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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 202 239
Rank change year-on-year -29 +37 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 471 397 802
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.46% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 4.68% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 289 293 500
10th Percentile £50,375 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,400 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £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 19,048 8,487 22,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.19% 31.15% 33.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,989 6,278 17,433
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -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 1 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 1 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 +47 257 £75,000 +15.38% 69
Yorkshire +30 155 £75,000 +30.43% 16
North West +14 95 £75,000 - 47
Midlands -14 94 £55,000 - 16
East Midlands +10 68 £60,000 +9.09% 9
South East -97 41 £70,000 +16.67% 39
South West -73 40 £62,500 +4.17% 27
West Midlands -57 26 £50,000 -11.11% 7
East of England -33 19 £60,100 -29.29% 9
Scotland -34 18 £76,783 +39.60% 5
Wales -25 14 £46,679 -6.64% 2
North East -35 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 12 (2.55%) Apache
1 12 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.34%) OpenStack
3 10 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.70%) SAS
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.85%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.85%) JBoss
6 2 (0.42%) Confluence
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 367 (77.92%) AWS
2 240 (50.96%) AWS Lambda
3 202 (42.89%) Amazon S3
4 153 (32.48%) Azure
5 128 (27.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 127 (26.96%) Amazon ECS
7 90 (19.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 67 (14.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 66 (14.01%) GitHub
10 63 (13.38%) Amazon SQS
11 59 (12.53%) Azure Functions
12 54 (11.46%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (10.83%) Amazon ECR
14 49 (10.40%) Apigee
15 44 (9.34%) GCP
15 44 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
16 43 (9.13%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
17 40 (8.49%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (7.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.91%) Network Security
2 6 (1.27%) AMQP
3 4 (0.85%) 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
1 110 (23.35%) DynamoDB
2 51 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (10.19%) NoSQL
4 47 (9.98%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (7.01%) SQL Server
6 30 (6.37%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 18 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.97%) Big Data
10 14 (2.97%) Power BI
11 11 (2.34%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.70%) Spark SQL
13 7 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.27%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.27%) MySQL
14 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 97 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 72 (15.29%) Git
3 58 (12.31%) GitLab
4 47 (9.98%) SonarQube
5 41 (8.70%) Cypress.io
5 41 (8.70%) Maven
6 16 (3.40%) Snyk
7 12 (2.55%) Crashlytics
7 12 (2.55%) XCTest
8 10 (2.12%) JIRA
9 9 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.85%) Postman
11 4 (0.85%) Selenium
11 4 (0.85%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.85%) Storybook
12 3 (0.64%) Mockito
12 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 110 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 38 (8.07%) Finance
3 35 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.01%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.70%) Legal
7 6 (1.27%) Advertising
7 6 (1.27%) Banking
7 6 (1.27%) Marketing
8 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.85%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.85%) Publishing
10 3 (0.64%) Billing
10 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.42%) Games
11 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 195 (41.40%) Developer
2 114 (24.20%) Senior
3 80 (16.99%) Java Developer
4 78 (16.56%) Lead
5 58 (12.31%) Architect
6 52 (11.04%) Senior Developer
7 48 (10.19%) Software Engineer
8 45 (9.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (8.28%) AWS Developer
10 29 (6.16%) Cloud Architect
11 25 (5.31%) .NET Developer
12 24 (5.10%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (4.88%) Technical Leader
14 22 (4.67%) Python Developer
14 22 (4.67%) Software Developer
15 21 (4.46%) Lead Developer
16 20 (4.25%) Senior Architect
17 19 (4.03%) Cloud Security Architect
17 19 (4.03%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (27.81%) React
2 123 (26.11%) Node.js
3 96 (20.38%) AngularJS
3 96 (20.38%) Spring Boot
4 76 (16.14%) REST
5 69 (14.65%) Spring
6 56 (11.89%) .NET
7 41 (8.70%) Gherkin
8 40 (8.49%) Jest
9 37 (7.86%) HTML
10 35 (7.43%) AWS CDK
11 32 (6.79%) RESTful
12 25 (5.31%) CSS
13 23 (4.88%) Next.js
14 20 (4.25%) Vue
14 20 (4.25%) Web Services
15 19 (4.03%) .NET Core
15 19 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (4.03%) Kafka
16 16 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (17.62%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (7.86%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (4.88%) Mobile App
5 21 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.40%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.34%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.85%) IoT
12 4 (0.85%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.64%) NHS
13 3 (0.64%) PKI
14 2 (0.42%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.52%) Linux
2 12 (2.55%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.49%) Windows
4 5 (1.06%) CentOS
4 5 (1.06%) Debian
4 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.85%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (58.17%) CI/CD
2 226 (47.98%) DevOps
3 204 (43.31%) Agile
4 142 (30.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 117 (24.84%) Microservices
6 113 (23.99%) Mentoring
7 107 (22.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 107 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (19.75%) Software Engineering
9 84 (17.83%) Containerisation
10 83 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (15.92%) Test Automation
12 65 (13.80%) Observability
13 60 (12.74%) TDD
14 58 (12.31%) SDLC
15 55 (11.68%) AI
15 55 (11.68%) Clean Code
16 54 (11.46%) Computer Science
17 53 (11.25%) Scrum
18 51 (10.83%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 166 (35.24%) Python
2 151 (32.06%) Java
2 151 (32.06%) TypeScript
3 124 (26.33%) SQL
4 120 (25.48%) JavaScript
5 59 (12.53%) C#
6 53 (11.25%) Bash
7 46 (9.77%) Groovy
8 38 (8.07%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.55%) Swift
11 9 (1.91%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.49%) PHP
13 4 (0.85%) Perl
13 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.64%) Bicep
14 3 (0.64%) C
14 3 (0.64%) C++
14 3 (0.64%) VB
15 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 67 (14.23%) AWS Certification
2 58 (12.31%) Degree
3 46 (9.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (7.64%) Security Cleared
5 29 (6.16%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (4.25%) Azure Certification
11 18 (3.82%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (3.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (2.55%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.91%) Master's Degree
15 8 (1.70%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.64%) CCSP
16 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.64%) CISM
16 3 (0.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.61%) QA
3 16 (3.40%) GRC
4 11 (2.34%) GDPR
5 10 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) WCAG
8 3 (0.64%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.64%) NIST
9 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 169 (35.88%) Docker
2 18 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.85%) iptables
5 3 (0.64%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 113 (23.99%) Terraform
2 81 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 40 (8.49%) HP Fortify
4 30 (6.37%) Ansible
5 14 (2.97%) Grafana
5 14 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.12%) Puppet
7 9 (1.91%) Kibana
8 7 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.27%) Packer
10 4 (0.85%) Control-M
11 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.64%) Nagios
11 3 (0.64%) Scalr
12 2 (0.42%) Argo
13 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.61%) Tenable
3 16 (3.40%) CrowdStrike
3 16 (3.40%) Oracle
3 16 (3.40%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.55%) Amplitude
4 12 (2.55%) Braze
4 12 (2.55%) Databricks
5 9 (1.91%) AppDynamics
6 8 (1.70%) IBM
7 7 (1.49%) Google
8 6 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.06%) Informatica
9 5 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.06%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.64%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.64%) Splunk
11 2 (0.42%) Aruba
11 2 (0.42%) Veeam
11 2 (0.42%) WSO2