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 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 209 119 163
Rank change year-on-year -90 +44 -51
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 673 1,350 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 2.43% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 6.74% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 423 603 772
10th Percentile £51,300 £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 £82,500 £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 20,528 20,025 21,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.11% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11,196 11,894 17,421
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 31 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 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
England -94 594 £71,000 -5.96% 1,376
UK excluding London -103 330 £65,000 +8.33% 1,164
Work from Home -65 317 £70,000 -7.89% 746
London -56 281 £76,000 -17.84% 328
North of England +68 162 £75,000 +25.00% 286
Yorkshire +63 111 £75,000 +42.86% 132
Midlands -3 50 £60,000 +9.09% 195
North West +16 47 £70,466 +12.75% 138
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
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 (4.61%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.97%) Apache
4 17 (2.53%) Confluence
5 14 (2.08%) OpenStack
6 10 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.34%) WebSphere
8 7 (1.04%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.89%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.89%) 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 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.89%) Shopify
3 2 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 497 (73.85%) AWS
2 345 (51.26%) AWS Lambda
3 296 (43.98%) Azure
4 237 (35.22%) Amazon S3
5 122 (18.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 122 (18.13%) GitHub
6 115 (17.09%) Amazon ECS
7 105 (15.60%) Azure Functions
8 99 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
9 92 (13.67%) Amazon EKS
10 85 (12.63%) Amazon SQS
11 81 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
12 80 (11.89%) SaaS
13 72 (10.70%) AWS Step Functions
13 72 (10.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 70 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
15 67 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 58 (8.62%) PaaS
17 54 (8.02%) GCP
18 52 (7.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.38%) Firewall
2 11 (1.63%) Internet
2 11 (1.63%) Network Security
3 10 (1.49%) AMQP
4 8 (1.19%) Broadband
4 8 (1.19%) Wireless
5 7 (1.04%) SSL
5 7 (1.04%) VPN
6 6 (0.89%) WAN
7 5 (0.74%) DNS
7 5 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.74%) 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%) SAN
9 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (15.16%) DynamoDB
2 91 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (12.63%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (12.48%) NoSQL
5 63 (9.36%) SQL Server
6 50 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (6.54%) Relational Database
9 30 (4.46%) MongoDB
10 24 (3.57%) Data Lake
11 22 (3.27%) MySQL
12 21 (3.12%) Big Data
12 21 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (2.67%) Power BI
14 18 (2.67%) RDBMS
15 16 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (2.08%) Hadoop
17 10 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
18 9 (1.34%) DB2
Development Applications
1 112 (16.64%) Git
2 108 (16.05%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.62%) GitLab
4 41 (6.09%) Cypress.io
5 25 (3.71%) JIRA
6 19 (2.82%) JUnit
7 18 (2.67%) JMeter
7 18 (2.67%) SonarQube
8 17 (2.53%) Maven
9 15 (2.23%) Mockito
10 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.19%) Storybook
12 7 (1.04%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.89%) git-flow
14 5 (0.74%) MLflow
14 5 (0.74%) NUnit
14 5 (0.74%) Vite
15 4 (0.59%) Mocha
15 4 (0.59%) Postman
15 4 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 200 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 93 (13.82%) Finance
3 63 (9.36%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.61%) Tech for Good
6 28 (4.16%) Publishing
7 27 (4.01%) Health Technology
8 19 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.38%) Law
10 16 (2.38%) Legal
10 16 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.93%) Banking
12 11 (1.63%) Retail
13 10 (1.49%) Marketing
14 9 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.19%) Advertising
15 8 (1.19%) Automotive
16 7 (1.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 271 (40.27%) Developer
2 152 (22.59%) Senior
3 101 (15.01%) Lead
4 94 (13.97%) Architect
5 74 (11.00%) Senior Developer
6 66 (9.81%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (8.77%) AWS Developer
8 54 (8.02%) Python Developer
9 52 (7.73%) Lead Developer
10 50 (7.43%) Java Developer
11 49 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (6.98%) .NET Developer
12 47 (6.98%) Software Engineer
13 41 (6.09%) Data Engineer
14 38 (5.65%) React Developer
15 37 (5.50%) Software Developer
16 33 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
17 29 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
18 27 (4.01%) Technical Leader
19 25 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (30.31%) React
2 125 (18.57%) Node.js
3 121 (17.98%) .NET
4 95 (14.12%) RESTful
5 87 (12.93%) HTML
6 83 (12.33%) Spring Boot
7 79 (11.74%) REST
8 78 (11.59%) Spring
9 70 (10.40%) AngularJS
10 68 (10.10%) CSS
11 42 (6.24%) .NET Core
11 42 (6.24%) AWS CDK
12 40 (5.94%) Kafka
13 39 (5.79%) .NET Framework
13 39 (5.79%) Jest
14 36 (5.35%) Vue
15 30 (4.46%) JSON
16 29 (4.31%) Web Services
17 28 (4.16%) Elastic Stack
18 26 (3.86%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 157 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 62 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (4.16%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.12%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.08%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.49%) IoT
12 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.34%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.19%) e-Learning
14 7 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.58%) Linux
2 19 (2.82%) Unix
3 17 (2.53%) Windows
4 10 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.74%) 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
1 375 (55.72%) CI/CD
2 307 (45.62%) DevOps
3 286 (42.50%) Agile
4 199 (29.57%) Microservices
5 195 (28.97%) Mentoring
6 187 (27.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 168 (24.96%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (21.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (17.83%) Containerisation
11 118 (17.53%) Software Engineering
12 105 (15.60%) Scrum
13 99 (14.71%) AI
14 93 (13.82%) TDD
15 78 (11.59%) Computer Science
16 77 (11.44%) SDLC
17 74 (11.00%) Analytics
18 73 (10.85%) Data Modelling
19 72 (10.70%) Migration
20 68 (10.10%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 283 (42.05%) Python
2 221 (32.84%) JavaScript
3 200 (29.72%) TypeScript
4 158 (23.48%) SQL
5 152 (22.59%) Java
6 123 (18.28%) C#
7 53 (7.88%) Bash
8 35 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.27%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.67%) Go
11 17 (2.53%) Bicep
11 17 (2.53%) Scala
12 16 (2.38%) Groovy
13 9 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (1.19%) Ruby
15 5 (0.74%) PHP
15 5 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 110 (16.34%) AWS Certification
2 92 (13.67%) Degree
3 84 (12.48%) Security Cleared
4 67 (9.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (7.73%) Azure Certification
6 50 (7.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 46 (6.84%) SC Cleared
8 43 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (4.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (4.01%) AWS Certified Developer
11 21 (3.12%) DV Cleared
12 20 (2.97%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 5 (0.74%) MCP
15 5 (0.74%) SnowPro
16 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 3 (0.45%) OSCP
18 2 (0.30%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.14%) QA
2 28 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.71%) GDPR
4 21 (3.12%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.08%) SLA
5 14 (2.08%) WCAG
6 13 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.04%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.59%) NIST
9 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) CDISC
10 1 (0.15%) DICOM
10 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.15%) GAAP
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 196 (29.12%) Docker
2 30 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.19%) 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
1 182 (27.04%) Terraform
2 138 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 44 (6.54%) Ansible
4 36 (5.35%) Grafana
5 35 (5.20%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.97%) Kibana
7 17 (2.53%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.74%) Argo
10 4 (0.59%) 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
1 136 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.27%) Splunk
3 20 (2.97%) Databricks
4 19 (2.82%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.67%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.53%) Google
7 15 (2.23%) Oracle
8 10 (1.49%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.34%) IBM
9 9 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.04%) Apple
10 7 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.89%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.59%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.59%) Pega
12 4 (0.59%) SAP
12 4 (0.59%) VMware
12 4 (0.59%) WSO2