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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 288 223
Rank change year-on-year +32 -65 -48
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 569 289 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.83% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.40% 3.12% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 383 193 257
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 16,752 9,258 14,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.39% 26.59% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,814 6,205 8,123
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 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +74 282 £67,500 +3.85% 158
North West +51 126 £66,124 +1.73% 99
Yorkshire +25 103 £80,000 +13.48% 43
South West -45 76 £67,500 +12.50% 63
South East -34 75 £65,000 -7.14% 61
Midlands -17 70 £62,500 - 64
North East -17 53 £65,000 -5.11% 16
Wales -39 47 £55,000 +4.76% 19
West Midlands -42 40 £62,500 - 30
East Midlands -5 30 £65,000 - 34
Scotland +4 10 £67,500 -6.90% 46
East of England -61 10 £57,500 - 34
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 22 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.69%) Confluence
3 19 (3.34%) Apache
3 19 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (3.16%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.70%) nginx
6 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) CMS
7 3 (0.53%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.35%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.18%) Finacle
4 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 414 (72.76%) AWS
2 300 (52.72%) AWS Lambda
3 196 (34.45%) Amazon S3
4 195 (34.27%) Azure
5 135 (23.73%) Amazon ECS
6 132 (23.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (19.86%) GitHub
8 112 (19.68%) Azure Functions
9 89 (15.64%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (12.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 64 (11.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 63 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
14 60 (10.54%) Amazon EKS
15 58 (10.19%) Amazon SQS
16 52 (9.14%) GCP
17 51 (8.96%) Power Platform
18 46 (8.08%) Azure Logic Apps
19 41 (7.21%) SaaS
20 36 (6.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.16%) VPN
2 11 (1.93%) Firewall
3 9 (1.58%) DNS
3 9 (1.58%) MQTT
4 8 (1.41%) AMQP
5 7 (1.23%) DHCP
5 7 (1.23%) Network Security
5 7 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.23%) VLAN
5 7 (1.23%) VoIP
6 4 (0.70%) IPv4
6 4 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.53%) HTTP
7 3 (0.53%) LTE
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (18.10%) DynamoDB
2 66 (11.60%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (10.02%) SQL Server
4 49 (8.61%) NoSQL
5 42 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (7.38%) Relational Database
6 41 (7.21%) Amazon Athena
7 35 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (3.51%) Spark SQL
11 19 (3.34%) Power BI
12 18 (3.16%) MySQL
13 17 (2.99%) MongoDB
14 13 (2.28%) Metadata
15 12 (2.11%) Big Data
15 12 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.76%) Data Lake
16 10 (1.76%) Hadoop
17 9 (1.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 132 (23.20%) Git
2 90 (15.82%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.49%) GitLab
4 35 (6.15%) JIRA
5 30 (5.27%) Cypress.io
6 23 (4.04%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.64%) JMeter
7 15 (2.64%) JUnit
7 15 (2.64%) Snyk
8 14 (2.46%) Selenium
9 13 (2.28%) Postman
10 11 (1.93%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.93%) Maven
11 10 (1.76%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.23%) Mockito
13 5 (0.88%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.88%) git-flow
13 5 (0.88%) XCTest
14 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 139 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.34%) Public Sector
3 65 (11.42%) Finance
4 58 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.92%) Law
7 15 (2.64%) Aviation
7 15 (2.64%) Banking
7 15 (2.64%) Retail
8 13 (2.28%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.88%) Legal
11 4 (0.70%) Local Government
11 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 198 (34.80%) Developer
2 146 (25.66%) Senior
3 76 (13.36%) Software Engineer
4 64 (11.25%) Senior Developer
5 62 (10.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 62 (10.90%) Lead
6 59 (10.37%) Java Developer
7 51 (8.96%) Architect
8 46 (8.08%) Data Engineer
9 40 (7.03%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (5.62%) Software Developer
13 28 (4.92%) AWS Developer
14 27 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 24 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
15 24 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
16 23 (4.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 20 (3.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 19 (3.34%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (32.69%) Terraform
2 133 (23.37%) Node.js
3 111 (19.51%) React
4 108 (18.98%) Spring Boot
5 93 (16.34%) Spring
6 91 (15.99%) .NET
7 80 (14.06%) REST
8 79 (13.88%) AngularJS
9 41 (7.21%) Kafka
10 40 (7.03%) RESTful
11 37 (6.50%) AWS CDK
12 35 (6.15%) Jest
12 35 (6.15%) PySpark
13 32 (5.62%) Ruby on Rails
14 27 (4.75%) Next.js
14 27 (4.75%) OpenAPI
15 25 (4.39%) HTML
16 24 (4.22%) Gherkin
16 24 (4.22%) Swagger
17 23 (4.04%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 180 (31.63%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (4.22%) Mainframe
7 19 (3.34%) Public Cloud
8 18 (3.16%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.28%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.11%) Podcast
11 12 (2.11%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.76%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.58%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.41%) Robotics
14 8 (1.41%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.68%) Linux
2 31 (5.45%) Windows
3 13 (2.28%) VMS
4 11 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.41%) CentOS
5 8 (1.41%) Debian
5 8 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.23%) AIX
7 5 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (63.27%) CI/CD
2 297 (52.20%) Agile
3 242 (42.53%) DevOps
4 186 (32.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 154 (27.07%) Software Engineering
6 150 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 142 (24.96%) AI
8 137 (24.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (23.02%) Mentoring
10 128 (22.50%) Microservices
11 112 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
12 98 (17.22%) Scrum
13 97 (17.05%) Test Automation
14 96 (16.87%) Observability
15 85 (14.94%) Containerisation
16 81 (14.24%) Roadmaps
17 79 (13.88%) Event-Driven
18 78 (13.71%) Cloud Security
19 77 (13.53%) Analytics
20 72 (12.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 182 (31.99%) Python
2 175 (30.76%) Java
3 165 (29.00%) SQL
4 142 (24.96%) TypeScript
5 131 (23.02%) JavaScript
6 117 (20.56%) C#
7 60 (10.54%) Bash
8 36 (6.33%) Ruby
9 31 (5.45%) Kotlin
10 26 (4.57%) PowerShell
11 24 (4.22%) Bicep
12 20 (3.51%) Groovy
13 17 (2.99%) C++
14 13 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (2.11%) Rust
15 12 (2.11%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.76%) Scala
17 8 (1.41%) Go
18 6 (1.05%) COBOL
18 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 88 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.61%) AWS Certification
4 46 (8.08%) Degree
5 36 (6.33%) DV Cleared
6 35 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (5.27%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.41%) ISTQB
13 8 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.70%) OSCP
17 4 (0.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.15%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.15%) QA
3 30 (5.27%) GDPR
4 27 (4.75%) WCAG
5 15 (2.64%) GRC
6 11 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.05%) NCSC
8 4 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.53%) NIST
10 2 (0.35%) PMO
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (29.00%) Docker
2 33 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.81%) vSphere
4 12 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.70%) Squid
6 4 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 104 (18.28%) Kubernetes
2 55 (9.67%) Ansible
3 19 (3.34%) Puppet
4 13 (2.28%) Packer
5 12 (2.11%) Grafana
6 10 (1.76%) HP Fortify
6 10 (1.76%) Kibana
7 9 (1.58%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.88%) Podman
10 4 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.70%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.35%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 102 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.04%) Google
3 22 (3.87%) Oracle
4 19 (3.34%) Splunk
4 19 (3.34%) Tenable
5 18 (3.16%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.99%) VMware
7 15 (2.64%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (2.64%) Databricks
7 15 (2.64%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.64%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.11%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.93%) OneLogin
11 8 (1.41%) SaltStack
12 6 (1.05%) Confluent
12 6 (1.05%) Veeam
13 5 (0.88%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.88%) Braze
14 4 (0.70%) Sparx