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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 279 236
Rank change year-on-year +41 -43 -58
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 599 298 528
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.87% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 3.27% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 400 208 268
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,351 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,313 £76,063
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,125 £88,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +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 17,312 9,102 14,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.08% 26.57% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,007 6,129 8,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +83 301 £70,000 +7.69% 128
North West +55 139 £67,500 +3.85% 82
Yorkshire +33 108 £80,000 +13.48% 37
South East -18 88 £65,000 -10.34% 57
Midlands -19 77 £62,500 -1.96% 53
South West -54 72 £62,500 +4.17% 62
North East -19 54 £67,500 -1.46% 9
Wales -36 47 £55,000 +5.26% 16
West Midlands -44 43 £62,500 -1.96% 28
East Midlands -9 34 £65,000 - 25
Scotland +5 10 £67,500 -6.90% 43
East of England -60 10 £57,500 - 23
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 21 (3.51%) Confluence
1 21 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.17%) Apache
5 5 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.67%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (3.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.17%) Finacle
4 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 431 (71.95%) AWS
2 311 (51.92%) AWS Lambda
3 204 (34.06%) Azure
4 203 (33.89%) Amazon S3
5 146 (24.37%) Amazon ECS
6 133 (22.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 115 (19.20%) Azure Functions
8 110 (18.36%) GitHub
9 92 (15.36%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (12.52%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (11.85%) Amazon EKS
11 71 (11.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 65 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 62 (10.35%) Amazon SQS
13 62 (10.35%) GitHub Actions
14 52 (8.68%) GCP
15 49 (8.18%) Power Platform
16 48 (8.01%) Azure Logic Apps
17 44 (7.35%) SaaS
18 38 (6.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.84%) VPN
2 13 (2.17%) Firewall
3 10 (1.67%) DNS
4 9 (1.50%) MQTT
5 8 (1.34%) DHCP
5 8 (1.34%) Network Security
5 8 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.34%) VLAN
6 7 (1.17%) AMQP
6 7 (1.17%) VoIP
7 4 (0.67%) IPv4
7 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.50%) HTTP
8 3 (0.50%) LTE
9 2 (0.33%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) LAN
10 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (18.03%) DynamoDB
2 61 (10.18%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (9.85%) SQL Server
4 48 (8.01%) Relational Database
5 47 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (7.68%) NoSQL
7 39 (6.51%) Amazon Athena
8 33 (5.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 30 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
10 23 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.67%) Spark SQL
12 20 (3.34%) MongoDB
13 18 (3.01%) MySQL
14 17 (2.84%) Power BI
15 12 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.84%) Big Data
17 10 (1.67%) Data Lake
17 10 (1.67%) Metadata
17 10 (1.67%) RDBMS
18 9 (1.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 142 (23.71%) Git
2 100 (16.69%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.68%) GitLab
4 40 (6.68%) JIRA
5 30 (5.01%) Cypress.io
6 28 (4.67%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.67%) Snyk
8 16 (2.67%) JMeter
8 16 (2.67%) JUnit
9 14 (2.34%) Postman
9 14 (2.34%) Selenium
10 11 (1.84%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.84%) Maven
11 10 (1.67%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.34%) Mockito
13 7 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (1.17%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.83%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.83%) git-flow
14 5 (0.83%) XCTest
General
1 145 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 96 (16.03%) Public Sector
3 69 (11.52%) Finance
4 63 (10.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.51%) Law
7 15 (2.50%) Aviation
7 15 (2.50%) Banking
7 15 (2.50%) Retail
8 12 (2.00%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.83%) Legal
11 4 (0.67%) Local Government
11 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 204 (34.06%) Developer
2 162 (27.05%) Senior
3 76 (12.69%) Software Engineer
4 68 (11.35%) Lead
5 66 (11.02%) Senior Developer
6 63 (10.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 63 (10.52%) Java Developer
7 58 (9.68%) Architect
8 50 (8.35%) Data Engineer
9 39 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
9 39 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 37 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (5.34%) Cloud Architect
11 32 (5.34%) Software Developer
12 30 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (4.51%) AWS Developer
14 26 (4.34%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
15 25 (4.17%) Security Architect
16 23 (3.84%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (33.56%) Terraform
2 133 (22.20%) Node.js
3 118 (19.70%) React
4 112 (18.70%) Spring Boot
5 98 (16.36%) Spring
6 97 (16.19%) REST
7 93 (15.53%) .NET
8 85 (14.19%) AngularJS
9 43 (7.18%) Kafka
10 42 (7.01%) RESTful
11 37 (6.18%) AWS CDK
11 37 (6.18%) PySpark
12 35 (5.84%) Jest
13 32 (5.34%) Ruby on Rails
14 28 (4.67%) JSON
15 26 (4.34%) HTML
15 26 (4.34%) Next.js
15 26 (4.34%) OpenAPI
16 24 (4.01%) Gherkin
17 23 (3.84%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 180 (30.05%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.01%) Product Ownership
4 36 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 24 (4.01%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.00%) Podcast
11 12 (2.00%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.84%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.50%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.34%) Robotics
14 8 (1.34%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.17%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.01%) Linux
2 31 (5.18%) Windows
3 13 (2.17%) VMS
4 12 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.17%) AIX
5 7 (1.17%) CentOS
5 7 (1.17%) Debian
5 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (62.94%) CI/CD
2 307 (51.25%) Agile
3 255 (42.57%) DevOps
4 197 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 155 (25.88%) Software Engineering
6 153 (25.54%) AI
7 150 (25.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 141 (23.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 139 (23.21%) Microservices
10 135 (22.54%) Mentoring
11 118 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
12 106 (17.70%) Observability
13 105 (17.53%) Test Automation
14 103 (17.20%) Scrum
15 92 (15.36%) Containerisation
16 85 (14.19%) Cloud Security
16 85 (14.19%) Event-Driven
17 83 (13.86%) Roadmaps
18 81 (13.52%) TDD
19 79 (13.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 198 (33.06%) Python
2 183 (30.55%) Java
3 176 (29.38%) SQL
4 146 (24.37%) TypeScript
5 132 (22.04%) JavaScript
6 118 (19.70%) C#
7 60 (10.02%) Bash
8 36 (6.01%) Ruby
9 30 (5.01%) Kotlin
10 28 (4.67%) PowerShell
11 26 (4.34%) Groovy
12 25 (4.17%) Bicep
13 17 (2.84%) C++
14 15 (2.50%) Shell Script
15 13 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (2.00%) Rust
17 8 (1.34%) Go
18 7 (1.17%) Scala
19 6 (1.00%) COBOL
19 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.01%) AWS Certification
4 47 (7.85%) Degree
5 34 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 30 (5.01%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (1.34%) ISTQB
13 7 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 4 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.84%) QA
3 35 (5.84%) Accessibility
4 32 (5.34%) GDPR
5 27 (4.51%) WCAG
6 22 (3.67%) GRC
7 13 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.00%) NCSC
10 4 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.67%) NIST
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 176 (29.38%) Docker
2 35 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.67%) vSphere
5 12 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) Squid
7 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 119 (19.87%) Kubernetes
2 63 (10.52%) Ansible
3 18 (3.01%) Puppet
4 16 (2.67%) Packer
5 14 (2.34%) Grafana
5 14 (2.34%) Kibana
6 11 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.67%) HP Fortify
8 7 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.83%) Podman
11 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.17%) logstash
13 1 (0.17%) Scalr
Vendors
1 101 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.34%) Oracle
2 26 (4.34%) Tenable
3 22 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
3 22 (3.67%) Palo Alto
4 20 (3.34%) Google
4 20 (3.34%) Splunk
5 19 (3.17%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.84%) Databricks
6 17 (2.84%) VMware
7 14 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.17%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.00%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.84%) OneLogin
11 9 (1.50%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.34%) IBM
13 7 (1.17%) SaltStack
13 7 (1.17%) Veeam
14 6 (1.00%) Confluent
14 6 (1.00%) HubSpot