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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 232 245
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 502 388 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 1.35% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 4.44% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 312 286 486
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £41,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,500
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 £78,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 18,041 8,739 22,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.44% 30.41% 32.98%
Number of salaries quoted 9,338 6,025 17,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,925 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,238 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
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 15 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 15 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 +83 262 £75,000 +15.38% 69
Yorkshire +36 152 £75,000 +27.66% 25
North West +44 103 £75,000 - 37
Midlands -1 102 £55,000 - 23
East Midlands +35 72 £57,500 +4.55% 9
South East -67 57 £62,500 +4.17% 57
South West -66 42 £63,750 +6.25% 26
West Midlands -52 30 £50,000 -9.09% 14
East of England -23 20 £60,050 -29.35% 8
Scotland -12 16 £76,783 +39.60% 5
Wales -30 14 £51,619 -0.15% 3
North East -35 7 £95,000 +52.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 -
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 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.39%) Apache
2 12 (2.39%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.59%) SAS
5 4 (0.80%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.80%) JBoss
6 3 (0.60%) Confluence
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 382 (76.10%) AWS
2 247 (49.20%) AWS Lambda
3 209 (41.63%) Amazon S3
4 156 (31.08%) Azure
5 140 (27.89%) Amazon ECS
6 127 (25.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (18.73%) AWS Step Functions
8 66 (13.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 66 (13.15%) Azure Functions
9 62 (12.35%) Amazon SQS
10 61 (12.15%) GitHub
11 59 (11.75%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
13 52 (10.36%) Amazon ECR
14 50 (9.96%) Apigee
15 45 (8.96%) GCP
16 43 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
17 42 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
17 42 (8.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (7.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.39%) Network Security
2 6 (1.20%) AMQP
3 5 (1.00%) Firewall
3 5 (1.00%) MQTT
4 2 (0.40%) DHCP
4 2 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) LTE
4 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.40%) VLAN
4 2 (0.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) Internet
5 1 (0.20%) IPv4
5 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (22.51%) DynamoDB
2 60 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 38 (7.57%) SQL Server
6 30 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
7 29 (5.78%) Relational Database
8 27 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.19%) Power BI
11 15 (2.99%) Big Data
12 11 (2.19%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.99%) Spark SQL
14 8 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.59%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.20%) MySQL
16 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 5 (1.00%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 106 (21.12%) Jenkins
2 82 (16.33%) Git
3 65 (12.95%) GitLab
4 51 (10.16%) SonarQube
5 43 (8.57%) Cypress.io
6 42 (8.37%) Maven
7 22 (4.38%) Snyk
8 13 (2.59%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.59%) XCTest
9 11 (2.19%) JIRA
10 10 (1.99%) JUnit
11 9 (1.79%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.39%) JMeter
12 7 (1.39%) Mockito
13 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.80%) Postman
13 4 (0.80%) Selenium
13 4 (0.80%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 111 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 38 (7.57%) Public Sector
3 36 (7.17%) Finance
4 34 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.59%) Legal
7 7 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.20%) Advertising
8 6 (1.20%) Banking
9 5 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.80%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.80%) Publishing
11 3 (0.60%) Billing
11 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Marketing
12 2 (0.40%) Games
12 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.40%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (40.44%) Developer
2 130 (25.90%) Senior
3 88 (17.53%) Java Developer
4 83 (16.53%) Lead
5 59 (11.75%) Architect
6 56 (11.16%) Software Engineer
7 54 (10.76%) Senior Developer
8 48 (9.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (7.57%) AWS Developer
10 34 (6.77%) Cloud Architect
11 28 (5.58%) Software Developer
12 26 (5.18%) .NET Developer
12 26 (5.18%) Data Engineer
12 26 (5.18%) Senior Architect
13 25 (4.98%) Cloud Security Architect
13 25 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (4.98%) Security Architect
14 23 (4.58%) Technical Leader
15 22 (4.38%) Senior Cloud Architect
15 22 (4.38%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (25.30%) React
2 126 (25.10%) Node.js
3 107 (21.31%) Spring Boot
4 99 (19.72%) AngularJS
5 85 (16.93%) REST
6 80 (15.94%) Spring
7 61 (12.15%) .NET
8 42 (8.37%) Gherkin
9 41 (8.17%) Jest
10 38 (7.57%) HTML
11 34 (6.77%) AWS CDK
12 32 (6.37%) RESTful
13 25 (4.98%) Kafka
14 23 (4.58%) Web Services
15 22 (4.38%) CSS
16 21 (4.18%) Next.js
17 20 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
18 18 (3.59%) .NET Core
19 16 (3.19%) JSON
19 16 (3.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 85 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.97%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.78%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.78%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.00%) IoT
11 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.80%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.60%) NHS
13 3 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.57%) Linux
2 13 (2.59%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.59%) Windows
4 5 (1.00%) CentOS
4 5 (1.00%) Debian
4 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.80%) Unix
6 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (59.56%) CI/CD
2 229 (45.62%) DevOps
3 212 (42.23%) Agile
4 147 (29.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 121 (24.10%) Microservices
6 120 (23.90%) Mentoring
7 111 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 106 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
9 103 (20.52%) Software Engineering
10 94 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (17.73%) Containerisation
12 81 (16.14%) Test Automation
13 73 (14.54%) Observability
13 73 (14.54%) SDLC
14 72 (14.34%) AI
15 68 (13.55%) TDD
16 60 (11.95%) Clean Code
17 59 (11.75%) Scrum
18 57 (11.35%) Computer Science
19 54 (10.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 181 (36.06%) Python
2 160 (31.87%) Java
3 150 (29.88%) TypeScript
4 130 (25.90%) SQL
5 123 (24.50%) JavaScript
6 64 (12.75%) C#
7 55 (10.96%) Bash
8 48 (9.56%) Groovy
9 40 (7.97%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.79%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.59%) Swift
12 8 (1.59%) PHP
13 7 (1.39%) Rust
14 4 (0.80%) Perl
14 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.60%) C
15 3 (0.60%) C++
15 3 (0.60%) VB
16 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 64 (12.75%) AWS Certification
2 63 (12.55%) Degree
3 45 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 37 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
6 23 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (4.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (3.98%) Azure Certification
9 16 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (2.39%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.79%) Master's Degree
13 8 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.60%) CCSP
15 3 (0.60%) CISM
15 3 (0.60%) CISSP
15 3 (0.60%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.58%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.38%) GRC
3 19 (3.78%) GDPR
4 16 (3.19%) QA
5 11 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.60%) NIST
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 182 (36.25%) Docker
2 23 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.80%) iptables
5 3 (0.60%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (24.10%) Terraform
2 94 (18.73%) Kubernetes
3 40 (7.97%) HP Fortify
4 39 (7.77%) Ansible
5 19 (3.78%) Grafana
5 19 (3.78%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.99%) Puppet
7 13 (2.59%) Kibana
8 7 (1.39%) Packer
8 7 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.80%) Control-M
9 4 (0.80%) Podman
10 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.60%) Nagios
10 3 (0.60%) Scalr
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.38%) Tenable
3 22 (4.38%) CrowdStrike
3 22 (4.38%) Oracle
3 22 (4.38%) Palo Alto
4 14 (2.79%) Databricks
5 13 (2.59%) Amplitude
5 13 (2.59%) Braze
6 9 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.59%) IBM
7 8 (1.59%) Splunk
8 7 (1.39%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.39%) Google
9 6 (1.20%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.00%) Informatica
10 5 (1.00%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.80%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.40%) Pega
12 2 (0.40%) WSO2