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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 276 172
Rank change year-on-year +12 -104 -6
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 563 295 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.86% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.39% 3.20% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 384 196 251
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 £73,943
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 16,613 9,227 13,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.18% 26.87% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,843 6,204 7,875
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 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +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 13 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 13 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 +74 274 £67,500 +3.85% 139
North West +32 121 £65,000 - 86
Yorkshire +19 101 £80,000 +13.48% 37
South West -42 78 £67,500 +12.50% 44
South East -24 76 £65,000 -7.14% 54
Midlands -29 66 £62,500 - 56
North East -22 52 £62,500 -8.76% 16
Wales -33 49 £55,000 +5.77% 16
West Midlands -44 38 £62,500 - 29
East Midlands -5 28 £66,250 - 27
East of England -56 11 £57,500 - 31
Scotland -3 10 £67,500 -6.90% 37
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 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.73%) Confluence
3 19 (3.37%) Apache
3 19 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (3.20%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.42%) 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 (0.36%) 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 (4.09%) 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
1 413 (73.36%) AWS
2 299 (53.11%) AWS Lambda
3 197 (34.99%) Amazon S3
4 195 (34.64%) Azure
5 133 (23.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 132 (23.45%) Amazon ECS
7 114 (20.25%) GitHub
8 112 (19.89%) Azure Functions
9 89 (15.81%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (12.43%) AWS Step Functions
12 65 (11.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 62 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
14 59 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
15 58 (10.30%) Amazon SQS
16 55 (9.77%) Power Platform
17 49 (8.70%) GCP
18 45 (7.99%) Azure Logic Apps
19 39 (6.93%) SaaS
20 36 (6.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.20%) 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 (1.07%) 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 (17.76%) DynamoDB
2 68 (12.08%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (10.30%) SQL Server
4 48 (8.53%) NoSQL
5 44 (7.82%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (7.46%) Relational Database
7 41 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 32 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (3.91%) Power BI
11 21 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (3.55%) Spark SQL
13 18 (3.20%) MySQL
14 15 (2.66%) MongoDB
15 14 (2.49%) Metadata
16 11 (1.95%) Big Data
16 11 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.78%) Data Lake
18 9 (1.60%) Hadoop
18 9 (1.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 134 (23.80%) Git
2 90 (15.99%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.95%) GitLab
4 35 (6.22%) JIRA
5 30 (5.33%) Cypress.io
6 23 (4.09%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.66%) JMeter
7 15 (2.66%) JUnit
8 14 (2.49%) Selenium
9 13 (2.31%) Postman
10 12 (2.13%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.95%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.95%) Maven
11 11 (1.95%) Snyk
12 7 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.24%) Mockito
13 5 (0.89%) git-flow
14 4 (0.71%) Crashlytics
14 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 140 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 95 (16.87%) Public Sector
3 66 (11.72%) Finance
4 56 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (4.97%) Law
6 15 (2.66%) Aviation
6 15 (2.66%) Retail
7 14 (2.49%) Banking
8 12 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.89%) Legal
11 4 (0.71%) Local Government
11 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Marketing
12 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (34.81%) Developer
2 137 (24.33%) Senior
3 73 (12.97%) Software Engineer
4 63 (11.19%) Lead
5 62 (11.01%) Senior Developer
6 61 (10.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (10.48%) Java Developer
8 51 (9.06%) Data Engineer
9 47 (8.35%) Architect
10 43 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (5.68%) Software Developer
14 27 (4.80%) AWS Developer
15 25 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (4.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 22 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
18 19 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
18 19 (3.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 17 (3.02%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (33.75%) Terraform
2 130 (23.09%) Node.js
3 108 (19.18%) React
4 106 (18.83%) Spring Boot
5 91 (16.16%) Spring
6 89 (15.81%) .NET
7 77 (13.68%) REST
8 76 (13.50%) AngularJS
9 42 (7.46%) Kafka
10 40 (7.10%) RESTful
11 37 (6.57%) PySpark
12 36 (6.39%) AWS CDK
13 35 (6.22%) Jest
14 32 (5.68%) Ruby on Rails
15 27 (4.80%) Next.js
16 26 (4.62%) HTML
16 26 (4.62%) OpenAPI
17 24 (4.26%) Gherkin
18 23 (4.09%) ASP.NET
18 23 (4.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 177 (31.44%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (4.26%) Mainframe
7 21 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (3.37%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.13%) Podcast
11 12 (2.13%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.78%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.60%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.42%) Robotics
14 8 (1.42%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.24%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.75%) Linux
2 31 (5.51%) Windows
3 13 (2.31%) 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
1 355 (63.06%) CI/CD
2 296 (52.58%) Agile
3 243 (43.16%) DevOps
4 186 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 151 (26.82%) Software Engineering
6 148 (26.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 141 (25.04%) AI
8 135 (23.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 130 (23.09%) Mentoring
10 126 (22.38%) Microservices
11 114 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
12 99 (17.58%) Scrum
13 98 (17.41%) Test Automation
14 93 (16.52%) Observability
15 84 (14.92%) Containerisation
16 80 (14.21%) Roadmaps
17 78 (13.85%) Analytics
17 78 (13.85%) Event-Driven
18 73 (12.97%) Cloud Security
19 71 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 185 (32.86%) Python
2 174 (30.91%) Java
3 170 (30.20%) SQL
4 140 (24.87%) TypeScript
5 131 (23.27%) JavaScript
6 116 (20.60%) C#
7 60 (10.66%) Bash
8 36 (6.39%) Ruby
9 30 (5.33%) Kotlin
10 26 (4.62%) PowerShell
11 24 (4.26%) Bicep
12 20 (3.55%) Groovy
13 17 (3.02%) C++
14 13 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (2.13%) Rust
15 12 (2.13%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.78%) Scala
17 8 (1.42%) Go
18 6 (1.07%) COBOL
18 6 (1.07%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (18.65%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.99%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.06%) AWS Certification
4 48 (8.53%) Degree
5 37 (6.57%) DV Cleared
6 35 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (5.51%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (1.42%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 4 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.39%) Accessibility
3 35 (6.22%) QA
4 30 (5.33%) GDPR
5 27 (4.80%) WCAG
6 11 (1.95%) GRC
7 10 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.07%) NCSC
9 4 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.36%) NIST
10 2 (0.36%) PMO
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (29.31%) Docker
2 33 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.84%) vSphere
4 12 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.71%) Squid
6 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 105 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 56 (9.95%) Ansible
3 18 (3.20%) Puppet
4 13 (2.31%) Packer
5 12 (2.13%) Grafana
6 10 (1.78%) HP Fortify
6 10 (1.78%) 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 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.36%) logstash
12 1 (0.18%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 103 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.91%) Google
2 22 (3.91%) Oracle
3 19 (3.37%) Splunk
4 18 (3.20%) Dynatrace
5 17 (3.02%) VMware
6 16 (2.84%) Databricks
7 15 (2.66%) Tenable
8 14 (2.49%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.31%) OpenAI
10 12 (2.13%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (1.95%) OneLogin
11 11 (1.95%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.24%) SaltStack
13 6 (1.07%) Confluent
13 6 (1.07%) Veeam
14 4 (0.71%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.71%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.71%) Sparx