observability
15 74 (13.48%) Event-Driven
16 73 (13.30%) Clean Code
17 72 (13.11%) TDD
18 71 (12.93%) Scrum
19 70 (12.75%) DevSecOps
20 69 (12.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 197 (35.88%) Python
2 167 (30.42%) Java
3 154 (28.05%) SQL
4 144 (26.23%) TypeScript
5 127 (23.13%) JavaScript
6 74 (13.48%) C#
7 56 (10.20%) Bash
8 48 (8.74%) Kotlin
9 43 (7.83%) Groovy
10 21 (3.83%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.55%) Bicep
11 14 (2.55%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.55%) Swift
12 12 (2.19%) Ruby
13 10 (1.82%) PHP
14 8 (1.46%) Rust
15 7 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.91%) Scala
17 4 (0.73%) Go
17 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (12.02%) Degree
2 56 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 55 (10.02%) AWS Certification
4 44 (8.01%) SC Cleared
5 39 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (4.01%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.83%) Azure Certification
10 19 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.37%) Master's Degree
12 12 (2.19%) DBS Check
12 12 (2.19%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (1.09%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.73%) CCNA
16 4 (0.73%) OSCP
16 4 (0.73%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.01%) GRC
3 20 (3.64%) GDPR
4 17 (3.10%) QA
5 14 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.91%) WCAG
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.55%) NIST
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 (32.60%) Docker
2 23 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.82%) vSphere
5 6 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.73%) iptables
6 4 (0.73%) Squid
6 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.55%) Firmware
8 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 144 (26.23%) Terraform
2 96 (17.49%) Kubernetes
3 44 (8.01%) Ansible
4 27 (4.92%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.83%) Grafana
6 20 (3.64%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.73%) Puppet
8 12 (2.19%) Kibana
9 11 (2.00%) Packer
10 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.73%) Control-M
11 4 (0.73%) Podman
11 4 (0.73%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.55%) Scalr
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 73 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.92%) Oracle
2 27 (4.92%) Tenable
3 22 (4.01%) CrowdStrike
3 22 (4.01%) Palo Alto
4 15 (2.73%) Splunk
5 14 (2.55%) Amplitude
5 14 (2.55%) Braze
5 14 (2.55%) Databricks
6 10 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.82%) VMware
7 9 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 9 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.46%) Google
8 8 (1.46%) IBM
9 7 (1.28%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.09%) ScienceLogic
11 5 (0.91%) Informatica
11 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.91%) SaltStack