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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 250 242
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 -45
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 567 370 692
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.09% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.21% 4.00% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 376 266 412
10th Percentile £47,930 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -7.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +3.57%

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 17,661 9,257 19,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.29% 27.33% 29.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,507 6,443 14,551
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +96 278 £75,000 +15.38% 53
North West +61 127 £70,000 +7.69% 27
Yorkshire +41 122 £80,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands 0 88 £60,000 +4.35% 32
South East -22 77 £65,000 - 37
South West -54 62 £60,500 +0.83% 33
East Midlands +26 59 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Wales -26 39 £66,250 +27.40% 3
North East -27 29 £75,000 +15.38% 12
West Midlands -52 29 £62,500 +6.38% 19
East of England -30 17 £59,725 -0.46% 9
Scotland +6 13 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
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 16 (2.82%) Confluence
2 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.94%) Apache
4 9 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.41%) SAS
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.71%) JBoss
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.35%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 411 (72.49%) AWS
2 273 (48.15%) AWS Lambda
3 202 (35.63%) Amazon S3
4 181 (31.92%) Azure
5 147 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
6 127 (22.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (16.58%) Azure Functions
8 93 (16.40%) GitHub
9 77 (13.58%) AWS Step Functions
10 66 (11.64%) Amazon SQS
11 65 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 53 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
14 52 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (7.94%) GCP
16 44 (7.76%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (7.05%) Power Platform
17 40 (7.05%) SaaS
18 38 (6.70%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.65%) VPN
2 13 (2.29%) Network Security
3 8 (1.41%) MQTT
4 7 (1.23%) Firewall
5 5 (0.88%) AMQP
6 4 (0.71%) IPv4
6 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.53%) DHCP
7 3 (0.53%) DNS
7 3 (0.53%) LTE
7 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) VLAN
8 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.18%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) VoIP
9 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.11%) DynamoDB
2 55 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (8.47%) NoSQL
4 41 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (7.23%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
6 32 (5.64%) Relational Database
7 23 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.17%) Power BI
11 17 (3.00%) MySQL
12 16 (2.82%) Big Data
13 14 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (2.47%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.76%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.76%) Spark SQL
15 6 (1.06%) Redis
16 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.71%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 106 (18.69%) Git
1 106 (18.69%) Jenkins
2 60 (10.58%) GitLab
3 37 (6.53%) SonarQube
4 35 (6.17%) Cypress.io
5 31 (5.47%) JIRA
6 26 (4.59%) Maven
7 22 (3.88%) Snyk
8 15 (2.65%) JUnit
8 15 (2.65%) Selenium
9 14 (2.47%) Crashlytics
9 14 (2.47%) XCTest
10 13 (2.29%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.94%) Postman
12 10 (1.76%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.41%) JMeter
14 7 (1.23%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.23%) Mockito
15 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 139 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 68 (11.99%) Public Sector
3 52 (9.17%) Finance
4 41 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.65%) Law
7 8 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.88%) Banking
8 5 (0.88%) Legal
9 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.35%) Advertising
11 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.18%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 212 (37.39%) Developer
2 161 (28.40%) Senior
3 81 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 78 (13.76%) Lead
5 73 (12.87%) Senior Developer
6 68 (11.99%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (11.46%) Software Engineer
8 62 (10.93%) Architect
9 41 (7.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
11 31 (5.47%) Data Engineer
12 30 (5.29%) AWS Developer
12 30 (5.29%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (4.41%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.41%) Security Architect
15 24 (4.23%) Senior Architect
16 23 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
16 23 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (24.51%) Node.js
2 122 (21.52%) Spring Boot
3 121 (21.34%) React
4 95 (16.75%) AngularJS
4 95 (16.75%) Spring
5 87 (15.34%) REST
6 74 (13.05%) .NET
7 39 (6.88%) Jest
8 36 (6.35%) AWS CDK
9 33 (5.82%) Gherkin
9 33 (5.82%) Kafka
10 32 (5.64%) RESTful
11 30 (5.29%) HTML
12 26 (4.59%) Ruby on Rails
13 23 (4.06%) Next.js
14 20 (3.53%) ASP.NET
14 20 (3.53%) CSS
14 20 (3.53%) Swagger
15 19 (3.35%) ASP.NET Core
16 18 (3.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 137 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 30 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.41%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.88%) Mainframe
7 22 (3.88%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.47%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.12%) Podcast
10 12 (2.12%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.59%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.59%) IoT
12 8 (1.41%) Robotics
13 7 (1.23%) Digital Wallet
13 7 (1.23%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.70%) Linux
2 26 (4.59%) Windows
3 14 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.29%) VMS
5 6 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.88%) AIX
7 4 (0.71%) CentOS
7 4 (0.71%) Debian
7 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (59.44%) CI/CD
2 268 (47.27%) Agile
3 242 (42.68%) DevOps
4 177 (31.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 141 (24.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 131 (23.10%) AI
7 127 (22.40%) Microservices
8 124 (21.87%) Software Engineering
9 115 (20.28%) Mentoring
10 114 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 110 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (18.34%) Observability
12 104 (18.34%) Test Automation
13 99 (17.46%) Containerisation
14 89 (15.70%) Scrum
15 81 (14.29%) TDD
16 79 (13.93%) Event-Driven
17 78 (13.76%) Clean Code
18 76 (13.40%) DevSecOps
19 72 (12.70%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 195 (34.39%) Python
2 172 (30.34%) Java
3 151 (26.63%) TypeScript
4 145 (25.57%) SQL
5 119 (20.99%) JavaScript
6 82 (14.46%) C#
7 62 (10.93%) Bash
8 43 (7.58%) Kotlin
9 40 (7.05%) Groovy
10 27 (4.76%) PowerShell
11 26 (4.59%) Ruby
12 22 (3.88%) Bicep
13 14 (2.47%) Swift
14 13 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (1.94%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.76%) PHP
16 10 (1.76%) Rust
17 8 (1.41%) Go
18 6 (1.06%) COBOL
18 6 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.70%) AWS Certification
3 55 (9.70%) Degree
4 29 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 21 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.82%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (1.41%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.41%) ISTQB
13 7 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.71%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.41%) QA
3 22 (3.88%) GDPR
3 22 (3.88%) GRC
4 21 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 17 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.65%) WCAG
7 6 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.06%) NCSC
8 5 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.71%) NIST
10 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 180 (31.75%) Docker
2 26 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.82%) vSphere
5 12 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.71%) Squid
6 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.53%) Firmware
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 174 (30.69%) Terraform
2 107 (18.87%) Kubernetes
3 55 (9.70%) Ansible
4 24 (4.23%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.70%) Grafana
6 18 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.47%) Packer
7 14 (2.47%) Puppet
8 13 (2.29%) Kibana
9 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.71%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.53%) Scalr
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 77 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.76%) Tenable
3 24 (4.23%) Oracle
4 22 (3.88%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.88%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.35%) Splunk
6 16 (2.82%) VMware
7 14 (2.47%) Amplitude
7 14 (2.47%) Braze
8 13 (2.29%) Databricks
9 12 (2.12%) Google
9 12 (2.12%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.94%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.59%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.41%) IBM
12 8 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.23%) HubSpot
13 7 (1.23%) OneLogin
13 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.71%) NVIDIA