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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 286 227
Rank change year-on-year +39 -59 -53
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 581 295 530
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.85% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.40% 3.19% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 392 202 263
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 £94,875 £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 17,079 9,240 14,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.72% 26.59% 27.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,934 6,199 8,412
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 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%

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 4 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 4 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 +79 289 £68,736 +5.75% 268
North West +57 134 £67,374 +3.65% 140
Yorkshire +18 102 £80,000 +13.48% 84
South East -26 78 £65,000 -8.77% 183
Midlands -13 75 £62,500 - 142
South West -42 73 £62,500 +4.17% 132
North East -12 53 £67,500 -1.46% 47
Wales -37 47 £55,000 +5.26% 110
West Midlands -39 43 £62,500 - 67
East Midlands -14 32 £65,000 - 76
Scotland -5 10 £67,500 -6.90% 186
East of England -57 10 £57,500 - 86
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 21 (3.61%) Confluence
1 21 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.58%) Apache
3 15 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.69%) nginx
5 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.34%) CMS
6 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.17%) Finacle
4 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 417 (71.77%) AWS
2 302 (51.98%) AWS Lambda
3 198 (34.08%) Amazon S3
4 194 (33.39%) Azure
5 137 (23.58%) Amazon ECS
6 131 (22.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 112 (19.28%) Azure Functions
7 112 (19.28%) GitHub
8 88 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
9 75 (12.91%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (12.05%) AWS Step Functions
11 64 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 62 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
13 61 (10.50%) Amazon SQS
14 60 (10.33%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (8.61%) GCP
15 50 (8.61%) Power Platform
16 46 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
17 41 (7.06%) SaaS
18 37 (6.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.10%) VPN
2 12 (2.07%) Firewall
3 10 (1.72%) DNS
4 9 (1.55%) MQTT
5 8 (1.38%) DHCP
5 8 (1.38%) Network Security
5 8 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.38%) VLAN
6 7 (1.20%) AMQP
6 7 (1.20%) VoIP
7 4 (0.69%) IPv4
7 4 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.52%) HTTP
8 3 (0.52%) LTE
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) LAN
10 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (18.07%) DynamoDB
2 64 (11.02%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (9.98%) SQL Server
4 46 (7.92%) NoSQL
5 44 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (7.57%) Relational Database
6 39 (6.71%) Amazon Athena
7 34 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (3.61%) Spark SQL
11 18 (3.10%) MySQL
11 18 (3.10%) Power BI
12 17 (2.93%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.89%) Big Data
13 11 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.89%) Metadata
14 10 (1.72%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.72%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 132 (22.72%) Git
2 89 (15.32%) Jenkins
3 53 (9.12%) GitLab
4 35 (6.02%) JIRA
5 30 (5.16%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.79%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.44%) Snyk
8 16 (2.75%) JMeter
8 16 (2.75%) JUnit
9 14 (2.41%) Selenium
10 13 (2.24%) Postman
11 11 (1.89%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.89%) Maven
12 10 (1.72%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.38%) Mockito
14 7 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.86%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.86%) git-flow
15 5 (0.86%) XCTest
16 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 139 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 92 (15.83%) Public Sector
3 68 (11.70%) Finance
4 62 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.65%) Law
7 16 (2.75%) Banking
8 15 (2.58%) Aviation
8 15 (2.58%) Retail
9 12 (2.07%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.86%) Legal
12 4 (0.69%) Local Government
12 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (33.73%) Developer
2 156 (26.85%) Senior
3 76 (13.08%) Software Engineer
4 65 (11.19%) Senior Developer
5 64 (11.02%) Lead
6 62 (10.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 58 (9.98%) Java Developer
8 56 (9.64%) Architect
9 48 (8.26%) Data Engineer
10 40 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (5.51%) Software Developer
14 30 (5.16%) Cloud Architect
15 29 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (4.65%) AWS Developer
17 26 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
18 23 (3.96%) Cloud Security Architect
18 23 (3.96%) Security Architect
19 22 (3.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (32.19%) Terraform
2 132 (22.72%) Node.js
3 111 (19.10%) React
4 109 (18.76%) Spring Boot
5 94 (16.18%) Spring
6 89 (15.32%) .NET
7 81 (13.94%) REST
8 77 (13.25%) AngularJS
9 42 (7.23%) Kafka
10 39 (6.71%) RESTful
11 37 (6.37%) AWS CDK
12 36 (6.20%) PySpark
13 35 (6.02%) Jest
14 32 (5.51%) Ruby on Rails
15 27 (4.65%) Next.js
16 26 (4.48%) HTML
16 26 (4.48%) OpenAPI
17 24 (4.13%) Gherkin
18 23 (3.96%) ASP.NET
18 23 (3.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 179 (30.81%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (4.13%) Mainframe
8 23 (3.96%) Data Centre
9 18 (3.10%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.07%) Podcast
11 12 (2.07%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.72%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.55%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.38%) Robotics
14 8 (1.38%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.20%) Linux
2 31 (5.34%) Windows
3 13 (2.24%) VMS
4 12 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.20%) AIX
5 7 (1.20%) CentOS
5 7 (1.20%) Debian
5 7 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (63.17%) CI/CD
2 298 (51.29%) Agile
3 243 (41.82%) DevOps
4 186 (32.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (26.33%) Software Engineering
6 149 (25.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 146 (25.13%) AI
8 139 (23.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (22.89%) Mentoring
10 128 (22.03%) Microservices
11 114 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (17.38%) Observability
13 97 (16.70%) Scrum
14 96 (16.52%) Test Automation
15 87 (14.97%) Containerisation
16 84 (14.46%) Cloud Security
17 82 (14.11%) Roadmaps
18 81 (13.94%) Event-Driven
19 77 (13.25%) Analytics
20 75 (12.91%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 187 (32.19%) Python
2 174 (29.95%) Java
3 168 (28.92%) SQL
4 142 (24.44%) TypeScript
5 131 (22.55%) JavaScript
6 115 (19.79%) C#
7 60 (10.33%) Bash
8 36 (6.20%) Ruby
9 29 (4.99%) Kotlin
10 28 (4.82%) PowerShell
11 25 (4.30%) Bicep
12 20 (3.44%) Groovy
13 17 (2.93%) C++
14 13 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (2.24%) Shell Script
15 12 (2.07%) Rust
16 8 (1.38%) Go
16 8 (1.38%) Scala
17 6 (1.03%) COBOL
17 6 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 85 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.43%) AWS Certification
4 45 (7.75%) Degree
5 34 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 34 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (5.34%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (1.38%) ISTQB
13 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.69%) OSCP
15 4 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.02%) QA
3 31 (5.34%) GDPR
4 27 (4.65%) WCAG
5 20 (3.44%) GRC
6 13 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.03%) NCSC
9 4 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.69%) NIST
10 2 (0.34%) PMO
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 167 (28.74%) Docker
2 35 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.75%) vSphere
5 12 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.38%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.69%) Squid
7 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 52 (8.95%) Ansible
3 18 (3.10%) Puppet
4 13 (2.24%) Grafana
5 12 (2.07%) Packer
6 11 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.72%) HP Fortify
7 10 (1.72%) Kibana
8 7 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.86%) Podman
11 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.69%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.17%) logstash
13 1 (0.17%) Scalr
Vendors
1 100 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.13%) Tenable
3 22 (3.79%) Oracle
4 20 (3.44%) CrowdStrike
4 20 (3.44%) Google
4 20 (3.44%) Palo Alto
4 20 (3.44%) Splunk
5 19 (3.27%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.93%) VMware
7 16 (2.75%) Databricks
8 14 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.24%) OpenAI
10 12 (2.07%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.89%) OneLogin
12 7 (1.20%) SaltStack
12 7 (1.20%) Veeam
13 6 (1.03%) Confluent
14 5 (0.86%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.86%) Braze
14 5 (0.86%) HubSpot