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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 264 241
Rank change year-on-year +33 -23 -54
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 599 333 595
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.96% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 3.55% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 391 233 317
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £36,191
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,875 £82,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,750 £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 17,581 9,380 16,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.87% 26.91% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,958 6,431 10,685
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,375 £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% - -4.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +89 296 £75,000 +15.38% 107
North West +47 130 £70,000 +7.69% 65
Yorkshire +33 115 £80,000 +33.33% 24
Midlands -13 83 £62,500 +4.17% 40
South East -19 83 £65,000 -8.77% 53
South West -55 70 £60,500 +0.83% 51
North East -11 51 £65,000 -10.34% 18
East Midlands +23 46 £65,000 +73.33% 21
Wales -33 46 £55,000 +5.77% 6
West Midlands -36 37 £62,500 +4.17% 19
East of England -48 18 £59,450 +1.19% 19
Scotland -11 10 £70,000 +16.67% 38
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 (3.34%) Confluence
2 16 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.00%) Apache
3 12 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.17%) SAS
6 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.67%) nginx
7 4 (0.67%) 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 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (3.17%) 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
1 432 (72.12%) AWS
2 301 (50.25%) AWS Lambda
3 204 (34.06%) Amazon S3
4 198 (33.06%) Azure
5 149 (24.87%) Amazon ECS
6 141 (23.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 112 (18.70%) GitHub
8 105 (17.53%) Azure Functions
9 81 (13.52%) Amazon EC2
10 74 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (12.19%) AWS Step Functions
12 62 (10.35%) Amazon EKS
13 61 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 60 (10.02%) Amazon SQS
14 60 (10.02%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (8.51%) GCP
16 48 (8.01%) SaaS
17 47 (7.85%) Power Platform
18 46 (7.68%) Azure Logic Apps
19 39 (6.51%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.84%) VPN
2 11 (1.84%) Firewall
3 9 (1.50%) MQTT
3 9 (1.50%) Network Security
4 8 (1.34%) DNS
5 7 (1.17%) DHCP
5 7 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.17%) VLAN
6 5 (0.83%) AMQP
6 5 (0.83%) VoIP
7 4 (0.67%) IPv4
7 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
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
1 116 (19.37%) DynamoDB
2 66 (11.02%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (8.68%) SQL Server
4 46 (7.68%) NoSQL
5 41 (6.84%) Relational Database
6 40 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
8 31 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (3.17%) Power BI
12 18 (3.01%) MySQL
13 17 (2.84%) Big Data
13 17 (2.84%) MongoDB
14 16 (2.67%) Spark SQL
15 12 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.67%) Metadata
17 9 (1.50%) RDBMS
18 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
18 6 (1.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 126 (21.04%) Git
2 102 (17.03%) Jenkins
3 55 (9.18%) GitLab
4 37 (6.18%) JIRA
5 33 (5.51%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.84%) Cypress.io
7 22 (3.67%) Snyk
8 16 (2.67%) Maven
9 15 (2.50%) JUnit
10 13 (2.17%) Selenium
11 12 (2.00%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.84%) Crashlytics
12 11 (1.84%) XCTest
13 10 (1.67%) Postman
14 8 (1.34%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.34%) JMeter
15 7 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (1.17%) Mockito
16 5 (0.83%) git-flow
General
1 152 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.36%) Public Sector
3 69 (11.52%) Finance
4 52 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.51%) Law
7 13 (2.17%) Aviation
8 12 (2.00%) Retail
9 11 (1.84%) Banking
10 10 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.17%) Legal
12 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (34.56%) Developer
2 152 (25.38%) Senior
3 82 (13.69%) Lead
4 70 (11.69%) Software Engineer
5 68 (11.35%) Java Developer
6 66 (11.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (10.85%) Senior Developer
8 62 (10.35%) Architect
9 38 (6.34%) Data Engineer
9 38 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 33 (5.51%) Cloud Architect
13 32 (5.34%) Software Developer
14 27 (4.51%) AWS Developer
15 25 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
15 25 (4.17%) Security Architect
16 23 (3.84%) Senior Architect
16 23 (3.84%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (34.06%) Terraform
2 132 (22.04%) Node.js
3 111 (18.53%) React
3 111 (18.53%) Spring Boot
4 92 (15.36%) Spring
5 90 (15.03%) REST
6 89 (14.86%) .NET
6 89 (14.86%) AngularJS
7 40 (6.68%) AWS CDK
8 37 (6.18%) Kafka
9 36 (6.01%) Jest
10 34 (5.68%) RESTful
11 31 (5.18%) Ruby on Rails
12 29 (4.84%) HTML
13 27 (4.51%) Next.js
14 25 (4.17%) PySpark
15 24 (4.01%) Gherkin
15 24 (4.01%) OpenAPI
16 23 (3.84%) ASP.NET
16 23 (3.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 160 (26.71%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.68%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (5.84%) Product Ownership
5 31 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.84%) Mainframe
9 18 (3.01%) Mobile App
10 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (2.00%) Podcast
12 12 (2.00%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.50%) IoT
15 8 (1.34%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.34%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.34%) Robotics
15 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.84%) Linux
2 32 (5.34%) Windows
3 13 (2.17%) VMS
4 11 (1.84%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.00%) AIX
6 5 (0.83%) CentOS
6 5 (0.83%) Debian
6 5 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (61.10%) CI/CD
2 295 (49.25%) Agile
3 255 (42.57%) DevOps
4 203 (33.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 146 (24.37%) AI
6 140 (23.37%) Software Engineering
7 138 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 136 (22.70%) Full-Stack Development
9 130 (21.70%) Mentoring
10 129 (21.54%) Microservices
11 123 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (18.36%) Observability
13 106 (17.70%) Test Automation
14 101 (16.86%) Containerisation
15 95 (15.86%) Scrum
16 85 (14.19%) Cloud Security
17 83 (13.86%) Event-Driven
18 81 (13.52%) TDD
19 79 (13.19%) Clean Code
20 77 (12.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 206 (34.39%) Python
2 172 (28.71%) Java
3 167 (27.88%) SQL
4 143 (23.87%) TypeScript
5 119 (19.87%) JavaScript
6 103 (17.20%) C#
7 66 (11.02%) Bash
8 39 (6.51%) Kotlin
9 35 (5.84%) Ruby
10 31 (5.18%) Groovy
11 30 (5.01%) PowerShell
12 23 (3.84%) Bicep
13 14 (2.34%) Shell Script
14 13 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (2.00%) Rust
16 11 (1.84%) Swift
17 8 (1.34%) C++
17 8 (1.34%) Go
17 8 (1.34%) PHP
18 7 (1.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 78 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.35%) Degree
4 53 (8.85%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 27 (4.51%) Azure Certification
8 26 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (2.50%) Master's Degree
12 14 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (1.34%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.34%) ISTQB
16 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 4 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.18%) Data Quality
1 37 (6.18%) QA
2 27 (4.51%) GDPR
3 25 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 22 (3.67%) GRC
5 20 (3.34%) WCAG
6 16 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.00%) NCSC
8 4 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.67%) NIST
9 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.33%) PMO
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 183 (30.55%) Docker
2 34 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.84%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.67%) vSphere
5 12 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) Squid
7 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.50%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 110 (18.36%) Kubernetes
2 60 (10.02%) Ansible
3 17 (2.84%) Grafana
3 17 (2.84%) Puppet
4 15 (2.50%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.17%) Kibana
5 13 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.00%) Packer
7 5 (0.83%) Podman
8 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.50%) Scalr
10 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 92 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.34%) Tenable
3 25 (4.17%) Oracle
4 22 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.67%) Palo Alto
5 19 (3.17%) Google
5 19 (3.17%) Splunk
6 18 (3.01%) Databricks
7 17 (2.84%) VMware
8 14 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 12 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.00%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.84%) Amplitude
10 11 (1.84%) Braze
11 10 (1.67%) OneLogin
12 9 (1.50%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.34%) IBM
14 7 (1.17%) HubSpot
15 6 (1.00%) Veeam