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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 287 172
Rank change year-on-year +31 -115 0
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 564 298 728
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.86% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 3.22% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 382 198 254
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,852
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 16,816 9,262 14,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.41% 26.81% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,809 6,225 8,047
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £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 £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,400 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.02% -10.15% +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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +65 277 £67,500 +3.85% 150
North West +48 124 £65,000 - 95
Yorkshire +10 101 £80,000 +13.48% 38
South West -42 76 £67,500 +12.50% 54
South East -30 75 £65,000 -7.14% 55
Midlands -23 68 £62,500 - 60
North East -20 52 £62,500 -8.76% 17
Wales -38 48 £55,000 +4.76% 16
West Midlands -50 40 £62,500 - 27
East Midlands -2 28 £66,250 - 33
East of England -62 11 £57,500 - 33
Scotland +4 10 £67,500 -6.90% 39
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 23 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.72%) Confluence
3 19 (3.37%) Apache
3 19 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (3.19%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.71%) nginx
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) CMS
7 3 (0.53%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.35%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.18%) Finacle
4 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 410 (72.70%) AWS
2 299 (53.01%) AWS Lambda
3 196 (34.75%) Amazon S3
4 194 (34.40%) Azure
5 132 (23.40%) Amazon ECS
5 132 (23.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 114 (20.21%) GitHub
7 111 (19.68%) Azure Functions
8 89 (15.78%) Amazon EC2
9 75 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (12.41%) AWS Step Functions
11 65 (11.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 62 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (10.46%) Amazon EKS
14 58 (10.28%) Amazon SQS
15 55 (9.75%) Power Platform
16 49 (8.69%) GCP
17 45 (7.98%) Azure Logic Apps
18 39 (6.91%) SaaS
19 36 (6.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.19%) VPN
2 11 (1.95%) Firewall
3 9 (1.60%) DNS
3 9 (1.60%) MQTT
4 7 (1.24%) AMQP
4 7 (1.24%) DHCP
4 7 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.24%) VLAN
4 7 (1.24%) VoIP
5 6 (1.06%) Network Security
6 4 (0.71%) IPv4
6 4 (0.71%) LTE
6 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.53%) HTTP
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (17.73%) DynamoDB
2 68 (12.06%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (10.28%) SQL Server
4 48 (8.51%) NoSQL
5 43 (7.62%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (7.45%) Relational Database
7 41 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (3.90%) Power BI
11 21 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (3.55%) Spark SQL
13 18 (3.19%) MySQL
14 15 (2.66%) MongoDB
15 14 (2.48%) Metadata
16 11 (1.95%) Big Data
16 11 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.77%) Data Lake
18 9 (1.60%) Hadoop
18 9 (1.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 134 (23.76%) Git
2 90 (15.96%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.93%) GitLab
4 35 (6.21%) JIRA
5 30 (5.32%) Cypress.io
6 23 (4.08%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.66%) JMeter
7 15 (2.66%) JUnit
7 15 (2.66%) Snyk
8 14 (2.48%) Selenium
9 13 (2.30%) Postman
10 11 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.95%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.95%) Maven
11 7 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.24%) Mockito
12 5 (0.89%) git-flow
13 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 140 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 95 (16.84%) Public Sector
3 65 (11.52%) Finance
4 59 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.96%) Law
7 15 (2.66%) Aviation
7 15 (2.66%) Retail
8 14 (2.48%) Banking
9 12 (2.13%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.89%) Legal
12 4 (0.71%) Local Government
12 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Marketing
13 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 195 (34.57%) Developer
2 141 (25.00%) Senior
3 74 (13.12%) Software Engineer
4 63 (11.17%) Lead
5 61 (10.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 61 (10.82%) Senior Developer
6 59 (10.46%) Java Developer
7 51 (9.04%) Architect
8 49 (8.69%) Data Engineer
9 42 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (5.67%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.79%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 23 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (3.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (3.01%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (33.51%) Terraform
2 130 (23.05%) Node.js
3 108 (19.15%) React
4 105 (18.62%) Spring Boot
5 90 (15.96%) Spring
6 89 (15.78%) .NET
7 77 (13.65%) REST
8 76 (13.48%) AngularJS
9 42 (7.45%) Kafka
10 40 (7.09%) RESTful
11 36 (6.38%) AWS CDK
11 36 (6.38%) PySpark
12 35 (6.21%) Jest
13 32 (5.67%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (4.61%) HTML
14 26 (4.61%) Next.js
14 26 (4.61%) OpenAPI
15 24 (4.26%) Gherkin
16 23 (4.08%) ASP.NET
16 23 (4.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 177 (31.38%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (4.26%) Mainframe
7 21 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (3.37%) Public Cloud
9 18 (3.19%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (2.13%) Podcast
12 12 (2.13%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.77%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.60%) Digital Wallet
14 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.42%) Robotics
15 8 (1.42%) Taxonomies
16 7 (1.24%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.74%) Linux
2 31 (5.50%) Windows
3 13 (2.30%) VMS
4 11 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.24%) AIX
5 7 (1.24%) CentOS
5 7 (1.24%) Debian
5 7 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (63.65%) CI/CD
2 294 (52.13%) Agile
3 243 (43.09%) DevOps
4 186 (32.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 152 (26.95%) Software Engineering
6 148 (26.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 144 (25.53%) AI
8 135 (23.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 130 (23.05%) Mentoring
10 126 (22.34%) Microservices
11 114 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
12 99 (17.55%) Scrum
13 98 (17.38%) Test Automation
14 93 (16.49%) Observability
15 84 (14.89%) Containerisation
16 80 (14.18%) Roadmaps
17 78 (13.83%) Analytics
17 78 (13.83%) Event-Driven
18 77 (13.65%) Cloud Security
19 71 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 184 (32.62%) Python
2 173 (30.67%) Java
3 168 (29.79%) SQL
4 140 (24.82%) TypeScript
5 131 (23.23%) JavaScript
6 116 (20.57%) C#
7 60 (10.64%) Bash
8 36 (6.38%) Ruby
9 30 (5.32%) Kotlin
10 26 (4.61%) PowerShell
11 24 (4.26%) Bicep
12 20 (3.55%) Groovy
13 17 (3.01%) C++
14 13 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (2.13%) Rust
15 12 (2.13%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.77%) Scala
17 8 (1.42%) Go
18 6 (1.06%) COBOL
18 6 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 88 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.87%) AWS Certification
4 48 (8.51%) Degree
5 36 (6.38%) DV Cleared
6 35 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (5.50%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.42%) ISTQB
13 8 (1.42%) Master's Degree
13 8 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.71%) CCNA
16 4 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.21%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.21%) QA
3 30 (5.32%) GDPR
4 27 (4.79%) WCAG
5 15 (2.66%) GRC
6 10 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.06%) NCSC
8 4 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.35%) NIST
9 2 (0.35%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (29.26%) Docker
2 33 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.84%) vSphere
4 12 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.71%) Squid
6 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 104 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 55 (9.75%) Ansible
3 18 (3.19%) Puppet
4 13 (2.30%) Packer
5 12 (2.13%) Grafana
6 10 (1.77%) HP Fortify
6 10 (1.77%) Kibana
7 9 (1.60%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.24%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.89%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.35%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 103 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.90%) Google
2 22 (3.90%) Oracle
3 19 (3.37%) Splunk
3 19 (3.37%) Tenable
4 18 (3.19%) Dynatrace
5 17 (3.01%) VMware
6 16 (2.84%) Databricks
7 15 (2.66%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (2.66%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.30%) OpenAI
10 12 (2.13%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.95%) OneLogin
12 7 (1.24%) SaltStack
13 6 (1.06%) Confluent
13 6 (1.06%) Veeam
14 4 (0.71%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.71%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.71%) Sparx