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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 264 244
Rank change year-on-year +36 -20 -55
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 603 335 600
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.96% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 3.56% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 394 234 332
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £35,590
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,188 £82,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £92,125 £94,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +0.71% -

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 17,707 9,423 16,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.14% 27.03% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,957 6,455 11,273
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +91 299 £75,000 +15.38% 109
North West +43 131 £70,000 +7.69% 61
Yorkshire +36 118 £80,000 +33.33% 26
Midlands +1 84 £62,500 +4.17% 43
South East -23 84 £65,000 -8.77% 52
South West -55 69 £60,500 +0.83% 50
North East -5 50 £67,500 -6.90% 22
East Midlands +16 47 £65,000 +73.33% 20
Wales -39 46 £55,000 +5.77% 7
West Midlands -42 37 £62,500 +4.17% 23
East of England -52 18 £59,450 +1.19% 19
Scotland -1 10 £70,000 +16.67% 29
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 20 (3.32%) Confluence
2 15 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.99%) Apache
4 11 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.16%) SAS
6 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.66%) nginx
7 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.50%) JBoss
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Finacle
4 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 437 (72.47%) AWS
2 305 (50.58%) AWS Lambda
3 206 (34.16%) Amazon S3
4 197 (32.67%) Azure
5 152 (25.21%) Amazon ECS
6 143 (23.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 114 (18.91%) GitHub
8 104 (17.25%) Azure Functions
9 79 (13.10%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (12.44%) AWS Step Functions
11 74 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
12 63 (10.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 62 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
14 61 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
15 60 (9.95%) Amazon SQS
16 52 (8.62%) GCP
17 49 (8.13%) SaaS
18 46 (7.63%) Power Platform
19 45 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
20 40 (6.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.82%) VPN
2 10 (1.66%) Firewall
3 9 (1.49%) MQTT
3 9 (1.49%) Network Security
4 7 (1.16%) DNS
5 6 (1.00%) DHCP
5 6 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.00%) VLAN
6 5 (0.83%) AMQP
7 4 (0.66%) IPv4
7 4 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.66%) VoIP
8 3 (0.50%) HTTP
8 3 (0.50%) LTE
8 3 (0.50%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.17%) LAN
10 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (19.57%) DynamoDB
2 66 (10.95%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 48 (7.96%) NoSQL
5 41 (6.80%) Relational Database
6 40 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (6.30%) Amazon Athena
8 31 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (4.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (3.15%) Power BI
12 18 (2.99%) MySQL
13 17 (2.82%) Big Data
14 16 (2.65%) MongoDB
15 15 (2.49%) Spark SQL
16 12 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.66%) Metadata
18 9 (1.49%) RDBMS
19 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
19 6 (1.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 127 (21.06%) Git
2 104 (17.25%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.29%) GitLab
4 37 (6.14%) JIRA
5 33 (5.47%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.81%) Cypress.io
7 22 (3.65%) Snyk
8 16 (2.65%) Maven
9 15 (2.49%) JUnit
10 13 (2.16%) Selenium
11 12 (1.99%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.82%) Crashlytics
12 11 (1.82%) Postman
12 11 (1.82%) XCTest
13 8 (1.33%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.33%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.33%) JMeter
14 7 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (1.16%) Mockito
15 5 (0.83%) git-flow
General
1 153 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 70 (11.61%) Finance
4 52 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.48%) Law
7 13 (2.16%) Aviation
8 12 (1.99%) Retail
9 11 (1.82%) Banking
10 10 (1.66%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.16%) Legal
12 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.66%) Local Government
13 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 211 (34.99%) Developer
2 156 (25.87%) Senior
3 83 (13.76%) Lead
4 72 (11.94%) Java Developer
5 71 (11.77%) Software Engineer
6 69 (11.44%) Senior Developer
7 68 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (10.61%) Architect
9 37 (6.14%) Data Engineer
9 37 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (5.64%) Cloud Architect
11 34 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 32 (5.31%) Software Developer
13 28 (4.64%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.15%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.15%) Security Architect
15 24 (3.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (3.81%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (33.67%) Terraform
2 136 (22.55%) Node.js
3 114 (18.91%) Spring Boot
4 112 (18.57%) React
5 95 (15.75%) Spring
6 92 (15.26%) AngularJS
7 91 (15.09%) REST
8 88 (14.59%) .NET
9 40 (6.63%) AWS CDK
10 37 (6.14%) Kafka
11 36 (5.97%) Jest
12 34 (5.64%) RESTful
13 31 (5.14%) Ruby on Rails
14 29 (4.81%) HTML
15 27 (4.48%) Next.js
16 24 (3.98%) Gherkin
16 24 (3.98%) OpenAPI
16 24 (3.98%) PySpark
17 23 (3.81%) CSS
18 22 (3.65%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 160 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.63%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 31 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (4.15%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.81%) Mainframe
9 18 (2.99%) Mobile App
10 17 (2.82%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.99%) Podcast
12 12 (1.99%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.49%) IoT
15 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.33%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.33%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.33%) Robotics
15 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.80%) Linux
2 31 (5.14%) Windows
3 13 (2.16%) VMS
4 11 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.00%) AIX
7 5 (0.83%) CentOS
7 5 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (61.36%) CI/CD
2 296 (49.09%) Agile
3 259 (42.95%) DevOps
4 202 (33.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 150 (24.88%) AI
6 142 (23.55%) Software Engineering
7 137 (22.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 136 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 130 (21.56%) Mentoring
10 129 (21.39%) Microservices
11 122 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (18.24%) Observability
13 108 (17.91%) Test Automation
14 104 (17.25%) Containerisation
15 95 (15.75%) Scrum
16 84 (13.93%) Cloud Security
16 84 (13.93%) Event-Driven
16 84 (13.93%) TDD
17 80 (13.27%) Clean Code
18 79 (13.10%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 206 (34.16%) Python
2 175 (29.02%) Java
3 167 (27.69%) SQL
4 146 (24.21%) TypeScript
5 118 (19.57%) JavaScript
6 102 (16.92%) C#
7 65 (10.78%) Bash
8 41 (6.80%) Kotlin
9 35 (5.80%) Ruby
10 31 (5.14%) Groovy
11 30 (4.98%) PowerShell
12 23 (3.81%) Bicep
13 14 (2.32%) Shell Script
14 13 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (1.82%) Rust
15 11 (1.82%) Swift
16 8 (1.33%) Go
16 8 (1.33%) PHP
17 7 (1.16%) C++
17 7 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.29%) Degree
4 53 (8.79%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 27 (4.48%) Azure Certification
8 26 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (2.49%) Master's Degree
12 14 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.33%) ISTQB
16 7 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 4 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.14%) QA
2 36 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.48%) GDPR
4 25 (4.15%) Accessibility
5 22 (3.65%) GRC
6 20 (3.32%) WCAG
7 16 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.00%) NCSC
9 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.66%) NIST
11 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.33%) PMO
13 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 185 (30.68%) Docker
2 33 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.65%) vSphere
5 12 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.66%) Squid
7 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.50%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 109 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 60 (9.95%) Ansible
3 17 (2.82%) Grafana
3 17 (2.82%) Puppet
4 15 (2.49%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.16%) Kibana
5 13 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.99%) Packer
7 5 (0.83%) Podman
8 4 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.66%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.50%) Scalr
9 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 90 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.31%) Tenable
3 25 (4.15%) Oracle
4 22 (3.65%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.65%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.15%) Google
5 19 (3.15%) Splunk
6 18 (2.99%) Databricks
7 17 (2.82%) VMware
8 14 (2.32%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.99%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.99%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.82%) Amplitude
10 11 (1.82%) Braze
11 10 (1.66%) OneLogin
12 9 (1.49%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.33%) IBM
14 7 (1.16%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.83%) SaltStack