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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 230 243
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 -52
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 533 375 786
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.31% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 4.56% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 348 272 482
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,900 £40,100
25th Percentile £55,606 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,063 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500

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 18,446 8,224 23,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.34% 28.78% 32.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,902 5,573 17,639
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,300 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,450 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +6.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,650
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +77 278 £75,000 +15.38% 44
Yorkshire +31 150 £75,000 +25.00% 16
North West +56 118 £75,000 - 22
Midlands +18 108 £55,000 -4.35% 22
East Midlands +22 70 £55,000 - 9
South East -62 64 £66,250 +10.42% 41
South West -65 44 £62,500 +4.17% 23
West Midlands -40 38 £52,500 -14.29% 13
East of England -34 20 £60,050 -29.35% 5
Wales -35 15 £46,679 -9.18% 4
Scotland -13 13 £76,783 +39.60% 9
North East -32 10 £71,065 +13.70% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 1
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 14 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.25%) Apache
3 11 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.88%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.50%) SAS
6 4 (0.75%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.75%) Confluence
6 4 (0.75%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 398 (74.67%) AWS
2 262 (49.16%) AWS Lambda
3 216 (40.53%) Amazon S3
4 166 (31.14%) Azure
5 145 (27.20%) Amazon ECS
6 127 (23.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 98 (18.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 78 (14.63%) Azure Functions
9 68 (12.76%) Amazon SQS
10 65 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (11.82%) GitHub
12 58 (10.88%) Amazon EC2
12 58 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (9.01%) Amazon ECR
13 48 (9.01%) GCP
14 47 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (8.63%) Apigee
16 43 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
16 43 (8.07%) GitHub Actions
17 42 (7.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.44%) Network Security
2 7 (1.31%) Firewall
3 6 (1.13%) AMQP
3 6 (1.13%) MQTT
4 3 (0.56%) IPv4
4 3 (0.56%) LTE
4 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.38%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) DNS
5 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.38%) VLAN
5 2 (0.38%) WAN
5 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (21.39%) DynamoDB
2 55 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (9.19%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (8.44%) NoSQL
4 45 (8.44%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 31 (5.82%) Relational Database
7 20 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (3.56%) Power BI
9 17 (3.19%) Big Data
10 11 (2.06%) MongoDB
10 11 (2.06%) MySQL
11 10 (1.88%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.69%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 104 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 90 (16.89%) Git
3 63 (11.82%) GitLab
4 45 (8.44%) SonarQube
5 39 (7.32%) Cypress.io
6 36 (6.75%) Maven
7 22 (4.13%) Snyk
8 15 (2.81%) JIRA
9 13 (2.44%) Crashlytics
9 13 (2.44%) XCTest
10 9 (1.69%) JUnit
11 8 (1.50%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.31%) JMeter
12 7 (1.31%) Mockito
13 5 (0.94%) Postman
14 4 (0.75%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.75%) Selenium
14 4 (0.75%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 117 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 42 (7.88%) Public Sector
3 40 (7.50%) Finance
4 35 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.31%) Aerospace
6 7 (1.31%) Banking
6 7 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.13%) Advertising
7 6 (1.13%) Legal
8 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.75%) Health Technology
8 4 (0.75%) Publishing
9 3 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.38%) Billing
10 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.38%) Games
10 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 221 (41.46%) Developer
2 139 (26.08%) Senior
3 91 (17.07%) Java Developer
4 83 (15.57%) Lead
5 68 (12.76%) Software Engineer
6 61 (11.44%) Architect
7 58 (10.88%) Senior Developer
8 53 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (6.94%) AWS Developer
10 34 (6.38%) Software Developer
11 33 (6.19%) Cloud Architect
12 28 (5.25%) .NET Developer
13 27 (5.07%) Data Engineer
14 26 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 25 (4.69%) Cloud Security Architect
15 25 (4.69%) Security Architect
16 24 (4.50%) Senior Architect
17 23 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
18 22 (4.13%) Senior Security Architect
18 22 (4.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (24.39%) Node.js
2 125 (23.45%) React
3 104 (19.51%) Spring Boot
4 101 (18.95%) AngularJS
5 89 (16.70%) REST
6 79 (14.82%) Spring
7 73 (13.70%) .NET
8 40 (7.50%) Gherkin
9 38 (7.13%) HTML
10 37 (6.94%) Jest
11 32 (6.00%) RESTful
12 31 (5.82%) AWS CDK
13 29 (5.44%) Kafka
14 23 (4.32%) CSS
15 22 (4.13%) Web Services
16 20 (3.75%) .NET Core
17 19 (3.56%) ASP.NET
17 19 (3.56%) Next.js
18 18 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
19 17 (3.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 94 (17.64%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (4.69%) Mobile App
5 24 (4.50%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.69%) IoT
10 7 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.13%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.56%) NHS
14 3 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.75%) Linux
2 13 (2.44%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.88%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) CentOS
4 5 (0.94%) Debian
4 5 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.94%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.75%) Unix
6 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (59.47%) CI/CD
2 237 (44.47%) DevOps
3 219 (41.09%) Agile
4 157 (29.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 123 (23.08%) Microservices
6 121 (22.70%) Mentoring
7 117 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 114 (21.39%) Software Engineering
9 109 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (17.26%) Containerisation
12 89 (16.70%) Test Automation
13 86 (16.14%) AI
14 76 (14.26%) Observability
15 72 (13.51%) SDLC
16 70 (13.13%) TDD
17 65 (12.20%) Clean Code
18 64 (12.01%) Event-Driven
19 62 (11.63%) Scrum
20 59 (11.07%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 194 (36.40%) Python
2 159 (29.83%) Java
3 152 (28.52%) TypeScript
4 143 (26.83%) SQL
5 130 (24.39%) JavaScript
6 74 (13.88%) C#
7 54 (10.13%) Bash
8 47 (8.82%) Groovy
9 44 (8.26%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.81%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.44%) Swift
13 11 (2.06%) PHP
14 8 (1.50%) Rust
15 4 (0.75%) Bicep
15 4 (0.75%) C++
15 4 (0.75%) Perl
15 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.75%) Scala
16 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (12.20%) Degree
2 61 (11.44%) AWS Certification
3 49 (9.19%) Security Cleared
4 43 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.32%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.56%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (2.25%) DBS Check
12 11 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (1.88%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.69%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.56%) CCSP
16 3 (0.56%) CISM
16 3 (0.56%) CISSP
16 3 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.13%) GRC
3 20 (3.75%) GDPR
4 16 (3.00%) QA
5 12 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.56%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 187 (35.08%) Docker
2 23 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.06%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) iptables
5 3 (0.56%) Firmware
5 3 (0.56%) Squid
5 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.56%) vSphere
6 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 131 (24.58%) Terraform
2 96 (18.01%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.88%) Ansible
4 34 (6.38%) HP Fortify
5 20 (3.75%) Grafana
5 20 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.81%) Puppet
7 12 (2.25%) Kibana
8 9 (1.69%) Packer
9 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.75%) Control-M
10 4 (0.75%) Podman
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.56%) Nagios
11 3 (0.56%) Scalr
11 3 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.07%) Tenable
3 24 (4.50%) Oracle
4 22 (4.13%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (4.13%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.63%) Databricks
6 13 (2.44%) Amplitude
6 13 (2.44%) Braze
7 11 (2.06%) Splunk
8 9 (1.69%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.50%) Google
9 8 (1.50%) IBM
9 8 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.31%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.94%) Informatica
11 5 (0.94%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.75%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.56%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.56%) VMware