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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 261 244
Rank change year-on-year +31 -17 -60
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 611 314 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.92% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.45% 3.42% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 401 219 280
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,000 £87,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +1.43% -

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 17,709 9,187 15,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.79% 26.77% 27.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,092 6,238 9,184
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £41,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +82 315 £72,500 +11.54% 140
North West +56 139 £67,500 +3.85% 94
Yorkshire +33 123 £80,000 +13.48% 29
South East -23 85 £65,000 -8.77% 75
Midlands -16 78 £62,500 - 53
South West -44 73 £60,500 +0.83% 67
North East -14 53 £67,500 -1.82% 17
Wales -35 46 £55,000 +5.77% 15
West Midlands -49 43 £62,500 - 27
East Midlands -1 35 £65,000 - 26
East of England -67 11 £59,450 +3.39% 23
Scotland +6 10 £70,000 -3.45% 52
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 21 (3.44%) Confluence
1 21 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.96%) Apache
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.65%) nginx
5 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.49%) JBoss
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.16%) Finacle
4 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 440 (72.01%) AWS
2 320 (52.37%) AWS Lambda
3 211 (34.53%) Amazon S3
4 208 (34.04%) Azure
5 153 (25.04%) Amazon ECS
6 143 (23.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 115 (18.82%) Azure Functions
8 113 (18.49%) GitHub
9 93 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
10 79 (12.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 78 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
12 70 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 68 (11.13%) Amazon EKS
14 62 (10.15%) GitHub Actions
15 61 (9.98%) Amazon SQS
16 54 (8.84%) GCP
17 49 (8.02%) Azure Logic Apps
17 49 (8.02%) Power Platform
18 45 (7.36%) SaaS
19 42 (6.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.78%) VPN
2 14 (2.29%) Firewall
3 11 (1.80%) DNS
4 9 (1.47%) DHCP
4 9 (1.47%) MQTT
4 9 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.47%) VLAN
5 8 (1.31%) Network Security
6 7 (1.15%) AMQP
6 7 (1.15%) VoIP
7 4 (0.65%) IPv4
7 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.49%) HTTP
8 3 (0.49%) LTE
8 3 (0.49%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) LAN
10 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (19.31%) DynamoDB
2 63 (10.31%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (9.82%) SQL Server
4 48 (7.86%) NoSQL
5 44 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
6 43 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (7.04%) Relational Database
7 32 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (3.76%) Spark SQL
11 19 (3.11%) MongoDB
11 19 (3.11%) MySQL
12 17 (2.78%) Power BI
13 12 (1.96%) Big Data
13 12 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.64%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.64%) Metadata
14 10 (1.64%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 139 (22.75%) Git
2 103 (16.86%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.98%) GitLab
4 40 (6.55%) JIRA
5 34 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 33 (5.40%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.60%) Snyk
8 16 (2.62%) JMeter
8 16 (2.62%) JUnit
8 16 (2.62%) Maven
9 15 (2.45%) Selenium
10 14 (2.29%) Postman
11 11 (1.80%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.47%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.31%) Mockito
14 7 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.82%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.82%) git-flow
15 5 (0.82%) XCTest
General
1 147 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 92 (15.06%) Public Sector
3 70 (11.46%) Finance
4 60 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.42%) Law
7 15 (2.45%) Aviation
7 15 (2.45%) Retail
8 14 (2.29%) Banking
9 12 (1.96%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.98%) Legal
10 6 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.65%) Local Government
11 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (35.02%) Developer
2 162 (26.51%) Senior
3 73 (11.95%) Lead
4 72 (11.78%) Software Engineer
5 69 (11.29%) Java Developer
6 67 (10.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 67 (10.97%) Senior Developer
7 60 (9.82%) Architect
8 50 (8.18%) Data Engineer
9 39 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (5.40%) Cloud Architect
13 32 (5.24%) Software Developer
14 29 (4.75%) AWS Developer
14 29 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 26 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (4.09%) Cloud Security Architect
16 25 (4.09%) Security Architect
17 23 (3.76%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (33.39%) Terraform
2 135 (22.09%) Node.js
3 114 (18.66%) Spring Boot
4 110 (18.00%) React
5 96 (15.71%) REST
6 95 (15.55%) Spring
7 92 (15.06%) .NET
7 92 (15.06%) AngularJS
8 41 (6.71%) Kafka
9 39 (6.38%) RESTful
10 38 (6.22%) Jest
10 38 (6.22%) PySpark
11 37 (6.06%) AWS CDK
12 31 (5.07%) Ruby on Rails
13 29 (4.75%) Gherkin
13 29 (4.75%) HTML
14 27 (4.42%) JSON
15 26 (4.26%) OpenAPI
16 24 (3.93%) Next.js
17 23 (3.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 175 (28.64%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (4.09%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.76%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.78%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.96%) Podcast
12 12 (1.96%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.80%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.80%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.31%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.31%) Robotics
15 8 (1.31%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.87%) Linux
2 33 (5.40%) Windows
3 13 (2.13%) VMS
3 13 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.15%) CentOS
4 7 (1.15%) Debian
4 7 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.98%) AIX
6 5 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (62.19%) CI/CD
2 308 (50.41%) Agile
3 260 (42.55%) DevOps
4 199 (32.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (25.04%) AI
6 148 (24.22%) Software Engineering
7 147 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 142 (23.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 136 (22.26%) Mentoring
10 134 (21.93%) Microservices
11 123 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
12 106 (17.35%) Observability
12 106 (17.35%) Test Automation
13 98 (16.04%) Scrum
14 94 (15.38%) Containerisation
15 88 (14.40%) Event-Driven
16 86 (14.08%) Cloud Security
17 83 (13.58%) Roadmaps
18 80 (13.09%) Analytics
18 80 (13.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 202 (33.06%) Python
2 188 (30.77%) Java
3 184 (30.11%) SQL
4 150 (24.55%) TypeScript
5 135 (22.09%) JavaScript
6 115 (18.82%) C#
7 66 (10.80%) Bash
8 36 (5.89%) Kotlin
9 35 (5.73%) Ruby
10 31 (5.07%) Groovy
11 29 (4.75%) PowerShell
12 25 (4.09%) Bicep
13 16 (2.62%) C++
14 15 (2.45%) Shell Script
15 13 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (1.96%) Rust
17 8 (1.31%) Go
18 7 (1.15%) Scala
19 6 (0.98%) COBOL
19 6 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 91 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.51%) AWS Certification
4 50 (8.18%) Degree
5 34 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (5.40%) DV Cleared
7 30 (4.91%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (1.31%) ISTQB
14 8 (1.31%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.65%) CCNA
17 4 (0.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.55%) QA
3 34 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 32 (5.24%) GDPR
5 26 (4.26%) WCAG
6 22 (3.60%) GRC
7 14 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (0.98%) NCSC
10 4 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.65%) NIST
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 181 (29.62%) Docker
2 36 (5.89%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.62%) vSphere
5 12 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.65%) Squid
7 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 113 (18.49%) Kubernetes
2 62 (10.15%) Ansible
3 18 (2.95%) Puppet
4 15 (2.45%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.29%) Grafana
5 14 (2.29%) Kibana
5 14 (2.29%) Packer
6 12 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.82%) Podman
8 5 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.65%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.33%) Scalr
11 1 (0.16%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 100 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.26%) Tenable
3 25 (4.09%) Oracle
4 22 (3.60%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.60%) Palo Alto
5 21 (3.44%) Google
6 20 (3.27%) Splunk
7 17 (2.78%) Databricks
7 17 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.78%) VMware
8 14 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.13%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.96%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.64%) OneLogin
12 9 (1.47%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.31%) IBM
13 8 (1.31%) Veeam
14 7 (1.15%) HubSpot
14 7 (1.15%) SaltStack
15 5 (0.82%) Braze