Serverless Jobs in the UK excluding London

Serverless Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 257 155
Rank change year-on-year +21 -102 -23
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 488 804 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.01% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 3.29% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 268 481 596
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

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 8,690 24,432 21,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.90% 30.76% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,835 17,904 13,300
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Serverless in the UK excluding London

Serverless
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 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 11 June 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
South East +9 136 £60,000 -11.11% 296
North of England -35 110 £65,000 +8.33% 221
East of England +63 78 £85,000 +44.68% 42
Midlands +21 64 £55,000 -21.43% 79
North West -49 63 £65,000 +13.04% 148
South West +105 61 £60,000 -11.11% 85
West Midlands +27 52 £57,500 -17.86% 45
Yorkshire +51 43 £60,000 - 45
Scotland +55 30 £55,000 -4.35% 44
Wales +50 16 £52,000 -1.89% 16
East Midlands +37 12 £53,750 -2.27% 32
North East +19 8 £62,500 -3.85% 28
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.07%) Confluence
3 14 (2.87%) JBoss
3 14 (2.87%) Red Hat Fuse
4 12 (2.46%) Apache
4 12 (2.46%) CMS
4 12 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.43%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.61%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.20%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 403 (82.58%) AWS
2 312 (63.93%) AWS Lambda
3 204 (41.80%) Azure
4 101 (20.70%) Amazon S3
4 101 (20.70%) GCP
5 85 (17.42%) Amazon ECS
6 68 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
7 64 (13.11%) Azure Functions
8 53 (10.86%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (9.63%) AWS Step Functions
10 45 (9.22%) SaaS
11 40 (8.20%) GitHub
12 35 (7.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 33 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
15 31 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (4.51%) Power Platform
19 21 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (22.34%) Broadband
2 33 (6.76%) SSL
3 26 (5.33%) SSH
4 11 (2.25%) Firewall
5 8 (1.64%) Internet
6 5 (1.02%) VPN
7 4 (0.82%) IPv4
8 3 (0.61%) DNS
8 3 (0.61%) Wireless
9 2 (0.41%) OSPF
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) HTTP
10 1 (0.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.52%) DynamoDB
2 60 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (10.45%) Relational Database
4 33 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (5.74%) NoSQL
6 26 (5.33%) RDBMS
7 22 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (4.51%) MySQL
8 21 (4.30%) Big Data
8 21 (4.30%) MongoDB
9 20 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (3.28%) Data Lake
11 16 (3.28%) SQL Server
12 14 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.84%) Power BI
14 5 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.02%) Redis
15 4 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (0.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 70 (14.34%) Git
2 69 (14.14%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.76%) JUnit
4 31 (6.35%) JIRA
5 20 (4.10%) GitLab
6 18 (3.69%) Selenium
7 16 (3.28%) JMeter
7 16 (3.28%) Mockito
8 8 (1.64%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (1.23%) Jasmine
10 6 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (1.23%) Postman
11 5 (1.02%) Maven
12 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.82%) Locust
12 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.61%) Mocha
13 3 (0.61%) Vagrant
General
1 120 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 97 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 50 (10.25%) Finance
5 39 (7.99%) Law
6 34 (6.97%) Retail
7 19 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.28%) Marketing
9 13 (2.66%) Banking
9 13 (2.66%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.64%) Games
11 8 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.43%) Electronics
12 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.82%) Automotive
14 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.41%) Retail Finance
15 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 188 (38.52%) Senior
2 169 (34.63%) Developer
3 86 (17.62%) Senior Developer
4 65 (13.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 52 (10.66%) Lead
6 50 (10.25%) Java Developer
7 45 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 40 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 39 (7.99%) Software Engineer
10 34 (6.97%) Architect
11 32 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.33%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.71%) Software Developer
14 21 (4.30%) AWS Developer
14 21 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.28%) Senior Software Developer
16 13 (2.66%) Applications Support
16 13 (2.66%) Applications Support Engineer
16 13 (2.66%) AWS Architect
16 13 (2.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (21.11%) React
2 74 (15.16%) REST
3 73 (14.96%) Web Services
4 72 (14.75%) Node.js
5 71 (14.55%) RESTful
6 60 (12.30%) HTML
7 54 (11.07%) Spring Boot
8 53 (10.86%) .NET
8 53 (10.86%) GraphQL
9 50 (10.25%) Spring
10 42 (8.61%) CSS
11 39 (7.99%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.15%) Apache Camel
13 26 (5.33%) Kafka
14 22 (4.51%) jQuery
15 21 (4.30%) JSON
15 21 (4.30%) Serverless Framework
15 21 (4.30%) Vue
16 20 (4.10%) .NET Framework
16 20 (4.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.32%) Self-Motivation
2 39 (7.99%) Cloud Native
3 36 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (5.94%) Management Information System
5 27 (5.53%) Onboarding
6 26 (5.33%) Cyber Threat
6 26 (5.33%) Cyberattack
6 26 (5.33%) PKI
7 17 (3.48%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 10 (2.05%) IoT
11 8 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.43%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 5 (1.02%) Client/Server
14 5 (1.02%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.74%) Linux
2 11 (2.25%) Windows
3 8 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (52.05%) Agile
2 234 (47.95%) CI/CD
3 183 (37.50%) DevOps
4 152 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (27.25%) Mentoring
6 124 (25.41%) Microservices
7 114 (23.36%) Clean Code
8 94 (19.26%) Machine Learning
9 91 (18.65%) Software Engineering
10 88 (18.03%) Data Science
11 72 (14.75%) Full-Stack Development
12 71 (14.55%) Creative Thinking
12 71 (14.55%) Event-Driven
13 70 (14.34%) TDD
14 66 (13.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 65 (13.32%) Performance Metrics
15 65 (13.32%) Personalization
16 63 (12.91%) Test Automation
17 57 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
17 57 (11.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 245 (50.20%) Python
2 166 (34.02%) TypeScript
3 136 (27.87%) JavaScript
4 121 (24.80%) Java
5 84 (17.21%) SQL
6 63 (12.91%) C#
7 24 (4.92%) Shell Script
8 21 (4.30%) PHP
9 15 (3.07%) Bash
10 12 (2.46%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.05%) Scala
12 6 (1.23%) Go
13 5 (1.02%) Bicep
13 5 (1.02%) Groovy
14 4 (0.82%) Perl
14 4 (0.82%) R
14 4 (0.82%) Ruby
15 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.41%) F#
16 2 (0.41%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 104 (21.31%) Degree
2 85 (17.42%) Security Cleared
3 67 (13.73%) PhD
4 53 (10.86%) SC Cleared
5 37 (7.58%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.97%) NIST
2 33 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.87%) QA
4 14 (2.87%) SLA
5 13 (2.66%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.64%) GDPR
7 5 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.41%) GMP
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (20.90%) Docker
2 37 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 93 (19.06%) Kubernetes
1 93 (19.06%) Terraform
2 33 (6.76%) Ansible
3 16 (3.28%) Kibana
4 7 (1.43%) Nessus
4 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.43%) Proxmox
5 6 (1.23%) Grafana
6 4 (0.82%) Puppet
7 3 (0.61%) Nagios
7 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.41%) Argo
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.33%) Thales
3 21 (4.30%) Databricks
3 21 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.89%) Google
5 18 (3.69%) Splunk
6 17 (3.48%) Oracle
7 16 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 15 (3.07%) Informatica
9 14 (2.87%) MuleSoft
9 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.64%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.43%) Juniper
12 5 (1.02%) SAP
13 3 (0.61%) IBM
13 3 (0.61%) StreamSets
14 2 (0.41%) iManage
14 2 (0.41%) PagerDuty
14 2 (0.41%) VMware
15 1 (0.20%) AppDynamics