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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 164 183
Rank change year-on-year -99 +19 -65
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 314 721 591
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.50% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 5.34% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 202 232 461
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £42,819
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,063 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £69,692 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.87% +3.57% -6.67%

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 9,416 13,511 12,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.35% 28.05% 39.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,378 7,609 10,391
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,254 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +21 106 £68,500 +24.55% 143
South East -104 62 £70,000 +14.29% 217
North West -4 51 £65,000 +13.04% 78
Yorkshire +36 50 £71,500 +36.19% 54
South West -55 48 £60,000 -14.29% 34
Midlands +7 41 £60,000 - 27
West Midlands +39 39 £60,000 -17.24% 14
East of England -39 32 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Scotland -20 19 £72,500 +3.57% 25
Wales -6 9 £52,000 +89.09% 18
North East +13 5 £68,500 +24.55% 11
Northern Ireland +5 2 £62,500 -26.47% 1
East Midlands -21 2 - - 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 19 (6.05%) Confluence
2 16 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.46%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.82%) Apache
5 6 (1.91%) JBoss
5 6 (1.91%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.59%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.64%) CMS
9 1 (0.32%) SAS
9 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (73.89%) AWS
2 152 (48.41%) Azure
3 143 (45.54%) AWS Lambda
4 83 (26.43%) Amazon S3
5 82 (26.11%) Amazon ECS
6 56 (17.83%) Amazon EC2
7 53 (16.88%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (15.29%) Azure Functions
9 44 (14.01%) GitHub
10 34 (10.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 31 (9.87%) Power Platform
12 25 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (7.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 24 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (7.64%) Power Automate
14 22 (7.01%) PaaS
14 22 (7.01%) PowerApps
15 21 (6.69%) GCP
15 21 (6.69%) SaaS
16 19 (6.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.73%) Internet
2 14 (4.46%) Firewall
2 14 (4.46%) Wireless
3 8 (2.55%) DNS
4 6 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.59%) DHCP
5 5 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.59%) VLAN
5 5 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.27%) AMQP
7 3 (0.96%) VPN
8 2 (0.64%) Broadband
8 2 (0.64%) Network Security
9 1 (0.32%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.32%) NAS
9 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (17.20%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (14.33%) Relational Database
3 40 (12.74%) DynamoDB
4 27 (8.60%) RDBMS
4 27 (8.60%) SQL Server
5 24 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.46%) MongoDB
8 14 (4.46%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.82%) MySQL
10 10 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.87%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.91%) Big Data
13 5 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.59%) Power BI
14 4 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 58 (18.47%) Jenkins
2 40 (12.74%) Git
3 28 (8.92%) JUnit
4 23 (7.32%) JIRA
5 20 (6.37%) JMeter
5 20 (6.37%) Mockito
6 6 (1.91%) GitLab
6 6 (1.91%) Selenium
7 5 (1.59%) git-flow
7 5 (1.59%) Maven
8 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.27%) Locust
8 4 (1.27%) NUnit
9 3 (0.96%) MSTest
10 2 (0.64%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.64%) MLflow
11 1 (0.32%) NSubstitute
11 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.83%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.01%) Finance
4 22 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.37%) Law
6 15 (4.78%) Automotive
6 15 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.14%) Retail
8 10 (3.18%) Games
8 10 (3.18%) Marketing
9 9 (2.87%) Banking
10 7 (2.23%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.96%) Electronics
14 3 (0.96%) Legal
14 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (37.90%) Developer
2 69 (21.97%) Senior
3 47 (14.97%) Java Developer
4 40 (12.74%) Senior Developer
5 39 (12.42%) Software Engineer
6 32 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (9.55%) Architect
8 28 (8.92%) Lead
9 21 (6.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 20 (6.37%) Data Engineer
11 19 (6.05%) Support Engineer
12 17 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.41%) Software Developer
13 16 (5.10%) .NET Developer
13 16 (5.10%) Applications Engineer
13 16 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (4.78%) Applications Support
15 14 (4.46%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 13 (4.14%) Applications Support Engineer
16 13 (4.14%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.93%) .NET
2 70 (22.29%) React
3 57 (18.15%) REST
4 56 (17.83%) HTML
4 56 (17.83%) Spring
5 55 (17.52%) Spring Boot
6 37 (11.78%) Web Services
7 36 (11.46%) AngularJS
8 32 (10.19%) CSS
9 29 (9.24%) Apache Camel
9 29 (9.24%) Node.js
10 27 (8.60%) jQuery
10 27 (8.60%) Kafka
11 23 (7.32%) Hibernate
11 23 (7.32%) JSON
12 21 (6.69%) .NET Framework
13 20 (6.37%) ActiveMQ
13 20 (6.37%) RESTful
13 20 (6.37%) WireMock
14 19 (6.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 38 (12.10%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.05%) IoT
4 14 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.50%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.55%) e-Learning
7 8 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.91%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.59%) BYOD
11 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.96%) Life Science
12 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.64%) CMDB
13 2 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.10%) Linux
2 7 (2.23%) Windows
3 6 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) CentOS
4 1 (0.32%) Debian
4 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (50.64%) CI/CD
2 142 (45.22%) Agile
3 120 (38.22%) DevOps
4 100 (31.85%) Microservices
5 78 (24.84%) Mentoring
6 72 (22.93%) TDD
7 71 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 67 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (21.02%) Software Engineering
10 60 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (12.10%) AI
13 37 (11.78%) Migration
14 36 (11.46%) Containerisation
15 35 (11.15%) BDD
16 34 (10.83%) Scrum
16 34 (10.83%) SDLC
17 32 (10.19%) Test Automation
18 31 (9.87%) Data Modelling
19 29 (9.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 137 (43.63%) Python
2 107 (34.08%) Java
3 102 (32.48%) JavaScript
4 73 (23.25%) TypeScript
5 68 (21.66%) SQL
6 64 (20.38%) C#
7 27 (8.60%) PowerShell
8 23 (7.32%) Shell Script
9 13 (4.14%) Bash
10 7 (2.23%) Bicep
11 6 (1.91%) Go
12 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.64%) C++
13 2 (0.64%) Scala
13 2 (0.64%) VB
13 2 (0.64%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.24%) Azure Certification
4 28 (8.92%) Degree
5 25 (7.96%) AWS Certification
6 22 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.18%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.91%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.32%) CCNA
13 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.32%) MCP
13 1 (0.32%) MCSE
13 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.41%) QA
2 15 (4.78%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.46%) GDPR
4 13 (4.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.87%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.87%) NIST
7 6 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.91%) SLA
8 4 (1.27%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.27%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) CDISC
9 1 (0.32%) DICOM
9 1 (0.32%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.32%) HL7
9 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (28.03%) Docker
2 12 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.64%) Firmware
5 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 92 (29.30%) Kubernetes
2 69 (21.97%) Terraform
3 24 (7.64%) Ansible
4 23 (7.32%) Kibana
5 12 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.18%) Grafana
7 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.64%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.64%) Puppet
10 1 (0.32%) Argo
10 1 (0.32%) Podman
10 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (22.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.01%) Splunk
3 21 (6.69%) Dynatrace
3 21 (6.69%) Oracle
4 16 (5.10%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.55%) Databricks
6 7 (2.23%) Google
7 5 (1.59%) Aruba
7 5 (1.59%) HP
7 5 (1.59%) Veeam
8 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.27%) Pega
8 4 (1.27%) WSO2
9 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.96%) StreamSets
10 2 (0.64%) Avaya
10 2 (0.64%) Citrix
10 2 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.64%) VMware