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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 224 242
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -46
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 517 391 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.33% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 4.50% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 327 287 485
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £41,100
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 18,144 8,688 22,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.19% 29.63% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9,524 6,010 17,431
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +87 267 £75,000 +15.38% 73
Yorkshire +47 154 £75,000 +25.00% 27
North West +53 105 £75,000 - 37
Midlands +4 104 £55,000 - 19
East Midlands +25 70 £55,000 - 6
South East -59 61 £62,500 +4.17% 43
South West -74 45 £65,000 +8.33% 28
West Midlands -50 34 £52,500 -4.55% 13
East of England -30 20 £60,050 -29.35% 6
Scotland -8 15 £76,783 +39.60% 10
Wales -25 15 £51,619 -0.15% 4
North East -37 8 £92,500 +48.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 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 14 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.32%) Apache
2 12 (2.32%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.55%) SAS
5 4 (0.77%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.77%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 392 (75.82%) AWS
2 254 (49.13%) AWS Lambda
3 216 (41.78%) Amazon S3
4 162 (31.33%) Azure
5 143 (27.66%) Amazon ECS
6 130 (25.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 99 (19.15%) AWS Step Functions
8 69 (13.35%) Azure Functions
9 66 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 65 (12.57%) Amazon SQS
11 61 (11.80%) GitHub
12 60 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
13 56 (10.83%) Amazon EC2
14 53 (10.25%) Amazon ECR
15 51 (9.86%) Apigee
16 46 (8.90%) GCP
17 43 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
17 43 (8.32%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
19 38 (7.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.32%) Network Security
2 6 (1.16%) AMQP
2 6 (1.16%) Firewall
2 6 (1.16%) MQTT
3 3 (0.58%) LTE
4 2 (0.39%) DHCP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.39%) IPv4
4 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.39%) VLAN
4 2 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Internet
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (22.24%) DynamoDB
2 60 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
4 44 (8.51%) NoSQL
5 41 (7.93%) SQL Server
6 32 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
7 29 (5.61%) Relational Database
8 28 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (3.48%) Power BI
10 16 (3.09%) Big Data
11 11 (2.13%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.93%) Spark SQL
13 9 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.55%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.16%) MySQL
16 5 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.97%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 110 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 88 (17.02%) Git
3 67 (12.96%) GitLab
4 51 (9.86%) SonarQube
5 44 (8.51%) Cypress.io
6 42 (8.12%) Maven
7 22 (4.26%) Snyk
8 13 (2.51%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.51%) XCTest
9 12 (2.32%) JIRA
10 10 (1.93%) JUnit
11 9 (1.74%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.55%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.35%) JMeter
13 7 (1.35%) Mockito
14 4 (0.77%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.77%) Postman
14 4 (0.77%) Selenium
14 4 (0.77%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 113 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.93%) Public Sector
3 34 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (6.58%) Finance
4 26 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (1.55%) Legal
6 7 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.16%) Advertising
7 6 (1.16%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.16%) Banking
8 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.77%) Health Technology
8 4 (0.77%) Publishing
9 3 (0.58%) Billing
9 3 (0.58%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.58%) Marketing
10 2 (0.39%) Games
10 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (40.43%) Developer
2 133 (25.73%) Senior
3 91 (17.60%) Java Developer
4 88 (17.02%) Lead
5 63 (12.19%) Software Engineer
6 59 (11.41%) Architect
7 54 (10.44%) Senior Developer
8 50 (9.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (7.35%) AWS Developer
10 33 (6.38%) Cloud Architect
11 30 (5.80%) Software Developer
12 28 (5.42%) .NET Developer
13 26 (5.03%) Senior Architect
14 25 (4.84%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.84%) Data Engineer
14 25 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (4.84%) Security Architect
15 24 (4.64%) Technical Leader
16 22 (4.26%) Senior Security Architect
16 22 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (24.56%) Node.js
2 126 (24.37%) React
3 110 (21.28%) Spring Boot
4 103 (19.92%) AngularJS
5 85 (16.44%) REST
6 83 (16.05%) Spring
7 66 (12.77%) .NET
8 44 (8.51%) Gherkin
9 41 (7.93%) Jest
10 37 (7.16%) HTML
11 34 (6.58%) AWS CDK
12 32 (6.19%) RESTful
13 26 (5.03%) Kafka
14 23 (4.45%) Web Services
15 22 (4.26%) CSS
16 21 (4.06%) Next.js
17 20 (3.87%) .NET Core
17 20 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (3.09%) ASP.NET
18 16 (3.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 92 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.74%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.64%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.64%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.16%) IoT
8 6 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.77%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.58%) NHS
11 3 (0.58%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.77%) Linux
2 13 (2.51%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.74%) Windows
4 5 (0.97%) CentOS
4 5 (0.97%) Debian
4 5 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.77%) Unix
5 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (59.96%) CI/CD
2 236 (45.65%) DevOps
3 220 (42.55%) Agile
4 152 (29.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 124 (23.98%) Microservices
6 123 (23.79%) Mentoring
7 113 (21.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (21.28%) Software Engineering
9 107 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (17.60%) Containerisation
12 83 (16.05%) Test Automation
13 74 (14.31%) AI
14 73 (14.12%) SDLC
15 72 (13.93%) Observability
16 71 (13.73%) TDD
17 63 (12.19%) Scrum
18 61 (11.80%) Clean Code
19 58 (11.22%) Computer Science
20 57 (11.03%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 187 (36.17%) Python
2 168 (32.50%) Java
3 151 (29.21%) TypeScript
4 133 (25.73%) SQL
5 127 (24.56%) JavaScript
6 67 (12.96%) C#
7 57 (11.03%) Bash
8 50 (9.67%) Groovy
9 41 (7.93%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.90%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.71%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.51%) Swift
13 8 (1.55%) PHP
13 8 (1.55%) Rust
14 4 (0.77%) Perl
14 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.58%) C
15 3 (0.58%) C++
15 3 (0.58%) Ruby
15 3 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (12.77%) AWS Certification
2 65 (12.57%) Degree
3 49 (9.48%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (7.54%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.45%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (4.06%) Azure Certification
10 16 (3.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (2.32%) DBS Check
13 10 (1.93%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.74%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.58%) CCSP
16 3 (0.58%) CISM
16 3 (0.58%) CISSP
16 3 (0.58%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.26%) GRC
3 20 (3.87%) GDPR
4 16 (3.09%) QA
5 11 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.58%) NIST
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 190 (36.75%) Docker
2 23 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.77%) iptables
5 3 (0.58%) Firmware
6 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.39%) Squid
6 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (24.37%) Terraform
2 97 (18.76%) Kubernetes
3 42 (8.12%) Ansible
4 40 (7.74%) HP Fortify
5 20 (3.87%) Grafana
5 20 (3.87%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.90%) Puppet
7 13 (2.51%) Kibana
8 8 (1.55%) Packer
9 7 (1.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.77%) Control-M
10 4 (0.77%) Podman
11 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.58%) Nagios
11 3 (0.58%) Scalr
12 2 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.22%) Tenable
3 24 (4.64%) Oracle
4 22 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.71%) Databricks
6 13 (2.51%) Amplitude
6 13 (2.51%) Braze
7 9 (1.74%) AppDynamics
7 9 (1.74%) Splunk
8 8 (1.55%) IBM
9 7 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.35%) Google
9 7 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.16%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.97%) Informatica
11 5 (0.97%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.77%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.39%) HP
13 2 (0.39%) Pega