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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 104 248
Rank change year-on-year -128 +144 -69
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 417 724 677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 2.62% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 7.77% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 260 284 491
10th Percentile £50,468 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,875 £87,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 16,285 9,321 20,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.47% 33.73% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,001 6,349 16,521
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +47 218 £72,500 +16.00% 89
Yorkshire +44 147 £75,000 +33.33% 32
Midlands -20 76 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North West -4 65 £72,966 +5.37% 47
East Midlands -7 51 £60,000 +4.35% 8
South West -115 43 £62,500 +4.17% 40
South East -163 36 £67,500 +12.50% 71
West Midlands -37 25 £51,875 -5.68% 19
Scotland -33 18 £76,783 +33.53% 20
East of England -60 16 £60,100 -9.28% 17
Wales -19 15 £41,740 +10.62% 6
Northern Ireland -26 7 £95,000 +11.76% 2
North East -27 6 £66,750 +6.80% 12
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 16 (3.84%) Apache
2 14 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.12%) OpenStack
4 12 (2.88%) Apache Spark
5 9 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.44%) SAS
7 4 (0.96%) Confluence
8 3 (0.72%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.72%) JBoss
9 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.48%) CMS
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 342 (82.01%) AWS
2 212 (50.84%) AWS Lambda
3 179 (42.93%) Amazon S3
4 164 (39.33%) Azure
5 113 (27.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 106 (25.42%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (17.27%) GitHub
8 70 (16.79%) AWS Step Functions
9 60 (14.39%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (13.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 52 (12.47%) Amazon SQS
11 52 (12.47%) Azure Functions
12 45 (10.79%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (10.79%) GCP
13 41 (9.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 38 (9.11%) Amazon ECR
14 38 (9.11%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (9.11%) SaaS
15 37 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (8.15%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.68%) Network Security
2 6 (1.44%) AMQP
3 3 (0.72%) Firewall
4 2 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (20.38%) DynamoDB
2 54 (12.95%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (11.27%) NoSQL
4 43 (10.31%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (7.91%) SQL Server
6 27 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (6.24%) Relational Database
8 18 (4.32%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.64%) Big Data
10 11 (2.64%) MySQL
10 11 (2.64%) Power BI
11 9 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.16%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.44%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.20%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 88 (21.10%) Jenkins
2 68 (16.31%) Git
3 46 (11.03%) GitLab
4 34 (8.15%) Maven
4 34 (8.15%) SonarQube
5 33 (7.91%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.40%) JUnit
7 8 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.68%) Crashlytics
8 7 (1.68%) JIRA
8 7 (1.68%) XCTest
9 6 (1.44%) git-flow
9 6 (1.44%) JMeter
9 6 (1.44%) Mockito
9 6 (1.44%) Storybook
10 4 (0.96%) MLflow
11 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.72%) Selenium
12 2 (0.48%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 113 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 36 (8.63%) Public Sector
3 35 (8.39%) Finance
4 30 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (1.92%) Legal
5 8 (1.92%) Marketing
6 6 (1.44%) Advertising
7 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.96%) Aerospace
8 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.96%) Publishing
9 3 (0.72%) Banking
9 3 (0.72%) Billing
9 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Games
10 2 (0.48%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.48%) Retail
10 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 195 (46.76%) Developer
2 82 (19.66%) Senior
3 70 (16.79%) Java Developer
4 55 (13.19%) Lead
5 52 (12.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (11.75%) Senior Developer
7 46 (11.03%) Architect
8 44 (10.55%) Software Engineer
9 34 (8.15%) AWS Developer
10 31 (7.43%) Python Developer
11 27 (6.47%) .NET Developer
12 24 (5.76%) Software Developer
13 21 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 20 (4.80%) Lead Developer
15 18 (4.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (4.08%) Technical Leader
17 15 (3.60%) React Developer
17 15 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
18 14 (3.36%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (35.01%) React
2 109 (26.14%) Node.js
3 85 (20.38%) Spring Boot
4 78 (18.71%) AngularJS
5 65 (15.59%) Spring
6 64 (15.35%) .NET
7 59 (14.15%) HTML
8 56 (13.43%) REST
9 45 (10.79%) CSS
10 35 (8.39%) AWS CDK
11 34 (8.15%) RESTful
12 33 (7.91%) Gherkin
12 33 (7.91%) Jest
13 27 (6.47%) Vue
14 21 (5.04%) .NET Core
15 20 (4.80%) Next.js
16 19 (4.56%) Django
16 19 (4.56%) FastAPI
16 19 (4.56%) Web Services
17 18 (4.32%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 90 (21.58%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (6.95%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (4.80%) Mobile App
5 18 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.60%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.36%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.72%) Animation
11 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.72%) IoT
11 3 (0.72%) Life Science
11 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.72%) NHS
12 2 (0.48%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.48%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.00%) Linux
2 7 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.20%) CentOS
3 5 (1.20%) Debian
3 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.20%) Windows
4 4 (0.96%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (57.07%) CI/CD
2 215 (51.56%) DevOps
3 201 (48.20%) Agile
4 137 (32.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 124 (29.74%) Microservices
6 113 (27.10%) Mentoring
7 104 (24.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 93 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (21.34%) Software Engineering
10 84 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (17.99%) Containerisation
12 51 (12.23%) Scrum
12 51 (12.23%) TDD
13 47 (11.27%) Observability
14 46 (11.03%) Computer Science
14 46 (11.03%) Test Automation
15 45 (10.79%) Data Modelling
16 42 (10.07%) SDLC
17 39 (9.35%) Migration
18 38 (9.11%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 150 (35.97%) Python
2 146 (35.01%) JavaScript
3 145 (34.77%) TypeScript
4 138 (33.09%) Java
5 98 (23.50%) SQL
6 68 (16.31%) C#
7 44 (10.55%) Bash
8 32 (7.67%) Groovy
9 24 (5.76%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.12%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.40%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.68%) PHP
12 7 (1.68%) Swift
13 6 (1.44%) C++
14 5 (1.20%) Bicep
15 3 (0.72%) C
16 2 (0.48%) Go
16 2 (0.48%) VB
16 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 71 (17.03%) AWS Certification
2 51 (12.23%) Degree
3 41 (9.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (7.91%) Security Cleared
5 32 (7.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (7.19%) Azure Certification
7 25 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (5.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (5.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 20 (4.80%) SC Cleared
11 19 (4.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (2.40%) DBS Check
14 9 (2.16%) Master's Degree
15 8 (1.92%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 3 (0.72%) IIBA
17 1 (0.24%) HND
17 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.60%) QA
3 10 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.44%) WCAG
6 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.48%) GDPR
7 2 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.48%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 149 (35.73%) Docker
2 10 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.96%) iptables
3 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 102 (24.46%) Terraform
2 75 (17.99%) Kubernetes
3 33 (7.91%) HP Fortify
4 28 (6.71%) Ansible
5 15 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.36%) Grafana
7 10 (2.40%) Kibana
7 10 (2.40%) Puppet
8 7 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.96%) Argo
9 4 (0.96%) Control-M
10 3 (0.72%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.72%) Nagios
11 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.48%) Packer
12 1 (0.24%) Scalr
12 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.40%) Oracle
3 7 (1.68%) Amplitude
3 7 (1.68%) Dynatrace
3 7 (1.68%) Google
4 6 (1.44%) Splunk
5 5 (1.20%) Informatica
5 5 (1.20%) Pega
5 5 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.20%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.20%) WSO2
6 4 (0.96%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.48%) Databricks
9 1 (0.24%) Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) SAP
9 1 (0.24%) Tenable