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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 260 242
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 -67
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 607 317 531
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.92% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.47% 3.46% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 403 222 276
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,625 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,250 £93,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% -0.70% +1.43%

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 17,480 9,169 15,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.36% 26.64% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,101 6,225 8,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,533 £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 £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +88 309 £72,500 +11.54% 146
North West +47 139 £67,500 +3.85% 97
Yorkshire +30 116 £80,000 +18.08% 37
South East -28 87 £65,000 -8.77% 89
Midlands -10 77 £62,500 -1.96% 51
South West -47 74 £60,500 +0.83% 72
North East -21 54 £67,500 -1.46% 12
Wales -36 46 £55,000 +5.77% 18
West Midlands -45 43 £62,500 -1.96% 26
East Midlands +1 34 £65,000 - 25
Scotland +2 10 £70,000 -3.45% 51
East of England -55 10 £57,500 - 28
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 21 (3.46%) Confluence
2 20 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.98%) Apache
6 5 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.66%) nginx
8 3 (0.49%) JBoss
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.16%) Finacle
4 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 439 (72.32%) AWS
2 319 (52.55%) AWS Lambda
3 211 (34.76%) Amazon S3
4 204 (33.61%) Azure
5 153 (25.21%) Amazon ECS
6 139 (22.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (18.62%) Azure Functions
8 112 (18.45%) GitHub
9 93 (15.32%) Amazon EC2
10 77 (12.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 76 (12.52%) Azure DevOps
12 70 (11.53%) Amazon EKS
13 69 (11.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (10.54%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (10.38%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (8.57%) GCP
17 48 (7.91%) Azure Logic Apps
17 48 (7.91%) Power Platform
18 44 (7.25%) SaaS
19 41 (6.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.80%) VPN
2 14 (2.31%) Firewall
3 11 (1.81%) DNS
4 9 (1.48%) DHCP
4 9 (1.48%) MQTT
4 9 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.48%) VLAN
5 8 (1.32%) Network Security
6 7 (1.15%) AMQP
6 7 (1.15%) VoIP
7 4 (0.66%) IPv4
7 4 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.49%) HTTP
8 3 (0.49%) LTE
8 3 (0.49%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) LAN
10 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (19.11%) DynamoDB
2 62 (10.21%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (9.88%) SQL Server
4 48 (7.91%) NoSQL
5 47 (7.74%) Relational Database
6 46 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (6.92%) Amazon Athena
8 32 (5.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
10 23 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.62%) Spark SQL
12 20 (3.29%) MongoDB
13 19 (3.13%) MySQL
14 16 (2.64%) Power BI
15 12 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.81%) Big Data
17 10 (1.65%) Data Lake
17 10 (1.65%) Metadata
17 10 (1.65%) RDBMS
18 9 (1.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 142 (23.39%) Git
2 102 (16.80%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.88%) GitLab
4 40 (6.59%) JIRA
5 32 (5.27%) Cypress.io
6 31 (5.11%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.62%) Snyk
8 16 (2.64%) JMeter
8 16 (2.64%) JUnit
9 15 (2.47%) Selenium
10 14 (2.31%) Maven
10 14 (2.31%) Postman
11 11 (1.81%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.65%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.32%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.32%) Mockito
14 7 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.82%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.82%) git-flow
15 5 (0.82%) XCTest
General
1 146 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.49%) Public Sector
3 70 (11.53%) Finance
4 61 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.45%) Law
7 15 (2.47%) Aviation
7 15 (2.47%) Banking
7 15 (2.47%) Retail
8 12 (1.98%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.82%) Legal
11 4 (0.66%) Local Government
11 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Marketing
13 2 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (34.60%) Developer
2 162 (26.69%) Senior
3 75 (12.36%) Software Engineer
4 71 (11.70%) Lead
5 66 (10.87%) Java Developer
5 66 (10.87%) Senior Developer
6 65 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (9.72%) Architect
8 49 (8.07%) Data Engineer
9 39 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
9 39 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (5.44%) Software Developer
12 32 (5.27%) Cloud Architect
13 30 (4.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 29 (4.78%) AWS Developer
15 26 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (4.12%) Cloud Security Architect
16 25 (4.12%) Security Architect
17 23 (3.79%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (33.44%) Terraform
2 137 (22.57%) Node.js
3 116 (19.11%) React
4 115 (18.95%) Spring Boot
5 98 (16.14%) Spring
6 96 (15.82%) REST
7 92 (15.16%) .NET
7 92 (15.16%) AngularJS
8 43 (7.08%) Kafka
9 40 (6.59%) RESTful
10 37 (6.10%) AWS CDK
10 37 (6.10%) Jest
10 37 (6.10%) PySpark
11 31 (5.11%) Ruby on Rails
12 27 (4.45%) Gherkin
12 27 (4.45%) HTML
12 27 (4.45%) JSON
13 26 (4.28%) OpenAPI
14 25 (4.12%) Next.js
15 23 (3.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 178 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.92%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (4.12%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.79%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.80%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.98%) Podcast
11 12 (1.98%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.81%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.32%) Digital Wallet
14 8 (1.32%) Robotics
14 8 (1.32%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.92%) Linux
2 33 (5.44%) Windows
3 13 (2.14%) VMS
3 13 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.15%) CentOS
4 7 (1.15%) Debian
4 7 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.99%) AIX
6 5 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (62.60%) CI/CD
2 308 (50.74%) Agile
3 259 (42.67%) DevOps
4 196 (32.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (25.21%) AI
6 152 (25.04%) Software Engineering
7 148 (24.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 143 (23.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 138 (22.73%) Mentoring
9 138 (22.73%) Microservices
10 118 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (17.30%) Observability
12 103 (16.97%) Test Automation
13 101 (16.64%) Scrum
14 94 (15.49%) Containerisation
15 87 (14.33%) Event-Driven
16 86 (14.17%) Cloud Security
17 83 (13.67%) Roadmaps
18 80 (13.18%) DevSecOps
18 80 (13.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 198 (32.62%) Python
2 188 (30.97%) Java
3 179 (29.49%) SQL
4 150 (24.71%) TypeScript
5 133 (21.91%) JavaScript
6 116 (19.11%) C#
7 63 (10.38%) Bash
8 35 (5.77%) Ruby
9 34 (5.60%) Kotlin
10 29 (4.78%) Groovy
11 28 (4.61%) PowerShell
12 25 (4.12%) Bicep
13 17 (2.80%) C++
14 15 (2.47%) Shell Script
15 13 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (1.98%) Rust
17 8 (1.32%) Go
18 7 (1.15%) Scala
19 6 (0.99%) COBOL
19 6 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 91 (14.99%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.24%) AWS Certification
4 47 (7.74%) Degree
5 34 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (5.44%) DV Cleared
7 30 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (1.32%) ISTQB
15 7 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.66%) OSCP
17 4 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.59%) QA
3 34 (5.60%) Accessibility
4 31 (5.11%) GDPR
5 26 (4.28%) WCAG
6 22 (3.62%) GRC
7 14 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (0.99%) NCSC
10 4 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.66%) NIST
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 181 (29.82%) Docker
2 36 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.64%) vSphere
5 12 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.66%) Squid
7 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 118 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 62 (10.21%) Ansible
3 18 (2.97%) Puppet
4 16 (2.64%) Packer
5 14 (2.31%) Kibana
6 13 (2.14%) Grafana
6 13 (2.14%) HP Fortify
7 11 (1.81%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.82%) Podman
10 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.66%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.16%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.16%) logstash
12 1 (0.16%) Scalr
Vendors
1 100 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.28%) Tenable
3 25 (4.12%) Oracle
4 22 (3.62%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.62%) Palo Alto
5 20 (3.29%) Google
5 20 (3.29%) Splunk
6 18 (2.97%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.80%) VMware
8 16 (2.64%) Databricks
9 14 (2.31%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.14%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.98%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.65%) OneLogin
13 9 (1.48%) AppDynamics
14 8 (1.32%) IBM
14 8 (1.32%) Veeam
15 7 (1.15%) HubSpot
15 7 (1.15%) SaltStack
16 6 (0.99%) Confluent