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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 258 236
Rank change year-on-year +28 -22 -46
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 585 353 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.03% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% 3.78% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 381 251 359
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,400
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,996
% change year-on-year +6.38% -0.70% +1.42%

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 17,958 9,345 17,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.90% 27.15% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,775 6,516 12,145
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,738 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +94 289 £75,000 +15.38% 82
North West +63 130 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Yorkshire +36 119 £80,000 +33.33% 24
Midlands -6 87 £62,500 +4.17% 29
South East -16 83 £65,000 -7.14% 45
South West -46 64 £61,500 +2.50% 35
East Midlands +31 54 £55,000 +46.67% 7
North East -15 40 £75,000 +15.38% 16
Wales -25 40 £60,000 +15.38% 9
West Midlands -49 33 £62,500 - 22
East of England -51 16 £59,450 +3.39% 10
Scotland -5 13 £70,000 +16.67% 17
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 18 (3.08%) Confluence
2 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.88%) Apache
4 8 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.37%) SAS
4 8 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.85%) JBoss
7 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 423 (72.31%) AWS
2 280 (47.86%) AWS Lambda
3 200 (34.19%) Amazon S3
4 191 (32.65%) Azure
5 153 (26.15%) Amazon ECS
6 131 (22.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 103 (17.61%) GitHub
8 100 (17.09%) Azure Functions
9 75 (12.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 68 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
11 67 (11.45%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
13 57 (9.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
14 56 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (8.72%) GCP
16 45 (7.69%) SaaS
17 44 (7.52%) Azure Logic Apps
18 42 (7.18%) Power Platform
19 38 (6.50%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.91%) VPN
2 10 (1.71%) Network Security
3 9 (1.54%) MQTT
4 7 (1.20%) Firewall
5 4 (0.68%) AMQP
5 4 (0.68%) DNS
5 4 (0.68%) IPv4
5 4 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.51%) DHCP
6 3 (0.51%) HTTP
6 3 (0.51%) LTE
6 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.51%) VLAN
6 3 (0.51%) WAN
7 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) VoIP
8 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (20.34%) DynamoDB
2 57 (9.74%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (8.21%) NoSQL
4 46 (7.86%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
6 36 (6.15%) Relational Database
7 27 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (3.25%) MySQL
11 18 (3.08%) Power BI
12 17 (2.91%) MongoDB
13 16 (2.74%) Big Data
14 14 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.71%) Spark SQL
16 9 (1.54%) RDBMS
17 6 (1.03%) DocumentDB
17 6 (1.03%) Redis
18 5 (0.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 117 (20.00%) Git
2 104 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.43%) GitLab
4 36 (6.15%) SonarQube
5 34 (5.81%) JIRA
6 33 (5.64%) Cypress.io
7 24 (4.10%) Maven
8 22 (3.76%) Snyk
9 15 (2.56%) JUnit
9 15 (2.56%) Selenium
10 14 (2.39%) Crashlytics
10 14 (2.39%) XCTest
11 13 (2.22%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.88%) Postman
13 10 (1.71%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.37%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.37%) JMeter
15 7 (1.20%) Mockito
16 6 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 4 (0.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 148 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.79%) Public Sector
3 57 (9.74%) Finance
4 45 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.08%) Law
7 8 (1.37%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.37%) Aviation
8 6 (1.03%) Legal
8 6 (1.03%) Retail
9 4 (0.68%) Banking
9 4 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.17%) Local Government
12 1 (0.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 214 (36.58%) Developer
2 160 (27.35%) Senior
3 83 (14.19%) Lead
4 78 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 71 (12.14%) Senior Developer
6 70 (11.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 68 (11.62%) Software Engineer
8 62 (10.60%) Architect
9 40 (6.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (5.81%) Cloud Architect
11 33 (5.64%) Data Engineer
12 32 (5.47%) Software Developer
13 30 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.96%) AWS Developer
15 27 (4.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 25 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (4.27%) Cloud Security Architect
16 25 (4.27%) Security Architect
17 24 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
18 23 (3.93%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (23.42%) Node.js
2 119 (20.34%) React
3 117 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 95 (16.24%) AngularJS
4 95 (16.24%) REST
5 92 (15.73%) Spring
6 79 (13.50%) .NET
7 40 (6.84%) Jest
8 39 (6.67%) AWS CDK
9 36 (6.15%) Kafka
10 32 (5.47%) RESTful
11 31 (5.30%) Gherkin
12 29 (4.96%) HTML
13 27 (4.62%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (4.44%) Next.js
15 22 (3.76%) ASP.NET
16 21 (3.59%) ASP.NET Core
16 21 (3.59%) CSS
17 20 (3.42%) .NET Framework
17 20 (3.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 148 (25.30%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.03%) Greenfield Project
3 46 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.98%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.27%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.76%) Mainframe
7 22 (3.76%) Mobile App
8 18 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.74%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.05%) Podcast
10 12 (2.05%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.54%) IoT
12 8 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.37%) Robotics
13 7 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
13 7 (1.20%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.84%) Linux
2 28 (4.79%) Windows
3 14 (2.39%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.22%) VMS
5 7 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.85%) AIX
7 4 (0.68%) CentOS
7 4 (0.68%) Debian
7 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (59.32%) CI/CD
2 280 (47.86%) Agile
3 254 (43.42%) DevOps
4 188 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 143 (24.44%) AI
6 141 (24.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 133 (22.74%) Software Engineering
8 125 (21.37%) Microservices
9 124 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 123 (21.03%) Mentoring
11 118 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (18.80%) Observability
13 109 (18.63%) Test Automation
14 101 (17.26%) Containerisation
15 91 (15.56%) Scrum
16 83 (14.19%) TDD
17 82 (14.02%) Clean Code
18 81 (13.85%) Event-Driven
19 77 (13.16%) DevSecOps
20 76 (12.99%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 196 (33.50%) Python
2 171 (29.23%) Java
3 152 (25.98%) SQL
4 151 (25.81%) TypeScript
5 119 (20.34%) JavaScript
6 89 (15.21%) C#
7 61 (10.43%) Bash
8 43 (7.35%) Kotlin
9 38 (6.50%) Groovy
10 28 (4.79%) PowerShell
10 28 (4.79%) Ruby
11 22 (3.76%) Bicep
12 14 (2.39%) Swift
13 13 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.71%) Rust
15 9 (1.54%) PHP
16 8 (1.37%) Go
17 6 (1.03%) COBOL
17 6 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.62%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.57%) Degree
4 54 (9.23%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.27%) Azure Certification
8 20 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (2.74%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.54%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.37%) ISTQB
16 7 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 4 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.13%) QA
2 29 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.93%) GDPR
4 22 (3.76%) GRC
5 21 (3.59%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.56%) WCAG
8 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.03%) NCSC
9 4 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.68%) NIST
10 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 185 (31.62%) Docker
2 29 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.74%) vSphere
5 12 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.68%) Squid
6 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.51%) Firmware
7 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 183 (31.28%) Terraform
2 111 (18.97%) Kubernetes
3 55 (9.40%) Ansible
4 22 (3.76%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.25%) Grafana
6 16 (2.74%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.39%) Kibana
7 14 (2.39%) Puppet
8 13 (2.22%) Packer
9 5 (0.85%) Podman
10 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.68%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.51%) Scalr
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.17%) logstash
13 1 (0.17%) Nagios
13 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.44%) Tenable
3 23 (3.93%) Oracle
4 22 (3.76%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.76%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.25%) Splunk
6 17 (2.91%) VMware
7 16 (2.74%) Google
8 15 (2.56%) Databricks
9 14 (2.39%) Amplitude
9 14 (2.39%) Braze
9 14 (2.39%) Dynatrace
10 12 (2.05%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (1.54%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.37%) IBM
13 7 (1.20%) HubSpot
13 7 (1.20%) OneLogin
14 4 (0.68%) NVIDIA