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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 235 251
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 -57
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 530 372 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.31% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 4.57% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 344 270 482
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £41,025
25th Percentile £55,750 £52,500 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £81,563 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

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 18,371 8,132 22,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.31% 28.71% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9,817 5,503 17,552
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £36,422
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,538
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +94 278 £75,000 +15.38% 51
Yorkshire +47 153 £75,000 +25.00% 16
North West +49 116 £75,000 - 30
Midlands +8 106 £55,000 -2.22% 22
East Midlands +21 70 £55,000 - 9
South East -43 65 £65,000 +8.33% 39
South West -69 44 £62,500 +4.17% 23
West Midlands -45 36 £52,500 -8.70% 13
East of England -38 20 £60,050 -29.35% 5
Scotland -13 14 £76,783 +39.60% 11
Wales -39 14 £46,679 -9.18% 5
North East -35 9 £90,000 +44.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 1
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 14 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.26%) Apache
2 12 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.51%) SAS
5 4 (0.75%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.75%) Confluence
5 4 (0.75%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.75%) JBoss
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 396 (74.72%) AWS
2 260 (49.06%) AWS Lambda
3 218 (41.13%) Amazon S3
4 165 (31.13%) Azure
5 145 (27.36%) Amazon ECS
6 128 (24.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 97 (18.30%) AWS Step Functions
8 76 (14.34%) Azure Functions
9 71 (13.40%) Amazon SQS
10 66 (12.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 64 (12.08%) GitHub
12 59 (11.13%) Amazon EC2
12 59 (11.13%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (9.06%) Amazon ECR
14 47 (8.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (8.68%) Apigee
15 46 (8.68%) GCP
16 44 (8.30%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
18 41 (7.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.26%) Network Security
2 7 (1.32%) Firewall
3 6 (1.13%) AMQP
3 6 (1.13%) MQTT
4 3 (0.57%) IPv4
4 3 (0.57%) LTE
4 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.38%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) DNS
5 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.38%) VLAN
5 2 (0.38%) WAN
5 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (21.51%) DynamoDB
2 59 (11.13%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (8.87%) NoSQL
4 47 (8.87%) SQL Server
5 34 (6.42%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (5.85%) Relational Database
7 30 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (3.40%) Power BI
10 17 (3.21%) Big Data
11 11 (2.08%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.89%) Spark SQL
13 9 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.70%) MySQL
14 8 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.51%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 106 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 89 (16.79%) Git
3 63 (11.89%) GitLab
4 45 (8.49%) SonarQube
5 39 (7.36%) Cypress.io
6 36 (6.79%) Maven
7 22 (4.15%) Snyk
8 13 (2.45%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.45%) JIRA
8 13 (2.45%) XCTest
9 10 (1.89%) JUnit
10 8 (1.51%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.51%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.32%) JMeter
11 7 (1.32%) Mockito
12 5 (0.94%) Postman
13 4 (0.75%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.75%) Selenium
13 4 (0.75%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 114 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 43 (8.11%) Public Sector
3 39 (7.36%) Finance
4 36 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.51%) Legal
7 7 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.32%) Banking
7 7 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.13%) Advertising
9 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.75%) Publishing
10 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.38%) Billing
11 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.38%) Games
11 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.38%) Marketing
11 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 223 (42.08%) Developer
2 139 (26.23%) Senior
3 94 (17.74%) Java Developer
4 82 (15.47%) Lead
5 65 (12.26%) Software Engineer
6 61 (11.51%) Architect
7 57 (10.75%) Senior Developer
8 53 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 36 (6.79%) AWS Developer
10 34 (6.42%) Software Developer
11 33 (6.23%) Cloud Architect
12 30 (5.66%) .NET Developer
13 27 (5.09%) Data Engineer
14 26 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (4.91%) Senior Architect
15 25 (4.72%) Cloud Security Architect
15 25 (4.72%) Security Architect
16 22 (4.15%) Senior Cloud Architect
16 22 (4.15%) Senior Security Architect
16 22 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (24.34%) Node.js
2 126 (23.77%) React
3 107 (20.19%) Spring Boot
4 100 (18.87%) AngularJS
5 89 (16.79%) REST
6 82 (15.47%) Spring
7 73 (13.77%) .NET
8 40 (7.55%) Gherkin
9 38 (7.17%) HTML
10 37 (6.98%) Jest
11 34 (6.42%) RESTful
12 33 (6.23%) AWS CDK
13 31 (5.85%) Kafka
14 23 (4.34%) CSS
14 23 (4.34%) Web Services
15 22 (4.15%) .NET Core
16 21 (3.96%) ASP.NET
17 20 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (3.77%) Next.js
18 19 (3.58%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 93 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.74%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.53%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.53%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.32%) IoT
10 6 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.13%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.57%) NHS
13 3 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.42%) Linux
2 13 (2.45%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.89%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) CentOS
4 5 (0.94%) Debian
4 5 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.94%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (59.25%) CI/CD
2 234 (44.15%) DevOps
3 224 (42.26%) Agile
4 155 (29.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 124 (23.40%) Microservices
6 122 (23.02%) Mentoring
7 115 (21.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (20.75%) Software Engineering
9 108 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (17.92%) Containerisation
12 86 (16.23%) Test Automation
13 83 (15.66%) AI
14 74 (13.96%) Observability
14 74 (13.96%) SDLC
15 72 (13.58%) TDD
16 64 (12.08%) Scrum
17 63 (11.89%) Clean Code
18 60 (11.32%) Event-Driven
19 58 (10.94%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 189 (35.66%) Python
2 162 (30.57%) Java
3 149 (28.11%) TypeScript
4 141 (26.60%) SQL
5 132 (24.91%) JavaScript
6 73 (13.77%) C#
7 53 (10.00%) Bash
8 47 (8.87%) Groovy
9 43 (8.11%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.83%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.64%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.45%) Swift
13 9 (1.70%) PHP
14 8 (1.51%) Rust
15 4 (0.75%) Perl
15 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.75%) Scala
16 3 (0.57%) C++
16 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (12.26%) Degree
2 63 (11.89%) AWS Certification
3 49 (9.25%) Security Cleared
4 43 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (7.36%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.34%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.58%) Azure Certification
11 14 (2.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (2.26%) DBS Check
13 11 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (1.89%) DV Cleared
15 9 (1.70%) Master's Degree
16 6 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
17 3 (0.57%) CCNA
17 3 (0.57%) CCSP
17 3 (0.57%) CISSP
17 3 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.91%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.15%) GRC
3 20 (3.77%) GDPR
4 15 (2.83%) QA
5 12 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.57%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 188 (35.47%) Docker
2 23 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) iptables
5 3 (0.57%) Firmware
5 3 (0.57%) Squid
5 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.57%) vSphere
6 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 130 (24.53%) Terraform
2 99 (18.68%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.92%) Ansible
4 34 (6.42%) HP Fortify
5 20 (3.77%) Grafana
5 20 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.83%) Puppet
7 12 (2.26%) Kibana
8 9 (1.70%) Packer
9 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.75%) Control-M
10 4 (0.75%) Podman
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.57%) Nagios
11 3 (0.57%) Scalr
11 3 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.09%) Tenable
3 24 (4.53%) Oracle
4 22 (4.15%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (4.15%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.64%) Databricks
6 13 (2.45%) Amplitude
6 13 (2.45%) Braze
7 11 (2.08%) Splunk
8 9 (1.70%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.51%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.51%) IBM
9 8 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.32%) Google
10 7 (1.32%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.94%) Informatica
11 5 (0.94%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.75%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.57%) VMware