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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 121 233
Rank change year-on-year -104 +112 -61
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 377 771 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 2.37% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 7.07% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 241 272 465
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,871 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +4.90% -1.38%

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 14,890 10,909 17,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.09% 33.60% 35.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7,422 6,079 14,720
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +47 193 £72,500 +18.37% 82
Yorkshire +46 134 £75,000 +36.36% 36
Midlands -4 66 £60,000 +9.09% 21
North West +9 54 £72,966 +16.75% 42
South West -106 41 £62,500 +4.17% 41
South East -146 39 £67,500 +12.50% 54
East Midlands -3 36 £60,000 +2.13% 6
West Midlands -1 30 £55,625 +1.14% 15
Wales -8 15 £41,740 +51.78% 3
East of England -47 14 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Scotland -41 13 - - 9
Northern Ireland -15 7 £95,000 +11.76% 3
North East -7 5 £66,750 +6.80% 4
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 (3.98%) Apache
1 15 (3.98%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.71%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.18%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.33%) Confluence
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 304 (80.64%) AWS
2 191 (50.66%) AWS Lambda
3 167 (44.30%) Azure
4 161 (42.71%) Amazon S3
5 95 (25.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 93 (24.67%) Amazon ECS
7 62 (16.45%) GitHub
8 61 (16.18%) AWS Step Functions
9 60 (15.92%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (14.06%) Azure Functions
11 50 (13.26%) Amazon SQS
12 45 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (11.41%) GCP
14 42 (11.14%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (11.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (8.75%) SaaS
17 30 (7.96%) Amazon ECR
17 30 (7.96%) Azure Service Bus
18 28 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.59%) AMQP
1 6 (1.59%) Network Security
2 5 (1.33%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (19.63%) DynamoDB
2 54 (14.32%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (11.67%) NoSQL
4 36 (9.55%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (8.22%) SQL Server
6 28 (7.43%) Relational Database
7 26 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.45%) RDBMS
10 12 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.92%) MySQL
12 9 (2.39%) Big Data
13 8 (2.12%) Power BI
14 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.86%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.86%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
17 4 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 75 (19.89%) Jenkins
2 63 (16.71%) Git
3 37 (9.81%) GitLab
4 28 (7.43%) Maven
4 28 (7.43%) SonarQube
5 27 (7.16%) Cypress.io
6 13 (3.45%) JUnit
7 9 (2.39%) JMeter
7 9 (2.39%) Mockito
8 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.59%) git-flow
9 6 (1.59%) JIRA
9 6 (1.59%) Storybook
10 3 (0.80%) MLflow
11 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.27%) MSTest
12 1 (0.27%) Selenium
12 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 105 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.81%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.69%) Finance
4 27 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.12%) Marketing
6 6 (1.59%) Advertising
6 6 (1.59%) Legal
7 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.33%) Law
7 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.06%) Banking
8 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.06%) Publishing
9 3 (0.80%) Billing
9 3 (0.80%) Games
9 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.80%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 175 (46.42%) Developer
2 69 (18.30%) Senior
3 57 (15.12%) Java Developer
4 47 (12.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 46 (12.20%) Architect
5 46 (12.20%) Lead
6 45 (11.94%) Software Engineer
7 40 (10.61%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.69%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.69%) AWS Developer
9 27 (7.16%) Python Developer
10 24 (6.37%) Software Developer
11 22 (5.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 21 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (5.04%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.71%) Applications Architect
15 13 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.45%) Node.js Developer
15 13 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (36.07%) React
2 93 (24.67%) Node.js
3 77 (20.42%) Spring Boot
4 69 (18.30%) AngularJS
5 64 (16.98%) .NET
6 63 (16.71%) Spring
7 61 (16.18%) HTML
8 55 (14.59%) REST
9 44 (11.67%) CSS
10 32 (8.49%) RESTful
11 28 (7.43%) AWS CDK
12 27 (7.16%) Gherkin
12 27 (7.16%) Jest
13 25 (6.63%) Vue
14 23 (6.10%) .NET Core
15 22 (5.84%) Kafka
16 21 (5.57%) Web Services
17 20 (5.31%) Blazor
18 18 (4.77%) ASP.NET
19 17 (4.51%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 88 (23.34%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.71%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.18%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.80%) Animation
10 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.80%) Life Science
10 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.53%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.27%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.10%) Linux
2 5 (1.33%) CentOS
2 5 (1.33%) Debian
2 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
2 5 (1.33%) Unix
3 4 (1.06%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (59.95%) CI/CD
2 195 (51.72%) DevOps
3 175 (46.42%) Agile
4 130 (34.48%) Microservices
5 124 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 103 (27.32%) Mentoring
7 93 (24.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (22.28%) Software Engineering
10 75 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (16.18%) Containerisation
12 47 (12.47%) Data Modelling
13 46 (12.20%) Migration
14 45 (11.94%) Scrum
15 43 (11.41%) Application Security
16 42 (11.14%) Computer Science
16 42 (11.14%) SDLC
16 42 (11.14%) TDD
17 38 (10.08%) Architectural Patterns
18 36 (9.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 142 (37.67%) Python
2 140 (37.14%) JavaScript
3 129 (34.22%) TypeScript
4 128 (33.95%) Java
5 97 (25.73%) SQL
6 73 (19.36%) C#
7 38 (10.08%) Bash
8 26 (6.90%) Groovy
9 13 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.92%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.86%) Bicep
12 5 (1.33%) C++
13 4 (1.06%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) Go
14 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) VB
14 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (18.30%) AWS Certification
2 48 (12.73%) Degree
3 39 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (9.81%) Azure Certification
5 36 (9.55%) Security Cleared
6 31 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (6.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 22 (5.84%) SC Cleared
10 19 (5.04%) AWS Certified Developer
11 16 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.80%) IIBA
15 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 1 (0.27%) HND
16 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.45%) QA
2 12 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.59%) WCAG
5 4 (1.06%) GDPR
6 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.53%) NIST
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 128 (33.95%) Docker
2 10 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.80%) iptables
Systems Management
1 93 (24.67%) Terraform
2 76 (20.16%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.16%) HP Fortify
4 26 (6.90%) Ansible
5 13 (3.45%) Kibana
6 12 (3.18%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.65%) Grafana
8 9 (2.39%) Puppet
9 6 (1.59%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.06%) Argo
10 4 (1.06%) Control-M
11 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.53%) Nagios
12 2 (0.53%) Packer
13 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.92%) Oracle
3 10 (2.65%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.65%) Google
4 9 (2.39%) Splunk
5 5 (1.33%) Informatica
5 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.06%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.06%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.06%) Pega
6 4 (1.06%) WSO2
7 2 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.27%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.27%) Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.27%) SAP
8 1 (0.27%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.27%) Tenable