Serverless Jobs

Serverless Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 139 74
Rank change year-on-year -70 -65 +31
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,466 2,452 8,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 2.59% 4.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 6.00% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 988 1,392 1,952
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,599 £46,300
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -3.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36,127 40,865 82,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 43.11% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,017 27,416 41,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,553 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Serverless.

Salary trend for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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 2 June 2024. 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 -46 1,272 £75,000 - 360
UK excluding London -99 800 £65,000 -3.70% 186
Work from Home -80 655 £75,000 +3.45% 204
London -18 562 £85,000 +6.25% 187
South East -31 226 £70,000 - 23
North of England -53 226 £60,000 -11.15% 72
North West -71 138 £57,500 -14.81% 43
Midlands -4 124 £70,000 - 32
West Midlands +19 97 £70,000 +7.69% 23
Scotland -112 87 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South West -134 71 £68,750 +14.58% 22
East of England +9 53 £57,500 -17.86% 12
Yorkshire -16 50 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North East +9 38 £65,000 +52.94% 9
East Midlands -42 26 £75,000 +7.14% 9
Northern Ireland -7 8 £86,250 +40.82% 5
Wales -69 6 £57,500 -8.35% 8

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 104 (7.09%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.68%) Apache
3 49 (3.34%) SharePoint
4 36 (2.46%) OpenStack
5 34 (2.32%) Confluence
6 16 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
8 9 (0.61%) JBoss
9 8 (0.55%) nginx
10 7 (0.48%) CMS
11 6 (0.41%) Apache Pig
11 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.27%) WordPress
14 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.068%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.41%) Trello
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.068%) Sketch
4 1 (0.068%) UXPin
4 1 (0.068%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 25 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.68%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 986 (67.26%) AWS
2 691 (47.14%) AWS Lambda
3 683 (46.59%) Azure
4 371 (25.31%) Azure Functions
5 299 (20.40%) Azure DevOps
6 275 (18.76%) Amazon S3
7 243 (16.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 238 (16.23%) Amazon EC2
9 227 (15.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 224 (15.28%) Amazon ECS
11 205 (13.98%) Amazon EKS
12 186 (12.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 180 (12.28%) Amazon SQS
14 159 (10.85%) Azure API Management
15 147 (10.03%) Power Platform
16 125 (8.53%) IBM Cloud
17 121 (8.25%) GitHub
18 99 (6.75%) GCP
19 86 (5.87%) SaaS
20 85 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.80%) AMQP
2 28 (1.91%) Firewall
3 26 (1.77%) HTTP
4 19 (1.30%) VPN
5 18 (1.23%) DNS
6 15 (1.02%) Network Security
7 12 (0.82%) Internet
8 9 (0.61%) WAN
9 7 (0.48%) IPv4
9 7 (0.48%) LAN
9 7 (0.48%) MQTT
10 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.34%) Wireless
11 3 (0.20%) DHCP
11 3 (0.20%) NGFW
12 2 (0.14%) WLAN
13 1 (0.068%) Bluetooth
13 1 (0.068%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.068%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (21.56%) NoSQL
2 232 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (14.46%) DynamoDB
4 211 (14.39%) Relational Database
5 184 (12.55%) Amazon RDS
6 167 (11.39%) MongoDB
7 126 (8.59%) Big Data
8 125 (8.53%) DB2
9 112 (7.64%) SQL Server
10 111 (7.57%) MySQL
11 96 (6.55%) Hadoop
12 69 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 66 (4.50%) Power BI
14 57 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
15 53 (3.62%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (3.14%) Data Lake
17 42 (2.86%) Redis
18 31 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
19 29 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
20 28 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 293 (19.99%) Git
2 147 (10.03%) Jenkins
3 91 (6.21%) GitLab
4 65 (4.43%) JIRA
5 28 (1.91%) Artifactory
6 26 (1.77%) JUnit
7 25 (1.71%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.71%) Postman
8 18 (1.23%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.23%) SonarQube
9 17 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.82%) Subversion
11 11 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.75%) MSTest
12 10 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.68%) gulp
12 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.68%) Yeoman
13 9 (0.61%) Mocha
13 9 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 321 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 288 (19.65%) Finance
3 202 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 97 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (5.93%) Law
7 60 (4.09%) Legal
8 59 (4.02%) Marketing
9 46 (3.14%) Retail
10 39 (2.66%) Front Office
11 34 (2.32%) Aerospace
11 34 (2.32%) Games
12 31 (2.11%) Banking
13 26 (1.77%) Automotive
14 25 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.30%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.16%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.89%) Billing
19 11 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 609 (41.54%) Developer
2 253 (17.26%) Senior
3 251 (17.12%) Software Engineer
4 224 (15.28%) Full Stack Developer
5 208 (14.19%) AWS Engineer
6 189 (12.89%) Lead
7 152 (10.37%) Azure Developer
8 128 (8.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 115 (7.84%) Senior Developer
10 102 (6.96%) Architect
11 87 (5.93%) AWS Software Engineer
12 83 (5.66%) Java Developer
13 82 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (4.91%) AWS DevOps
14 72 (4.91%) Data Engineer
15 65 (4.43%) Python Engineer
16 63 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 62 (4.23%) AWS Developer
18 61 (4.16%) Software Developer
19 58 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 469 (31.99%) Node.js
2 401 (27.35%) .NET
3 376 (25.65%) React
4 274 (18.69%) AngularJS
5 273 (18.62%) REST
6 220 (15.01%) HTML
7 208 (14.19%) CSS
8 196 (13.37%) Web Services
9 192 (13.10%) ASP.NET
10 173 (11.80%) Vue
11 150 (10.23%) RESTful
12 143 (9.75%) ASP.NET Core
13 140 (9.55%) jQuery
14 133 (9.07%) Spring
15 130 (8.87%) Spring Boot
16 129 (8.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 125 (8.53%) Backbone.js
17 125 (8.53%) Ember.js
18 108 (7.37%) GraphQL
19 85 (5.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 206 (14.05%) Algorithms
2 163 (11.12%) Data Structures
3 141 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (8.80%) Blockchain
5 100 (6.82%) Cloud Native
6 86 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
7 58 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (3.62%) Client/Server
9 44 (3.00%) Product Ownership
10 36 (2.46%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.77%) IoT
12 26 (1.77%) Tandem
13 24 (1.64%) Low-Code
14 22 (1.50%) Management Information System
15 21 (1.43%) Onboarding
16 19 (1.30%) Blog
17 18 (1.23%) Public Cloud
18 17 (1.16%) Virtual Team
19 15 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 237 (16.17%) Linux
2 179 (12.21%) Windows
3 128 (8.73%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.59%) Android
5 33 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 30 (2.05%) CentOS
8 29 (1.98%) Debian
9 19 (1.30%) Windows Server
10 16 (1.09%) Unix
11 8 (0.55%) VMS
12 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (44.07%) DevOps
2 609 (41.54%) Agile
3 519 (35.40%) CI/CD
4 451 (30.76%) Software Engineering
5 374 (25.51%) Microservices
6 365 (24.90%) Full Stack Development
7 285 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 250 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 241 (16.44%) Scrum
10 229 (15.62%) Design Patterns
11 217 (14.80%) Containerisation
12 201 (13.71%) Artificial Intelligence
13 194 (13.23%) API Management
14 190 (12.96%) MVC
15 186 (12.69%) TDD
16 182 (12.41%) OOP
17 175 (11.94%) OO
17 175 (11.94%) SOLID
17 175 (11.94%) Web Development
18 161 (10.98%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 600 (40.93%) Python
2 524 (35.74%) SQL
3 506 (34.52%) Java
4 468 (31.92%) JavaScript
5 407 (27.76%) C#
6 244 (16.64%) TypeScript
7 104 (7.09%) Go
8 72 (4.91%) PowerShell
9 62 (4.23%) Scala
10 54 (3.68%) Bash
11 47 (3.21%) T-SQL
12 36 (2.46%) Shell Script
13 33 (2.25%) PHP
14 29 (1.98%) Ruby
15 23 (1.57%) C
16 12 (0.82%) Bicep
16 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.75%) C++
17 11 (0.75%) Perl
18 9 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 163 (11.12%) Degree
2 137 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 114 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 98 (6.68%) AWS Certification
5 83 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 47 (3.21%) DBS Check
7 40 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 38 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (2.11%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.27%) CEH
13 4 (0.27%) CISSP
13 4 (0.27%) GSEC
13 4 (0.27%) OSCP
14 3 (0.20%) MCSA
14 3 (0.20%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.14%) QA
2 33 (2.25%) GDPR
3 24 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (1.43%) NIST
5 20 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.20%) WCAG
11 2 (0.14%) SLA
12 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.068%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.068%) NCSC
12 1 (0.068%) SEPA
System Software
1 335 (22.85%) Docker
2 53 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.18%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.55%) HDFS
7 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 369 (25.17%) Terraform
2 321 (21.90%) Kubernetes
3 126 (8.59%) Ansible
4 43 (2.93%) Puppet
5 31 (2.11%) Grafana
6 20 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.75%) Packer
9 9 (0.61%) Argo
10 7 (0.48%) Kibana
11 5 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.34%) SCCM
12 3 (0.20%) Autotask
12 3 (0.20%) Consul
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) CASB
13 2 (0.14%) Istio
13 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.14%) Podman
13 2 (0.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 206 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 156 (10.64%) Red Hat
3 126 (8.59%) IBM
4 60 (4.09%) Google
5 47 (3.21%) Databricks
6 36 (2.46%) WSO2
7 32 (2.18%) Oracle
8 29 (1.98%) SaltStack
9 20 (1.36%) ForgeRock
10 18 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.09%) Sitecore
12 15 (1.02%) Splunk
13 13 (0.89%) VMware
14 12 (0.82%) Facebook
15 11 (0.75%) Informatica
15 11 (0.75%) Sage
16 9 (0.61%) Adobe
16 9 (0.61%) Apple
16 9 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 9 (0.61%) MuleSoft