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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 262 246
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 -62
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 598 346 619
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.00% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 3.70% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 383 245 351
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £36,103
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +0.71% -

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 17,877 9,345 17,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.17% 26.90% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,821 6,503 11,830
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +90 299 £75,000 +15.38% 106
North West +65 134 £70,000 +5.66% 54
Yorkshire +53 122 £80,000 +33.33% 29
South East -2 84 £65,000 -7.14% 56
Midlands -12 84 £62,500 -3.85% 35
South West -42 66 £61,500 +0.41% 46
East Midlands +20 51 £60,000 +60.00% 12
North East -16 43 £75,000 +15.38% 23
Wales -32 42 £55,000 +5.77% 11
West Midlands -45 33 £62,500 -3.85% 23
East of England -49 17 £59,450 +1.19% 19
Scotland +6 13 £70,000 +16.67% 29
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 (3.01%) Confluence
2 13 (2.17%) Apache
3 12 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.34%) SAS
6 7 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.84%) JBoss
9 4 (0.67%) nginx
9 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Finacle
4 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 437 (73.08%) AWS
2 296 (49.50%) AWS Lambda
3 206 (34.45%) Amazon S3
4 193 (32.27%) Azure
5 155 (25.92%) Amazon ECS
6 140 (23.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 109 (18.23%) GitHub
8 101 (16.89%) Azure Functions
9 77 (12.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 70 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (11.37%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (10.54%) Amazon SQS
13 60 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 59 (9.87%) Amazon EKS
15 58 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
16 53 (8.86%) GCP
17 49 (8.19%) SaaS
18 43 (7.19%) Azure Logic Apps
19 42 (7.02%) Power Platform
20 37 (6.19%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.84%) VPN
2 9 (1.51%) MQTT
2 9 (1.51%) Network Security
3 7 (1.17%) Firewall
4 5 (0.84%) AMQP
5 4 (0.67%) DNS
5 4 (0.67%) IPv4
5 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.50%) DHCP
6 3 (0.50%) HTTP
6 3 (0.50%) LTE
6 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.50%) VLAN
6 3 (0.50%) WAN
7 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) VoIP
8 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (20.57%) DynamoDB
2 60 (10.03%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (8.19%) NoSQL
4 47 (7.86%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (6.86%) Relational Database
7 39 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
8 29 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 29 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (3.01%) MySQL
10 18 (3.01%) Power BI
11 17 (2.84%) Big Data
12 16 (2.68%) MongoDB
13 13 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.67%) Spark SQL
15 9 (1.51%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.34%) Metadata
17 6 (1.00%) DocumentDB
17 6 (1.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 119 (19.90%) Git
2 104 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.03%) GitLab
4 35 (5.85%) JIRA
4 35 (5.85%) SonarQube
5 31 (5.18%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.68%) Snyk
7 21 (3.51%) Maven
8 15 (2.51%) JUnit
8 15 (2.51%) Selenium
9 13 (2.17%) Crashlytics
9 13 (2.17%) XCTest
10 12 (2.01%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.84%) Postman
12 10 (1.67%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.34%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.34%) JMeter
14 7 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (1.17%) Mockito
15 4 (0.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 153 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.04%) Public Sector
3 64 (10.70%) Finance
4 47 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.51%) Law
7 12 (2.01%) Aviation
8 10 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.67%) Retail
9 8 (1.34%) Banking
9 8 (1.34%) Legal
10 4 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.67%) Local Government
10 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 215 (35.95%) Developer
2 161 (26.92%) Senior
3 84 (14.05%) Lead
4 79 (13.21%) Java Developer
5 72 (12.04%) Software Engineer
6 70 (11.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 70 (11.71%) Senior Developer
7 63 (10.54%) Architect
8 37 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 35 (5.85%) Cloud Architect
10 33 (5.52%) Data Engineer
10 33 (5.52%) Software Developer
11 31 (5.18%) AWS Developer
11 31 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (4.18%) Cloud Security Architect
15 25 (4.18%) Security Architect
16 23 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (23.24%) Node.js
2 119 (19.90%) React
3 118 (19.73%) Spring Boot
4 96 (16.05%) AngularJS
5 95 (15.89%) REST
6 94 (15.72%) Spring
7 84 (14.05%) .NET
8 41 (6.86%) AWS CDK
9 38 (6.35%) Jest
10 37 (6.19%) Kafka
11 32 (5.35%) RESTful
12 29 (4.85%) Gherkin
13 28 (4.68%) HTML
13 28 (4.68%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (4.35%) Next.js
15 24 (4.01%) OpenAPI
16 22 (3.68%) ASP.NET
16 22 (3.68%) CSS
17 21 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
17 21 (3.51%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 155 (25.92%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.53%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (5.69%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.18%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.68%) Mainframe
8 21 (3.51%) Mobile App
9 20 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.01%) Podcast
11 12 (2.01%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.51%) IoT
14 8 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.34%) Robotics
15 7 (1.17%) Digital Wallet
15 7 (1.17%) Low-Code
15 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.86%) Linux
2 28 (4.68%) Windows
3 13 (2.17%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.17%) VMS
4 7 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.84%) AIX
5 5 (0.84%) CentOS
5 5 (0.84%) Debian
5 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (59.53%) CI/CD
2 289 (48.33%) Agile
3 257 (42.98%) DevOps
4 197 (32.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 149 (24.92%) AI
6 143 (23.91%) Software Engineering
7 139 (23.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 129 (21.57%) Mentoring
9 127 (21.24%) Microservices
10 120 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (19.06%) Observability
12 110 (18.39%) Test Automation
13 108 (18.06%) Containerisation
14 95 (15.89%) Scrum
15 85 (14.21%) TDD
16 83 (13.88%) Clean Code
17 81 (13.55%) Event-Driven
18 78 (13.04%) Cloud Security
18 78 (13.04%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 203 (33.95%) Python
2 176 (29.43%) Java
3 159 (26.59%) SQL
4 150 (25.08%) TypeScript
5 115 (19.23%) JavaScript
6 95 (15.89%) C#
7 61 (10.20%) Bash
8 45 (7.53%) Kotlin
9 36 (6.02%) Groovy
10 32 (5.35%) Ruby
11 28 (4.68%) PowerShell
12 22 (3.68%) Bicep
13 13 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 13 (2.17%) Swift
14 10 (1.67%) Rust
15 8 (1.34%) Go
15 8 (1.34%) PHP
16 6 (1.00%) COBOL
16 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.53%) Degree
4 55 (9.20%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 28 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (4.18%) Azure Certification
8 19 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.68%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.51%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.34%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.52%) QA
2 32 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.18%) GDPR
4 22 (3.68%) GRC
5 20 (3.34%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.51%) WCAG
8 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.00%) NCSC
9 4 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.67%) NIST
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 187 (31.27%) Docker
2 30 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.68%) vSphere
5 12 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.67%) Squid
6 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.50%) Firmware
7 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 192 (32.11%) Terraform
2 111 (18.56%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.36%) Ansible
4 20 (3.34%) HP Fortify
5 17 (2.84%) Grafana
6 15 (2.51%) Puppet
7 14 (2.34%) Prometheus
8 13 (2.17%) Kibana
9 12 (2.01%) Packer
10 5 (0.84%) Podman
11 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.50%) Scalr
13 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.17%) logstash
14 1 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 82 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.35%) Tenable
3 24 (4.01%) Oracle
4 22 (3.68%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.68%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.18%) Google
5 19 (3.18%) Splunk
6 17 (2.84%) VMware
7 15 (2.51%) Databricks
8 14 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.17%) Amplitude
9 13 (2.17%) Braze
10 12 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 12 (2.01%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.84%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.51%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.34%) IBM
14 7 (1.17%) HubSpot
14 7 (1.17%) OneLogin
15 5 (0.84%) SaltStack