Serverless Job Trends

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 119 163
Rank change year-on-year -85 +44 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 668 1,345 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.13% 2.43% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.25% 6.73% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 419 598 782
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £64,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.34% +3.60%

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 20,541 19,986 21,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 36.17% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,223 11,856 17,554
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 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
England -90 590 £70,932 -6.05% 1,480
UK excluding London -109 325 £65,000 +8.33% 1,259
Work from Home -71 310 £70,000 -7.89% 761
London -57 282 £76,000 -15.56% 347
North of England +69 159 £73,750 +22.92% 315
Yorkshire +65 107 £75,000 +46.34% 142
North West +18 48 £70,000 +12.00% 153
Midlands -6 48 £60,000 +9.09% 218
South East -118 47 £67,500 +8.00% 311
South West -93 38 £62,500 -10.71% 138
West Midlands +3 31 £60,000 +9.09% 119
East Midlands -22 17 £65,000 +18.18% 85
East of England -48 17 £57,500 -4.17% 166
Scotland -16 13 £67,250 -7.88% 71
Wales -17 7 £60,000 +118.18% 29
Northern Ireland -2 5 £95,000 +11.76% 26
North East +1 4 £68,500 +9.60% 21

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 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.99%) Apache
4 17 (2.54%) Confluence
5 14 (2.10%) OpenStack
6 10 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.35%) WebSphere
8 7 (1.05%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.90%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.45%) nginx
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.90%) Shopify
3 2 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 491 (73.50%) AWS
2 341 (51.05%) AWS Lambda
3 296 (44.31%) Azure
4 232 (34.73%) Amazon S3
5 120 (17.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 120 (17.96%) GitHub
6 114 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
7 106 (15.87%) Azure Functions
8 99 (14.82%) Amazon EC2
9 92 (13.77%) Amazon EKS
10 84 (12.57%) Amazon SQS
11 81 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
12 79 (11.83%) SaaS
13 73 (10.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 70 (10.48%) AWS Step Functions
15 69 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 59 (8.83%) PaaS
18 54 (8.08%) GCP
19 52 (7.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.40%) Firewall
2 11 (1.65%) Internet
2 11 (1.65%) Network Security
3 10 (1.50%) AMQP
4 8 (1.20%) Broadband
4 8 (1.20%) Wireless
5 7 (1.05%) SSL
5 7 (1.05%) VPN
6 6 (0.90%) WAN
7 5 (0.75%) DNS
7 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.75%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.30%) DHCP
8 2 (0.30%) DSL
8 2 (0.30%) LAN
8 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.15%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.15%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (15.27%) DynamoDB
2 91 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (12.57%) Amazon RDS
4 82 (12.28%) NoSQL
5 63 (9.43%) SQL Server
6 50 (7.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (6.59%) Relational Database
9 30 (4.49%) MongoDB
10 25 (3.74%) Data Lake
11 22 (3.29%) MySQL
12 21 (3.14%) Big Data
12 21 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (2.69%) Power BI
14 18 (2.69%) RDBMS
15 14 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (2.10%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.35%) DB2
Development Applications
1 108 (16.17%) Git
2 107 (16.02%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.68%) GitLab
4 41 (6.14%) Cypress.io
5 25 (3.74%) JIRA
6 19 (2.84%) JUnit
7 18 (2.69%) JMeter
7 18 (2.69%) SonarQube
8 17 (2.54%) Maven
9 15 (2.25%) Mockito
10 11 (1.65%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.20%) Storybook
12 7 (1.05%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.90%) git-flow
14 5 (0.75%) MLflow
14 5 (0.75%) NUnit
14 5 (0.75%) Vite
15 4 (0.60%) Mocha
15 4 (0.60%) Postman
15 4 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 197 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.37%) Finance
3 63 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.64%) Tech for Good
6 28 (4.19%) Publishing
7 27 (4.04%) Health Technology
8 19 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.40%) Law
10 16 (2.40%) Legal
10 16 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.10%) Banking
12 11 (1.65%) Retail
13 10 (1.50%) Marketing
14 9 (1.35%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.20%) Advertising
15 8 (1.20%) Automotive
16 7 (1.05%) Billing
Job Titles
1 267 (39.97%) Developer
2 153 (22.90%) Senior
3 100 (14.97%) Lead
4 92 (13.77%) Architect
5 75 (11.23%) Senior Developer
6 65 (9.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (8.23%) AWS Developer
8 52 (7.78%) Python Developer
9 50 (7.49%) Lead Developer
10 49 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
10 49 (7.34%) Java Developer
11 48 (7.19%) Software Engineer
12 47 (7.04%) .NET Developer
13 41 (6.14%) Data Engineer
14 35 (5.24%) Software Developer
15 34 (5.09%) React Developer
16 33 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
17 29 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
18 27 (4.04%) Technical Leader
19 25 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (30.24%) React
2 122 (18.26%) .NET
3 120 (17.96%) Node.js
4 93 (13.92%) RESTful
5 86 (12.87%) HTML
6 83 (12.43%) Spring Boot
7 79 (11.83%) REST
7 79 (11.83%) Spring
8 68 (10.18%) AngularJS
8 68 (10.18%) CSS
9 42 (6.29%) .NET Core
9 42 (6.29%) AWS CDK
10 40 (5.99%) .NET Framework
11 39 (5.84%) Jest
11 39 (5.84%) Kafka
12 36 (5.39%) Vue
13 30 (4.49%) JSON
14 29 (4.34%) Web Services
15 28 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
16 26 (3.89%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 157 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 62 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.14%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.10%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.50%) IoT
12 9 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.35%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.35%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.63%) Linux
2 19 (2.84%) Unix
3 17 (2.54%) Windows
4 10 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.75%) VMS
6 3 (0.45%) CentOS
6 3 (0.45%) Debian
6 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (55.69%) CI/CD
2 307 (45.96%) DevOps
3 289 (43.26%) Agile
4 196 (29.34%) Microservices
5 192 (28.74%) Mentoring
6 188 (28.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 169 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (21.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (17.96%) Containerisation
11 117 (17.51%) Software Engineering
12 105 (15.72%) Scrum
13 98 (14.67%) AI
14 95 (14.22%) TDD
15 77 (11.53%) SDLC
16 76 (11.38%) Computer Science
17 74 (11.08%) Analytics
18 71 (10.63%) Data Modelling
19 70 (10.48%) Migration
20 68 (10.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 279 (41.77%) Python
2 217 (32.49%) JavaScript
3 198 (29.64%) TypeScript
4 154 (23.05%) SQL
5 150 (22.46%) Java
6 122 (18.26%) C#
7 53 (7.93%) Bash
8 35 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.29%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.69%) Bicep
10 18 (2.69%) Go
11 17 (2.54%) Scala
12 16 (2.40%) Groovy
13 9 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (1.20%) Ruby
15 5 (0.75%) PHP
15 5 (0.75%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.60%) C++
16 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (16.17%) AWS Certification
2 90 (13.47%) Degree
3 83 (12.43%) Security Cleared
4 65 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (7.49%) Azure Certification
6 48 (7.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 45 (6.74%) SC Cleared
8 41 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (4.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (4.04%) AWS Certified Developer
11 21 (3.14%) DV Cleared
12 20 (2.99%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 5 (0.75%) MCP
15 5 (0.75%) SnowPro
16 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 3 (0.45%) OSCP
18 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (11.38%) QA
2 28 (4.19%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.89%) GDPR
4 21 (3.14%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.25%) SLA
6 14 (2.10%) WCAG
7 13 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.60%) NIST
9 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) CDISC
11 1 (0.15%) DICOM
11 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.15%) GAAP
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 194 (29.04%) Docker
2 30 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.20%) HDFS
5 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.30%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) iptables
7 1 (0.15%) vCloud
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (27.40%) Terraform
2 139 (20.81%) Kubernetes
3 44 (6.59%) Ansible
4 36 (5.39%) Grafana
5 35 (5.24%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.99%) Kibana
7 17 (2.54%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.75%) Argo
10 4 (0.60%) Puppet
11 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.45%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.30%) Control-M
13 1 (0.15%) Nagios
13 1 (0.15%) Podman
13 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 134 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.29%) Splunk
3 20 (2.99%) Databricks
4 19 (2.84%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.69%) Atlassian
5 18 (2.69%) Google
6 15 (2.25%) Oracle
7 10 (1.50%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.35%) IBM
8 9 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.05%) Apple
9 7 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.90%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.60%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.60%) Pega
11 4 (0.60%) SAP
11 4 (0.60%) VMware
11 4 (0.60%) WSO2