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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 125 239
Rank change year-on-year -105 +114 -67
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 372 768 595
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 2.27% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 6.88% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 239 265 459
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,539 £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% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +7.14% -6.67%

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 14,324 11,165 17,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.28% 33.02% 35.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,154 6,140 14,413
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% -8.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 4 February 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 February 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 +58 187 £75,000 +22.45% 66
Yorkshire +54 127 £75,000 +36.36% 25
Midlands -5 64 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North West +11 56 £75,000 +25.00% 38
South West -100 41 £62,500 -7.41% 37
South East -142 39 £67,500 +12.50% 53
East Midlands +4 33 £60,000 +6.67% 12
West Midlands +10 31 £60,000 +9.09% 15
East of England -45 17 £61,300 -7.47% 8
Wales -10 15 £41,740 +51.78% 3
Scotland -46 13 - - 7
Northern Ireland -11 7 £95,000 +11.76% 3
North East -10 4 £68,500 +9.60% 3
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 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.03%) Apache
2 15 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.23%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.61%) Confluence
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 296 (79.57%) AWS
2 186 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 171 (45.97%) Azure
4 155 (41.67%) Amazon S3
5 87 (23.39%) Amazon ECS
6 86 (23.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (16.94%) GitHub
8 59 (15.86%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (15.05%) AWS Step Functions
9 56 (15.05%) Azure Functions
10 50 (13.44%) Amazon SQS
11 43 (11.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 42 (11.29%) GCP
13 41 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 41 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
15 36 (9.68%) SaaS
16 32 (8.60%) Azure Service Bus
17 30 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
18 26 (6.99%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.88%) AMQP
1 7 (1.88%) Internet
2 5 (1.34%) Network Security
3 4 (1.08%) Firewall
4 3 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.35%) DynamoDB
2 54 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (11.29%) NoSQL
4 35 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (8.60%) SQL Server
6 29 (7.80%) Relational Database
7 25 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.49%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.69%) MySQL
11 9 (2.42%) Big Data
12 7 (1.88%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.88%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.88%) Power BI
13 6 (1.61%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 69 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 60 (16.13%) Git
3 34 (9.14%) GitLab
4 25 (6.72%) SonarQube
5 24 (6.45%) Cypress.io
5 24 (6.45%) Maven
6 13 (3.49%) JUnit
7 9 (2.42%) JMeter
7 9 (2.42%) Mockito
8 6 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.61%) git-flow
8 6 (1.61%) JIRA
8 6 (1.61%) Storybook
9 3 (0.81%) MLflow
10 2 (0.54%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) MSTest
11 1 (0.27%) Selenium
11 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.22%) Public Sector
3 30 (8.06%) Finance
4 26 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.15%) Marketing
6 5 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.34%) Law
6 5 (1.34%) Legal
6 5 (1.34%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.08%) Advertising
7 4 (1.08%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.08%) Publishing
8 3 (0.81%) Automotive
8 3 (0.81%) Banking
8 3 (0.81%) Billing
8 3 (0.81%) Games
8 3 (0.81%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 172 (46.24%) Developer
2 68 (18.28%) Senior
3 53 (14.25%) Java Developer
4 46 (12.37%) Lead
5 45 (12.10%) Architect
5 45 (12.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 45 (12.10%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.75%) Senior Developer
7 34 (9.14%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.80%) AWS Developer
9 27 (7.26%) Python Developer
10 23 (6.18%) Software Developer
11 22 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (5.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 18 (4.84%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.76%) Applications Architect
15 13 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.49%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.49%) Node.js Developer
15 13 (3.49%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (35.48%) React
2 88 (23.66%) Node.js
3 72 (19.35%) Spring Boot
4 71 (19.09%) .NET
5 64 (17.20%) AngularJS
6 60 (16.13%) HTML
6 60 (16.13%) Spring
7 55 (14.78%) REST
8 42 (11.29%) CSS
9 32 (8.60%) RESTful
10 26 (6.99%) AWS CDK
11 25 (6.72%) Vue
12 24 (6.45%) .NET Core
12 24 (6.45%) Gherkin
12 24 (6.45%) Jest
13 22 (5.91%) Kafka
14 21 (5.65%) Blazor
14 21 (5.65%) Web Services
15 19 (5.11%) ASP.NET
16 17 (4.57%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.85%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.60%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.76%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.49%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.08%) IoT
10 3 (0.81%) Animation
10 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.81%) Life Science
10 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.81%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.54%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.27%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.18%) Linux
2 5 (1.34%) CentOS
2 5 (1.34%) Debian
2 5 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
2 5 (1.34%) Unix
3 3 (0.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (60.22%) CI/CD
2 186 (50.00%) DevOps
3 172 (46.24%) Agile
4 128 (34.41%) Microservices
5 124 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 99 (26.61%) Mentoring
7 87 (23.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 87 (23.39%) Software Engineering
8 82 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (15.59%) Containerisation
11 46 (12.37%) Migration
11 46 (12.37%) TDD
12 45 (12.10%) Data Modelling
13 44 (11.83%) Scrum
14 41 (11.02%) Application Security
14 41 (11.02%) Computer Science
15 40 (10.75%) SDLC
16 38 (10.22%) Architectural Patterns
17 33 (8.87%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 145 (38.98%) Python
2 138 (37.10%) JavaScript
3 125 (33.60%) Java
4 123 (33.06%) TypeScript
5 96 (25.81%) SQL
6 81 (21.77%) C#
7 35 (9.41%) Bash
8 23 (6.18%) Groovy
9 15 (4.03%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.76%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.88%) Bicep
13 5 (1.34%) C++
14 4 (1.08%) Go
14 4 (1.08%) PHP
15 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.54%) C
16 2 (0.54%) VB
16 2 (0.54%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (17.20%) AWS Certification
2 47 (12.63%) Degree
3 38 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (9.68%) Azure Certification
5 35 (9.41%) Security Cleared
6 29 (7.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (5.65%) SC Cleared
10 18 (4.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.88%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.34%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.81%) IIBA
15 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 1 (0.27%) HND
17 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.49%) QA
2 12 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.61%) WCAG
5 4 (1.08%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.54%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (32.26%) Docker
2 10 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.54%) iptables
Systems Management
1 94 (25.27%) Terraform
2 75 (20.16%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.72%) Ansible
4 24 (6.45%) HP Fortify
5 12 (3.23%) Kibana
6 11 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.42%) Grafana
8 8 (2.15%) Puppet
9 6 (1.61%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.08%) Argo
10 4 (1.08%) Control-M
11 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.54%) Nagios
13 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.27%) Packer
13 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.96%) Oracle
3 10 (2.69%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.69%) Google
4 9 (2.42%) Splunk
5 6 (1.61%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.34%) Informatica
6 5 (1.34%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.34%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.08%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.08%) Pega
7 4 (1.08%) WSO2
8 2 (0.54%) Databricks
9 1 (0.27%) Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) SAP
9 1 (0.27%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.27%) Tenable