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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 219 243
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 -46
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 479 394 800
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.38% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.49% 4.49% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 297 290 495
10th Percentile £50,281 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 19,227 8,767 22,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.01% 30.71% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,167 6,257 17,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,375 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,875 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% +5.87% -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +65 255 £75,000 +15.38% 79
Yorkshire +31 152 £75,000 +30.43% 25
North West +27 96 £75,000 - 48
Midlands +1 95 £55,000 - 20
East Midlands +21 68 £60,000 +9.09% 12
South East -82 47 £62,000 +3.33% 43
South West -67 40 £62,500 +4.17% 31
West Midlands -49 27 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England -25 20 £60,050 -29.35% 8
Scotland -20 18 £76,783 +39.60% 10
Wales -24 15 £46,679 -6.64% 3
North East -26 7 £95,000 +52.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £95,000 -
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 13 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.51%) Apache
3 11 (2.30%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.67%) SAS
7 4 (0.84%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.84%) JBoss
8 2 (0.42%) Confluence
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 368 (76.83%) AWS
2 241 (50.31%) AWS Lambda
3 202 (42.17%) Amazon S3
4 158 (32.99%) Azure
5 130 (27.14%) Amazon ECS
6 127 (26.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 91 (19.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 66 (13.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (13.36%) Azure Functions
10 62 (12.94%) GitHub
11 61 (12.73%) Amazon SQS
12 55 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (10.86%) Amazon ECR
14 50 (10.44%) Apigee
15 46 (9.60%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (9.39%) GCP
17 42 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
17 42 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
18 41 (8.56%) Azure Logic Apps
19 36 (7.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.09%) Network Security
2 6 (1.25%) AMQP
3 4 (0.84%) 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
5 1 (0.21%) LTE
5 1 (0.21%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (22.55%) DynamoDB
2 55 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (9.60%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (9.60%) NoSQL
4 37 (7.72%) SQL Server
5 30 (6.26%) Amazon Athena
6 28 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (5.22%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (3.34%) Power BI
10 15 (3.13%) Big Data
11 11 (2.30%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.88%) Spark SQL
13 8 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.46%) MySQL
14 7 (1.46%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.04%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 100 (20.88%) Jenkins
2 75 (15.66%) Git
3 60 (12.53%) GitLab
4 49 (10.23%) SonarQube
5 42 (8.77%) Cypress.io
6 41 (8.56%) Maven
7 17 (3.55%) Snyk
8 12 (2.51%) Crashlytics
8 12 (2.51%) XCTest
9 10 (2.09%) JIRA
10 9 (1.88%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.46%) JUnit
12 6 (1.25%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.84%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.84%) JMeter
13 4 (0.84%) Mockito
13 4 (0.84%) Postman
13 4 (0.84%) Selenium
13 4 (0.84%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.84%) Storybook
General
1 108 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 38 (7.93%) Finance
3 34 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.10%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (1.67%) Legal
6 6 (1.25%) Advertising
6 6 (1.25%) Banking
6 6 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (1.25%) Marketing
7 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
7 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (0.84%) Health Technology
7 4 (0.84%) Publishing
8 3 (0.63%) Billing
8 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 197 (41.13%) Developer
2 117 (24.43%) Senior
3 81 (16.91%) Java Developer
4 80 (16.70%) Lead
5 58 (12.11%) Architect
6 52 (10.86%) Senior Developer
7 48 (10.02%) Software Engineer
8 46 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (7.72%) AWS Developer
10 30 (6.26%) Cloud Architect
11 26 (5.43%) Data Engineer
12 25 (5.22%) .NET Developer
13 24 (5.01%) Software Developer
14 23 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (4.80%) Technical Leader
15 21 (4.38%) Lead Developer
15 21 (4.38%) Python Developer
15 21 (4.38%) Senior Architect
16 20 (4.18%) Cloud Security Architect
16 20 (4.18%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (26.51%) React
2 122 (25.47%) Node.js
3 99 (20.67%) Spring Boot
4 97 (20.25%) AngularJS
5 80 (16.70%) REST
6 72 (15.03%) Spring
7 59 (12.32%) .NET
8 42 (8.77%) Gherkin
9 40 (8.35%) Jest
10 37 (7.72%) HTML
11 35 (7.31%) AWS CDK
12 30 (6.26%) RESTful
13 24 (5.01%) CSS
14 23 (4.80%) Next.js
15 21 (4.38%) Kafka
15 21 (4.38%) Web Services
16 19 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (3.76%) .NET Core
17 18 (3.76%) Vue
18 17 (3.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.91%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (7.72%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (4.80%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.84%) IoT
11 4 (0.84%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.84%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.63%) NHS
12 3 (0.63%) PKI
13 2 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.85%) Linux
2 12 (2.51%) 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 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (58.04%) CI/CD
2 222 (46.35%) DevOps
3 202 (42.17%) Agile
4 141 (29.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 118 (24.63%) Microservices
6 114 (23.80%) Mentoring
7 107 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (19.83%) Software Engineering
10 87 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 83 (17.33%) Containerisation
12 76 (15.87%) Test Automation
13 67 (13.99%) Observability
14 63 (13.15%) SDLC
15 61 (12.73%) TDD
16 59 (12.32%) AI
17 57 (11.90%) Computer Science
18 55 (11.48%) Clean Code
19 52 (10.86%) Data Modelling
19 52 (10.86%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 172 (35.91%) Python
2 152 (31.73%) Java
3 150 (31.32%) TypeScript
4 128 (26.72%) SQL
5 120 (25.05%) JavaScript
6 64 (13.36%) C#
7 53 (11.06%) Bash
8 47 (9.81%) Groovy
9 38 (7.93%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.51%) Swift
12 10 (2.09%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.46%) PHP
14 4 (0.84%) Perl
14 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.63%) C
15 3 (0.63%) C++
15 3 (0.63%) Rust
15 3 (0.63%) VB
16 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 65 (13.57%) AWS Certification
2 61 (12.73%) Degree
3 47 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (7.72%) Security Cleared
5 31 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.80%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (4.38%) Azure Certification
10 17 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 16 (3.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (2.51%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.88%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.67%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.63%) CCSP
15 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.63%) CISM
15 3 (0.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.01%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.55%) GRC
2 17 (3.55%) QA
3 16 (3.34%) GDPR
4 11 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.84%) WCAG
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.63%) NIST
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 169 (35.28%) Docker
2 18 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.84%) iptables
5 3 (0.63%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 113 (23.59%) Terraform
2 83 (17.33%) Kubernetes
3 40 (8.35%) HP Fortify
4 33 (6.89%) Ansible
5 16 (3.34%) Grafana
5 16 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.51%) Puppet
7 10 (2.09%) Kibana
8 7 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.25%) Packer
10 4 (0.84%) Control-M
11 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.63%) Nagios
11 3 (0.63%) Scalr
12 2 (0.42%) Argo
13 1 (0.21%) Podman
13 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.18%) Tenable
3 19 (3.97%) Oracle
4 17 (3.55%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (3.55%) Palo Alto
5 13 (2.71%) Databricks
6 12 (2.51%) Amplitude
6 12 (2.51%) Braze
7 9 (1.88%) AppDynamics
8 8 (1.67%) IBM
9 7 (1.46%) Google
10 6 (1.25%) HubSpot
11 5 (1.04%) Informatica
11 5 (1.04%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.04%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.84%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.84%) Splunk
13 2 (0.42%) Aruba
13 2 (0.42%) Veeam
13 2 (0.42%) WSO2