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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 146 184
Rank change year-on-year -85 +38 -56
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 318 780 522
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.80% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 5.86% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 197 271 404
10th Percentile £49,150 £34,000 £42,596
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,973
90th Percentile £94,250 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud 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 11,928 13,303 11,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.52% 30.67% 39.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,828 7,495 9,609
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £69,539 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.56%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +68 137 £70,932 +23.36% 76
Yorkshire +49 79 £75,000 +41.51% 35
North West +36 54 £65,000 +6.12% 33
South East -107 51 £67,500 +8.00% 53
South West -69 46 £62,500 -10.71% 20
Midlands -5 45 £62,500 +21.95% 17
West Midlands +17 34 £62,500 +13.64% 12
East of England -40 21 £57,500 -2.13% 9
Scotland -23 16 £90,000 +27.66% 8
East Midlands -2 11 £65,000 +54.76% 5
Wales -16 7 £60,000 +118.18% 2
Northern Ireland -1 5 £95,000 +11.76% 7
North East +8 4 £68,500 +19.13% 8
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 18 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.72%) Confluence
3 14 (4.40%) Apache
4 9 (2.83%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) JBoss
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 229 (72.01%) AWS
2 170 (53.46%) Azure
3 128 (40.25%) AWS Lambda
4 98 (30.82%) Amazon S3
5 68 (21.38%) Amazon ECS
6 53 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (16.67%) GitHub
7 50 (15.72%) Azure Functions
8 49 (15.41%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (11.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 35 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (9.75%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (9.12%) GCP
14 28 (8.81%) SaaS
15 27 (8.49%) AWS Step Functions
16 26 (8.18%) Azure Service Bus
16 26 (8.18%) Entra ID
17 25 (7.86%) Power Platform
18 24 (7.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.03%) Internet
2 12 (3.77%) Firewall
2 12 (3.77%) Wireless
3 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.57%) AMQP
4 5 (1.57%) DHCP
4 5 (1.57%) DNS
4 5 (1.57%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.57%) VLAN
4 5 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.31%) NAS
6 1 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (14.78%) DynamoDB
3 38 (11.95%) Relational Database
4 32 (10.06%) SQL Server
5 28 (8.81%) NoSQL
6 23 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (6.29%) RDBMS
8 18 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (3.46%) MySQL
11 9 (2.83%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.20%) Big Data
12 7 (2.20%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.57%) InfluxDB
15 4 (1.26%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 57 (17.92%) Jenkins
2 45 (14.15%) Git
3 23 (7.23%) JUnit
4 18 (5.66%) JMeter
4 18 (5.66%) Mockito
5 17 (5.35%) JIRA
6 16 (5.03%) GitLab
7 11 (3.46%) Maven
8 10 (3.14%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.14%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.89%) git-flow
9 6 (1.89%) Storybook
10 5 (1.57%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.26%) NUnit
12 3 (0.94%) MLflow
12 3 (0.94%) MSTest
12 3 (0.94%) Selenium
13 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.31%) Moq
14 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.84%) Public Sector
3 37 (11.64%) Finance
4 17 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.77%) Automotive
6 10 (3.14%) Law
7 9 (2.83%) Marketing
8 8 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.20%) Legal
10 6 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.89%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.57%) Games
11 5 (1.57%) Retail
12 3 (0.94%) Banking
12 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (38.05%) Developer
2 52 (16.35%) Senior
3 42 (13.21%) Java Developer
4 39 (12.26%) Architect
5 38 (11.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (11.01%) Lead
6 35 (11.01%) Software Engineer
7 26 (8.18%) .NET Developer
7 26 (8.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 25 (7.86%) Senior Developer
9 21 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.97%) Data Engineer
11 16 (5.03%) Software Developer
12 15 (4.72%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 14 (4.40%) Python Developer
14 12 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.46%) Applications Architect
15 11 (3.46%) Lead Developer
16 10 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
17 9 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (28.30%) React
2 72 (22.64%) .NET
3 59 (18.55%) Spring
3 59 (18.55%) Spring Boot
4 53 (16.67%) HTML
5 51 (16.04%) REST
6 46 (14.47%) AngularJS
7 42 (13.21%) Node.js
8 32 (10.06%) CSS
9 29 (9.12%) Web Services
10 25 (7.86%) JSON
11 23 (7.23%) Apache Camel
12 22 (6.92%) .NET Core
12 22 (6.92%) Hibernate
12 22 (6.92%) Kafka
12 22 (6.92%) RESTful
12 22 (6.92%) Vue
13 21 (6.60%) jQuery
14 20 (6.29%) .NET Framework
15 18 (5.66%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 80 (25.16%) Cloud Native
2 45 (14.15%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.03%) IoT
5 14 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.46%) Mobile App
8 10 (3.14%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.57%) BYOD
10 5 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.26%) Life Science
12 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.94%) Animation
12 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.94%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.35%) Linux
2 7 (2.20%) Windows
3 6 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.63%) CentOS
4 2 (0.63%) Debian
4 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (57.23%) CI/CD
2 150 (47.17%) Agile
3 138 (43.40%) DevOps
4 109 (34.28%) Microservices
5 94 (29.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 84 (26.42%) Mentoring
7 67 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (20.13%) Software Engineering
9 61 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 58 (18.24%) TDD
11 48 (15.09%) Containerisation
12 43 (13.52%) Migration
13 36 (11.32%) Data Modelling
14 34 (10.69%) SDLC
15 33 (10.38%) AI
16 32 (10.06%) Architectural Patterns
17 31 (9.75%) Scrum
18 30 (9.43%) Application Security
18 30 (9.43%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 126 (39.62%) Python
2 112 (35.22%) JavaScript
3 104 (32.70%) Java
4 88 (27.67%) TypeScript
5 75 (23.58%) C#
6 65 (20.44%) SQL
7 26 (8.18%) PowerShell
8 21 (6.60%) Shell Script
9 18 (5.66%) Bash
10 10 (3.14%) Bicep
11 8 (2.52%) Groovy
12 7 (2.20%) Go
13 4 (1.26%) C++
14 2 (0.63%) PHP
14 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.63%) VB
14 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.31%) C
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (11.95%) AWS Certification
1 38 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.32%) Azure Certification
3 26 (8.18%) Degree
4 23 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (6.29%) SC Cleared
6 18 (5.66%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (4.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) CCNA
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.31%) MCP
11 1 (0.31%) MCSE
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.03%) QA
2 9 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.52%) GDPR
4 6 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.89%) NIST
4 6 (1.89%) WCAG
5 4 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) CDISC
7 1 (0.31%) DICOM
7 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) HL7
7 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 100 (31.45%) Docker
2 14 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.57%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) Firmware
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 84 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 81 (25.47%) Terraform
3 22 (6.92%) Ansible
3 22 (6.92%) Kibana
4 11 (3.46%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.83%) Grafana
5 9 (2.83%) HP Fortify
6 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.26%) Argo
9 3 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.94%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.94%) Puppet
10 1 (0.31%) Nagios
10 1 (0.31%) Podman
10 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 75 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.97%) Dynatrace
2 19 (5.97%) Splunk
3 15 (4.72%) Atlassian
4 10 (3.14%) Oracle
5 7 (2.20%) Google
6 5 (1.57%) Aruba
6 5 (1.57%) HP
6 5 (1.57%) Veeam
7 4 (1.26%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.26%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.26%) Pega
7 4 (1.26%) WSO2
8 3 (0.94%) Databricks
8 3 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.63%) Avaya
9 2 (0.63%) Citrix
9 2 (0.63%) Genesys
9 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.63%) VMware