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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 234 251
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 -53
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 579 382 782
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.21% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 4.33% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 383 269 485
10th Percentile £47,930 £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,088 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.74%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% +0.69%

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 16,956 8,832 23,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.36% 27.95% 30.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,002 6,142 17,633
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 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 1 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 +86 279 £75,000 +15.38% 52
North West +59 130 £72,500 +11.54% 27
Yorkshire +33 126 £80,000 +33.33% 17
Midlands +1 99 £55,000 - 24
South East -43 70 £67,500 +12.50% 50
South West -46 68 £62,500 +4.17% 23
East Midlands +31 67 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Wales -27 37 £53,171 +2.25% 11
West Midlands -47 32 £52,500 -8.70% 14
North East -32 23 £75,000 +15.38% 8
East of England -33 19 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Scotland +4 14 £70,000 +27.27% 14
Northern Ireland - 2 £95,000 - 12
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 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.42%) Apache
3 13 (2.25%) Confluence
4 12 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.38%) SAS
6 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.69%) JBoss
9 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.35%) nginx
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 416 (71.85%) AWS
2 278 (48.01%) AWS Lambda
3 212 (36.61%) Amazon S3
4 189 (32.64%) Azure
5 145 (25.04%) Amazon ECS
6 127 (21.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 103 (17.79%) Azure Functions
8 87 (15.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 84 (14.51%) GitHub
10 67 (11.57%) Amazon SQS
11 61 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (10.54%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
13 56 (9.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (8.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 49 (8.46%) GCP
16 46 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (7.77%) Power Platform
18 43 (7.43%) Amazon ECR
19 41 (7.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.42%) Network Security
1 14 (2.42%) VPN
2 7 (1.21%) AMQP
2 7 (1.21%) Firewall
2 7 (1.21%) MQTT
3 4 (0.69%) IPv4
3 4 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (0.52%) DHCP
4 3 (0.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.52%) LTE
4 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.52%) VLAN
5 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.35%) WAN
5 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.17%) HTTP
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) VoIP
6 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (19.69%) DynamoDB
2 50 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (7.60%) NoSQL
5 42 (7.25%) SQL Server
6 36 (6.22%) Amazon Athena
7 30 (5.18%) Relational Database
8 27 (4.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (3.45%) Power BI
11 18 (3.11%) Big Data
12 17 (2.94%) MySQL
13 13 (2.25%) MongoDB
14 12 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.73%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.73%) Spark SQL
16 6 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
16 6 (1.04%) Hadoop
16 6 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 108 (18.65%) Jenkins
2 104 (17.96%) Git
3 63 (10.88%) GitLab
4 41 (7.08%) SonarQube
5 36 (6.22%) Cypress.io
6 30 (5.18%) Maven
7 27 (4.66%) JIRA
8 22 (3.80%) Snyk
9 14 (2.42%) Crashlytics
9 14 (2.42%) XCTest
10 13 (2.25%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.25%) JUnit
10 13 (2.25%) Selenium
11 10 (1.73%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.73%) Postman
12 8 (1.38%) JMeter
13 7 (1.21%) Mockito
14 5 (0.86%) Claude Code
15 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 137 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.36%) Public Sector
3 51 (8.81%) Finance
4 39 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.07%) Law
7 9 (1.55%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.04%) Banking
10 5 (0.86%) Legal
11 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.52%) Advertising
12 3 (0.52%) Publishing
12 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.35%) Games
13 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 227 (39.21%) Developer
2 164 (28.32%) Senior
3 88 (15.20%) Java Developer
4 81 (13.99%) Lead
5 72 (12.44%) Senior Developer
5 72 (12.44%) Software Engineer
6 67 (11.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 61 (10.54%) Architect
8 38 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 35 (6.04%) AWS Developer
10 34 (5.87%) Cloud Architect
10 34 (5.87%) Software Developer
11 30 (5.18%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.32%) Cloud Security Architect
12 25 (4.32%) Security Architect
13 24 (4.15%) Senior Architect
13 24 (4.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (3.97%) .NET Developer
14 23 (3.97%) Senior Cloud Architect
14 23 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (25.56%) Node.js
2 130 (22.45%) React
3 120 (20.73%) Spring Boot
4 105 (18.13%) AngularJS
5 92 (15.89%) Spring
6 90 (15.54%) REST
7 74 (12.78%) .NET
8 38 (6.56%) Jest
9 37 (6.39%) Gherkin
9 37 (6.39%) HTML
10 33 (5.70%) AWS CDK
10 33 (5.70%) RESTful
11 32 (5.53%) Kafka
12 24 (4.15%) CSS
13 22 (3.80%) Next.js
14 20 (3.45%) Vue
15 18 (3.11%) ASP.NET
15 18 (3.11%) Ruby on Rails
15 18 (3.11%) Swagger
16 17 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 128 (22.11%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (7.60%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 25 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 25 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (4.15%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.59%) Mainframe
8 13 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.25%) Security Posture
9 12 (2.07%) Podcast
10 9 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.55%) IoT
11 8 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.21%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.21%) Robotics
13 6 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.74%) Linux
2 25 (4.32%) Windows
3 14 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.25%) VMS
5 6 (1.04%) CentOS
5 6 (1.04%) Debian
5 6 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.52%) AIX
7 2 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (60.10%) CI/CD
2 264 (45.60%) Agile
3 257 (44.39%) DevOps
4 182 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 143 (24.70%) Full-Stack Development
6 132 (22.80%) Microservices
7 127 (21.93%) Software Engineering
8 123 (21.24%) AI
9 119 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 119 (20.55%) Mentoring
10 112 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (17.96%) Observability
11 104 (17.96%) Test Automation
12 101 (17.44%) Containerisation
13 91 (15.72%) Scrum
14 78 (13.47%) Clean Code
14 78 (13.47%) TDD
15 77 (13.30%) Event-Driven
16 75 (12.95%) DevSecOps
17 70 (12.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 201 (34.72%) Python
2 175 (30.22%) Java
3 155 (26.77%) TypeScript
4 154 (26.60%) SQL
5 127 (21.93%) JavaScript
6 81 (13.99%) C#
7 65 (11.23%) Bash
8 45 (7.77%) Kotlin
9 44 (7.60%) Groovy
10 29 (5.01%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.63%) Bicep
12 18 (3.11%) Ruby
13 14 (2.42%) Swift
14 13 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (2.07%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.73%) PHP
17 9 (1.55%) Rust
18 8 (1.38%) Go
19 6 (1.04%) Scala
20 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (11.05%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.19%) Degree
3 54 (9.33%) AWS Certification
4 50 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 31 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (4.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (4.15%) Azure Certification
9 23 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (3.11%) DV Cleared
11 17 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.59%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.90%) DBS Check
14 7 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (1.21%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.69%) CCNA
16 4 (0.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.80%) GRC
3 21 (3.63%) GDPR
4 20 (3.45%) QA
5 17 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.55%) WCAG
7 5 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.69%) NCSC
8 4 (0.69%) NIST
9 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 181 (31.26%) Docker
2 28 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.76%) vSphere
5 12 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.69%) iptables
6 4 (0.69%) Squid
6 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.52%) Firmware
8 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 162 (27.98%) Terraform
2 104 (17.96%) Kubernetes
3 51 (8.81%) Ansible
4 28 (4.84%) HP Fortify
5 22 (3.80%) Grafana
6 20 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.94%) Puppet
8 13 (2.25%) Kibana
9 12 (2.07%) Packer
10 7 (1.21%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.69%) Podman
11 4 (0.69%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.52%) Scalr
13 2 (0.35%) Control-M
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.35%) Nagios
14 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 82 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.66%) Tenable
3 26 (4.49%) Oracle
4 22 (3.80%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (3.80%) Palo Alto
5 18 (3.11%) Splunk
6 16 (2.76%) VMware
7 14 (2.42%) Amplitude
7 14 (2.42%) Braze
8 13 (2.25%) Databricks
9 12 (2.07%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.90%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.90%) Google
11 10 (1.73%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.55%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.38%) IBM
14 7 (1.21%) HubSpot
14 7 (1.21%) OpenAI
15 6 (1.04%) SaltStack
16 4 (0.69%) NVIDIA