Serverless Jobs in the UK excluding London

Serverless Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 256 129
Rank change year-on-year +11 -127 -9
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 479 769 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 1.02% 2.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.07% 3.37% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 264 459 581
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,650 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,529
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.74% +3.89%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.72% +3.57% -6.67%

All Cloud 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 9,454 22,807 19,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.89% 30.37% 37.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,453 16,491 12,972
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,364 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -6.61% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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
South East +16 127 £61,500 -10.55% 136
North of England -32 106 £65,000 +8.33% 112
East of England +65 83 £63,750 +10.87% 15
South West +82 65 £60,000 -11.11% 50
North West -62 62 £65,000 +8.33% 66
Midlands +1 60 £57,500 -17.86% 40
West Midlands +20 52 £58,750 -16.07% 32
Yorkshire +40 39 £60,000 - 36
Scotland +45 29 £55,000 -7.17% 29
Wales +32 14 £52,000 +7.22% 17
East Midlands +16 8 £55,000 - 7
North East +24 5 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.76%) Confluence
2 17 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.34%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.71%) Apache
5 12 (2.51%) CMS
6 10 (2.09%) JBoss
6 10 (2.09%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (1.46%) Headless CMS
8 5 (1.04%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.63%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.21%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (1.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 397 (82.88%) AWS
2 306 (63.88%) AWS Lambda
3 206 (43.01%) Azure
4 101 (21.09%) Amazon S3
5 95 (19.83%) GCP
6 86 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (14.61%) Amazon EC2
8 61 (12.73%) Azure Functions
9 52 (10.86%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (9.60%) AWS Step Functions
10 46 (9.60%) SaaS
11 40 (8.35%) GitHub
12 33 (6.89%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (6.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 32 (6.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (6.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (5.22%) Power Platform
18 23 (4.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (22.76%) Broadband
2 32 (6.68%) SSL
3 26 (5.43%) SSH
4 18 (3.76%) Firewall
5 11 (2.30%) Internet
6 8 (1.67%) DNS
6 8 (1.67%) Wireless
7 7 (1.46%) VLAN
8 6 (1.25%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.04%) DHCP
9 5 (1.04%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.04%) VPN
9 5 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.84%) IPv4
11 2 (0.42%) OSPF
12 1 (0.21%) HTTP
12 1 (0.21%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.21%) NAS
12 1 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.36%) DynamoDB
2 54 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (10.02%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (6.05%) RDBMS
6 25 (5.22%) NoSQL
7 23 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (4.59%) Big Data
9 19 (3.97%) MongoDB
10 18 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (3.76%) MySQL
10 18 (3.76%) SQL Server
11 17 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (2.51%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.25%) Power BI
15 4 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (0.84%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.84%) Cloud Spanner
15 4 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 69 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 59 (12.32%) Git
3 32 (6.68%) JUnit
4 31 (6.47%) JIRA
5 19 (3.97%) JMeter
5 19 (3.97%) Mockito
6 16 (3.34%) GitLab
7 13 (2.71%) Selenium
8 6 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.25%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
9 5 (1.04%) Maven
10 4 (0.84%) Locust
10 4 (0.84%) Postman
11 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.63%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 123 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 93 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.81%) Finance
5 37 (7.72%) Law
6 29 (6.05%) Retail
7 17 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.13%) Marketing
9 14 (2.92%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.30%) Banking
12 10 (2.09%) Games
13 9 (1.88%) Automotive
14 7 (1.46%) Electronics
15 6 (1.25%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.25%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.84%) Tech for Good
18 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (37.37%) Senior
2 158 (32.99%) Developer
3 80 (16.70%) Senior Developer
4 65 (13.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 54 (11.27%) Lead
6 50 (10.44%) Java Developer
7 45 (9.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 42 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (7.72%) Software Engineer
10 30 (6.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 28 (5.85%) Architect
12 24 (5.01%) Data Engineer
13 21 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.97%) AWS Developer
14 19 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.76%) Support Engineer
16 14 (2.92%) Applications Engineer
17 13 (2.71%) Applications Support
17 13 (2.71%) AWS Architect
17 13 (2.71%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (20.88%) React
2 73 (15.24%) REST
3 71 (14.82%) Web Services
4 67 (13.99%) RESTful
5 63 (13.15%) Node.js
6 60 (12.53%) HTML
7 53 (11.06%) .NET
8 51 (10.65%) Spring Boot
9 48 (10.02%) GraphQL
9 48 (10.02%) Spring
10 38 (7.93%) AngularJS
10 38 (7.93%) CSS
11 29 (6.05%) Apache Camel
12 26 (5.43%) Kafka
13 25 (5.22%) jQuery
14 23 (4.80%) JSON
15 21 (4.38%) Serverless Framework
15 21 (4.38%) Vue
16 20 (4.18%) Hibernate
17 19 (3.97%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.57%) Self-Motivation
2 40 (8.35%) Cloud Native
3 38 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.05%) Management Information System
5 27 (5.64%) Onboarding
6 26 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
6 26 (5.43%) Cyberattack
6 26 (5.43%) PKI
7 18 (3.76%) Mobile App
8 15 (3.13%) IoT
9 14 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.51%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.88%) e-Learning
13 8 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.67%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 5 (1.04%) BYOD
15 5 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.43%) Linux
2 16 (3.34%) Windows
3 7 (1.46%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (51.36%) Agile
2 237 (49.48%) CI/CD
3 176 (36.74%) DevOps
4 149 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (27.77%) Mentoring
6 114 (23.80%) Clean Code
7 109 (22.76%) Microservices
8 89 (18.58%) Machine Learning
9 88 (18.37%) Data Science
10 79 (16.49%) Software Engineering
11 72 (15.03%) TDD
12 71 (14.82%) Creative Thinking
13 65 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 65 (13.57%) Performance Metrics
13 65 (13.57%) Personalization
14 63 (13.15%) Event-Driven
15 57 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 57 (11.90%) Test Automation
16 56 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
17 54 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 242 (50.52%) Python
2 164 (34.24%) TypeScript
3 134 (27.97%) JavaScript
4 114 (23.80%) Java
5 79 (16.49%) SQL
6 62 (12.94%) C#
7 26 (5.43%) Shell Script
8 22 (4.59%) PowerShell
9 18 (3.76%) Bash
9 18 (3.76%) PHP
10 8 (1.67%) Scala
11 7 (1.46%) Bicep
12 5 (1.04%) Go
12 5 (1.04%) Groovy
12 5 (1.04%) R
13 4 (0.84%) Perl
14 3 (0.63%) Ruby
14 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.42%) F#
15 2 (0.42%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 101 (21.09%) Degree
2 75 (15.66%) Security Cleared
3 67 (13.99%) PhD
4 40 (8.35%) SC Cleared
5 36 (7.52%) AWS Certification
6 22 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.04%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.21%) CCNA
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (7.52%) NIST
3 16 (3.34%) QA
4 14 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.71%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (2.30%) GDPR
7 10 (2.09%) SLA
8 6 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.21%) CDISC
11 1 (0.21%) DICOM
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.21%) NCSC
11 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (20.04%) Docker
2 42 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) HDFS
7 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 99 (20.67%) Terraform
2 85 (17.75%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.85%) Ansible
4 20 (4.18%) Kibana
5 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.25%) Grafana
6 6 (1.25%) Nessus
6 6 (1.25%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.84%) Puppet
8 3 (0.63%) Nagios
9 2 (0.42%) Packer
9 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.21%) Argo
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.43%) Thales
3 22 (4.59%) Splunk
4 21 (4.38%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.97%) Dynatrace
5 19 (3.97%) Oracle
6 15 (3.13%) Databricks
6 15 (3.13%) Informatica
7 14 (2.92%) MuleSoft
7 14 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.71%) Atlassian
9 12 (2.51%) Google
10 6 (1.25%) Juniper
11 5 (1.04%) Aruba
11 5 (1.04%) HP
11 5 (1.04%) SAP
11 5 (1.04%) Veeam
12 4 (0.84%) VMware
13 3 (0.63%) IBM
13 3 (0.63%) StreamSets