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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 150 182
Rank change year-on-year -81 +32 -52
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 315 773 546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.64% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 5.58% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 197 260 430
10th Percentile £47,300 £34,000 £42,525
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £78,491
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £86,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud 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 11,027 13,853 11,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.75% 29.39% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,886 7,761 9,847
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.79%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +61 122 £68,500 +21.78% 63
Yorkshire +49 62 £75,000 +42.86% 19
North West +45 56 £65,000 +6.12% 39
South East -100 51 £67,500 +8.00% 72
South West -62 48 £60,000 -15.79% 26
Midlands +15 44 £62,500 +19.05% 27
West Midlands +36 35 £62,500 -3.85% 14
East of England -42 25 £57,500 - 11
Scotland -15 20 £85,000 +21.43% 24
East Midlands +7 9 £65,000 +91.18% 13
Wales -8 8 £54,566 +98.42% 6
North East +16 4 £68,500 +19.13% 5
Northern Ireland +4 4 £95,000 +11.76% 1
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 18 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.76%) Confluence
3 13 (4.13%) Apache
4 6 (1.90%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.95%) JBoss
7 2 (0.63%) CMS
7 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 229 (72.70%) AWS
2 164 (52.06%) Azure
3 134 (42.54%) AWS Lambda
4 91 (28.89%) Amazon S3
5 68 (21.59%) Amazon ECS
6 51 (16.19%) Amazon EKS
6 51 (16.19%) Azure Functions
7 50 (15.87%) Amazon EC2
7 50 (15.87%) GitHub
8 36 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (11.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 31 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (9.52%) Power Platform
11 27 (8.57%) GCP
12 25 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (7.94%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (7.94%) Entra ID
12 25 (7.94%) SaaS
13 24 (7.62%) Power Automate
14 22 (6.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.40%) Internet
2 13 (4.13%) Wireless
3 12 (3.81%) Firewall
4 6 (1.90%) DNS
4 6 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.59%) AMQP
5 5 (1.59%) DHCP
5 5 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.59%) VLAN
5 5 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
7 1 (0.32%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.32%) NAS
7 1 (0.32%) SAN
7 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (13.33%) DynamoDB
3 39 (12.38%) Relational Database
4 32 (10.16%) SQL Server
5 24 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (7.62%) NoSQL
6 23 (7.30%) RDBMS
7 19 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (4.13%) MySQL
10 12 (3.81%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.86%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.22%) Big Data
12 7 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.90%) Power BI
14 5 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 50 (15.87%) Jenkins
2 41 (13.02%) Git
3 22 (6.98%) JUnit
4 18 (5.71%) JIRA
4 18 (5.71%) JMeter
4 18 (5.71%) Mockito
5 8 (2.54%) GitLab
6 6 (1.90%) git-flow
6 6 (1.90%) Maven
7 5 (1.59%) Selenium
7 5 (1.59%) Storybook
8 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.27%) NUnit
9 3 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.95%) Locust
9 3 (0.95%) MLflow
9 3 (0.95%) MSTest
9 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 91 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 46 (14.60%) Finance
4 21 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.08%) Law
6 14 (4.44%) Automotive
6 14 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.13%) Marketing
8 8 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.22%) Banking
9 7 (2.22%) Games
9 7 (2.22%) Retail
10 6 (1.90%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.27%) Electronics
11 4 (1.27%) Legal
12 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (39.05%) Developer
2 57 (18.10%) Senior
3 42 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 42 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 34 (10.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (10.16%) Architect
5 32 (10.16%) Senior Developer
6 27 (8.57%) Lead
7 22 (6.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 21 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 20 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (6.35%) Data Engineer
10 18 (5.71%) Software Developer
11 16 (5.08%) Python Developer
12 15 (4.76%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 12 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.49%) Support Engineer
15 10 (3.17%) Lead Developer
16 9 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (26.67%) React
2 71 (22.54%) .NET
3 58 (18.41%) HTML
4 56 (17.78%) Spring
5 54 (17.14%) Spring Boot
6 48 (15.24%) REST
7 41 (13.02%) AngularJS
8 40 (12.70%) Node.js
9 35 (11.11%) CSS
10 29 (9.21%) Web Services
11 25 (7.94%) JSON
12 24 (7.62%) Apache Camel
12 24 (7.62%) jQuery
13 22 (6.98%) Kafka
13 22 (6.98%) RESTful
14 21 (6.67%) .NET Core
14 21 (6.67%) .NET Framework
14 21 (6.67%) Hibernate
14 21 (6.67%) Vue
15 18 (5.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 74 (23.49%) Cloud Native
2 39 (12.38%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.71%) IoT
4 16 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.86%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.59%) BYOD
11 5 (1.59%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.27%) Life Science
13 3 (0.95%) Animation
13 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.76%) Linux
2 7 (2.22%) Windows
3 6 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.63%) CentOS
4 2 (0.63%) Debian
4 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
5 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (53.02%) CI/CD
2 140 (44.44%) Agile
3 129 (40.95%) DevOps
4 101 (32.06%) Microservices
5 87 (27.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 80 (25.40%) Mentoring
7 72 (22.86%) Software Engineering
8 67 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (19.37%) TDD
11 53 (16.83%) Full-Stack Development
12 43 (13.65%) Containerisation
13 40 (12.70%) Migration
14 36 (11.43%) AI
15 35 (11.11%) Data Modelling
16 33 (10.48%) SDLC
17 32 (10.16%) Test Automation
18 31 (9.84%) BDD
19 28 (8.89%) Front End Development
19 28 (8.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 130 (41.27%) Python
2 109 (34.60%) JavaScript
3 96 (30.48%) Java
4 81 (25.71%) TypeScript
5 72 (22.86%) C#
6 67 (21.27%) SQL
7 27 (8.57%) PowerShell
8 21 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.81%) Bash
10 10 (3.17%) Bicep
11 6 (1.90%) Go
12 3 (0.95%) C++
12 3 (0.95%) PHP
12 3 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.63%) VB
13 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.32%) Groovy
14 1 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.32%) R
14 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.79%) Azure Certification
3 28 (8.89%) AWS Certification
3 28 (8.89%) Degree
4 23 (7.30%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (2.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (2.54%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.32%) CCNA
12 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.32%) MCP
12 1 (0.32%) MCSE
12 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.44%) QA
2 10 (3.17%) GDPR
3 9 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.22%) NIST
5 6 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.59%) WCAG
7 4 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.95%) SLA
9 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) CDISC
10 1 (0.32%) DICOM
10 1 (0.32%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.32%) HL7
10 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (28.89%) Docker
2 14 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) Firmware
4 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 87 (27.62%) Kubernetes
2 80 (25.40%) Terraform
3 21 (6.67%) Ansible
3 21 (6.67%) Kibana
4 9 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.54%) Grafana
6 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.27%) Argo
9 3 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.95%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.95%) Puppet
10 2 (0.63%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.32%) Podman
11 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.03%) Dynatrace
2 19 (6.03%) Splunk
3 17 (5.40%) Oracle
4 15 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.54%) Google
6 6 (1.90%) Databricks
7 5 (1.59%) Aruba
7 5 (1.59%) HP
7 5 (1.59%) Veeam
8 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.27%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.27%) Pega
8 4 (1.27%) WSO2
9 3 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.95%) SAP
10 2 (0.63%) Avaya
10 2 (0.63%) Citrix
10 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.63%) VMware