Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 187 191
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -32
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 904 805 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.84% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.38% 5.33% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 597 620 1,007
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,200 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.33% -7.69% -3.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,775 15,094 34,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 34.49% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15,020 10,570 26,680
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% +8.88% -9.09%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Serverless job vacancy trend in the UK

Serverless
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England -17 800 £75,000 - 328
UK excluding London +8 506 £69,200 +15.33% 204
Work from Home +18 379 £70,000 +0.54% 511
London -48 316 £82,500 -8.33% 148
North of England +86 264 £75,000 +15.38% 77
Yorkshire +37 153 £75,000 +27.66% 28
North West +54 104 £75,000 - 44
Midlands +8 102 £55,000 - 23
East Midlands +29 72 £57,500 +4.55% 8
South East -62 57 £62,500 +4.17% 53
South West -61 44 £63,750 +6.25% 31
West Midlands -61 30 £50,000 -9.09% 15
East of England -24 20 £60,050 -29.35% 6
Scotland -13 16 £76,783 +39.60% 9
Wales -26 14 £51,619 +0.43% 3
North East -38 7 £95,000 +52.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 4

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 31 (3.43%) Apache
2 29 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.44%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.88%) SAS
7 7 (0.77%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.77%) Confluence
8 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (0.66%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 657 (72.68%) AWS
2 459 (50.77%) AWS Lambda
3 337 (37.28%) Amazon S3
4 301 (33.30%) Azure
5 204 (22.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 189 (20.91%) Amazon ECS
7 140 (15.49%) Azure Functions
8 128 (14.16%) Amazon SQS
9 127 (14.05%) AWS Step Functions
10 125 (13.83%) GitHub
11 120 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
12 109 (12.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 96 (10.62%) SaaS
14 94 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
14 94 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
15 83 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
16 82 (9.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 72 (7.96%) GCP
18 65 (7.19%) Power Platform
19 58 (6.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.88%) Firewall
2 16 (1.77%) Network Security
3 13 (1.44%) DSL
4 10 (1.11%) AMQP
5 7 (0.77%) VPN
6 6 (0.66%) Internet
6 6 (0.66%) VoIP
7 5 (0.55%) DNS
7 5 (0.55%) MQTT
7 5 (0.55%) WAN
8 3 (0.33%) Broadband
9 2 (0.22%) 5G
9 2 (0.22%) DHCP
9 2 (0.22%) IPv4
9 2 (0.22%) LTE
9 2 (0.22%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.22%) VLAN
9 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (19.47%) DynamoDB
2 109 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (9.96%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (9.29%) NoSQL
5 72 (7.96%) SQL Server
6 44 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 40 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
8 38 (4.20%) MongoDB
8 38 (4.20%) Power BI
9 36 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (3.98%) Relational Database
10 27 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (2.65%) MySQL
12 21 (2.32%) Big Data
12 21 (2.32%) Data Lake
13 17 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.66%) Spark SQL
15 12 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 11 (1.22%) Redis
17 10 (1.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 176 (19.47%) Jenkins
2 150 (16.59%) Git
3 117 (12.94%) GitLab
4 70 (7.74%) Cypress.io
5 52 (5.75%) SonarQube
6 50 (5.53%) Maven
7 27 (2.99%) CircleCI
8 24 (2.65%) Snyk
9 19 (2.10%) JIRA
10 13 (1.44%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.44%) XCTest
11 12 (1.33%) JUnit
12 11 (1.22%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.11%) Cucumber
14 9 (1.00%) Mockito
15 8 (0.88%) MLflow
16 7 (0.77%) JMeter
17 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 5 (0.55%) Gradle
19 4 (0.44%) Artifactory
General
1 217 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 125 (13.83%) Finance
3 64 (7.08%) Public Sector
4 59 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (3.10%) Banking
7 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.66%) Publishing
9 14 (1.55%) Advertising
9 14 (1.55%) Health Technology
10 13 (1.44%) Law
11 11 (1.22%) Legal
11 11 (1.22%) Tech for Good
12 8 (0.88%) Retail
13 7 (0.77%) Billing
13 7 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.66%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 327 (36.17%) Developer
2 257 (28.43%) Senior
3 133 (14.71%) Architect
4 122 (13.50%) Lead
5 99 (10.95%) Java Developer
6 93 (10.29%) Senior Developer
7 91 (10.07%) Full-Stack Developer
8 70 (7.74%) Software Engineer
9 69 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (6.97%) AWS Developer
11 53 (5.86%) Data Engineer
12 49 (5.42%) Cloud Architect
13 48 (5.31%) Senior Architect
14 46 (5.09%) Security Architect
15 44 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 43 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
17 41 (4.54%) Lead Developer
17 41 (4.54%) Software Developer
18 40 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
18 40 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (24.00%) React
2 198 (21.90%) Node.js
3 127 (14.05%) .NET
4 123 (13.61%) Spring Boot
5 118 (13.05%) REST
6 108 (11.95%) AngularJS
7 96 (10.62%) Spring
8 92 (10.18%) RESTful
9 80 (8.85%) Kafka
10 69 (7.63%) Jest
11 63 (6.97%) AWS CDK
12 51 (5.64%) HTML
13 49 (5.42%) .NET Core
14 44 (4.87%) Gherkin
14 44 (4.87%) RabbitMQ
15 36 (3.98%) CSS
16 35 (3.87%) JSON
16 35 (3.87%) PySpark
17 32 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
18 30 (3.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 181 (20.02%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.99%) Blockchain
6 18 (1.99%) Web3
7 17 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.00%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.88%) IoT
13 7 (0.77%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.66%) NHS
14 6 (0.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.64%) Linux
2 17 (1.88%) Windows
3 15 (1.66%) VMS
4 13 (1.44%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.55%) CentOS
6 5 (0.55%) Debian
6 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.55%) Unix
7 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (58.52%) CI/CD
2 424 (46.90%) DevOps
3 318 (35.18%) Agile
4 305 (33.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 247 (27.32%) Microservices
6 210 (23.23%) Mentoring
7 197 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
8 192 (21.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 177 (19.58%) Software Engineering
10 168 (18.58%) Containerisation
11 160 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 155 (17.15%) Test Automation
13 149 (16.48%) AI
14 142 (15.71%) Observability
15 120 (13.27%) Event-Driven
16 114 (12.61%) Analytics
17 93 (10.29%) TDD
18 91 (10.07%) Scrum
19 90 (9.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 89 (9.85%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 336 (37.17%) Python
2 234 (25.88%) SQL
3 229 (25.33%) TypeScript
4 203 (22.46%) JavaScript
5 196 (21.68%) Java
6 134 (14.82%) C#
7 80 (8.85%) Bash
8 51 (5.64%) Groovy
9 44 (4.87%) Go
10 43 (4.76%) Kotlin
11 33 (3.65%) PowerShell
12 28 (3.10%) Ruby
13 20 (2.21%) Rust
14 18 (1.99%) Bicep
15 16 (1.77%) Shell Script
16 15 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 13 (1.44%) Swift
18 12 (1.33%) PHP
19 6 (0.66%) C++
20 5 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 104 (11.50%) Degree
3 96 (10.62%) AWS Certification
4 77 (8.52%) SC Cleared
5 64 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (4.42%) Azure Certification
7 37 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (2.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 18 (1.99%) DV Cleared
13 17 (1.88%) Master's Degree
14 15 (1.66%) OSCP
15 13 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (1.33%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.75%) QA
2 47 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.98%) GDPR
4 24 (2.65%) GRC
5 19 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.33%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.11%) NIST
10 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.44%) WCAG
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 278 (30.75%) Docker
2 33 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.99%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.44%) iptables
5 3 (0.33%) Firmware
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) Squid
6 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 262 (28.98%) Terraform
2 194 (21.46%) Kubernetes
3 88 (9.73%) Ansible
4 59 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 57 (6.31%) Grafana
6 41 (4.54%) HP Fortify
7 21 (2.32%) Kibana
8 15 (1.66%) Puppet
9 11 (1.22%) Packer
10 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.44%) Control-M
11 4 (0.44%) Podman
12 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.33%) Nagios
12 3 (0.33%) Scalr
12 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.22%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 114 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.20%) Databricks
3 29 (3.21%) Tenable
4 27 (2.99%) Palo Alto
5 24 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
5 24 (2.65%) Oracle
6 13 (1.44%) Amplitude
6 13 (1.44%) Braze
7 12 (1.33%) Splunk
8 11 (1.22%) Google
9 9 (1.00%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.88%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.88%) IBM
10 8 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.66%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.55%) Informatica
12 5 (0.55%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.44%) NVIDIA