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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 173 248
Rank change year-on-year -51 +75 -47
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 480 436 781
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 1.64% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 5.11% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 298 298 495
10th Percentile £50,490 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,950 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,125 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 19,002 8,531 22,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.86% 32.07% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,871 6,336 17,367
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,314 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +54 264 £75,000 +15.38% 77
Yorkshire +38 166 £75,000 +30.43% 18
Midlands -13 91 £55,000 -2.22% 15
North West +4 90 £75,000 - 52
East Midlands -9 64 £60,000 +6.67% 7
South West -70 43 £62,500 +4.17% 22
South East -131 42 £68,750 +14.58% 43
West Midlands -52 27 £50,000 -11.11% 8
Scotland -28 19 £76,783 +33.53% 16
East of England -53 19 £60,100 -29.29% 17
Wales -25 15 £41,740 -16.52% 3
North East -36 8 £95,000 +52.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £95,000 - 5
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 14 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.50%) Apache
3 11 (2.29%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.67%) SAS
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.83%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.83%) JBoss
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Confluence
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 380 (79.17%) AWS
2 248 (51.67%) AWS Lambda
3 207 (43.13%) Amazon S3
4 164 (34.17%) Azure
5 129 (26.88%) Amazon ECS
5 129 (26.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 89 (18.54%) AWS Step Functions
7 73 (15.21%) GitHub
8 67 (13.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
10 61 (12.71%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (11.67%) Azure Functions
12 50 (10.42%) Amazon ECR
13 48 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
13 48 (10.00%) Apigee
14 47 (9.79%) GCP
15 44 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
15 44 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
17 38 (7.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.88%) Network Security
2 6 (1.25%) AMQP
3 4 (0.83%) Firewall
4 2 (0.42%) DHCP
4 2 (0.42%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.42%) VLAN
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
4 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (23.33%) DynamoDB
2 54 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (10.83%) NoSQL
4 50 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (7.29%) SQL Server
6 29 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
7 26 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (5.00%) Relational Database
9 17 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.92%) Big Data
11 13 (2.71%) Power BI
12 11 (2.29%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.88%) MySQL
14 7 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.46%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.25%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (1.04%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (20.42%) Jenkins
2 75 (15.63%) Git
3 58 (12.08%) GitLab
4 47 (9.79%) SonarQube
5 41 (8.54%) Maven
6 40 (8.33%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.71%) Snyk
8 10 (2.08%) Crashlytics
8 10 (2.08%) JIRA
8 10 (2.08%) XCTest
9 9 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.46%) JUnit
11 6 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.25%) Storybook
12 4 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.83%) JMeter
12 4 (0.83%) Mockito
12 4 (0.83%) Postman
12 4 (0.83%) Selenium
12 4 (0.83%) SpecFlow
General
1 119 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 41 (8.54%) Finance
3 36 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.88%) Legal
7 8 (1.67%) Marketing
8 6 (1.25%) Advertising
8 6 (1.25%) Banking
9 5 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.83%) Publishing
11 3 (0.63%) Billing
11 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.42%) Games
12 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 204 (42.50%) Developer
2 110 (22.92%) Senior
3 81 (16.88%) Java Developer
4 73 (15.21%) Lead
5 59 (12.29%) Architect
6 53 (11.04%) Senior Developer
7 52 (10.83%) Software Engineer
8 47 (9.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (8.13%) AWS Developer
10 28 (5.83%) Python Developer
11 27 (5.63%) .NET Developer
11 27 (5.63%) Cloud Architect
12 23 (4.79%) Software Developer
13 22 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (4.58%) Technical Leader
14 21 (4.38%) Lead Developer
15 20 (4.17%) Data Engineer
16 17 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
16 17 (3.54%) Senior Architect
16 17 (3.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (29.58%) React
2 124 (25.83%) Node.js
3 97 (20.21%) Spring Boot
4 96 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 75 (15.63%) REST
6 71 (14.79%) Spring
7 59 (12.29%) .NET
8 46 (9.58%) HTML
9 40 (8.33%) Gherkin
9 40 (8.33%) Jest
10 38 (7.92%) RESTful
11 35 (7.29%) AWS CDK
12 33 (6.88%) CSS
13 27 (5.63%) Vue
14 23 (4.79%) Next.js
15 21 (4.38%) .NET Core
16 20 (4.17%) Web Services
17 19 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (3.96%) JSON
17 19 (3.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 92 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.46%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (4.38%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.71%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.83%) IoT
12 4 (0.83%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.83%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.63%) NHS
13 3 (0.63%) PKI
14 2 (0.42%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.63%) Linux
2 10 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.46%) Windows
4 5 (1.04%) CentOS
4 5 (1.04%) Debian
4 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (58.75%) CI/CD
2 235 (48.96%) DevOps
3 214 (44.58%) Agile
4 153 (31.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (26.46%) Microservices
6 116 (24.17%) Mentoring
6 116 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (22.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 101 (21.04%) Software Engineering
9 92 (19.17%) Containerisation
10 87 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (15.00%) Test Automation
12 62 (12.92%) Observability
13 58 (12.08%) TDD
14 57 (11.88%) SDLC
15 54 (11.25%) Scrum
16 53 (11.04%) Computer Science
17 50 (10.42%) AI
17 50 (10.42%) Clean Code
17 50 (10.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 173 (36.04%) Python
2 155 (32.29%) Java
2 155 (32.29%) TypeScript
3 130 (27.08%) JavaScript
4 127 (26.46%) SQL
5 60 (12.50%) C#
6 53 (11.04%) Bash
7 45 (9.38%) Groovy
8 35 (7.29%) Kotlin
9 15 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.08%) Swift
11 7 (1.46%) PHP
12 5 (1.04%) Perl
13 4 (0.83%) Bicep
13 4 (0.83%) C++
13 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.63%) C
14 3 (0.63%) VB
15 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (14.58%) AWS Certification
2 57 (11.88%) Degree
3 46 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 30 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 27 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (4.79%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (4.58%) Azure Certification
9 21 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (3.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (2.71%) DBS Check
13 10 (2.08%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.67%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.63%) CCSP
15 3 (0.63%) CISM
15 3 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.75%) QA
3 13 (2.71%) GRC
4 12 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.46%) GDPR
7 6 (1.25%) WCAG
8 5 (1.04%) NIST
9 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.63%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 177 (36.88%) Docker
2 16 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.83%) iptables
5 3 (0.63%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 125 (26.04%) Terraform
2 85 (17.71%) Kubernetes
3 40 (8.33%) HP Fortify
4 31 (6.46%) Ansible
5 16 (3.33%) Grafana
5 16 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.08%) Kibana
6 10 (2.08%) Puppet
7 7 (1.46%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.25%) Packer
9 4 (0.83%) Argo
9 4 (0.83%) Control-M
9 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.63%) Nagios
10 3 (0.63%) Scalr
11 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.13%) Oracle
3 14 (2.92%) Tenable
4 13 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
4 13 (2.71%) Palo Alto
5 10 (2.08%) Amplitude
5 10 (2.08%) Braze
5 10 (2.08%) Databricks
6 9 (1.88%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.67%) IBM
8 7 (1.46%) Google
9 5 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.04%) Informatica
9 5 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.04%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.83%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.83%) Splunk
11 2 (0.42%) Aruba
11 2 (0.42%) WSO2