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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 134 75
Rank change year-on-year -61 -59 +34
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,495 2,575 7,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.48% 2.61% 4.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.20% 6.08% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,443 1,935
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,599 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £66,450
% change year-on-year -3.70% +1.58% +10.75%

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 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 1,289 £75,000 - 429
UK excluding London -88 820 £65,000 -3.70% 267
Work from Home -67 688 £75,000 - 235
London -15 569 £85,000 +6.25% 260
South East -6 234 £70,000 - 112
North of England -42 234 £60,000 -12.22% 65
North West -60 145 £60,000 -11.11% 40
Midlands -17 120 £70,000 - 36
West Midlands +18 93 £70,000 +2.19% 26
Scotland -110 91 £47,500 -31.36% 10
South West -128 71 £68,750 +12.47% 23
East of England +25 53 £57,500 -17.86% 13
Yorkshire -7 52 £60,000 -20.00% 19
North East +11 37 £65,000 +52.94% 6
East Midlands -31 26 £76,250 +8.93% 10
Northern Ireland +3 10 £86,250 +7.81% 4
Wales -57 8 £57,500 -8.35% 5

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
1 105 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 99 (6.62%) Apache
3 49 (3.28%) SharePoint
4 41 (2.74%) OpenStack
5 38 (2.54%) Confluence
6 16 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
8 9 (0.60%) JBoss
9 8 (0.54%) nginx
10 7 (0.47%) Apache Pig
11 6 (0.40%) CMS
11 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
12 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.33%) WordPress
13 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.067%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.40%) Trello
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.067%) Sketch
4 1 (0.067%) UXPin
4 1 (0.067%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.67%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 988 (66.09%) AWS
2 697 (46.62%) AWS Lambda
3 692 (46.29%) Azure
4 370 (24.75%) Azure Functions
5 299 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 280 (18.73%) Amazon S3
7 242 (16.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 240 (16.05%) Amazon EC2
9 234 (15.65%) Amazon ECS
10 224 (14.98%) Azure Service Bus
11 215 (14.38%) Amazon EKS
12 186 (12.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 183 (12.24%) Amazon SQS
14 160 (10.70%) Azure API Management
15 146 (9.77%) Power Platform
16 126 (8.43%) GitHub
17 125 (8.36%) IBM Cloud
18 99 (6.62%) GCP
19 82 (5.48%) SaaS
20 79 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.68%) AMQP
2 28 (1.87%) Firewall
3 26 (1.74%) HTTP
4 21 (1.40%) DNS
5 19 (1.27%) VPN
6 16 (1.07%) Network Security
7 12 (0.80%) Internet
8 9 (0.60%) WAN
9 7 (0.47%) IPv4
9 7 (0.47%) LAN
10 6 (0.40%) MQTT
11 5 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.33%) Wireless
12 3 (0.20%) DHCP
12 3 (0.20%) NGFW
13 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
13 2 (0.13%) WLAN
14 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.067%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (21.34%) NoSQL
2 239 (15.99%) PostgreSQL
3 238 (15.92%) Relational Database
4 211 (14.11%) DynamoDB
5 187 (12.51%) Amazon RDS
6 164 (10.97%) MongoDB
7 128 (8.56%) Big Data
8 125 (8.36%) DB2
9 112 (7.49%) MySQL
10 110 (7.36%) SQL Server
11 98 (6.56%) Hadoop
12 70 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 69 (4.62%) Power BI
14 55 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 54 (3.61%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (3.08%) Data Lake
17 42 (2.81%) Redis
18 34 (2.27%) RDBMS
19 30 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
19 30 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 326 (21.81%) Git
2 158 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 90 (6.02%) GitLab
4 67 (4.48%) JIRA
5 30 (2.01%) Artifactory
6 28 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 26 (1.74%) JUnit
8 25 (1.67%) Postman
9 24 (1.61%) JDeveloper
10 19 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.07%) TeamCity
13 15 (1.00%) Subversion
14 11 (0.74%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.74%) MSTest
15 10 (0.67%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.67%) gulp
15 10 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.67%) Yeoman
General
1 320 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 296 (19.80%) Finance
3 207 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 100 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (6.02%) Law
7 61 (4.08%) Legal
8 58 (3.88%) Marketing
9 44 (2.94%) Retail
10 41 (2.74%) Front Office
11 34 (2.27%) Games
12 33 (2.21%) Aerospace
13 29 (1.94%) Banking
14 26 (1.74%) Automotive
14 26 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.40%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.20%) Health Technology
16 18 (1.20%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.87%) Billing
18 11 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 615 (41.14%) Developer
2 275 (18.39%) Software Engineer
3 255 (17.06%) Senior
4 227 (15.18%) Full Stack Developer
5 215 (14.38%) AWS Engineer
6 189 (12.64%) Lead
7 152 (10.17%) Azure Developer
8 130 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 115 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 95 (6.35%) Architect
11 89 (5.95%) Java Developer
12 88 (5.89%) AWS Software Engineer
13 87 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 76 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
15 75 (5.02%) Data Engineer
16 67 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 64 (4.28%) AWS Developer
18 63 (4.21%) Software Developer
19 62 (4.15%) Python Engineer
20 59 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (33.31%) Node.js
2 402 (26.89%) .NET
3 397 (26.56%) React
4 280 (18.73%) AngularJS
5 279 (18.66%) REST
6 220 (14.72%) HTML
7 209 (13.98%) CSS
8 200 (13.38%) Web Services
9 194 (12.98%) ASP.NET
10 173 (11.57%) Vue
11 149 (9.97%) RESTful
12 143 (9.57%) ASP.NET Core
13 139 (9.30%) jQuery
13 139 (9.30%) Spring
14 134 (8.96%) Spring Boot
15 129 (8.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 125 (8.36%) Backbone.js
16 125 (8.36%) Ember.js
17 106 (7.09%) GraphQL
18 90 (6.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 206 (13.78%) Algorithms
2 163 (10.90%) Data Structures
3 141 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (8.63%) Blockchain
5 100 (6.69%) Cloud Native
6 92 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
7 56 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (3.55%) Client/Server
9 45 (3.01%) Product Ownership
10 35 (2.34%) Mobile App
11 33 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (1.87%) Tandem
13 25 (1.67%) IoT
14 24 (1.61%) Low-Code
15 22 (1.47%) Management Information System
15 22 (1.47%) Onboarding
16 19 (1.27%) Blog
16 19 (1.27%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.20%) Virtual Team
18 16 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 238 (15.92%) Linux
2 180 (12.04%) Windows
3 128 (8.56%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.43%) Android
5 32 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.94%) CentOS
8 28 (1.87%) Debian
9 19 (1.27%) Windows Server
10 15 (1.00%) Unix
11 7 (0.47%) VMS
12 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (45.35%) DevOps
2 623 (41.67%) Agile
3 528 (35.32%) CI/CD
4 474 (31.71%) Software Engineering
5 401 (26.82%) Microservices
6 366 (24.48%) Full Stack Development
7 305 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
8 254 (16.99%) Design Patterns
9 250 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 247 (16.52%) Scrum
11 242 (16.19%) Containerisation
12 201 (13.44%) Artificial Intelligence
13 194 (12.98%) TDD
14 191 (12.78%) API Management
14 191 (12.78%) MVC
15 184 (12.31%) OOP
16 176 (11.77%) OO
16 176 (11.77%) Web Development
17 175 (11.71%) SOLID
18 161 (10.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 628 (42.01%) Python
2 538 (35.99%) Java
3 534 (35.72%) SQL
4 496 (33.18%) JavaScript
5 406 (27.16%) C#
6 246 (16.45%) TypeScript
7 132 (8.83%) Go
8 77 (5.15%) Bash
9 69 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 64 (4.28%) Scala
11 51 (3.41%) Ruby
12 48 (3.21%) T-SQL
13 38 (2.54%) Shell Script
14 35 (2.34%) PHP
15 34 (2.27%) Perl
16 23 (1.54%) C
17 13 (0.87%) Bicep
18 12 (0.80%) C++
18 12 (0.80%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 163 (10.90%) Degree
2 143 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 119 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 83 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (3.34%) Azure Certification
7 48 (3.21%) DBS Check
8 39 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 38 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (2.01%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.27%) CEH
14 4 (0.27%) CISSP
14 4 (0.27%) GSEC
14 4 (0.27%) OSCP
15 3 (0.20%) PhD
15 3 (0.20%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.08%) QA
2 33 (2.21%) GDPR
3 21 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.20%) NIST
5 13 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.20%) WCAG
10 2 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.067%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.067%) SEPA
11 1 (0.067%) SLA
System Software
1 342 (22.88%) Docker
2 51 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
3 41 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 38 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.60%) HDFS
7 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 378 (25.28%) Terraform
2 325 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 137 (9.16%) Ansible
4 44 (2.94%) Puppet
5 32 (2.14%) Grafana
6 20 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.94%) Packer
8 8 (0.54%) Argo
9 6 (0.40%) Kibana
9 6 (0.40%) Salt
10 5 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.33%) SCCM
11 3 (0.20%) Autotask
11 3 (0.20%) Consul
12 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.13%) CASB
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 203 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 155 (10.37%) Red Hat
3 126 (8.43%) IBM
4 59 (3.95%) Google
5 58 (3.88%) Oracle
6 49 (3.28%) Databricks
7 41 (2.74%) WSO2
8 28 (1.87%) SaltStack
9 20 (1.34%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.07%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.07%) Sitecore
11 14 (0.94%) Splunk
12 13 (0.87%) VMware
13 12 (0.80%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.74%) Facebook
14 11 (0.74%) Informatica
14 11 (0.74%) Sage
15 9 (0.60%) Apple
15 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.60%) PayPal