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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 178 248
Rank change year-on-year -45 +70 -46
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 479 439 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 1.64% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 5.12% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 298 300 497
10th Percentile £50,468 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,125 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 19,009 8,575 22,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.76% 32.06% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,901 6,361 17,434
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,225 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.58% +8.22% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +50 262 £75,000 +15.38% 69
Yorkshire +43 163 £75,000 +30.43% 16
Midlands -12 93 £55,000 -4.35% 16
North West +8 91 £75,000 - 47
East Midlands +2 66 £60,000 +6.67% 8
South West -64 42 £62,500 +4.17% 20
South East -123 41 £68,750 +14.58% 45
West Midlands -53 27 £50,000 -13.04% 8
East of England -55 20 £60,100 -29.29% 18
Scotland -30 18 £76,783 +33.53% 10
Wales -18 15 £41,740 -16.52% 5
North East -42 8 £95,000 +52.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £95,000 - 5
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 14 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.51%) Apache
3 11 (2.30%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.67%) SAS
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.84%) JBoss
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Confluence
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 378 (78.91%) AWS
2 249 (51.98%) AWS Lambda
3 209 (43.63%) Amazon S3
4 162 (33.82%) Azure
5 129 (26.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 126 (26.30%) Amazon ECS
7 90 (18.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 73 (15.24%) GitHub
9 68 (14.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (13.78%) Amazon SQS
11 59 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (12.11%) Azure Functions
13 50 (10.44%) Amazon ECR
14 48 (10.02%) Apigee
15 46 (9.60%) Amazon EC2
15 46 (9.60%) GCP
16 45 (9.39%) GitHub Actions
17 44 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
18 42 (8.77%) Azure Logic Apps
19 38 (7.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.88%) Network Security
2 6 (1.25%) AMQP
3 4 (0.84%) Firewall
4 2 (0.42%) DHCP
4 2 (0.42%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.42%) VLAN
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
4 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (23.59%) DynamoDB
2 52 (10.86%) NoSQL
2 52 (10.86%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.10%) SQL Server
5 29 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (5.01%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.92%) Big Data
9 14 (2.92%) Power BI
10 11 (2.30%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.46%) MySQL
11 7 (1.46%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.25%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.04%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.04%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 97 (20.25%) Jenkins
2 75 (15.66%) Git
3 58 (12.11%) GitLab
4 47 (9.81%) SonarQube
5 41 (8.56%) Maven
6 40 (8.35%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.71%) Snyk
8 11 (2.30%) Crashlytics
8 11 (2.30%) XCTest
9 10 (2.09%) JIRA
10 9 (1.88%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.25%) JUnit
12 5 (1.04%) Storybook
13 4 (0.84%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.84%) Postman
13 4 (0.84%) Selenium
13 4 (0.84%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.63%) Mockito
14 3 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 119 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 39 (8.14%) Finance
3 36 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.88%) Legal
7 7 (1.46%) Marketing
8 6 (1.25%) Advertising
8 6 (1.25%) Banking
9 5 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.84%) Publishing
11 3 (0.63%) Billing
11 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.42%) Games
12 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 203 (42.38%) Developer
2 112 (23.38%) Senior
3 80 (16.70%) Java Developer
4 74 (15.45%) Lead
5 57 (11.90%) Architect
6 54 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 50 (10.44%) Software Engineer
8 46 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (8.14%) AWS Developer
10 28 (5.85%) Python Developer
11 26 (5.43%) .NET Developer
11 26 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
12 24 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (4.59%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.59%) Software Developer
13 22 (4.59%) Technical Leader
14 21 (4.38%) Lead Developer
15 17 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.55%) Senior Architect
15 17 (3.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (29.65%) React
2 124 (25.89%) Node.js
3 96 (20.04%) Spring Boot
4 95 (19.83%) AngularJS
5 75 (15.66%) REST
6 70 (14.61%) Spring
7 58 (12.11%) .NET
8 43 (8.98%) HTML
9 40 (8.35%) Gherkin
9 40 (8.35%) Jest
10 37 (7.72%) AWS CDK
11 36 (7.52%) RESTful
12 31 (6.47%) CSS
13 27 (5.64%) Vue
14 23 (4.80%) Next.js
15 21 (4.38%) .NET Core
16 20 (4.18%) Web Services
17 19 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (3.97%) Kafka
18 17 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.79%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (7.31%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (4.59%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.04%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.84%) IoT
10 4 (0.84%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.84%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.63%) NHS
11 3 (0.63%) PKI
12 2 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.64%) Linux
2 11 (2.30%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.46%) Windows
4 5 (1.04%) CentOS
4 5 (1.04%) Debian
4 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (58.46%) CI/CD
2 235 (49.06%) DevOps
3 215 (44.89%) Agile
4 152 (31.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 124 (25.89%) Microservices
6 117 (24.43%) Mentoring
7 116 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (22.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 97 (20.25%) Software Engineering
10 90 (18.79%) Containerisation
11 89 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (15.45%) Test Automation
13 63 (13.15%) Observability
14 58 (12.11%) TDD
15 55 (11.48%) SDLC
16 54 (11.27%) Scrum
17 53 (11.06%) Computer Science
18 52 (10.86%) Clean Code
19 51 (10.65%) AI
19 51 (10.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 173 (36.12%) Python
2 153 (31.94%) Java
3 152 (31.73%) TypeScript
4 128 (26.72%) SQL
5 125 (26.10%) JavaScript
6 59 (12.32%) C#
7 53 (11.06%) Bash
8 45 (9.39%) Groovy
9 36 (7.52%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.30%) Swift
12 9 (1.88%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.46%) PHP
14 4 (0.84%) Bicep
14 4 (0.84%) C++
14 4 (0.84%) Perl
14 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.63%) C
15 3 (0.63%) VB
16 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 69 (14.41%) AWS Certification
2 57 (11.90%) Degree
3 46 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (8.14%) Security Cleared
5 30 (6.26%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 26 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.80%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (4.38%) Azure Certification
10 20 (4.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 20 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (3.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (2.51%) DBS Check
13 10 (2.09%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.67%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.63%) CCSP
15 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.63%) CISM
15 3 (0.63%) CISSP
15 3 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.76%) QA
3 13 (2.71%) GRC
4 12 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.88%) GDPR
6 5 (1.04%) NIST
6 5 (1.04%) WCAG
7 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 174 (36.33%) Docker
2 16 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.84%) iptables
5 3 (0.63%) Firmware
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 123 (25.68%) Terraform
2 84 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 40 (8.35%) HP Fortify
4 31 (6.47%) Ansible
5 15 (3.13%) Grafana
5 15 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.09%) Puppet
7 9 (1.88%) Kibana
8 7 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.25%) Packer
10 4 (0.84%) Argo
10 4 (0.84%) Control-M
10 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.63%) Nagios
11 3 (0.63%) Scalr
12 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.13%) Oracle
3 14 (2.92%) Tenable
4 13 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
4 13 (2.71%) Palo Alto
5 11 (2.30%) Amplitude
5 11 (2.30%) Braze
5 11 (2.30%) Databricks
6 9 (1.88%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.67%) IBM
8 7 (1.46%) Google
9 5 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.04%) Informatica
9 5 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.04%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.84%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.63%) Splunk
12 2 (0.42%) Aruba
12 2 (0.42%) Veeam