Serverless Jobs

Serverless Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 189 137
Rank change year-on-year +2 -52 -61
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 849 1,540 2,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 1.57% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 4.36% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 659 1,031 1,553
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,125 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £112,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Serverless in the UK

Serverless
Top 16 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 30 April 2025. 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 +11 781 £75,000 - 684
London +34 445 £92,500 +8.82% 395
Work from Home +40 428 £72,500 -3.33% 430
UK excluding London -6 398 £60,000 -7.69% 325
South East +10 117 £60,000 -14.29% 63
North of England -46 94 £65,000 +8.33% 129
Midlands +14 67 £55,000 -21.43% 38
South West +99 59 £60,000 -9.43% 39
West Midlands +18 54 £56,250 -19.64% 26
North West -54 54 £75,000 +25.00% 84
Yorkshire +46 38 £57,500 -4.17% 34
East of England +30 29 £85,000 +47.83% 14
Scotland +57 25 £55,000 -4.35% 28
East Midlands +35 13 £55,000 - 12
Wales +40 11 £50,000 -3.50% 12
North East +20 6 £62,500 -3.85% 13

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 90 (10.60%) Apache Spark
2 85 (10.01%) Apache
3 77 (9.07%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.36%) Confluence
5 19 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.88%) CMS
7 12 (1.41%) JBoss
7 12 (1.41%) Red Hat Fuse
8 11 (1.30%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.71%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.24%) Strapi
12 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 661 (77.86%) AWS
2 481 (56.65%) AWS Lambda
3 262 (30.86%) Azure
4 234 (27.56%) Amazon S3
5 188 (22.14%) Amazon ECS
6 174 (20.49%) Amazon EC2
7 136 (16.02%) Azure Functions
8 114 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 91 (10.72%) Amazon SQS
10 83 (9.78%) OpenShift
11 82 (9.66%) dbt
12 79 (9.31%) SaaS
13 78 (9.19%) Amazon EKS
14 76 (8.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 75 (8.83%) GCP
16 74 (8.72%) GitHub
17 60 (7.07%) Power Platform
18 58 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 58 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
19 52 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.24%) HTTP
2 17 (2.00%) Network Security
3 16 (1.88%) Firewall
4 8 (0.94%) Internet
4 8 (0.94%) SSL
5 6 (0.71%) Bluetooth
5 6 (0.71%) VPN
6 4 (0.47%) IPv4
7 2 (0.24%) OSPF
7 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 1 (0.12%) MQTT
8 1 (0.12%) VoIP
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.66%) DynamoDB
2 111 (13.07%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (10.37%) Amazon Athena
4 84 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
5 81 (9.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 76 (8.95%) Dremio
7 72 (8.48%) Apache Iceberg
8 71 (8.36%) Apache Arrow
8 71 (8.36%) Apache Ignite
9 65 (7.66%) NoSQL
10 61 (7.18%) Relational Database
11 54 (6.36%) Data Lake
12 52 (6.12%) SQL Server
13 44 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
14 41 (4.83%) Big Data
15 40 (4.71%) Power BI
16 39 (4.59%) MySQL
17 25 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (2.94%) MongoDB
17 25 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 132 (15.55%) Git
2 107 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 88 (10.37%) Artifactory
4 52 (6.12%) JIRA
5 47 (5.54%) JUnit
6 46 (5.42%) GitLab
7 32 (3.77%) Mockito
8 20 (2.36%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.24%) JMeter
10 15 (1.77%) Maven
10 15 (1.77%) Selenium
10 15 (1.77%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.65%) IntelliJ
12 11 (1.30%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.18%) PowerBuilder
14 9 (1.06%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.06%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
15 7 (0.82%) Postman
16 6 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 235 (27.68%) Finance
2 188 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 121 (14.25%) Front Office
4 76 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.95%) Banking
6 51 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (4.00%) Law
8 27 (3.18%) Retail
9 20 (2.36%) Health Technology
9 20 (2.36%) Publishing
9 20 (2.36%) Tech for Good
10 19 (2.24%) Marketing
11 18 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.53%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.41%) Electronics
17 11 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 285 (33.57%) Developer
2 217 (25.56%) Senior
3 179 (21.08%) AWS Engineer
4 144 (16.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 136 (16.02%) Data Engineer
6 135 (15.90%) AWS DevOps
7 121 (14.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 120 (14.13%) Lead
9 115 (13.55%) Python Engineer
10 114 (13.43%) Senior Developer
11 78 (9.19%) Architect
12 74 (8.72%) Software Engineer
13 65 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 65 (7.66%) Java Developer
14 41 (4.83%) Software Developer
15 40 (4.71%) AWS Developer
16 37 (4.36%) Cloud Architect
17 33 (3.89%) AWS Architect
17 33 (3.89%) Senior DevOps
18 29 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (22.50%) React
2 134 (15.78%) Kafka
3 133 (15.67%) Node.js
4 113 (13.31%) REST
5 105 (12.37%) .NET
6 94 (11.07%) PySpark
7 93 (10.95%) J2EE
7 93 (10.95%) RESTful
8 91 (10.72%) HTML
9 79 (9.31%) GraphQL
10 76 (8.95%) CSS
11 71 (8.36%) Spring Boot
12 67 (7.89%) Spring
13 54 (6.36%) AngularJS
14 53 (6.24%) Web Services
15 39 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
15 39 (4.59%) JSON
15 39 (4.59%) SOAP
16 34 (4.00%) Vue
17 33 (3.89%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.12%) IoT
7 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.65%) Credit Derivative
9 12 (1.41%) Client/Server
10 11 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.30%) Tandem
11 10 (1.18%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.18%) Robotics
12 9 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.94%) SCADA
14 7 (0.82%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
15 6 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.95%) Linux
2 14 (1.65%) Ubuntu
2 14 (1.65%) Windows
3 5 (0.59%) VMS
4 3 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Android
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (50.88%) DevOps
2 430 (50.65%) CI/CD
3 411 (48.41%) Agile
4 285 (33.57%) Software Engineering
5 248 (29.21%) Microservices
6 153 (18.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 141 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (14.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 117 (13.78%) Containerisation
11 115 (13.55%) Asset Management
12 114 (13.43%) Analytics
13 112 (13.19%) Mentoring
14 110 (12.96%) Data Engineering
15 109 (12.84%) Event-Driven
16 102 (12.01%) Open Source
17 101 (11.90%) Scrum
18 100 (11.78%) Test Automation
19 98 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 91 (10.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 386 (45.47%) Python
2 253 (29.80%) Java
3 239 (28.15%) JavaScript
4 193 (22.73%) SQL
5 184 (21.67%) TypeScript
6 138 (16.25%) C#
7 110 (12.96%) Go
8 30 (3.53%) Bash
8 30 (3.53%) PHP
9 29 (3.42%) Shell Script
10 27 (3.18%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.36%) C++
12 15 (1.77%) C
12 15 (1.77%) Scala
13 14 (1.65%) Bicep
14 13 (1.53%) R
15 9 (1.06%) Groovy
16 8 (0.94%) Perl
17 6 (0.71%) Ladder Logic
17 6 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 115 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 102 (12.01%) Degree
3 80 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 65 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (6.60%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.24%) QA
2 25 (2.94%) GDPR
3 22 (2.59%) SLA
4 17 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 16 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.06%) NIST
9 6 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.47%) GMP
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 309 (36.40%) Docker
2 22 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 307 (36.16%) Kubernetes
2 255 (30.04%) Terraform
3 55 (6.48%) Ansible
4 36 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.77%) Grafana
6 19 (2.24%) Kibana
7 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.82%) Nessus
7 7 (0.82%) Packer
7 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.82%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.59%) Argo
10 4 (0.47%) Puppet
11 3 (0.35%) Nagios
12 2 (0.24%) SCCM
13 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.12%) Bugsnag
13 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 109 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.48%) Databricks
3 34 (4.00%) Google
4 25 (2.94%) Splunk
5 21 (2.47%) IBM
6 20 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.77%) Informatica
9 15 (1.77%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.53%) Oracle
11 8 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.82%) Juniper
13 6 (0.71%) Siemens
13 6 (0.71%) VMware
14 5 (0.59%) SimCorp
15 4 (0.47%) AppDynamics
15 4 (0.47%) Okta
15 4 (0.47%) SAP
16 3 (0.35%) OpenAI