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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 122 228
Rank change year-on-year -103 +106 -53
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 366 772 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 2.24% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.58% 6.77% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 234 266 450
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,549 £43,373
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +7.14% -6.67%

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 14,163 11,400 16,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.30% 33.06% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 6,185 13,980
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,499
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.37%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +55 184 £75,000 +25.00% 65
Yorkshire +57 125 £75,000 +41.51% 25
Midlands -3 63 £60,000 +9.09% 29
North West +22 55 £75,000 +30.43% 37
South West -100 41 £62,500 -1.96% 28
South East -129 38 £67,500 +12.50% 57
East Midlands -3 32 £60,000 +6.67% 9
West Midlands +11 31 £60,000 +9.09% 20
East of England -44 17 £60,100 -9.28% 7
Wales -6 15 £41,740 +51.78% 4
Scotland -29 13 - - 4
Northern Ireland -11 6 £95,000 +11.76% 3
North East -5 4 £68,500 +9.60% 3
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 16 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.10%) Apache
2 15 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.28%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.91%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 290 (79.23%) AWS
2 182 (49.73%) AWS Lambda
3 168 (45.90%) Azure
4 152 (41.53%) Amazon S3
5 86 (23.50%) Amazon ECS
5 86 (23.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (17.21%) GitHub
7 58 (15.85%) Amazon EKS
8 56 (15.30%) AWS Step Functions
9 55 (15.03%) Azure Functions
10 49 (13.39%) Amazon SQS
11 43 (11.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 41 (11.20%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (10.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (10.93%) GCP
14 39 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
15 35 (9.56%) SaaS
16 32 (8.74%) Azure Service Bus
17 30 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
18 26 (7.10%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) Internet
2 7 (1.91%) AMQP
3 4 (1.09%) Firewall
3 4 (1.09%) Network Security
3 4 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (19.40%) DynamoDB
2 53 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (11.48%) NoSQL
4 35 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (8.47%) SQL Server
6 28 (7.65%) Relational Database
7 24 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.28%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.46%) Big Data
11 9 (2.46%) MySQL
12 7 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.91%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.91%) Power BI
13 6 (1.64%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 68 (18.58%) Jenkins
2 60 (16.39%) Git
3 33 (9.02%) GitLab
4 24 (6.56%) Cypress.io
4 24 (6.56%) Maven
4 24 (6.56%) SonarQube
5 13 (3.55%) JUnit
6 9 (2.46%) JMeter
6 9 (2.46%) Mockito
7 7 (1.91%) JIRA
8 6 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.64%) git-flow
8 6 (1.64%) Storybook
9 3 (0.82%) MLflow
10 2 (0.55%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) MSTest
11 1 (0.27%) NUnit
11 1 (0.27%) Selenium
11 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 104 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 36 (9.84%) Public Sector
3 30 (8.20%) Finance
4 25 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.19%) Marketing
6 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.37%) Law
6 5 (1.37%) Legal
7 4 (1.09%) Advertising
7 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.09%) Automotive
7 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.09%) Publishing
8 3 (0.82%) Banking
8 3 (0.82%) Billing
8 3 (0.82%) Games
8 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (46.17%) Developer
2 65 (17.76%) Senior
3 53 (14.48%) Java Developer
4 46 (12.57%) Lead
5 45 (12.30%) Architect
6 44 (12.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 44 (12.02%) Software Engineer
7 38 (10.38%) Senior Developer
8 34 (9.29%) .NET Developer
9 29 (7.92%) AWS Developer
10 27 (7.38%) Python Developer
11 22 (6.01%) Software Developer
12 21 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (5.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 18 (4.92%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.83%) Applications Architect
15 13 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.55%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.55%) Node.js Developer
15 13 (3.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (35.25%) React
2 85 (23.22%) Node.js
3 72 (19.67%) Spring Boot
4 69 (18.85%) .NET
5 64 (17.49%) AngularJS
6 60 (16.39%) Spring
7 59 (16.12%) HTML
8 54 (14.75%) REST
9 41 (11.20%) CSS
10 31 (8.47%) RESTful
11 26 (7.10%) AWS CDK
12 25 (6.83%) Vue
13 24 (6.56%) .NET Core
13 24 (6.56%) Gherkin
13 24 (6.56%) Jest
14 22 (6.01%) Kafka
15 21 (5.74%) Blazor
15 21 (5.74%) Web Services
16 18 (4.92%) ASP.NET
17 17 (4.64%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 85 (23.22%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.74%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.55%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.37%) IoT
7 5 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.37%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.82%) Animation
8 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.82%) Life Science
8 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.55%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.01%) Linux
2 5 (1.37%) CentOS
2 5 (1.37%) Debian
2 5 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.37%) Ubuntu
2 5 (1.37%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (60.11%) CI/CD
2 183 (50.00%) DevOps
3 169 (46.17%) Agile
4 124 (33.88%) Microservices
5 121 (33.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 98 (26.78%) Mentoring
7 85 (23.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 83 (22.68%) Software Engineering
9 81 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (15.30%) Containerisation
12 46 (12.57%) Migration
13 45 (12.30%) TDD
14 44 (12.02%) Data Modelling
15 43 (11.75%) Scrum
16 41 (11.20%) Application Security
17 39 (10.66%) Computer Science
17 39 (10.66%) SDLC
18 37 (10.11%) Architectural Patterns
19 32 (8.74%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 141 (38.52%) Python
2 135 (36.89%) JavaScript
3 124 (33.88%) Java
4 121 (33.06%) TypeScript
5 94 (25.68%) SQL
6 80 (21.86%) C#
7 34 (9.29%) Bash
8 23 (6.28%) Groovy
9 16 (4.37%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.83%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.91%) Bicep
13 5 (1.37%) C++
14 4 (1.09%) Go
15 3 (0.82%) PHP
15 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.55%) C
16 2 (0.55%) VB
17 1 (0.27%) Perl
17 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (17.49%) AWS Certification
2 45 (12.30%) Degree
3 36 (9.84%) Azure Certification
3 36 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (9.29%) Security Cleared
5 29 (7.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (6.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 20 (5.46%) SC Cleared
9 18 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.91%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.82%) IIBA
14 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.55%) QA
2 12 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.64%) WCAG
5 4 (1.09%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.55%) NIST
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 118 (32.24%) Docker
2 10 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.55%) iptables
Systems Management
1 90 (24.59%) Terraform
2 74 (20.22%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.56%) Ansible
3 24 (6.56%) HP Fortify
4 12 (3.28%) Kibana
5 10 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.19%) Grafana
7 7 (1.91%) Puppet
8 6 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.09%) Argo
9 4 (1.09%) Control-M
10 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.55%) Nagios
12 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.01%) Oracle
3 10 (2.73%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.73%) Google
4 9 (2.46%) Splunk
5 7 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.37%) Informatica
6 5 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.37%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.09%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.09%) Pega
7 4 (1.09%) WSO2
8 2 (0.55%) Databricks
9 1 (0.27%) Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) SAP
9 1 (0.27%) StreamSets