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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 245 244
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 -40
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 566 367 701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.08% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 3.97% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 376 266 419
10th Percentile £47,965 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.25% -5.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £81,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,375 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +3.57%

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 17,592 9,254 20,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.26% 27.27% 29.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,480 6,440 14,761
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +101 275 £75,000 +15.38% 53
North West +63 126 £70,000 +7.69% 27
Yorkshire +33 121 £80,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands +1 90 £55,000 -4.35% 25
South East -38 77 £65,000 +2.36% 40
South West -52 62 £60,500 +0.83% 31
East Midlands +33 61 £55,000 +15.79% 10
Wales -31 39 £62,835 +20.84% 6
West Midlands -41 29 £62,500 +4.17% 15
North East -22 28 £75,000 +15.38% 12
East of England -33 17 £59,725 -0.46% 6
Scotland -1 13 £70,000 +27.27% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 15 (2.65%) Confluence
2 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.94%) Apache
4 10 (1.77%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.41%) SAS
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.71%) JBoss
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.35%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 409 (72.26%) AWS
2 269 (47.53%) AWS Lambda
3 201 (35.51%) Amazon S3
4 182 (32.16%) Azure
5 145 (25.62%) Amazon ECS
6 125 (22.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 95 (16.78%) Azure Functions
8 90 (15.90%) GitHub
9 77 (13.60%) AWS Step Functions
10 66 (11.66%) Amazon SQS
11 63 (11.13%) Amazon EC2
12 61 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (9.19%) Amazon EKS
14 51 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 49 (8.66%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (7.95%) Azure Logic Apps
16 45 (7.95%) GCP
17 41 (7.24%) Power Platform
18 38 (6.71%) Amazon ECR
18 38 (6.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.65%) VPN
2 13 (2.30%) Network Security
3 8 (1.41%) MQTT
4 7 (1.24%) Firewall
5 5 (0.88%) AMQP
6 4 (0.71%) IPv4
6 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.53%) DHCP
7 3 (0.53%) DNS
7 3 (0.53%) LTE
7 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) VLAN
8 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.18%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) VoIP
9 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.14%) DynamoDB
2 53 (9.36%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (8.48%) NoSQL
4 42 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (7.24%) SQL Server
6 36 (6.36%) Amazon Athena
7 32 (5.65%) Relational Database
8 23 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (3.18%) Power BI
12 17 (3.00%) MySQL
13 16 (2.83%) Big Data
14 14 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (2.47%) MongoDB
15 10 (1.77%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.77%) Spark SQL
16 7 (1.24%) Redis
17 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
17 4 (0.71%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 104 (18.37%) Git
2 103 (18.20%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.60%) GitLab
4 37 (6.54%) SonarQube
5 33 (5.83%) Cypress.io
6 30 (5.30%) JIRA
7 26 (4.59%) Maven
8 22 (3.89%) Snyk
9 15 (2.65%) JUnit
9 15 (2.65%) Selenium
10 14 (2.47%) Crashlytics
10 14 (2.47%) XCTest
11 13 (2.30%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.94%) Postman
13 10 (1.77%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.41%) JMeter
15 7 (1.24%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.24%) Mockito
16 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 4 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 138 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 66 (11.66%) Public Sector
3 50 (8.83%) Finance
4 39 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.47%) Law
7 8 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.88%) Banking
8 5 (0.88%) Legal
9 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.35%) Advertising
11 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.35%) Games
11 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.18%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.18%) Marketing
12 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (37.81%) Developer
2 162 (28.62%) Senior
3 81 (14.31%) Java Developer
4 78 (13.78%) Lead
5 74 (13.07%) Senior Developer
6 70 (12.37%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (11.66%) Software Engineer
8 62 (10.95%) Architect
9 41 (7.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (6.01%) Cloud Architect
11 31 (5.48%) AWS Developer
11 31 (5.48%) Software Developer
12 30 (5.30%) Data Engineer
13 28 (4.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (4.42%) Cloud Security Architect
14 25 (4.42%) Security Architect
15 24 (4.24%) Senior Architect
16 23 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (4.06%) Senior Cloud Architect
17 22 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (25.27%) Node.js
2 123 (21.73%) React
3 120 (21.20%) Spring Boot
4 95 (16.78%) AngularJS
5 93 (16.43%) Spring
6 88 (15.55%) REST
7 74 (13.07%) .NET
8 37 (6.54%) Jest
9 35 (6.18%) AWS CDK
10 33 (5.83%) Gherkin
10 33 (5.83%) Kafka
11 31 (5.48%) HTML
12 30 (5.30%) RESTful
13 24 (4.24%) Ruby on Rails
14 22 (3.89%) Next.js
15 20 (3.53%) ASP.NET
15 20 (3.53%) CSS
15 20 (3.53%) Swagger
16 19 (3.36%) ASP.NET Core
17 18 (3.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 134 (23.67%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.13%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 29 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (4.42%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.89%) Mobile App
8 21 (3.71%) Mainframe
9 15 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (2.47%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.12%) Podcast
11 12 (2.12%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.59%) IoT
13 8 (1.41%) Robotics
14 7 (1.24%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
15 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.54%) Linux
2 26 (4.59%) Windows
3 14 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.30%) VMS
5 6 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.71%) AIX
6 4 (0.71%) CentOS
6 4 (0.71%) Debian
6 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (59.01%) CI/CD
2 267 (47.17%) Agile
3 242 (42.76%) DevOps
4 175 (30.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (25.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 131 (23.14%) AI
7 128 (22.61%) Microservices
8 124 (21.91%) Software Engineering
9 115 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 113 (19.96%) Mentoring
11 110 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (18.02%) Test Automation
13 101 (17.84%) Observability
14 98 (17.31%) Containerisation
15 90 (15.90%) Scrum
16 80 (14.13%) Event-Driven
17 79 (13.96%) TDD
18 76 (13.43%) Clean Code
18 76 (13.43%) DevSecOps
19 71 (12.54%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 196 (34.63%) Python
2 171 (30.21%) Java
3 152 (26.86%) TypeScript
4 146 (25.80%) SQL
5 121 (21.38%) JavaScript
6 83 (14.66%) C#
7 61 (10.78%) Bash
8 43 (7.60%) Kotlin
9 40 (7.07%) Groovy
10 27 (4.77%) PowerShell
11 24 (4.24%) Ruby
12 22 (3.89%) Bicep
13 14 (2.47%) Swift
14 13 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (1.77%) PHP
15 10 (1.77%) Rust
15 10 (1.77%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.41%) Go
17 6 (1.06%) COBOL
17 6 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 57 (10.07%) Degree
4 55 (9.72%) AWS Certification
5 29 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 24 (4.24%) DV Cleared
8 21 (3.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.41%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.71%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.06%) QA
3 22 (3.89%) GDPR
3 22 (3.89%) GRC
4 19 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 18 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.30%) WCAG
7 6 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 6 (1.06%) NCSC
8 4 (0.71%) NIST
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 179 (31.63%) Docker
2 26 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.83%) vSphere
5 12 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.71%) Squid
6 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.53%) Firmware
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 172 (30.39%) Terraform
2 108 (19.08%) Kubernetes
3 55 (9.72%) Ansible
4 24 (4.24%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.71%) Grafana
6 19 (3.36%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.47%) Packer
7 14 (2.47%) Puppet
8 13 (2.30%) Kibana
9 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.71%) Podman
10 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.53%) Scalr
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.35%) Nagios
13 1 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 79 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.77%) Tenable
3 23 (4.06%) Oracle
4 22 (3.89%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.89%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.36%) Splunk
6 16 (2.83%) VMware
7 14 (2.47%) Amplitude
7 14 (2.47%) Braze
8 13 (2.30%) Databricks
9 12 (2.12%) Google
9 12 (2.12%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.94%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.59%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.41%) IBM
12 8 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.24%) HubSpot
13 7 (1.24%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.88%) OneLogin
15 4 (0.71%) NVIDIA