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 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 22 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 262 | 269 | 167 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +7 | -102 | +9 |
| Permanent jobs citing Serverless | 567 | 305 | 718 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London | 0.64% | 0.89% | 1.47% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 3.43% | 3.29% | 5.25% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 385 | 197 | 236 |
| 10th Percentile | £45,400 | £41,250 | £34,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £50,000 | £51,250 | £47,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £65,000 | £62,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.00% | +4.17% | -7.69% |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £77,500 | £75,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £91,250 | £93,750 | £87,500 |
| UK median annual salary | £70,000 | £68,942 | £72,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.53% | -4.91% | +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.
| 6 months to 22 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 16,507 | 9,279 | 13,676 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London | 18.63% | 27.09% | 28.01% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 11,957 | 6,239 | 7,721 |
| 10th Percentile | £30,000 | £27,500 | £31,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £40,000 | £32,500 | £41,500 |
| 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 | £57,500 | £65,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +8.70% | -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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London
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 22 October 2026.
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 22 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 | +68 | 276 | £67,500 | +3.85% | 133 |
| North West | +35 | 123 | £65,000 | - | 74 |
| Yorkshire | +21 | 102 | £72,500 | +2.84% | 35 |
| South West | -41 | 80 | £67,500 | +12.50% | 52 |
| South East | -54 | 73 | £67,500 | -3.57% | 47 |
| Midlands | -22 | 65 | £62,500 | +4.17% | 53 |
| North East | -28 | 51 | £58,750 | -14.23% | 24 |
| Wales | -31 | 49 | £55,000 | +5.77% | 11 |
| West Midlands | -49 | 41 | £62,500 | +4.17% | 28 |
| East Midlands | -22 | 24 | £66,250 | - | 25 |
| East of England | -53 | 13 | £60,000 | +4.35% | 35 |
| Scotland | +9 | 12 | £67,500 | -6.90% | 33 |
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Serverless Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 73.9% | 419 |
| 2 | AWS Lambda | 54.0% | 306 |
| 3 | Amazon S3 | 36.0% | 204 |
| 4 | Azure | 35.4% | 201 |
| 5 | Amazon ECS | 23.1% | 131 |
| 6 | AWS CloudFormation | 22.8% | 129 |
| 7 | Azure Functions | 21.0% | 119 |
| 8 | GitHub | 20.5% | 116 |
| 9 | Amazon EC2 | 16.0% | 91 |
| 10 | Azure DevOps | 13.6% | 77 |
| 11 | AWS Step Functions | 12.9% | 73 |
| 12 | Amazon CloudWatch | 11.1% | 63 |
| 13 | Amazon EKS | 10.8% | 61 |
| 13 | GitHub Actions | 10.8% | 61 |
| 15 | Power Platform | 9.7% | 55 |
| 16 | Azure Logic Apps | 9.5% | 54 |
| 17 | Amazon SQS | 9.2% | 52 |
| 18 | GCP | 8.6% | 49 |
| 19 | Power Automate | 6.5% | 37 |
| 19 | SaaS | 6.5% | 37 |