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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 107 111 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 -32 +48
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,592 3,814 5,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.05% 3.12% 4.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.08% 7.24% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 824 1,957 2,559
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,938 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,724 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,900 £126,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% +3.33% +4.35%

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 22,497 52,651 59,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 43.04% 43.08% 47.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17,604 35,422 42,741
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,351 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% +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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 -13 1,231 £68,014 -9.31% 450
Work from Home +17 1,077 £67,500 -3.57% 270
UK excluding London +20 936 £65,000 +4.84% 252
London -27 496 £75,000 -11.76% 228
North of England -34 245 £65,000 - 92
South East +92 176 £72,500 +11.54% 67
North West -22 155 £62,500 -3.47% 54
South West +60 140 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Scotland +46 123 £65,000 +13.04% 21
Midlands -37 94 £62,500 +4.17% 17
Yorkshire +1 82 £67,529 +0.04% 13
Wales +45 67 £52,500 -12.50% 8
East Midlands +20 57 £68,750 +5.77% 5
Northern Ireland +70 52 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East of England +115 47 £57,500 -23.33% 20
West Midlands -36 37 £60,000 +2.13% 12
North East +30 8 £61,250 +22.50% 25

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 71 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.64%) Confluence
3 38 (2.39%) Apache
4 31 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 14 (0.88%) IIS
7 13 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.75%) nginx
9 11 (0.69%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.57%) CMS
10 9 (0.57%) JBoss
10 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
11 7 (0.44%) WordPress
12 6 (0.38%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.19%) Apache Pig
14 3 (0.19%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.13%) Sketch
1 2 (0.13%) UXPin
1 2 (0.13%) Zeplin
2 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 249 (15.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.063%) Magento
4 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 801 (50.31%) AWS
2 763 (47.93%) Azure
3 433 (27.20%) AWS Lambda
4 421 (26.44%) Azure Functions
5 320 (20.10%) Power Platform
6 296 (18.59%) PaaS
7 261 (16.39%) Dynamics 365
8 255 (16.02%) SaaS
9 252 (15.83%) IaaS
10 230 (14.45%) GCP
11 181 (11.37%) Amazon S3
12 170 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
13 146 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
14 135 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
14 135 (8.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 130 (8.17%) OpenShift
16 127 (7.98%) GitHub
17 113 (7.10%) Azure Logic Apps
18 101 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.64%) Firewall
2 26 (1.63%) Internet
3 25 (1.57%) DNS
4 22 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 15 (0.94%) AMQP
6 12 (0.75%) HTTP
7 9 (0.57%) Network Security
7 9 (0.57%) VPN
8 7 (0.44%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.38%) IPv4
10 4 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.19%) IPv6
11 3 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.13%) OSPF
12 2 (0.13%) VLAN
13 1 (0.063%) Intranet
13 1 (0.063%) Kerberos
13 1 (0.063%) LAN
13 1 (0.063%) SSL
13 1 (0.063%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (9.99%) Relational Database
2 129 (8.10%) DynamoDB
3 123 (7.73%) Amazon RDS
4 110 (6.91%) NoSQL
4 110 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
5 105 (6.60%) SQL Server
6 90 (5.65%) RDBMS
7 88 (5.53%) Oracle Database
8 76 (4.77%) MySQL
9 74 (4.65%) Power BI
10 70 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 55 (3.45%) MongoDB
12 52 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 42 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
14 41 (2.58%) Data Lake
15 37 (2.32%) Big Data
16 29 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
17 28 (1.76%) Hadoop
18 27 (1.70%) Redis
19 26 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 466 (29.27%) Git
2 169 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 95 (5.97%) JIRA
4 84 (5.28%) GitLab
5 43 (2.70%) Artifactory
6 37 (2.32%) CircleCI
7 36 (2.26%) JDeveloper
8 32 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 27 (1.70%) JUnit
10 26 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 25 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 24 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
13 23 (1.44%) Postman
14 21 (1.32%) Maven
15 20 (1.26%) git-flow
16 17 (1.07%) Bitbucket
17 15 (0.94%) SonarQube
18 14 (0.88%) Cypress.io
18 14 (0.88%) webpack
19 12 (0.75%) Mocha
General
1 399 (25.06%) Finance
2 223 (14.01%) Social Skills
3 148 (9.30%) Police
4 80 (5.03%) Retail
5 72 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 63 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 22 (1.38%) Banking
9 18 (1.13%) Legal
10 17 (1.07%) Front Office
11 15 (0.94%) Aviation
11 15 (0.94%) Law
11 15 (0.94%) Marketing
12 14 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.75%) Advertising
14 11 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.63%) Automotive
16 9 (0.57%) Publishing
17 7 (0.44%) Billing
17 7 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 380 (23.87%) Software Engineer
2 379 (23.81%) Developer
3 325 (20.41%) Architect
4 312 (19.60%) Senior
5 208 (13.07%) CRM Architect
5 208 (13.07%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 208 (13.07%) Dynamics CRM Architect
6 174 (10.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 149 (9.36%) Java Engineer
8 144 (9.05%) Java Software Engineer
9 110 (6.91%) Lead
10 103 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 100 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
12 87 (5.46%) Ruby Engineer
13 83 (5.21%) Data Engineer
13 83 (5.21%) Senior Developer
14 74 (4.65%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 66 (4.15%) Java Developer
16 61 (3.83%) .NET Developer
16 61 (3.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (23.68%) React
2 265 (16.65%) Node.js
3 227 (14.26%) .NET
4 216 (13.57%) Spring
5 159 (9.99%) J2EE
6 152 (9.55%) REST
7 136 (8.54%) Ruby on Rails
8 89 (5.59%) AngularJS
9 78 (4.90%) HTML
10 72 (4.52%) CSS
11 68 (4.27%) JSON
12 62 (3.89%) RESTful
13 60 (3.77%) Spring Boot
14 54 (3.39%) .NET Framework
14 54 (3.39%) Kafka
15 53 (3.33%) GraphQL
16 49 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
17 47 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
18 45 (2.83%) .NET Core
19 43 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 106 (6.66%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.59%) Public Cloud
4 66 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 44 (2.76%) Mobile App
6 41 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (2.20%) IoT
8 33 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 32 (2.01%) Low-Code
10 23 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
13 19 (1.19%) Private Cloud
14 17 (1.07%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (1.01%) Blog
16 15 (0.94%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.88%) Virtual Team
18 13 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
18 13 (0.82%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 234 (14.70%) Linux
2 70 (4.40%) Windows
3 30 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.70%) Unix
5 19 (1.19%) Mac OS
6 14 (0.88%) VMS
7 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.44%) Android
10 5 (0.31%) CentOS
10 5 (0.31%) Debian
11 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.063%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (45.54%) Agile
2 655 (41.14%) Microservices
3 620 (38.94%) DevOps
4 565 (35.49%) CI/CD
5 532 (33.42%) Software Engineering
6 518 (32.54%) Actionable Insight
7 446 (28.02%) Containerisation
8 417 (26.19%) Design Patterns
9 394 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
10 363 (22.80%) Continuous Integration
11 302 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 283 (17.78%) Mentoring
13 269 (16.90%) Roadmaps
13 269 (16.90%) Unit Testing
14 264 (16.58%) Clean Code
15 259 (16.27%) Code Quality
16 254 (15.95%) CRM
17 217 (13.63%) Presales
18 212 (13.32%) Project Planning
19 209 (13.13%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 707 (44.41%) Python
2 565 (35.49%) Java
3 394 (24.75%) C#
4 306 (19.22%) JavaScript
5 301 (18.91%) SQL
6 250 (15.70%) Ruby
7 176 (11.06%) Bash
8 141 (8.86%) Go
9 133 (8.35%) TypeScript
10 96 (6.03%) Perl
11 92 (5.78%) PowerShell
12 41 (2.58%) Shell Script
13 38 (2.39%) Bicep
14 29 (1.82%) T-SQL
15 28 (1.76%) PHP
16 22 (1.38%) Scala
17 14 (0.88%) Groovy
18 10 (0.63%) R
19 9 (0.57%) C++
20 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 385 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 272 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 103 (6.47%) Degree
4 92 (5.78%) DV Cleared
5 67 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 49 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 9 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.19%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.13%) GCWN
15 2 (0.13%) GIAC
15 2 (0.13%) GSEC
15 2 (0.13%) ISTQB
16 1 (0.063%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (9.61%) QA
2 19 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.57%) NCSC
4 7 (0.44%) GDPR
5 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.19%) NIST
7 3 (0.19%) SLA
8 2 (0.13%) WCAG
9 1 (0.063%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.063%) PMO
System Software
1 400 (25.13%) Docker
2 65 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.063%) RACF
7 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 358 (22.49%) Terraform
2 326 (20.48%) Kubernetes
3 125 (7.85%) Ansible
4 56 (3.52%) Grafana
5 41 (2.58%) Packer
6 40 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.63%) Puppet
8 25 (1.57%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.82%) Kibana
10 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.50%) Argo
12 7 (0.44%) Istio
13 6 (0.38%) Salt
14 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.25%) Fortio
15 4 (0.25%) Kiali
16 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
17 2 (0.13%) linkerd
17 2 (0.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 447 (28.08%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.23%) Oracle
3 51 (3.20%) Databricks
3 51 (3.20%) Google
4 24 (1.51%) Atlassian
5 18 (1.13%) Splunk
6 17 (1.07%) VMware
6 17 (1.07%) WSO2
7 16 (1.01%) IBM
8 11 (0.69%) AppDynamics
9 8 (0.50%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.44%) Apple
10 7 (0.44%) New Relic
11 6 (0.38%) Confluent
11 6 (0.38%) McAfee
12 5 (0.31%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.31%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.25%) Dell
13 4 (0.25%) ESRI
13 4 (0.25%) Okta