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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 231 254
Rank change year-on-year +27 +23 -53
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 553 375 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.26% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.42% 4.39% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 362 262 482
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £40,100
25th Percentile £55,175 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,188 £80,000 £82,969
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +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 16,166 8,546 23,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.13% 28.77% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,289 5,879 17,989
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +78 273 £75,000 +15.38% 49
Yorkshire +38 137 £75,000 +25.00% 15
North West +55 121 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Midlands +23 109 £55,000 - 13
East Midlands +41 72 £55,000 +2.33% 5
South East -41 67 £67,500 +12.50% 42
South West -57 53 £62,500 +4.17% 42
West Midlands -29 37 £52,500 -4.55% 8
Wales -38 25 £51,619 -0.73% 6
East of England -34 21 £60,000 -29.41% 7
North East -38 15 £75,000 +20.00% 8
Scotland -3 13 £76,783 +39.60% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £95,000 - 2
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 13 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.17%) Apache
3 11 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.81%) Confluence
5 8 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.45%) SAS
6 7 (1.27%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.72%) JBoss
7 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.54%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.36%) nginx
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 413 (74.68%) AWS
2 277 (50.09%) AWS Lambda
3 219 (39.60%) Amazon S3
4 166 (30.02%) Azure
5 149 (26.94%) Amazon ECS
6 128 (23.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (17.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 83 (15.01%) Azure Functions
9 75 (13.56%) GitHub
10 67 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
11 64 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 61 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
13 60 (10.85%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
15 47 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
17 44 (7.96%) Amazon ECR
18 43 (7.78%) GCP
19 41 (7.41%) Apigee
20 39 (7.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.35%) Network Security
2 7 (1.27%) Firewall
3 6 (1.08%) AMQP
3 6 (1.08%) MQTT
3 6 (1.08%) VPN
4 4 (0.72%) IPv4
4 4 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.54%) DHCP
5 3 (0.54%) DNS
5 3 (0.54%) LTE
5 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.54%) VLAN
6 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.36%) WAN
6 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) VoIP
7 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (20.43%) DynamoDB
2 54 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (8.14%) NoSQL
5 43 (7.78%) SQL Server
6 38 (6.87%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (5.61%) Relational Database
8 20 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.44%) Power BI
10 17 (3.07%) Big Data
11 14 (2.53%) MySQL
12 13 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (2.35%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.81%) Spark SQL
14 9 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.63%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.90%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.90%) Redis
15 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 107 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 99 (17.90%) Git
3 62 (11.21%) GitLab
4 40 (7.23%) SonarQube
5 36 (6.51%) Cypress.io
6 31 (5.61%) Maven
7 23 (4.16%) JIRA
8 22 (3.98%) Snyk
9 14 (2.53%) Crashlytics
9 14 (2.53%) XCTest
10 11 (1.99%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.99%) JUnit
11 10 (1.81%) Selenium
12 9 (1.63%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.45%) JMeter
13 8 (1.45%) Postman
14 7 (1.27%) Mockito
15 4 (0.72%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.72%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 130 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 53 (9.58%) Public Sector
3 44 (7.96%) Finance
4 37 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.45%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.27%) Banking
7 7 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.08%) Advertising
9 5 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.90%) Legal
10 4 (0.72%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.72%) Law
10 4 (0.72%) Publishing
11 3 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.36%) Billing
12 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.36%) Games
12 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 222 (40.14%) Developer
2 147 (26.58%) Senior
3 92 (16.64%) Java Developer
4 82 (14.83%) Lead
5 67 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 63 (11.39%) Senior Developer
7 61 (11.03%) Architect
7 61 (11.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (6.69%) AWS Developer
9 36 (6.51%) Software Developer
10 34 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 32 (5.79%) Cloud Architect
12 28 (5.06%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.52%) Cloud Security Architect
13 25 (4.52%) Security Architect
14 23 (4.16%) .NET Developer
14 23 (4.16%) Senior Architect
15 22 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
15 22 (3.98%) Senior Security Architect
15 22 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (26.22%) Node.js
2 125 (22.60%) React
3 111 (20.07%) Spring Boot
4 102 (18.44%) AngularJS
5 88 (15.91%) REST
6 85 (15.37%) Spring
7 69 (12.48%) .NET
8 40 (7.23%) HTML
9 37 (6.69%) Gherkin
9 37 (6.69%) Jest
10 33 (5.97%) AWS CDK
11 30 (5.42%) Kafka
11 30 (5.42%) RESTful
12 25 (4.52%) CSS
13 20 (3.62%) Next.js
14 19 (3.44%) Web Services
15 18 (3.25%) Vue
16 17 (3.07%) ASP.NET
16 17 (3.07%) OpenAPI
17 16 (2.89%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 111 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (7.96%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.34%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.34%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.63%) IoT
11 8 (1.45%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.08%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.72%) Podcast
14 4 (0.72%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.23%) Linux
2 16 (2.89%) Windows
3 14 (2.53%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.90%) CentOS
5 5 (0.90%) Debian
5 5 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.90%) VMS
6 4 (0.72%) Unix
7 2 (0.36%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (60.22%) CI/CD
2 243 (43.94%) DevOps
3 232 (41.95%) Agile
4 171 (30.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (24.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 126 (22.78%) Microservices
7 122 (22.06%) Mentoring
8 117 (21.16%) Software Engineering
9 110 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 103 (18.63%) AI
12 100 (18.08%) Test Automation
13 94 (17.00%) Containerisation
14 90 (16.27%) Observability
15 74 (13.38%) Event-Driven
16 72 (13.02%) Clean Code
16 72 (13.02%) TDD
17 70 (12.66%) Scrum
17 70 (12.66%) SDLC
18 67 (12.12%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 199 (35.99%) Python
2 171 (30.92%) Java
3 152 (27.49%) SQL
4 150 (27.12%) TypeScript
5 130 (23.51%) JavaScript
6 74 (13.38%) C#
7 56 (10.13%) Bash
8 47 (8.50%) Kotlin
9 44 (7.96%) Groovy
10 19 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.53%) Swift
12 12 (2.17%) Ruby
13 11 (1.99%) Bicep
14 10 (1.81%) PHP
15 8 (1.45%) Rust
16 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.90%) Scala
17 4 (0.72%) Go
17 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (12.30%) Degree
2 60 (10.85%) AWS Certification
3 56 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 44 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 41 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (4.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (3.98%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.80%) Azure Certification
10 13 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.17%) DBS Check
11 12 (2.17%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (1.08%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.72%) CCNA
16 4 (0.72%) OSCP
16 4 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.98%) GRC
3 20 (3.62%) GDPR
4 17 (3.07%) QA
5 14 (2.53%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) WCAG
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.54%) NIST
9 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.36%) NCSC
9 2 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 183 (33.09%) Docker
2 23 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (3.25%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.45%) vSphere
5 4 (0.72%) iptables
5 4 (0.72%) Squid
5 4 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.54%) Firmware
7 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 144 (26.04%) Terraform
2 99 (17.90%) Kubernetes
3 45 (8.14%) Ansible
4 29 (5.24%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.80%) Grafana
6 20 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.71%) Puppet
8 12 (2.17%) Kibana
9 11 (1.99%) Packer
10 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.72%) Control-M
11 4 (0.72%) Podman
11 4 (0.72%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.54%) Scalr
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 72 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.88%) Oracle
2 27 (4.88%) Tenable
3 22 (3.98%) CrowdStrike
3 22 (3.98%) Palo Alto
4 15 (2.71%) Splunk
5 14 (2.53%) Amplitude
5 14 (2.53%) Braze
5 14 (2.53%) Databricks
6 10 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.63%) AppDynamics
7 9 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.45%) Google
8 8 (1.45%) IBM
8 8 (1.45%) VMware
9 7 (1.27%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.90%) Informatica
10 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.90%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.72%) ScienceLogic