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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 160 175
Rank change year-on-year -93 +15 -48
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 323 735 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.55% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 5.52% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 205 232 456
10th Percentile £43,000 £34,000 £42,819
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,554
90th Percentile £91,500 £90,000 £86,000
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 10,022 13,321 12,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.34% 28.05% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6,704 7,359 10,208
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,352 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £67,749 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £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 9 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 9 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 +48 117 £68,000 +23.64% 222
South East -87 59 £67,500 +8.00% 422
Yorkshire +43 57 £71,500 +36.19% 60
North West +18 55 £65,000 +13.04% 147
South West -63 50 £60,000 -17.24% 45
Midlands +10 41 £62,500 +8.70% 48
West Midlands +29 37 £62,500 -13.79% 22
East of England -28 29 £57,500 +4.55% 37
Scotland -18 21 £72,500 +3.57% 60
Wales -10 10 £53,750 +95.45% 19
North East +7 5 £68,500 +24.55% 15
East Midlands -12 4 - - 24
Northern Ireland 0 2 £62,500 -26.47% 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 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.26%) Confluence
3 15 (4.64%) Apache Spark
4 13 (4.02%) Apache
5 6 (1.86%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.55%) JBoss
7 4 (1.24%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.62%) CMS
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.31%) SAS
10 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (73.07%) AWS
2 161 (49.85%) Azure
3 143 (44.27%) AWS Lambda
4 93 (28.79%) Amazon S3
5 77 (23.84%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (18.27%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (17.96%) Amazon EC2
8 49 (15.17%) Azure Functions
9 48 (14.86%) GitHub
10 37 (11.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 33 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (9.60%) Power Platform
13 29 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (8.05%) Entra ID
15 25 (7.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 24 (7.43%) Power Automate
17 23 (7.12%) GCP
18 22 (6.81%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (6.81%) PaaS
18 22 (6.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.57%) Internet
2 14 (4.33%) Firewall
2 14 (4.33%) Wireless
3 8 (2.48%) DNS
4 6 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.55%) AMQP
5 5 (1.55%) DHCP
5 5 (1.55%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.55%) VLAN
5 5 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.93%) VPN
7 2 (0.62%) Broadband
7 2 (0.62%) Network Security
8 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.31%) NAS
8 1 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.72%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (13.31%) DynamoDB
2 43 (13.31%) Relational Database
3 30 (9.29%) SQL Server
4 28 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (7.74%) RDBMS
6 19 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 16 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.33%) MongoDB
9 12 (3.72%) MySQL
10 10 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.79%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.17%) Big Data
13 6 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.86%) Power BI
14 5 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 55 (17.03%) Jenkins
2 43 (13.31%) Git
3 26 (8.05%) JUnit
4 21 (6.50%) JIRA
5 19 (5.88%) JMeter
5 19 (5.88%) Mockito
6 7 (2.17%) GitLab
7 6 (1.86%) Selenium
8 5 (1.55%) git-flow
8 5 (1.55%) Maven
9 4 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.24%) Locust
9 4 (1.24%) NUnit
10 3 (0.93%) MLflow
10 3 (0.93%) MSTest
10 3 (0.93%) Storybook
11 2 (0.62%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.31%) Gradle
12 1 (0.31%) Moq
General
1 91 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.41%) Public Sector
3 47 (14.55%) Finance
4 25 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.19%) Law
6 19 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.64%) Automotive
8 12 (3.72%) Marketing
9 11 (3.41%) Retail
10 9 (2.79%) Banking
10 9 (2.79%) Games
11 7 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.86%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.24%) Legal
15 3 (0.93%) Electronics
15 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (37.77%) Developer
2 63 (19.50%) Senior
3 46 (14.24%) Java Developer
3 46 (14.24%) Software Engineer
4 35 (10.84%) Senior Developer
5 34 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (9.29%) Architect
7 28 (8.67%) Lead
8 22 (6.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 21 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.88%) .NET Developer
10 19 (5.88%) Data Engineer
11 17 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (5.26%) Software Developer
12 15 (4.64%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 15 (4.64%) Support Engineer
13 14 (4.33%) Python Developer
14 12 (3.72%) Applications Engineer
14 12 (3.72%) Java Engineer
14 12 (3.72%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (24.77%) React
2 72 (22.29%) .NET
3 59 (18.27%) Spring
4 57 (17.65%) HTML
4 57 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 53 (16.41%) REST
6 39 (12.07%) AngularJS
7 35 (10.84%) Node.js
8 34 (10.53%) CSS
9 33 (10.22%) Web Services
10 27 (8.36%) Apache Camel
11 26 (8.05%) jQuery
12 25 (7.74%) JSON
12 25 (7.74%) Kafka
13 24 (7.43%) RESTful
14 22 (6.81%) Hibernate
15 21 (6.50%) .NET Framework
16 19 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
16 19 (5.88%) WireMock
16 19 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 41 (12.69%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.88%) IoT
4 14 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.10%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.79%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.48%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.17%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.55%) BYOD
12 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.24%) Life Science
13 3 (0.93%) Animation
13 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.57%) Linux
2 7 (2.17%) Windows
3 6 (1.86%) 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
1 169 (52.32%) CI/CD
2 150 (46.44%) Agile
3 134 (41.49%) DevOps
4 103 (31.89%) Microservices
5 87 (26.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 83 (25.70%) Mentoring
7 74 (22.91%) Software Engineering
8 69 (21.36%) TDD
9 68 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 43 (13.31%) Containerisation
12 37 (11.46%) AI
12 37 (11.46%) Migration
13 36 (11.15%) Test Automation
14 34 (10.53%) Scrum
14 34 (10.53%) SDLC
15 33 (10.22%) BDD
15 33 (10.22%) Data Modelling
16 30 (9.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 136 (42.11%) Python
2 106 (32.82%) JavaScript
3 104 (32.20%) Java
4 76 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 70 (21.67%) SQL
6 66 (20.43%) C#
7 29 (8.98%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.81%) Shell Script
9 13 (4.02%) Bash
10 9 (2.79%) Bicep
11 6 (1.86%) Go
12 3 (0.93%) C++
12 3 (0.93%) PHP
12 3 (0.93%) 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 50 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.22%) Azure Certification
3 30 (9.29%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.98%) AWS Certification
5 28 (8.67%) Degree
6 22 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.31%) CCNA
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.31%) MCP
13 1 (0.31%) MCSE
13 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.57%) QA
2 12 (3.72%) GDPR
3 10 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.10%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.48%) NIST
5 8 (2.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.55%) SLA
8 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.93%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.93%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) CDISC
9 1 (0.31%) DICOM
9 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.31%) HL7
9 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (28.79%) Docker
2 14 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.55%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.62%) Firmware
4 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 96 (29.72%) Kubernetes
2 83 (25.70%) Terraform
3 25 (7.74%) Ansible
4 22 (6.81%) Kibana
5 11 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.10%) Grafana
7 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.55%) Argo
8 5 (1.55%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.93%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.93%) Puppet
10 1 (0.31%) Podman
10 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.19%) Dynatrace
2 20 (6.19%) Splunk
3 19 (5.88%) Oracle
4 16 (4.95%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.48%) Databricks
5 8 (2.48%) Google
6 5 (1.55%) Aruba
6 5 (1.55%) HP
6 5 (1.55%) PagerDuty
6 5 (1.55%) Veeam
7 4 (1.24%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.24%) Pega
7 4 (1.24%) WSO2
8 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.62%) Avaya
9 2 (0.62%) Citrix
9 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.62%) SAP
9 2 (0.62%) VMware