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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 136 74
Rank change year-on-year -64 -62 +31
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,489 2,555 7,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 2.62% 4.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.16% 6.07% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 989 1,429 1,960
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,497 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.11% +1.48% +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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 28 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 28 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 -49 1,286 £75,000 - 350
UK excluding London -90 821 £65,000 -5.11% 181
Work from Home -68 680 £75,000 +3.45% 201
London -20 563 £85,000 +6.25% 176
North of England -45 234 £60,000 -13.29% 73
South East -14 232 £70,000 - 19
North West -59 144 £60,000 -11.11% 45
Midlands -7 123 £70,000 - 34
West Midlands +25 95 £70,000 +1.08% 25
Scotland -109 90 £47,500 -31.36% 13
South West -139 71 £67,500 +8.43% 23
East of England +12 54 £57,500 -17.86% 12
Yorkshire -14 53 £60,000 -20.00% 20
North East +13 37 £65,000 +52.94% 8
East Midlands -40 27 £75,000 +7.14% 9
Northern Ireland -4 10 £86,250 +7.81% 4
Wales -64 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
1 104 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.58%) Apache
3 50 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 40 (2.69%) OpenStack
5 35 (2.35%) 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 6 (0.40%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.40%) CMS
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.27%) WordPress
13 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 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 25 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.74%) 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
1 982 (65.95%) AWS
2 688 (46.21%) AWS Lambda
3 685 (46.00%) Azure
4 370 (24.85%) Azure Functions
5 301 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
6 272 (18.27%) Amazon S3
7 244 (16.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 234 (15.72%) Amazon EC2
9 229 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
10 226 (15.18%) Azure Service Bus
11 209 (14.04%) Amazon EKS
12 184 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 180 (12.09%) Amazon SQS
14 160 (10.75%) Azure API Management
15 147 (9.87%) Power Platform
16 125 (8.39%) IBM Cloud
17 123 (8.26%) GitHub
18 95 (6.38%) GCP
19 84 (5.64%) SaaS
20 82 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.69%) AMQP
2 28 (1.88%) Firewall
3 26 (1.75%) HTTP
4 19 (1.28%) DNS
4 19 (1.28%) VPN
5 16 (1.07%) Network Security
6 12 (0.81%) Internet
7 9 (0.60%) WAN
8 7 (0.47%) IPv4
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
8 7 (0.47%) MQTT
9 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.34%) Wireless
10 3 (0.20%) DHCP
10 3 (0.20%) NGFW
11 2 (0.13%) WLAN
12 1 (0.067%) Bluetooth
12 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.067%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (21.42%) NoSQL
2 237 (15.92%) Relational Database
3 235 (15.78%) PostgreSQL
4 212 (14.24%) DynamoDB
5 181 (12.16%) Amazon RDS
6 167 (11.22%) MongoDB
7 126 (8.46%) Big Data
8 125 (8.39%) DB2
9 112 (7.52%) SQL Server
10 111 (7.45%) MySQL
11 96 (6.45%) Hadoop
12 68 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 67 (4.50%) Power BI
14 56 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
15 53 (3.56%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (3.09%) Data Lake
17 42 (2.82%) Redis
18 34 (2.28%) RDBMS
19 31 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
20 28 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 322 (21.63%) Git
2 152 (10.21%) Jenkins
3 91 (6.11%) GitLab
4 65 (4.37%) JIRA
5 28 (1.88%) Artifactory
6 26 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.68%) JUnit
7 25 (1.68%) Postman
8 24 (1.61%) JDeveloper
9 18 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 18 (1.21%) SonarQube
10 17 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.87%) Subversion
12 11 (0.74%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.74%) MSTest
13 10 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.67%) gulp
13 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.67%) Yeoman
14 9 (0.60%) Mocha
General
1 322 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 290 (19.48%) Finance
3 203 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 98 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (5.91%) Law
7 60 (4.03%) Legal
8 58 (3.90%) Marketing
9 45 (3.02%) Retail
10 39 (2.62%) Front Office
11 34 (2.28%) Games
12 33 (2.22%) Aerospace
13 30 (2.01%) Banking
14 26 (1.75%) Automotive
14 26 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.28%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.14%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.87%) Billing
19 11 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 611 (41.03%) Developer
2 273 (18.33%) Software Engineer
3 253 (16.99%) Senior
4 224 (15.04%) Full Stack Developer
5 208 (13.97%) AWS Engineer
6 188 (12.63%) Lead
7 152 (10.21%) Azure Developer
8 128 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 113 (7.59%) Senior Developer
10 96 (6.45%) Architect
11 88 (5.91%) AWS Software Engineer
12 87 (5.84%) Java Developer
13 83 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 75 (5.04%) Data Engineer
15 72 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
16 63 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 63 (4.23%) Python Engineer
17 62 (4.16%) AWS Developer
18 61 (4.10%) Software Developer
19 59 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (33.31%) Node.js
2 402 (27.00%) .NET
3 398 (26.73%) React
4 278 (18.67%) AngularJS
5 277 (18.60%) REST
6 220 (14.78%) HTML
7 209 (14.04%) CSS
8 199 (13.36%) Web Services
9 193 (12.96%) ASP.NET
10 173 (11.62%) Vue
11 151 (10.14%) RESTful
12 143 (9.60%) ASP.NET Core
13 139 (9.34%) jQuery
14 136 (9.13%) Spring
15 132 (8.87%) Spring Boot
16 129 (8.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 125 (8.39%) Backbone.js
17 125 (8.39%) Ember.js
18 107 (7.19%) GraphQL
19 88 (5.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 205 (13.77%) Algorithms
2 163 (10.95%) Data Structures
3 141 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (8.66%) Blockchain
5 99 (6.65%) Cloud Native
6 89 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
7 58 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (3.56%) Client/Server
9 45 (3.02%) Product Ownership
10 36 (2.42%) Mobile App
11 31 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.75%) IoT
12 26 (1.75%) Tandem
13 24 (1.61%) Low-Code
14 21 (1.41%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.41%) Onboarding
15 19 (1.28%) Blog
16 18 (1.21%) Public Cloud
17 17 (1.14%) Virtual Team
18 15 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 236 (15.85%) Linux
2 180 (12.09%) Windows
3 128 (8.60%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.46%) Android
5 32 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.95%) CentOS
8 28 (1.88%) Debian
9 19 (1.28%) Windows Server
10 16 (1.07%) Unix
11 8 (0.54%) VMS
12 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (45.33%) DevOps
2 616 (41.37%) Agile
3 523 (35.12%) CI/CD
4 472 (31.70%) Software Engineering
5 399 (26.80%) Microservices
6 365 (24.51%) Full Stack Development
7 307 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
8 252 (16.92%) Design Patterns
9 247 (16.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 244 (16.39%) Scrum
11 239 (16.05%) Containerisation
12 200 (13.43%) Artificial Intelligence
13 194 (13.03%) API Management
14 193 (12.96%) TDD
15 191 (12.83%) MVC
16 182 (12.22%) OOP
17 176 (11.82%) Web Development
18 175 (11.75%) OO
18 175 (11.75%) SOLID
19 161 (10.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 623 (41.84%) Python
2 532 (35.73%) Java
3 530 (35.59%) SQL
4 495 (33.24%) JavaScript
5 407 (27.33%) C#
6 244 (16.39%) TypeScript
7 128 (8.60%) Go
8 78 (5.24%) Bash
9 72 (4.84%) PowerShell
10 63 (4.23%) Scala
11 53 (3.56%) Ruby
12 47 (3.16%) T-SQL
13 36 (2.42%) Shell Script
14 35 (2.35%) Perl
15 34 (2.28%) PHP
16 23 (1.54%) C
17 13 (0.87%) Bicep
18 12 (0.81%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.67%) C++
20 9 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 162 (10.88%) Degree
2 141 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 117 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 96 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (3.29%) Azure Certification
7 47 (3.16%) DBS Check
8 39 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 37 (2.48%) DV Cleared
11 29 (1.95%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.27%) CEH
15 4 (0.27%) CISSP
15 4 (0.27%) GSEC
15 4 (0.27%) OSCP
16 3 (0.20%) MCSA
16 3 (0.20%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.97%) QA
2 32 (2.15%) GDPR
3 22 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.28%) NIST
6 13 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.20%) WCAG
11 2 (0.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.067%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.067%) NCSC
12 1 (0.067%) SEPA
System Software
1 338 (22.70%) Docker
2 53 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 37 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.54%) HDFS
7 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 374 (25.12%) Terraform
2 322 (21.63%) Kubernetes
3 130 (8.73%) Ansible
4 42 (2.82%) Puppet
5 31 (2.08%) Grafana
6 20 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.21%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.81%) Packer
9 9 (0.60%) Argo
10 6 (0.40%) Kibana
11 5 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.34%) SCCM
12 3 (0.20%) Autotask
12 3 (0.20%) Consul
12 3 (0.20%) Salt
13 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) CASB
13 2 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 206 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 155 (10.41%) Red Hat
3 126 (8.46%) IBM
4 59 (3.96%) Google
5 56 (3.76%) Oracle
6 47 (3.16%) Databricks
7 40 (2.69%) WSO2
8 28 (1.88%) SaltStack
9 20 (1.34%) ForgeRock
10 17 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.07%) Sitecore
12 14 (0.94%) Splunk
13 13 (0.87%) VMware
14 12 (0.81%) Facebook
15 11 (0.74%) Informatica
15 11 (0.74%) Sage
16 10 (0.67%) Atlassian
17 9 (0.60%) Adobe
17 9 (0.60%) Apple
17 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft