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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 156 176
Rank change year-on-year -85 +20 -50
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 325 751 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.89% 1.59% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 5.57% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 202 245 439
10th Percentile £46,250 £34,000 £42,760
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £78,232
90th Percentile £89,750 £89,000 £86,500
UK median annual salary £68,958 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -8.06% +8.00% -7.40%

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 10,996 13,494 11,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.02% 28.57% 39.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,900 7,470 9,949
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,906 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +72 122 £70,000 +27.27% 132
Yorkshire +41 61 £75,000 +42.86% 43
North West +25 56 £65,000 +6.12% 85
South East -103 56 £67,500 +8.00% 76
South West -67 48 £60,000 -15.79% 37
Midlands +16 44 £62,500 +13.64% 32
West Midlands +33 37 £62,500 -13.79% 19
East of England -41 28 £57,500 +4.55% 23
Scotland -20 22 £85,000 +21.43% 33
Wales -14 8 £52,250 +90.00% 11
East Midlands -1 7 £65,000 +91.18% 13
North East +3 5 £68,500 +24.55% 4
Northern Ireland +4 3 £78,750 -7.35% 6
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 19 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.92%) Confluence
3 15 (4.62%) Apache Spark
4 13 (4.00%) Apache
5 6 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.23%) JBoss
7 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.62%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
9 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 238 (73.23%) AWS
2 164 (50.46%) Azure
3 142 (43.69%) AWS Lambda
4 94 (28.92%) Amazon S3
5 73 (22.46%) Amazon ECS
6 56 (17.23%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (16.92%) Amazon EC2
8 50 (15.38%) Azure Functions
8 50 (15.38%) GitHub
9 37 (11.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (9.54%) Power Platform
12 29 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (8.00%) Entra ID
14 25 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 25 (7.69%) GCP
14 25 (7.69%) Power Automate
15 24 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (7.38%) SaaS
16 23 (7.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.54%) Internet
2 14 (4.31%) Wireless
3 13 (4.00%) Firewall
4 7 (2.15%) DNS
5 6 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.54%) AMQP
6 5 (1.54%) DHCP
6 5 (1.54%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.54%) VLAN
6 5 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.62%) Broadband
7 2 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.62%) VPN
8 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.31%) NAS
8 1 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.62%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (13.85%) DynamoDB
3 42 (12.92%) Relational Database
4 31 (9.54%) SQL Server
5 26 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (7.69%) RDBMS
7 24 (7.38%) NoSQL
8 20 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (4.00%) MongoDB
10 13 (4.00%) MySQL
11 11 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.77%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.15%) Big Data
15 6 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.85%) Power BI
16 5 (1.54%) Apache Iceberg
16 5 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 52 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 42 (12.92%) Git
3 24 (7.38%) JUnit
4 20 (6.15%) JIRA
5 19 (5.85%) JMeter
5 19 (5.85%) Mockito
6 6 (1.85%) git-flow
6 6 (1.85%) GitLab
7 5 (1.54%) Maven
7 5 (1.54%) Selenium
8 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.23%) Locust
8 4 (1.23%) NUnit
8 4 (1.23%) Storybook
9 3 (0.92%) MLflow
9 3 (0.92%) MSTest
10 2 (0.62%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.31%) Sinon.JS
General
1 95 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.31%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.38%) Finance
4 24 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.15%) Law
6 19 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.62%) Automotive
8 14 (4.31%) Marketing
9 9 (2.77%) Banking
9 9 (2.77%) Retail
10 8 (2.46%) Games
10 8 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.85%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.23%) Electronics
12 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.23%) Legal
13 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (38.46%) Developer
2 63 (19.38%) Senior
3 47 (14.46%) Software Engineer
4 45 (13.85%) Java Developer
5 35 (10.77%) Senior Developer
6 34 (10.46%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (9.85%) Architect
8 26 (8.00%) Lead
9 22 (6.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 21 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (6.15%) .NET Developer
11 20 (6.15%) Data Engineer
12 18 (5.54%) Software Developer
13 16 (4.92%) Python Developer
14 15 (4.62%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 14 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (4.00%) Support Engineer
17 12 (3.69%) Java Engineer
17 12 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
18 10 (3.08%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (26.15%) React
2 72 (22.15%) .NET
3 59 (18.15%) HTML
3 59 (18.15%) Spring
4 57 (17.54%) Spring Boot
5 51 (15.69%) REST
6 39 (12.00%) AngularJS
7 38 (11.69%) Node.js
8 35 (10.77%) CSS
9 32 (9.85%) Web Services
10 26 (8.00%) Apache Camel
10 26 (8.00%) jQuery
11 24 (7.38%) JSON
11 24 (7.38%) Kafka
11 24 (7.38%) RESTful
12 22 (6.77%) Hibernate
13 21 (6.46%) .NET Framework
14 20 (6.15%) .NET Core
14 20 (6.15%) Vue
15 19 (5.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 74 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 40 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.85%) IoT
4 16 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.08%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.77%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.15%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.85%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.54%) BYOD
12 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.23%) Life Science
13 3 (0.92%) Animation
13 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.92%) Linux
2 7 (2.15%) Windows
3 6 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.62%) CentOS
4 2 (0.62%) Debian
4 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (52.62%) CI/CD
2 149 (45.85%) Agile
3 131 (40.31%) DevOps
4 105 (32.31%) Microservices
5 87 (26.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 84 (25.85%) Mentoring
7 75 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 70 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (20.62%) TDD
10 50 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 43 (13.23%) Containerisation
12 40 (12.31%) Migration
13 39 (12.00%) AI
14 37 (11.38%) Data Modelling
15 35 (10.77%) Test Automation
16 34 (10.46%) SDLC
17 32 (9.85%) BDD
18 31 (9.54%) Scrum
19 30 (9.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 139 (42.77%) Python
2 111 (34.15%) JavaScript
3 102 (31.38%) Java
4 81 (24.92%) TypeScript
5 71 (21.85%) C#
6 69 (21.23%) SQL
7 28 (8.62%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.77%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.38%) Bash
10 10 (3.08%) Bicep
11 6 (1.85%) Go
12 3 (0.92%) C++
12 3 (0.92%) PHP
12 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.62%) Scala
13 2 (0.62%) VB
13 2 (0.62%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.77%) Azure Certification
3 30 (9.23%) AWS Certification
3 30 (9.23%) Degree
4 27 (8.31%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (5.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.31%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (2.46%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.31%) CCNA
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.31%) MCP
13 1 (0.31%) MCSE
13 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.62%) QA
2 10 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.08%) GDPR
3 9 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.46%) NIST
4 8 (2.46%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.23%) SLA
6 4 (1.23%) WCAG
7 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) CDISC
8 1 (0.31%) DICOM
8 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) HL7
8 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (28.62%) Docker
2 14 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.62%) Firmware
4 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 95 (29.23%) Kubernetes
2 84 (25.85%) Terraform
3 23 (7.08%) Ansible
4 22 (6.77%) Kibana
5 9 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.46%) Grafana
7 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.54%) Argo
8 5 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.92%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.92%) Puppet
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 74 (22.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.15%) Dynatrace
2 20 (6.15%) Splunk
3 18 (5.54%) Oracle
4 16 (4.92%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.46%) Databricks
5 8 (2.46%) Google
6 5 (1.54%) Aruba
6 5 (1.54%) HP
6 5 (1.54%) PagerDuty
6 5 (1.54%) Veeam
7 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.23%) Pega
7 4 (1.23%) WSO2
8 3 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.92%) SAP
9 2 (0.62%) Avaya
9 2 (0.62%) Citrix
9 2 (0.62%) Genesys
9 2 (0.62%) Salesforce