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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 126 238
Rank change year-on-year -100 +112 -69
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 376 772 592
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 2.28% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 6.90% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 242 268 456
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,569 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,875 £52,500 £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 £75,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £96,250
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 14,330 11,193 17,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.23% 33.08% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,167 6,166 14,332
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,396
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.14% -8.37%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 5 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 5 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 +62 189 £75,000 +22.45% 74
Yorkshire +57 129 £75,000 +36.36% 29
Midlands +9 66 £60,000 +9.09% 29
North West +3 56 £75,000 +25.00% 42
South West -96 41 £62,500 - 36
South East -147 39 £67,500 +12.50% 46
West Midlands +8 33 £57,500 +4.55% 16
East Midlands -6 33 £60,000 +6.67% 13
East of England -45 17 £61,300 -7.47% 8
Wales -5 15 £41,740 +51.78% 2
Scotland -32 13 - - 7
Northern Ireland -13 7 £95,000 +11.76% 2
North East -14 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 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.99%) Apache
2 15 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.19%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.60%) Confluence
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 300 (79.79%) AWS
2 190 (50.53%) AWS Lambda
3 171 (45.48%) Azure
4 158 (42.02%) Amazon S3
5 90 (23.94%) Amazon ECS
5 90 (23.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 64 (17.02%) GitHub
7 60 (15.96%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (15.43%) AWS Step Functions
9 56 (14.89%) Azure Functions
10 51 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
11 43 (11.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (11.44%) Azure Logic Apps
12 42 (11.17%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (11.17%) GCP
13 40 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (9.57%) SaaS
15 32 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
16 30 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (7.18%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.86%) AMQP
1 7 (1.86%) Internet
2 5 (1.33%) Network Security
3 4 (1.06%) Firewall
4 3 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (19.68%) DynamoDB
2 54 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (11.44%) NoSQL
4 37 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (8.51%) SQL Server
6 29 (7.71%) Relational Database
7 25 (6.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.46%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (2.66%) MySQL
12 9 (2.39%) Big Data
13 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.86%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.86%) Power BI
14 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 73 (19.41%) Jenkins
2 61 (16.22%) Git
3 36 (9.57%) GitLab
4 26 (6.91%) SonarQube
5 25 (6.65%) Cypress.io
5 25 (6.65%) Maven
6 13 (3.46%) JUnit
7 9 (2.39%) JMeter
7 9 (2.39%) Mockito
8 6 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.60%) git-flow
8 6 (1.60%) JIRA
8 6 (1.60%) Storybook
9 3 (0.80%) MLflow
10 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) MSTest
11 1 (0.27%) Selenium
11 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 106 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.11%) Public Sector
3 30 (7.98%) Finance
4 26 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.13%) Marketing
6 6 (1.60%) Advertising
7 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.33%) Law
7 5 (1.33%) Legal
7 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.06%) Banking
8 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.06%) Publishing
9 3 (0.80%) Automotive
9 3 (0.80%) Billing
9 3 (0.80%) Games
9 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 174 (46.28%) Developer
2 68 (18.09%) Senior
3 55 (14.63%) Java Developer
4 46 (12.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 46 (12.23%) Lead
5 45 (11.97%) Architect
5 45 (11.97%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.64%) Senior Developer
7 34 (9.04%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.71%) AWS Developer
9 27 (7.18%) Python Developer
10 23 (6.12%) Software Developer
11 22 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 18 (4.79%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.72%) Applications Architect
13 14 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.46%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.46%) Node.js Developer
14 13 (3.46%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (35.11%) React
2 89 (23.67%) Node.js
3 74 (19.68%) Spring Boot
4 71 (18.88%) .NET
5 66 (17.55%) AngularJS
6 61 (16.22%) Spring
7 60 (15.96%) HTML
8 55 (14.63%) REST
9 42 (11.17%) CSS
10 32 (8.51%) RESTful
11 27 (7.18%) AWS CDK
12 25 (6.65%) Gherkin
12 25 (6.65%) Jest
12 25 (6.65%) Vue
13 24 (6.38%) .NET Core
14 22 (5.85%) Kafka
15 21 (5.59%) Blazor
15 21 (5.59%) Web Services
16 19 (5.05%) ASP.NET
17 17 (4.52%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.61%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.78%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.72%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.46%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.06%) IoT
10 3 (0.80%) Animation
10 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.80%) Life Science
10 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.53%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.38%) Linux
2 5 (1.33%) CentOS
2 5 (1.33%) Debian
2 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
2 5 (1.33%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (60.64%) CI/CD
2 190 (50.53%) DevOps
3 173 (46.01%) Agile
4 128 (34.04%) Microservices
5 126 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 99 (26.33%) Mentoring
7 88 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (23.14%) Software Engineering
9 83 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (15.69%) Containerisation
12 46 (12.23%) Migration
12 46 (12.23%) TDD
13 45 (11.97%) Data Modelling
14 44 (11.70%) Scrum
15 41 (10.90%) Application Security
15 41 (10.90%) Computer Science
15 41 (10.90%) SDLC
16 38 (10.11%) Architectural Patterns
17 34 (9.04%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 145 (38.56%) Python
2 138 (36.70%) JavaScript
3 127 (33.78%) Java
4 125 (33.24%) TypeScript
5 97 (25.80%) SQL
6 81 (21.54%) C#
7 36 (9.57%) Bash
8 24 (6.38%) Groovy
9 15 (3.99%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.72%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.39%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.86%) Bicep
13 5 (1.33%) C++
14 4 (1.06%) Go
14 4 (1.06%) PHP
15 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.53%) C
16 2 (0.53%) VB
16 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (17.55%) AWS Certification
2 47 (12.50%) Degree
3 38 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (9.57%) Azure Certification
5 35 (9.31%) Security Cleared
6 30 (7.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (6.38%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (5.59%) SC Cleared
10 18 (4.79%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (3.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.86%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.80%) IIBA
15 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 1 (0.27%) HND
16 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.46%) QA
2 12 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.60%) WCAG
5 4 (1.06%) GDPR
6 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.53%) NIST
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 123 (32.71%) Docker
2 10 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) iptables
Systems Management
1 95 (25.27%) Terraform
2 76 (20.21%) Kubernetes
3 26 (6.91%) Ansible
4 25 (6.65%) HP Fortify
5 12 (3.19%) Kibana
6 11 (2.93%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.39%) Grafana
8 8 (2.13%) Puppet
9 6 (1.60%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.06%) Argo
10 4 (1.06%) Control-M
11 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.53%) Nagios
13 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.27%) Packer
13 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.93%) Oracle
3 10 (2.66%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.66%) Google
4 9 (2.39%) Splunk
5 6 (1.60%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.33%) Informatica
6 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.06%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.06%) Pega
7 4 (1.06%) WSO2
8 2 (0.53%) Databricks
9 1 (0.27%) Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) SAP
9 1 (0.27%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.27%) Tenable