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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 109 244
Rank change year-on-year -124 +135 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 430 687 728
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 2.63% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 7.84% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 264 276 484
10th Percentile £50,478 £43,750 £42,150
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% 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 16,721 8,765 21,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 33.59% 34.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,104 6,255 16,832
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,375 £72,500 £66,535
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,581 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +41 225 £75,000 +20.00% 97
Yorkshire +47 153 £75,000 +30.43% 43
Midlands -31 80 £60,000 +9.09% 23
North West -3 69 £72,966 +6.71% 47
East Midlands -6 55 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -120 43 £62,500 +4.17% 32
South East -172 35 £67,500 +12.50% 67
West Midlands -34 25 £51,875 -5.68% 19
Scotland -31 19 £76,783 +33.53% 9
East of England -62 19 £60,100 -10.96% 21
Wales -16 15 £41,740 -3.87%
Northern Ireland -27 7 £95,000 -
North East -31 3 £51,000 -18.40% 9
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 15 (3.49%) Apache
1 15 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.02%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.09%) SAS
5 4 (0.93%) Confluence
5 4 (0.93%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.70%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.47%) CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 354 (82.33%) AWS
2 218 (50.70%) AWS Lambda
3 186 (43.26%) Amazon S3
4 164 (38.14%) Azure
5 117 (27.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 109 (25.35%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (17.21%) GitHub
8 73 (16.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 59 (13.72%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (13.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 55 (12.79%) Amazon SQS
12 54 (12.56%) Azure Functions
13 45 (10.47%) GCP
14 44 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (9.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (9.53%) Amazon ECR
17 40 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
17 40 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
18 38 (8.84%) Apigee
18 38 (8.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.63%) Network Security
2 6 (1.40%) AMQP
3 3 (0.70%) Firewall
4 2 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (21.16%) DynamoDB
2 52 (12.09%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (10.93%) NoSQL
4 43 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (7.67%) SQL Server
6 26 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (5.81%) Relational Database
8 21 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.26%) Big Data
11 12 (2.79%) Power BI
12 11 (2.56%) MySQL
13 9 (2.09%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.86%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (1.16%) Data Lake
17 5 (1.16%) Hadoop
17 5 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 91 (21.16%) Jenkins
2 67 (15.58%) Git
3 50 (11.63%) GitLab
4 37 (8.60%) Maven
4 37 (8.60%) SonarQube
5 36 (8.37%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.09%) Crashlytics
6 9 (2.09%) JUnit
6 9 (2.09%) XCTest
7 8 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.63%) JIRA
9 6 (1.40%) git-flow
9 6 (1.40%) Storybook
10 5 (1.16%) JMeter
10 5 (1.16%) Mockito
11 4 (0.93%) MLflow
12 3 (0.70%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.70%) Selenium
13 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 115 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 38 (8.84%) Finance
3 36 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.09%) Legal
6 8 (1.86%) Marketing
7 6 (1.40%) Advertising
8 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.93%) Publishing
10 3 (0.70%) Banking
10 3 (0.70%) Billing
10 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.47%) Games
11 2 (0.47%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.47%) Retail
11 2 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 199 (46.28%) Developer
2 84 (19.53%) Senior
3 75 (17.44%) Java Developer
4 61 (14.19%) Lead
5 52 (12.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 52 (12.09%) Senior Developer
6 46 (10.70%) Software Engineer
7 45 (10.47%) Architect
8 34 (7.91%) AWS Developer
9 32 (7.44%) Python Developer
10 27 (6.28%) .NET Developer
11 23 (5.35%) Software Developer
12 21 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 21 (4.88%) Technical Leader
13 18 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (4.19%) Lead Developer
13 18 (4.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.49%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (33.26%) React
2 110 (25.58%) Node.js
3 89 (20.70%) Spring Boot
4 80 (18.60%) AngularJS
5 66 (15.35%) Spring
6 65 (15.12%) .NET
7 59 (13.72%) REST
8 57 (13.26%) HTML
9 44 (10.23%) CSS
10 36 (8.37%) Gherkin
10 36 (8.37%) Jest
11 35 (8.14%) AWS CDK
12 34 (7.91%) RESTful
13 27 (6.28%) Vue
14 21 (4.88%) .NET Core
15 20 (4.65%) Next.js
16 19 (4.42%) Django
16 19 (4.42%) FastAPI
17 18 (4.19%) Flask
17 18 (4.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 88 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (4.42%) Mobile App
6 17 (3.95%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.16%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.70%) Animation
12 3 (0.70%) IoT
12 3 (0.70%) Life Science
12 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.70%) NHS
13 2 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.81%) Linux
2 9 (2.09%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.16%) CentOS
3 5 (1.16%) Debian
3 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.16%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.16%) Windows
4 4 (0.93%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (57.21%) CI/CD
2 221 (51.40%) DevOps
3 207 (48.14%) Agile
4 141 (32.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 122 (28.37%) Microservices
6 116 (26.98%) Mentoring
7 107 (24.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 100 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (20.93%) Software Engineering
10 85 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (17.91%) Containerisation
12 56 (13.02%) Test Automation
13 53 (12.33%) Scrum
13 53 (12.33%) TDD
14 49 (11.40%) Computer Science
14 49 (11.40%) Observability
15 45 (10.47%) Data Modelling
16 44 (10.23%) SDLC
17 39 (9.07%) Clean Code
18 38 (8.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 155 (36.05%) Python
2 145 (33.72%) JavaScript
3 144 (33.49%) TypeScript
4 143 (33.26%) Java
5 106 (24.65%) SQL
6 67 (15.58%) C#
7 48 (11.16%) Bash
8 35 (8.14%) Groovy
9 28 (6.51%) Kotlin
10 14 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.09%) Swift
12 7 (1.63%) PHP
13 6 (1.40%) C++
14 5 (1.16%) Bicep
15 3 (0.70%) C
15 3 (0.70%) VB
16 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.23%) Perl
17 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (16.74%) AWS Certification
2 55 (12.79%) Degree
3 44 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (7.44%) Security Cleared
5 30 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (6.51%) Azure Certification
7 24 (5.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (4.65%) SC Cleared
10 19 (4.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (3.02%) DBS Check
12 12 (2.79%) Master's Degree
13 8 (1.86%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.70%) IIBA
15 1 (0.23%) HND
15 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.72%) QA
3 10 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.40%) WCAG
6 4 (0.93%) GDPR
7 3 (0.70%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.47%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 157 (36.51%) Docker
2 9 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.93%) iptables
3 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (25.12%) Terraform
2 73 (16.98%) Kubernetes
3 36 (8.37%) HP Fortify
4 28 (6.51%) Ansible
5 15 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.26%) Grafana
7 10 (2.33%) Puppet
8 9 (2.09%) Kibana
9 7 (1.63%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.93%) Argo
10 4 (0.93%) Control-M
11 3 (0.70%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.70%) Nagios
12 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.47%) Packer
12 2 (0.47%) Scalr
13 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.33%) Oracle
3 9 (2.09%) Amplitude
4 6 (1.40%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.40%) Google
5 5 (1.16%) Databricks
5 5 (1.16%) Informatica
5 5 (1.16%) Pega
5 5 (1.16%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.16%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.16%) Splunk
5 5 (1.16%) WSO2
6 4 (0.93%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.23%) Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) Sage
8 1 (0.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.23%) Tenable