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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 104 240
Rank change year-on-year -122 +136 -28
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 435 688 742
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 2.65% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 7.93% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 269 289 486
10th Percentile £50,494 £44,715 £41,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.74% +0.69%

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 17,264 8,680 21,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.37% 33.45% 34.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8,318 6,292 17,039
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,065 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +37 233 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +49 161 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -25 79 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North West 0 69 £72,966 +6.71% 47
East Midlands -9 55 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -121 44 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -176 31 £67,500 +12.50% 61
West Midlands -44 24 £51,875 -5.68% 18
Scotland -40 20 £76,783 +33.53% 9
East of England -77 19 £60,100 -27.15% 20
Wales -22 15 £41,740 -15.00%
Northern Ireland -29 7 £95,000 -
North East -25 3 £51,000 -18.40% 11
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 15 (3.45%) Apache
1 15 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.07%) SAS
5 4 (0.92%) Confluence
5 4 (0.92%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) JBoss
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.46%) CMS
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 358 (82.30%) AWS
2 224 (51.49%) AWS Lambda
3 191 (43.91%) Amazon S3
4 161 (37.01%) Azure
5 123 (28.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 117 (26.90%) Amazon ECS
7 80 (18.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 76 (17.47%) GitHub
9 62 (14.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (13.10%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (12.87%) Amazon SQS
12 53 (12.18%) Azure Functions
13 45 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (10.11%) GCP
15 43 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (9.66%) Apigee
16 42 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
17 41 (9.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 41 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
18 36 (8.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.61%) Network Security
2 6 (1.38%) AMQP
3 3 (0.69%) Firewall
4 2 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VLAN
5 1 (0.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (22.76%) DynamoDB
2 50 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (11.26%) NoSQL
4 45 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (7.59%) SQL Server
6 26 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
7 25 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.29%) Relational Database
9 14 (3.22%) Big Data
9 14 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.76%) Power BI
11 11 (2.53%) MySQL
12 9 (2.07%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.61%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.15%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 94 (21.61%) Jenkins
2 68 (15.63%) Git
3 53 (12.18%) GitLab
4 40 (9.20%) Maven
4 40 (9.20%) SonarQube
5 39 (8.97%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.07%) Crashlytics
6 9 (2.07%) XCTest
7 8 (1.84%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.84%) JUnit
8 7 (1.61%) JIRA
9 6 (1.38%) Storybook
10 5 (1.15%) git-flow
11 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.92%) JMeter
11 4 (0.92%) MLflow
11 4 (0.92%) Mockito
11 4 (0.92%) Selenium
12 2 (0.46%) Postman
12 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 112 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (8.28%) Finance
3 34 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.07%) Legal
5 8 (1.84%) Marketing
6 6 (1.38%) Advertising
7 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
8 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.92%) Publishing
9 3 (0.69%) Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Billing
9 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.46%) Games
10 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.46%) Retail
10 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 205 (47.13%) Developer
2 85 (19.54%) Senior
3 79 (18.16%) Java Developer
4 64 (14.71%) Lead
5 53 (12.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 53 (12.18%) Senior Developer
6 46 (10.57%) Software Engineer
7 42 (9.66%) Architect
8 36 (8.28%) AWS Developer
9 32 (7.36%) Python Developer
10 27 (6.21%) .NET Developer
11 24 (5.52%) Software Developer
12 21 (4.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 21 (4.83%) Technical Leader
13 19 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (4.37%) Lead Developer
14 18 (4.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (3.45%) Node.js Developer
15 15 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (32.41%) React
2 116 (26.67%) Node.js
3 92 (21.15%) Spring Boot
4 87 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 66 (15.17%) Spring
6 62 (14.25%) .NET
7 59 (13.56%) REST
8 56 (12.87%) HTML
9 43 (9.89%) CSS
10 39 (8.97%) Gherkin
10 39 (8.97%) Jest
11 34 (7.82%) AWS CDK
11 34 (7.82%) RESTful
12 28 (6.44%) Vue
13 21 (4.83%) .NET Core
14 20 (4.60%) Next.js
15 19 (4.37%) Django
15 19 (4.37%) FastAPI
15 19 (4.37%) Flask
16 17 (3.91%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 85 (19.54%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (4.37%) Mobile App
6 18 (4.14%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.15%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.69%) Animation
12 3 (0.69%) IoT
12 3 (0.69%) Life Science
12 3 (0.69%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.69%) NHS
12 3 (0.69%) PKI
13 2 (0.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.75%) Linux
2 9 (2.07%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.61%) Windows
4 5 (1.15%) CentOS
4 5 (1.15%) Debian
4 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.92%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (57.70%) CI/CD
2 226 (51.95%) DevOps
3 204 (46.90%) Agile
4 142 (32.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 119 (27.36%) Microservices
6 115 (26.44%) Mentoring
7 108 (24.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 102 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (20.69%) Software Engineering
10 85 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 78 (17.93%) Containerisation
12 57 (13.10%) Test Automation
13 53 (12.18%) Scrum
13 53 (12.18%) TDD
14 50 (11.49%) Observability
15 49 (11.26%) Computer Science
16 44 (10.11%) Data Modelling
17 43 (9.89%) SDLC
18 41 (9.43%) Clean Code
19 39 (8.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 154 (35.40%) Python
2 148 (34.02%) TypeScript
3 147 (33.79%) Java
4 142 (32.64%) JavaScript
5 112 (25.75%) SQL
6 63 (14.48%) C#
7 51 (11.72%) Bash
8 38 (8.74%) Groovy
9 33 (7.59%) Kotlin
10 14 (3.22%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.07%) Swift
12 8 (1.84%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.61%) PHP
14 6 (1.38%) C++
15 5 (1.15%) Bicep
16 3 (0.69%) C
16 3 (0.69%) VB
17 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
18 1 (0.23%) Perl
18 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (16.55%) AWS Certification
2 54 (12.41%) Degree
3 43 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (7.82%) Security Cleared
5 28 (6.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (5.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.75%) Azure Certification
8 23 (5.29%) SC Cleared
9 22 (5.06%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (4.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (4.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (2.99%) DBS Check
13 12 (2.76%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.84%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.69%) IIBA
16 1 (0.23%) HND
16 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.22%) QA
3 10 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.38%) WCAG
6 4 (0.92%) GDPR
7 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (37.70%) Docker
2 9 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.92%) iptables
3 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.69%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 112 (25.75%) Terraform
2 72 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 39 (8.97%) HP Fortify
4 28 (6.44%) Ansible
5 14 (3.22%) Grafana
5 14 (3.22%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.30%) Puppet
7 8 (1.84%) Kibana
8 7 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.92%) Argo
9 4 (0.92%) Control-M
10 3 (0.69%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.69%) Nagios
11 2 (0.46%) Packer
11 2 (0.46%) Scalr
12 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.30%) Oracle
3 9 (2.07%) Amplitude
4 6 (1.38%) Databricks
4 6 (1.38%) Google
5 5 (1.15%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.15%) Informatica
5 5 (1.15%) Pega
5 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.15%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.15%) WSO2
6 4 (0.92%) PagerDuty
6 4 (0.92%) Splunk
7 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.23%) Aruba
8 1 (0.23%) Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) HP
8 1 (0.23%) Sage
8 1 (0.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.23%) Veeam