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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 117 245
Rank change year-on-year -114 +128 -32
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 468 624 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 2.41% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 7.25% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 289 291 487
10th Percentile £50,494 £46,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 17,871 8,610 21,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.07% 33.21% 34.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,637 6,323 17,142
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +51 253 £75,000 +20.00% 90
Yorkshire +45 169 £75,000 +30.43% 34
Midlands -26 85 £55,000 - 22
North West +6 80 £75,000 +8.30% 47
East Midlands -5 58 £60,000 +4.35% 4
South West -122 45 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East -159 43 £82,500 +37.50% 61
West Midlands -40 27 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Scotland -34 20 £76,783 +33.53% 9
East of England -66 19 £60,100 -29.29% 20
Wales -20 15 £41,740 -16.52%
Northern Ireland - 6 £95,000 -
North East -29 4 £70,500 +12.80% 11
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 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.99%) Apache
2 14 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.85%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.64%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.64%) Confluence
6 3 (0.64%) JBoss
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 378 (80.77%) AWS
2 238 (50.85%) AWS Lambda
3 201 (42.95%) Amazon S3
4 173 (36.97%) Azure
5 127 (27.14%) Amazon ECS
6 125 (26.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (17.74%) AWS Step Functions
8 76 (16.24%) GitHub
9 68 (14.53%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (13.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 58 (12.39%) Amazon SQS
12 56 (11.97%) Azure Functions
13 51 (10.90%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (9.83%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (9.83%) GCP
15 44 (9.40%) Apigee
15 44 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
16 43 (9.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 41 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
18 39 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.50%) Network Security
2 6 (1.28%) AMQP
3 5 (1.07%) Firewall
4 2 (0.43%) DHCP
4 2 (0.43%) DNS
4 2 (0.43%) Internet
4 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.43%) VLAN
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
4 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (22.01%) DynamoDB
2 55 (11.75%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (10.90%) NoSQL
4 47 (10.04%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (7.48%) SQL Server
6 29 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 27 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
8 26 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.99%) Big Data
11 12 (2.56%) Power BI
12 11 (2.35%) MongoDB
12 11 (2.35%) MySQL
13 8 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.71%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (1.07%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (1.07%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.07%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 106 (22.65%) Jenkins
2 77 (16.45%) Git
3 58 (12.39%) GitLab
4 46 (9.83%) SonarQube
5 40 (8.55%) Maven
6 39 (8.33%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.35%) JIRA
8 9 (1.92%) Crashlytics
8 9 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.92%) XCTest
9 8 (1.71%) JUnit
10 7 (1.50%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.28%) Snyk
11 6 (1.28%) Storybook
12 5 (1.07%) git-flow
12 5 (1.07%) JMeter
12 5 (1.07%) Mockito
13 4 (0.85%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.85%) MLflow
13 4 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 118 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 41 (8.76%) Public Sector
3 38 (8.12%) Finance
4 35 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.92%) Legal
7 8 (1.71%) Marketing
8 6 (1.28%) Advertising
8 6 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.85%) Publishing
11 3 (0.64%) Banking
11 3 (0.64%) Billing
11 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Games
12 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.43%) Retail
12 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 215 (45.94%) Developer
2 100 (21.37%) Senior
3 86 (18.38%) Java Developer
4 69 (14.74%) Lead
5 55 (11.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 54 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 49 (10.47%) Architect
7 49 (10.47%) Software Engineer
8 36 (7.69%) AWS Developer
9 32 (6.84%) Python Developer
10 28 (5.98%) .NET Developer
11 24 (5.13%) Software Developer
12 21 (4.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 21 (4.49%) Technical Leader
13 20 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (4.27%) Lead Developer
14 19 (4.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.63%) Cloud Architect
15 17 (3.63%) Data Engineer
15 17 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (31.20%) React
2 120 (25.64%) Node.js
3 98 (20.94%) Spring Boot
4 95 (20.30%) AngularJS
5 76 (16.24%) REST
6 73 (15.60%) Spring
7 65 (13.89%) .NET
8 56 (11.97%) HTML
9 42 (8.97%) CSS
10 39 (8.33%) Gherkin
10 39 (8.33%) Jest
11 37 (7.91%) RESTful
12 34 (7.26%) AWS CDK
13 29 (6.20%) Vue
14 23 (4.91%) Web Services
15 22 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (4.49%) .NET Core
16 21 (4.49%) Django
17 20 (4.27%) Flask
17 20 (4.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (4.27%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.85%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.28%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.07%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.85%) IoT
12 3 (0.64%) Animation
12 3 (0.64%) Life Science
12 3 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.41%) Linux
2 9 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.71%) Windows
4 5 (1.07%) CentOS
4 5 (1.07%) Debian
4 5 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.07%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.85%) Unix
6 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (57.91%) CI/CD
2 243 (51.92%) DevOps
3 217 (46.37%) Agile
4 154 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (27.99%) Microservices
6 118 (25.21%) Mentoring
7 112 (23.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 108 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (20.30%) Software Engineering
10 88 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (18.16%) Containerisation
12 67 (14.32%) Test Automation
13 63 (13.46%) TDD
14 59 (12.61%) Scrum
15 55 (11.75%) Observability
16 51 (10.90%) Computer Science
17 50 (10.68%) SDLC
18 47 (10.04%) Data Modelling
19 44 (9.40%) Clean Code
19 44 (9.40%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 170 (36.32%) Python
2 157 (33.55%) Java
3 150 (32.05%) TypeScript
4 144 (30.77%) JavaScript
5 122 (26.07%) SQL
6 65 (13.89%) C#
7 52 (11.11%) Bash
8 44 (9.40%) Groovy
9 33 (7.05%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.21%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.92%) Swift
13 7 (1.50%) PHP
14 6 (1.28%) C++
15 5 (1.07%) Bicep
15 5 (1.07%) Perl
16 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.64%) C
17 3 (0.64%) VB
18 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 56 (11.97%) Degree
3 45 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (8.97%) Security Cleared
5 30 (6.41%) SC Cleared
6 28 (5.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 25 (5.34%) Azure Certification
9 22 (4.70%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (4.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 19 (4.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (2.78%) DBS Check
13 12 (2.56%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.71%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.64%) IIBA
16 1 (0.21%) HND
16 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.27%) QA
2 19 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.28%) GRC
5 6 (1.28%) WCAG
6 5 (1.07%) GDPR
7 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.64%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.43%) NIST
9 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 178 (38.03%) Docker
2 10 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.85%) iptables
5 3 (0.64%) Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 129 (27.56%) Terraform
2 87 (18.59%) Kubernetes
3 39 (8.33%) Ansible
3 39 (8.33%) HP Fortify
4 16 (3.42%) Grafana
5 15 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.56%) Kibana
7 10 (2.14%) Puppet
8 7 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.28%) Packer
10 4 (0.85%) Argo
10 4 (0.85%) Control-M
10 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.64%) Nagios
11 3 (0.64%) Scalr
12 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.78%) Oracle
3 9 (1.92%) Amplitude
3 9 (1.92%) AppDynamics
3 9 (1.92%) Braze
4 8 (1.71%) Databricks
4 8 (1.71%) IBM
5 7 (1.50%) Google
5 7 (1.50%) Tenable
6 6 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
6 6 (1.28%) Pega
6 6 (1.28%) WSO2
7 5 (1.07%) Informatica
7 5 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.07%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.07%) Splunk
8 4 (0.85%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.64%) Atlassian