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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 228 244
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 -52
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 528 376 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.32% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 4.60% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 340 275 482
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £41,025
25th Percentile £55,750 £52,500 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +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 18,195 8,179 22,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.13% 28.72% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,669 5,551 17,529
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,238 £36,250 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,887
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 25 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 25 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 +94 277 £75,000 +15.38% 61
Yorkshire +41 156 £75,000 +25.00% 21
North West +56 112 £75,000 - 36
Midlands +4 105 £55,000 - 21
East Midlands +29 70 £55,000 - 9
South East -50 63 £65,000 +8.33% 36
South West -66 46 £63,750 +6.25% 27
West Midlands -43 35 £52,500 -4.55% 12
East of England -27 20 £60,050 -29.35% 5
Scotland -13 14 £76,783 +39.60% 12
Wales -34 14 £51,619 +0.43% 6
North East -38 9 £90,000 +44.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 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 14 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.46%) Apache
3 12 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.52%) SAS
6 5 (0.95%) Confluence
7 4 (0.76%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.76%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.76%) JBoss
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 399 (75.57%) AWS
2 261 (49.43%) AWS Lambda
3 222 (42.05%) Amazon S3
4 162 (30.68%) Azure
5 147 (27.84%) Amazon ECS
6 131 (24.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 100 (18.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 71 (13.45%) Azure Functions
9 67 (12.69%) Amazon SQS
10 66 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 62 (11.74%) GitHub
12 61 (11.55%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (11.17%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (9.85%) Amazon ECR
15 50 (9.47%) Apigee
16 45 (8.52%) GCP
17 43 (8.14%) Azure Logic Apps
18 42 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
19 41 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
20 39 (7.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.27%) Network Security
2 7 (1.33%) Firewall
3 6 (1.14%) AMQP
3 6 (1.14%) MQTT
4 3 (0.57%) IPv4
4 3 (0.57%) LTE
4 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.38%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) DNS
5 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.38%) VLAN
5 2 (0.38%) WAN
5 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (22.16%) DynamoDB
2 59 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (8.52%) NoSQL
5 44 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 34 (6.44%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (5.87%) Relational Database
8 30 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.41%) Power BI
11 17 (3.22%) Big Data
12 11 (2.08%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.89%) Spark SQL
14 9 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.70%) MySQL
15 8 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.52%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.95%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 111 (21.02%) Jenkins
2 89 (16.86%) Git
3 67 (12.69%) GitLab
4 49 (9.28%) SonarQube
5 43 (8.14%) Cypress.io
6 40 (7.58%) Maven
7 22 (4.17%) Snyk
8 13 (2.46%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.46%) JIRA
8 13 (2.46%) XCTest
9 10 (1.89%) JUnit
10 9 (1.70%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.52%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.33%) JMeter
12 7 (1.33%) Mockito
13 4 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.76%) Postman
13 4 (0.76%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 113 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 43 (8.14%) Public Sector
3 34 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (6.44%) Finance
4 26 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (1.52%) Legal
6 7 (1.33%) Aerospace
6 7 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.14%) Advertising
7 6 (1.14%) Banking
8 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
8 4 (0.76%) Publishing
9 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.38%) Billing
10 2 (0.38%) Games
10 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.38%) Marketing
10 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (40.72%) Developer
2 137 (25.95%) Senior
3 92 (17.42%) Java Developer
4 86 (16.29%) Lead
5 65 (12.31%) Software Engineer
6 60 (11.36%) Architect
7 55 (10.42%) Senior Developer
8 53 (10.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 36 (6.82%) AWS Developer
10 33 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
11 32 (6.06%) Software Developer
12 29 (5.49%) .NET Developer
13 27 (5.11%) Data Engineer
14 26 (4.92%) Senior Architect
15 25 (4.73%) Cloud Security Architect
15 25 (4.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 25 (4.73%) Security Architect
16 23 (4.36%) Technical Leader
17 22 (4.17%) Senior Security Architect
17 22 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (24.24%) Node.js
2 123 (23.30%) React
3 110 (20.83%) Spring Boot
4 104 (19.70%) AngularJS
5 87 (16.48%) REST
6 83 (15.72%) Spring
7 70 (13.26%) .NET
8 44 (8.33%) Gherkin
9 40 (7.58%) Jest
10 36 (6.82%) HTML
11 33 (6.25%) AWS CDK
11 33 (6.25%) RESTful
12 29 (5.49%) Kafka
13 23 (4.36%) Web Services
14 22 (4.17%) CSS
15 21 (3.98%) .NET Core
16 20 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (3.79%) Next.js
17 18 (3.41%) ASP.NET
18 17 (3.22%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 92 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.33%) IoT
10 6 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.57%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.82%) Linux
2 13 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.89%) Windows
4 5 (0.95%) CentOS
4 5 (0.95%) Debian
4 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (59.47%) CI/CD
2 237 (44.89%) DevOps
3 223 (42.23%) Agile
4 154 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (23.86%) Microservices
6 124 (23.48%) Mentoring
7 114 (21.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (20.83%) Software Engineering
9 108 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (17.61%) Containerisation
12 84 (15.91%) Test Automation
13 79 (14.96%) AI
14 75 (14.20%) Observability
15 72 (13.64%) SDLC
16 71 (13.45%) TDD
17 66 (12.50%) Scrum
18 61 (11.55%) Clean Code
19 59 (11.17%) Event-Driven
20 58 (10.98%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 192 (36.36%) Python
2 169 (32.01%) Java
3 151 (28.60%) TypeScript
4 138 (26.14%) SQL
5 129 (24.43%) JavaScript
6 72 (13.64%) C#
7 57 (10.80%) Bash
8 51 (9.66%) Groovy
9 42 (7.95%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.46%) Swift
13 9 (1.70%) PHP
14 8 (1.52%) Rust
15 4 (0.76%) Perl
15 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.57%) C
16 3 (0.57%) C++
16 3 (0.57%) Ruby
16 3 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 66 (12.50%) Degree
2 50 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 45 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 26 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (4.36%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (3.98%) Azure Certification
10 15 (2.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (2.27%) DBS Check
13 11 (2.08%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.70%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 3 (0.57%) IIBA
16 3 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.17%) GRC
3 20 (3.79%) GDPR
4 16 (3.03%) QA
5 12 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.57%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 191 (36.17%) Docker
2 23 (4.36%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.76%) iptables
5 3 (0.57%) Firmware
5 3 (0.57%) Squid
5 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.57%) vSphere
6 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 128 (24.24%) Terraform
2 99 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 44 (8.33%) Ansible
4 38 (7.20%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.98%) Grafana
5 21 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.84%) Puppet
7 13 (2.46%) Kibana
8 9 (1.70%) Packer
9 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.76%) Control-M
10 4 (0.76%) Podman
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.57%) Nagios
11 3 (0.57%) Scalr
11 3 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.11%) Tenable
3 25 (4.73%) Oracle
4 22 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.65%) Databricks
6 13 (2.46%) Amplitude
6 13 (2.46%) Braze
7 10 (1.89%) Splunk
8 9 (1.70%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.52%) IBM
9 8 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.33%) Google
10 7 (1.33%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.95%) Informatica
11 5 (0.95%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.76%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.57%) VMware
14 2 (0.38%) OpenAI