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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 130 198
Rank change year-on-year -103 +68 -65
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 330 763 484
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 2.04% 1.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 6.33% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 201 267 352
10th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.34% +3.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +11.11% -10.00%

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 13,621 12,052 11,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.47% 32.20% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,816 6,625 9,516
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,375 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,364
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +68 162 £75,000 +25.00% 287
Yorkshire +63 111 £75,000 +42.86% 132
Midlands -3 50 £60,000 +9.09% 195
North West +16 47 £70,466 +12.75% 139
South East -122 47 £67,500 +8.00% 300
South West -92 38 £62,500 -10.71% 135
West Midlands +9 31 £60,000 +9.09% 108
East Midlands -15 19 £65,000 +18.18% 74
East of England -46 17 £57,500 -4.17% 144
Scotland -24 13 £67,250 -7.88% 65
Wales -12 7 £60,000 +118.18% 23
Northern Ireland 0 5 £95,000 +11.76% 28
North East +5 4 £68,500 +9.60% 17
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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.24%) Apache
3 13 (3.94%) SharePoint
4 12 (3.64%) OpenStack
5 11 (3.33%) Confluence
6 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 253 (76.67%) AWS
2 168 (50.91%) Azure
3 148 (44.85%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (36.97%) Amazon S3
5 74 (22.42%) Amazon ECS
6 68 (20.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 60 (18.18%) GitHub
8 55 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (13.33%) Azure Functions
10 42 (12.73%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (12.73%) AWS Step Functions
11 40 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (10.61%) Azure Logic Apps
14 33 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (9.39%) GCP
16 30 (9.09%) SaaS
17 25 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
18 24 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
19 22 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.33%) Internet
2 8 (2.42%) Firewall
2 8 (2.42%) Wireless
3 6 (1.82%) AMQP
4 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.61%) DHCP
5 2 (0.61%) DNS
5 2 (0.61%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.61%) VLAN
5 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.30%) NAS
6 1 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 54 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (11.21%) NoSQL
4 35 (10.61%) Relational Database
5 33 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 28 (8.48%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (4.85%) RDBMS
10 12 (3.64%) MySQL
11 8 (2.42%) Big Data
11 8 (2.42%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.12%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.52%) InfluxDB
13 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 63 (19.09%) Jenkins
2 56 (16.97%) Git
3 26 (7.88%) GitLab
4 18 (5.45%) SonarQube
5 17 (5.15%) Cypress.io
5 17 (5.15%) JUnit
5 17 (5.15%) Maven
6 13 (3.94%) JMeter
6 13 (3.94%) Mockito
7 11 (3.33%) JIRA
8 6 (1.82%) git-flow
8 6 (1.82%) Storybook
9 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.21%) NUnit
11 3 (0.91%) MLflow
11 3 (0.91%) MSTest
12 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.30%) Gradle
13 1 (0.30%) Moq
13 1 (0.30%) NSubstitute
General
1 99 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.82%) Public Sector
3 30 (9.09%) Finance
4 21 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.42%) Automotive
6 7 (2.12%) Legal
6 7 (2.12%) Marketing
7 6 (1.82%) Law
7 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.21%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.91%) Advertising
9 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Retail
9 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.61%) Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Billing
10 2 (0.61%) Games
10 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 140 (42.42%) Developer
2 55 (16.67%) Senior
3 45 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 42 (12.73%) Architect
5 40 (12.12%) Lead
6 39 (11.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 37 (11.21%) Software Engineer
8 30 (9.09%) .NET Developer
9 28 (8.48%) Senior Developer
10 23 (6.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 21 (6.36%) Python Developer
12 20 (6.06%) AWS Developer
12 20 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (5.76%) Software Developer
14 16 (4.85%) Lead Developer
15 14 (4.24%) Applications Architect
16 13 (3.94%) Data Engineer
16 13 (3.94%) Mid-Level Java Developer
17 11 (3.33%) Software Architect
18 10 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (32.73%) React
2 72 (21.82%) .NET
3 63 (19.09%) Spring Boot
4 60 (18.18%) Node.js
5 58 (17.58%) Spring
6 57 (17.27%) HTML
7 55 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 53 (16.06%) REST
9 38 (11.52%) CSS
10 27 (8.18%) RESTful
11 25 (7.58%) .NET Core
11 25 (7.58%) Vue
11 25 (7.58%) Web Services
12 24 (7.27%) AWS CDK
13 22 (6.67%) Blazor
14 21 (6.36%) Kafka
15 20 (6.06%) ASP.NET
15 20 (6.06%) JSON
16 18 (5.45%) .NET Framework
17 17 (5.15%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 83 (25.15%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (8.48%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.94%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.03%) IoT
6 10 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.21%) Life Science
8 4 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.91%) Animation
9 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.36%) Linux
2 4 (1.21%) Windows
3 3 (0.91%) CentOS
3 3 (0.91%) Debian
3 3 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.91%) Unix
3 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (59.39%) CI/CD
2 156 (47.27%) DevOps
3 151 (45.76%) Agile
4 120 (36.36%) Microservices
5 105 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 94 (28.48%) Mentoring
7 72 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 67 (20.30%) Software Engineering
10 63 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (16.06%) Containerisation
12 48 (14.55%) Migration
12 48 (14.55%) TDD
13 42 (12.73%) Data Modelling
14 41 (12.42%) Application Security
15 37 (11.21%) Architectural Patterns
16 36 (10.91%) SDLC
17 33 (10.00%) Computer Science
18 32 (9.70%) Scrum
19 31 (9.39%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 129 (39.09%) Python
2 123 (37.27%) JavaScript
3 113 (34.24%) Java
4 104 (31.52%) TypeScript
5 81 (24.55%) SQL
6 80 (24.24%) C#
7 25 (7.58%) Bash
8 20 (6.06%) PowerShell
9 18 (5.45%) Shell Script
10 16 (4.85%) Groovy
11 9 (2.73%) Bicep
12 7 (2.12%) Go
13 4 (1.21%) C++
13 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.91%) PHP
15 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.61%) VB
15 2 (0.61%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.30%) C
16 1 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 55 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 38 (11.52%) Azure Certification
3 37 (11.21%) Degree
3 37 (11.21%) Security Cleared
4 32 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (8.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (7.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 21 (6.36%) SC Cleared
9 18 (5.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (2.42%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.61%) IIBA
14 1 (0.30%) CCNA
14 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.30%) MCP
14 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.55%) QA
2 10 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.82%) WCAG
4 4 (1.21%) GDPR
5 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.61%) NIST
6 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) CDISC
7 1 (0.30%) DICOM
7 1 (0.30%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) HL7
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (33.64%) Docker
2 10 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 83 (25.15%) Terraform
2 77 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.27%) Ansible
4 17 (5.15%) HP Fortify
5 16 (4.85%) Kibana
6 11 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.73%) Grafana
8 6 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.21%) Argo
9 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.21%) Puppet
10 3 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.91%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.61%) Control-M
12 1 (0.30%) Nagios
12 1 (0.30%) Podman
12 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.24%) Dynatrace
2 14 (4.24%) Splunk
3 11 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.42%) Google
5 7 (2.12%) Oracle
6 4 (1.21%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.21%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.21%) Pega
6 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.21%) WSO2
7 3 (0.91%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.61%) Aruba
8 2 (0.61%) Avaya
8 2 (0.61%) Genesys
8 2 (0.61%) HP
8 2 (0.61%) Informatica
8 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.61%) Veeam
8 2 (0.61%) VMware