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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 131 194
Rank change year-on-year -106 +63 -66
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 318 768 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 2.02% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 6.27% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 194 270 365
10th Percentile £51,250 £36,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,345 £51,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -5.33% +8.00% -7.40%

All Cloud 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 13,671 12,242 11,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.53% 32.25% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,887 6,770 9,234
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 +73 155 £75,000 +20.00% 179
Yorkshire +55 101 £75,000 +42.86% 80
North West +30 50 £70,932 +13.49% 88
South East -118 47 £67,500 +8.00% 169
Midlands -10 42 £62,500 +13.64% 106
South West -93 41 £62,500 -9.09% 72
West Midlands +17 31 £60,000 +9.09% 59
East of England -49 16 £57,500 -4.17% 78
Scotland -25 13 £85,000 +13.33% 32
East Midlands -21 11 £65,000 +18.18% 40
Wales -22 7 £60,000 +118.18% 12
Northern Ireland -1 5 £95,000 +11.76% 8
North East +7 4 £68,500 +5.76% 12
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 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.40%) Apache
2 14 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.77%) Confluence
3 12 (3.77%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 240 (75.47%) AWS
2 165 (51.89%) Azure
3 138 (43.40%) AWS Lambda
4 111 (34.91%) Amazon S3
5 72 (22.64%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (17.92%) GitHub
8 56 (17.61%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (13.84%) Azure Functions
10 42 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (13.21%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (12.26%) AWS Step Functions
12 38 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (11.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 32 (10.06%) GCP
15 29 (9.12%) SaaS
16 28 (8.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 24 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
18 23 (7.23%) Entra ID
18 23 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.77%) Internet
2 10 (3.14%) Firewall
3 9 (2.83%) Wireless
4 6 (1.89%) AMQP
5 4 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.94%) DHCP
6 3 (0.94%) DNS
6 3 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.94%) VLAN
6 3 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.63%) Network Security
8 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.31%) NAS
8 1 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.87%) DynamoDB
2 56 (17.61%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (11.32%) Relational Database
4 35 (11.01%) NoSQL
5 33 (10.38%) SQL Server
6 26 (8.18%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (5.35%) RDBMS
8 16 (5.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (4.09%) MySQL
10 8 (2.52%) Big Data
10 8 (2.52%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.20%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (1.57%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.57%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.26%) Power BI
14 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (19.50%) Jenkins
2 51 (16.04%) Git
3 26 (8.18%) GitLab
4 18 (5.66%) JUnit
4 18 (5.66%) SonarQube
5 17 (5.35%) Cypress.io
5 17 (5.35%) Maven
6 14 (4.40%) JMeter
6 14 (4.40%) Mockito
7 12 (3.77%) JIRA
8 6 (1.89%) git-flow
8 6 (1.89%) Storybook
9 5 (1.57%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.26%) NUnit
11 3 (0.94%) MLflow
11 3 (0.94%) MSTest
12 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.31%) Gradle
13 1 (0.31%) Moq
13 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 92 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.26%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.06%) Finance
4 16 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.83%) Automotive
6 7 (2.20%) Legal
6 7 (2.20%) Marketing
7 6 (1.89%) Law
7 6 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.57%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.94%) Advertising
10 3 (0.94%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.94%) Games
10 3 (0.94%) Retail
10 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.63%) Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (40.88%) Developer
2 51 (16.04%) Senior
3 43 (13.52%) Java Developer
4 39 (12.26%) Architect
5 36 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (11.32%) Lead
5 36 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 30 (9.43%) .NET Developer
7 24 (7.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 24 (7.55%) Senior Developer
8 19 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (5.35%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.03%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.72%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.40%) AWS Developer
12 14 (4.40%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 12 (3.77%) Applications Architect
13 12 (3.77%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (32.08%) React
2 73 (22.96%) .NET
3 64 (20.13%) Spring Boot
4 59 (18.55%) Spring
5 52 (16.35%) REST
6 51 (16.04%) AngularJS
7 50 (15.72%) HTML
8 48 (15.09%) Node.js
9 34 (10.69%) CSS
10 27 (8.49%) RESTful
11 26 (8.18%) .NET Core
11 26 (8.18%) Web Services
12 25 (7.86%) Vue
13 24 (7.55%) Kafka
14 23 (7.23%) AWS CDK
15 22 (6.92%) Blazor
16 21 (6.60%) ASP.NET
16 21 (6.60%) JSON
17 18 (5.66%) .NET Framework
17 18 (5.66%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 84 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 44 (13.84%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.77%) IoT
4 12 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.14%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.26%) Life Science
9 3 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.94%) Animation
9 3 (0.94%) BYOD
9 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.60%) Linux
2 5 (1.57%) Windows
3 4 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.94%) CentOS
4 3 (0.94%) Debian
4 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.63%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (60.06%) CI/CD
2 152 (47.80%) Agile
2 152 (47.80%) DevOps
3 118 (37.11%) Microservices
4 104 (32.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (27.04%) Mentoring
6 67 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (20.13%) Software Engineering
8 63 (19.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 62 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (16.98%) Containerisation
11 50 (15.72%) TDD
12 44 (13.84%) Migration
13 38 (11.95%) Data Modelling
14 37 (11.64%) Application Security
15 35 (11.01%) SDLC
16 33 (10.38%) Architectural Patterns
17 32 (10.06%) Scrum
18 29 (9.12%) AI
19 28 (8.81%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 119 (37.42%) Python
2 112 (35.22%) JavaScript
3 107 (33.65%) Java
4 100 (31.45%) TypeScript
5 75 (23.58%) C#
6 69 (21.70%) SQL
7 25 (7.86%) Bash
8 21 (6.60%) PowerShell
9 18 (5.66%) Shell Script
10 16 (5.03%) Groovy
11 9 (2.83%) Bicep
12 7 (2.20%) Go
13 4 (1.26%) C++
14 3 (0.94%) PHP
15 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.63%) VB
15 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.31%) C
16 1 (0.31%) Perl
16 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (15.72%) AWS Certification
2 36 (11.32%) Azure Certification
2 36 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.81%) Degree
4 25 (7.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (7.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (6.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 19 (5.97%) SC Cleared
9 18 (5.66%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.31%) CCNA
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.31%) MCP
13 1 (0.31%) MCSE
13 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.03%) QA
2 9 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.89%) GDPR
4 6 (1.89%) WCAG
5 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.26%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) CDISC
7 1 (0.31%) DICOM
7 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) HL7
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 112 (35.22%) Docker
2 11 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 87 (27.36%) Terraform
2 81 (25.47%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.55%) Ansible
4 18 (5.66%) Kibana
5 17 (5.35%) HP Fortify
6 11 (3.46%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.83%) Grafana
8 6 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.26%) Argo
10 4 (1.26%) Puppet
11 3 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.94%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.31%) Control-M
12 1 (0.31%) Nagios
12 1 (0.31%) Podman
12 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.72%) Dynatrace
2 15 (4.72%) Splunk
3 12 (3.77%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.52%) Google
4 8 (2.52%) Oracle
5 4 (1.26%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.26%) PagerDuty
5 4 (1.26%) Pega
5 4 (1.26%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.26%) WSO2
6 3 (0.94%) Aruba
6 3 (0.94%) HP
6 3 (0.94%) SaltStack
6 3 (0.94%) Veeam
7 2 (0.63%) Avaya
7 2 (0.63%) Genesys
7 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.63%) VMware
8 1 (0.31%) Informatica