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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 261 236
Rank change year-on-year +27 -25 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 602 350 626
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.02% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.32% 3.75% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 389 248 351
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £36,103
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +0.71% -

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 18,121 9,337 17,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.73% 27.10% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,928 6,510 11,942
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,500 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +90 300 £75,000 +15.38% 68
North West +67 133 £70,000 +3.70% 36
Yorkshire +42 124 £80,000 +33.33% 19
Midlands +5 87 £62,500 - 24
South East -22 83 £65,000 -7.14% 49
South West -55 67 £61,500 +2.50% 32
East Midlands +28 54 £55,000 +46.67% 10
North East -11 43 £75,000 +15.38% 13
Wales -30 42 £55,000 +5.77% 11
West Midlands -40 33 £62,500 -3.85% 14
East of England -51 17 £59,450 +1.19% 8
Scotland +2 13 £70,000 +16.67% 18
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 19 (3.16%) Confluence
2 12 (1.99%) Apache
2 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.33%) SAS
4 8 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.83%) JBoss
7 4 (0.66%) nginx
7 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
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 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 439 (72.92%) AWS
2 294 (48.84%) AWS Lambda
3 208 (34.55%) Amazon S3
4 196 (32.56%) Azure
5 159 (26.41%) Amazon ECS
6 141 (23.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 108 (17.94%) GitHub
8 101 (16.78%) Azure Functions
9 79 (13.12%) AWS Step Functions
10 70 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
10 70 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
11 64 (10.63%) Amazon SQS
12 62 (10.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 58 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
13 58 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
14 54 (8.97%) GCP
15 47 (7.81%) SaaS
16 44 (7.31%) Azure Logic Apps
17 43 (7.14%) Power Platform
18 39 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.82%) VPN
2 10 (1.66%) Network Security
3 9 (1.50%) MQTT
4 7 (1.16%) Firewall
5 4 (0.66%) AMQP
5 4 (0.66%) DNS
5 4 (0.66%) IPv4
5 4 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.50%) DHCP
6 3 (0.50%) HTTP
6 3 (0.50%) LTE
6 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.50%) VLAN
6 3 (0.50%) WAN
7 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) VoIP
8 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (20.60%) DynamoDB
2 60 (9.97%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (8.31%) NoSQL
4 46 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 42 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (6.31%) Amazon Athena
6 38 (6.31%) Relational Database
7 28 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (3.16%) MySQL
9 19 (3.16%) Power BI
10 17 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 16 (2.66%) Big Data
12 14 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.66%) Spark SQL
14 9 (1.50%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.16%) Metadata
16 6 (1.00%) DocumentDB
16 6 (1.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 120 (19.93%) Git
2 107 (17.77%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.13%) GitLab
4 36 (5.98%) JIRA
4 36 (5.98%) SonarQube
5 33 (5.48%) Cypress.io
6 24 (3.99%) Maven
7 22 (3.65%) Snyk
8 15 (2.49%) JUnit
8 15 (2.49%) Selenium
9 14 (2.33%) Bitbucket
9 14 (2.33%) Crashlytics
9 14 (2.33%) XCTest
10 11 (1.83%) Postman
11 10 (1.66%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.33%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.33%) JMeter
13 7 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (1.16%) Mockito
14 4 (0.66%) SpecFlow
General
1 153 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 72 (11.96%) Public Sector
3 61 (10.13%) Finance
4 47 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.32%) Law
7 10 (1.66%) Aviation
8 9 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.33%) Legal
9 8 (1.33%) Retail
10 5 (0.83%) Banking
11 4 (0.66%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Local Government
12 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 219 (36.38%) Developer
2 162 (26.91%) Senior
3 85 (14.12%) Lead
4 81 (13.46%) Java Developer
5 72 (11.96%) Senior Developer
6 71 (11.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 71 (11.79%) Software Engineer
7 64 (10.63%) Architect
8 40 (6.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 35 (5.81%) Cloud Architect
10 33 (5.48%) Data Engineer
10 33 (5.48%) Software Developer
11 31 (5.15%) AWS Developer
11 31 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (4.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (4.15%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.15%) Security Architect
15 23 (3.82%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (23.42%) Node.js
2 123 (20.43%) React
3 120 (19.93%) Spring Boot
4 98 (16.28%) AngularJS
5 95 (15.78%) REST
5 95 (15.78%) Spring
6 82 (13.62%) .NET
7 41 (6.81%) AWS CDK
8 40 (6.64%) Jest
9 37 (6.15%) Kafka
10 33 (5.48%) RESTful
11 31 (5.15%) Gherkin
12 29 (4.82%) HTML
13 28 (4.65%) Ruby on Rails
14 27 (4.49%) Next.js
15 23 (3.82%) CSS
16 22 (3.65%) ASP.NET
16 22 (3.65%) OpenAPI
17 21 (3.49%) ASP.NET Core
18 20 (3.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 154 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
3 46 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.15%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.65%) Mainframe
7 22 (3.65%) Mobile App
8 20 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.82%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.99%) Podcast
10 12 (1.99%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.50%) IoT
13 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.33%) Robotics
14 7 (1.16%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.16%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.64%) Linux
2 29 (4.82%) Windows
3 14 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.16%) VMS
5 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.83%) AIX
7 4 (0.66%) CentOS
7 4 (0.66%) Debian
7 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (59.63%) CI/CD
2 289 (48.01%) Agile
3 264 (43.85%) DevOps
4 197 (32.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 147 (24.42%) AI
6 143 (23.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 139 (23.09%) Software Engineering
8 131 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 130 (21.59%) Mentoring
10 128 (21.26%) Microservices
11 123 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (18.77%) Observability
13 110 (18.27%) Test Automation
14 109 (18.11%) Containerisation
15 94 (15.61%) Scrum
16 85 (14.12%) TDD
17 84 (13.95%) Clean Code
18 83 (13.79%) Event-Driven
19 80 (13.29%) DevSecOps
20 78 (12.96%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 203 (33.72%) Python
2 178 (29.57%) Java
3 157 (26.08%) SQL
4 155 (25.75%) TypeScript
5 119 (19.77%) JavaScript
6 93 (15.45%) C#
7 64 (10.63%) Bash
8 46 (7.64%) Kotlin
9 38 (6.31%) Groovy
10 31 (5.15%) Ruby
11 29 (4.82%) PowerShell
12 22 (3.65%) Bicep
13 14 (2.33%) Swift
14 13 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (2.16%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.66%) Rust
16 9 (1.50%) PHP
17 8 (1.33%) Go
18 6 (1.00%) COBOL
18 6 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.63%) Degree
4 57 (9.47%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 26 (4.32%) Azure Certification
8 20 (3.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (2.66%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.50%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.33%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.15%) QA
2 30 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.15%) GDPR
4 22 (3.65%) GRC
5 21 (3.49%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.49%) WCAG
8 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.00%) NCSC
9 4 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.66%) NIST
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 193 (32.06%) Docker
2 30 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.66%) vSphere
5 12 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.66%) Squid
6 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.50%) Firmware
7 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 191 (31.73%) Terraform
2 113 (18.77%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.30%) Ansible
4 22 (3.65%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.16%) Grafana
6 16 (2.66%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.49%) Puppet
8 14 (2.33%) Kibana
9 13 (2.16%) Packer
10 5 (0.83%) Podman
11 4 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.66%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.50%) Scalr
13 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.17%) logstash
14 1 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 84 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.32%) Tenable
3 23 (3.82%) Oracle
4 22 (3.65%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.65%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.16%) Splunk
6 18 (2.99%) Google
7 17 (2.82%) VMware
8 15 (2.49%) Databricks
9 14 (2.33%) Amplitude
9 14 (2.33%) Braze
9 14 (2.33%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.99%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.83%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.66%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.50%) AppDynamics
14 8 (1.33%) IBM
15 7 (1.16%) HubSpot
15 7 (1.16%) OneLogin
16 4 (0.66%) NVIDIA