Serverless Jobs with Work from Home Options

Serverless Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 94 85
Rank change year-on-year -60 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 722 1,406 2,867
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.13% 3.38% 4.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.93% 7.07% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 538 831 1,124
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,650 19,880 36,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.27% 47.81% 52.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,954 14,556 21,788
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,491
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Serverless
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Serverless trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Serverless.

Serverless salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Serverless over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Serverless salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (3.74%) OpenStack
2 26 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.46%) Confluence
4 15 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.39%) Apache
5 10 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.11%) JBoss
6 8 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (0.83%) nginx
7 6 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.83%) WordPress
8 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) UXPin
3 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.42%) Shopify
2 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 495 (68.56%) AWS
2 348 (48.20%) AWS Lambda
3 260 (36.01%) Azure
4 127 (17.59%) Amazon S3
5 115 (15.93%) Azure Functions
6 103 (14.27%) GitHub
7 89 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
8 79 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
8 79 (10.94%) Power Platform
9 76 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (10.39%) Amazon EKS
11 74 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
12 70 (9.70%) SaaS
13 59 (8.17%) Amazon SQS
14 51 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 49 (6.79%) Amazon Kinesis
15 49 (6.79%) GCP
16 40 (5.54%) Azure Service Bus
16 40 (5.54%) CloudFront
16 40 (5.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.08%) DNS
2 14 (1.94%) Internet
2 14 (1.94%) VPN
3 12 (1.66%) Network Security
4 11 (1.52%) AMQP
4 11 (1.52%) Firewall
5 5 (0.69%) IPv4
6 4 (0.55%) HTTP
6 4 (0.55%) WAN
7 2 (0.28%) LAN
7 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.28%) WLAN
8 1 (0.14%) NGFW
8 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (16.48%) DynamoDB
2 89 (12.33%) Amazon RDS
3 75 (10.39%) Relational Database
4 73 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
5 72 (9.97%) MySQL
6 55 (7.62%) NoSQL
7 50 (6.93%) SQL Server
8 41 (5.68%) RDBMS
9 38 (5.26%) Power BI
10 36 (4.99%) Oracle Database
11 32 (4.43%) Redis
12 31 (4.29%) Data Lake
13 25 (3.46%) Big Data
14 24 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (3.32%) MongoDB
15 23 (3.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (2.08%) Metadata
18 14 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
19 10 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 226 (31.30%) Git
2 75 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 70 (9.70%) GitLab
4 40 (5.54%) JIRA
5 36 (4.99%) JDeveloper
6 20 (2.77%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.66%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.39%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.39%) gulp
8 10 (1.39%) JUnit
8 10 (1.39%) Yeoman
9 9 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.25%) Subversion
10 8 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.97%) git-flow
11 7 (0.97%) Postman
12 6 (0.83%) Maven
12 6 (0.83%) Mocha
12 6 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 148 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 104 (14.40%) Finance
3 48 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.74%) Games
6 26 (3.60%) Retail
7 21 (2.91%) Automotive
8 20 (2.77%) Tech for Good
9 19 (2.63%) Marketing
10 16 (2.22%) Health Technology
10 16 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.52%) Law
11 11 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.39%) Legal
13 9 (1.25%) Advertising
13 9 (1.25%) Banking
13 9 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.83%) Aviation
15 5 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.69%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 258 (35.73%) Developer
2 147 (20.36%) Software Engineer
3 138 (19.11%) Senior
4 123 (17.04%) Lead
5 91 (12.60%) AWS Engineer
6 74 (10.25%) Senior Developer
7 71 (9.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 57 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (7.34%) Architect
10 51 (7.06%) Java Developer
11 39 (5.40%) Python Engineer
11 39 (5.40%) Software Developer
12 38 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
13 37 (5.12%) Data Engineer
14 36 (4.99%) Ruby Engineer
15 33 (4.57%) AWS Developer
15 33 (4.57%) Backend Developer
16 30 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (33.24%) Node.js
2 143 (19.81%) React
3 127 (17.59%) .NET
4 102 (14.13%) RESTful
5 75 (10.39%) Spring
6 67 (9.28%) AngularJS
7 62 (8.59%) REST
8 60 (8.31%) GraphQL
9 47 (6.51%) Spring Boot
10 45 (6.23%) Elastic Stack
10 45 (6.23%) JSON
11 42 (5.82%) Django
12 39 (5.40%) Web Services
13 37 (5.12%) HTML
14 33 (4.57%) ASP.NET
15 32 (4.43%) .NET Core
16 29 (4.02%) J2EE
17 27 (3.74%) Apache Camel
17 27 (3.74%) CSS
17 27 (3.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
2 49 (6.79%) Greenfield Project
3 46 (6.37%) Client/Server
4 34 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 31 (4.29%) Data Structures
6 22 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 20 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.77%) Virtual Team
8 15 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.80%) IoT
10 13 (1.80%) Online Games
11 12 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.66%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.25%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.25%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.03%) Linux
2 32 (4.43%) Windows
3 11 (1.52%) Unix
4 8 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (42.11%) DevOps
2 256 (35.46%) Agile
3 251 (34.76%) Microservices
4 235 (32.55%) Software Engineering
5 223 (30.89%) CI/CD
6 217 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
7 181 (25.07%) Containerisation
8 125 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 121 (16.76%) Full Stack Development
10 116 (16.07%) Design Patterns
11 108 (14.96%) Continuous Integration
12 101 (13.99%) TDD
13 100 (13.85%) Scrum
14 95 (13.16%) Unit Testing
15 83 (11.50%) Clean Code
16 76 (10.53%) Mentoring
17 73 (10.11%) Event-Driven
18 66 (9.14%) Code Quality
19 63 (8.73%) Computer Science
19 63 (8.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 295 (40.86%) Python
2 204 (28.25%) Java
3 198 (27.42%) JavaScript
4 182 (25.21%) SQL
5 150 (20.78%) C#
6 136 (18.84%) TypeScript
7 80 (11.08%) Go
8 76 (10.53%) Ruby
9 67 (9.28%) Bash
10 42 (5.82%) Perl
11 37 (5.12%) PowerShell
11 37 (5.12%) T-SQL
12 19 (2.63%) Shell Script
13 18 (2.49%) PHP
14 16 (2.22%) C
15 10 (1.39%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.97%) XAML
17 6 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.83%) R
18 5 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 76 (10.53%) Degree
2 73 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 57 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 49 (6.79%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.99%) DBS Check
6 30 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (3.05%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.55%) CEH
13 4 (0.55%) CISSP
13 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.55%) GSEC
13 4 (0.55%) OSCP
14 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.42%) Sun Certification
15 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.06%) QA
2 19 (2.63%) GDPR
3 12 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.25%) NIST
5 6 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.42%) WCAG
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 203 (28.12%) Docker
2 29 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 23 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 196 (27.15%) Terraform
2 169 (23.41%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.86%) Ansible
4 25 (3.46%) Grafana
5 16 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 13 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.80%) Puppet
7 12 (1.66%) Packer
8 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.55%) Salt
9 4 (0.55%) SCCM
10 3 (0.42%) Argo
10 3 (0.42%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.28%) CASB
11 2 (0.28%) Podman
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 95 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.20%) Oracle
3 31 (4.29%) Databricks
4 27 (3.74%) WSO2
5 20 (2.77%) ForgeRock
6 18 (2.49%) Google
7 16 (2.22%) Sitecore
8 9 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.25%) GoCardless
8 9 (1.25%) PayPal
8 9 (1.25%) Sage
9 7 (0.97%) DevExpress
9 7 (0.97%) McAfee
9 7 (0.97%) VMware
10 6 (0.83%) Adobe
10 6 (0.83%) Apple
10 6 (0.83%) Facebook
11 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.55%) SAP
13 3 (0.42%) Progress