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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 134 76
Rank change year-on-year -59 -58 +33
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,507 2,628 7,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 2.60% 4.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.27% 6.05% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 1,503 1,919
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

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 35,306 43,425 76,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,570 41,599
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,992
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 £100,000
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 13 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 13 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 -41 1,296 £75,000 - 330
UK excluding London -86 834 £65,000 -3.70% 171
Work from Home -65 699 £75,000 - 198
London -19 566 £85,000 +3.03% 160
North of England -40 239 £60,000 -13.45% 62
South East -2 237 £70,000 - 26
North West -53 148 £60,000 -11.11% 38
Midlands -17 117 £70,000 - 31
Scotland -103 93 £57,500 -17.06% 8
West Midlands +17 90 £70,000 +7.69% 21
South West -126 76 £66,250 +10.42% 25
Yorkshire -5 54 £60,000 -21.31% 17
East of England +32 53 £57,500 -17.86% 11
North East +13 37 £65,000 +52.94% 7
East Midlands -31 26 £75,000 +7.14% 10
Northern Ireland +5 11 £86,250 +7.81% 6
Wales -48 9 £57,500 -8.35% 4

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
1 103 (6.83%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.50%) Apache
3 51 (3.38%) SharePoint
4 42 (2.79%) OpenStack
5 37 (2.46%) Confluence
6 17 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (0.66%) JBoss
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Pig
10 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.46%) nginx
11 6 (0.40%) CMS
11 6 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.40%) WordPress
12 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) 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 (0.066%) Sketch
4 1 (0.066%) UXPin
4 1 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.66%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 988 (65.56%) AWS
2 700 (46.45%) AWS Lambda
3 697 (46.25%) Azure
4 369 (24.49%) Azure Functions
5 301 (19.97%) Azure DevOps
6 289 (19.18%) Amazon S3
7 242 (16.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 241 (15.99%) Amazon EC2
9 240 (15.93%) Amazon ECS
10 223 (14.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 215 (14.27%) Amazon EKS
12 187 (12.41%) Amazon SQS
12 187 (12.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 161 (10.68%) Azure API Management
14 145 (9.62%) Power Platform
15 134 (8.89%) GitHub
16 125 (8.29%) IBM Cloud
17 101 (6.70%) GCP
18 87 (5.77%) SaaS
19 78 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.52%) AMQP
2 29 (1.92%) Firewall
3 25 (1.66%) HTTP
4 19 (1.26%) DNS
4 19 (1.26%) Network Security
4 19 (1.26%) VPN
5 14 (0.93%) Internet
6 9 (0.60%) WAN
7 7 (0.46%) IPv4
7 7 (0.46%) LAN
8 6 (0.40%) MQTT
9 5 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.33%) Wireless
10 3 (0.20%) DHCP
11 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.13%) NGFW
11 2 (0.13%) WLAN
12 1 (0.066%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.066%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.066%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (21.23%) NoSQL
2 250 (16.59%) Relational Database
3 242 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
4 206 (13.67%) DynamoDB
5 178 (11.81%) Amazon RDS
6 165 (10.95%) MongoDB
7 128 (8.49%) Big Data
8 125 (8.29%) DB2
9 116 (7.70%) MySQL
10 113 (7.50%) SQL Server
11 97 (6.44%) Hadoop
12 79 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 70 (4.64%) Power BI
14 55 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 54 (3.58%) Electronic Patient Records
16 47 (3.12%) Data Lake
17 46 (3.05%) RDBMS
18 41 (2.72%) Redis
19 36 (2.39%) Oracle Database
20 34 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 327 (21.70%) Git
2 167 (11.08%) Jenkins
3 88 (5.84%) GitLab
4 69 (4.58%) JIRA
5 36 (2.39%) JDeveloper
6 34 (2.26%) Artifactory
7 28 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.86%) JUnit
8 25 (1.66%) Postman
9 20 (1.33%) SonarQube
10 19 (1.26%) TeamCity
11 18 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.00%) Subversion
13 12 (0.80%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.73%) MSTest
15 10 (0.66%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.66%) gulp
15 10 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 310 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 298 (19.77%) Finance
3 211 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 98 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (5.77%) Law
6 61 (4.05%) Legal
7 57 (3.78%) Marketing
8 47 (3.12%) Retail
9 43 (2.85%) Front Office
10 36 (2.39%) Games
11 31 (2.06%) Aerospace
12 29 (1.92%) Banking
13 26 (1.73%) Automotive
13 26 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.46%) Tech for Good
15 19 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 19 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.86%) Billing
17 11 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 617 (40.94%) Developer
2 282 (18.71%) Software Engineer
3 255 (16.92%) Senior
4 224 (14.86%) Full Stack Developer
5 217 (14.40%) AWS Engineer
6 186 (12.34%) Lead
7 153 (10.15%) Azure Developer
8 138 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 116 (7.70%) Senior Developer
10 95 (6.30%) Architect
11 92 (6.10%) Java Developer
12 88 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 85 (5.64%) AWS Software Engineer
14 82 (5.44%) Data Engineer
15 81 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
16 72 (4.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 62 (4.11%) AWS Developer
17 62 (4.11%) Software Developer
18 60 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
19 54 (3.58%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 510 (33.84%) Node.js
2 406 (26.94%) React
3 403 (26.74%) .NET
4 277 (18.38%) AngularJS
5 270 (17.92%) REST
6 219 (14.53%) HTML
7 208 (13.80%) CSS
8 202 (13.40%) Web Services
9 195 (12.94%) ASP.NET
10 174 (11.55%) Vue
11 143 (9.49%) ASP.NET Core
11 143 (9.49%) RESTful
12 140 (9.29%) jQuery
12 140 (9.29%) Spring
13 133 (8.83%) Spring Boot
14 129 (8.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 125 (8.29%) Backbone.js
15 125 (8.29%) Ember.js
16 95 (6.30%) GraphQL
17 87 (5.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 207 (13.74%) Algorithms
2 164 (10.88%) Data Structures
3 140 (9.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (8.56%) Blockchain
5 100 (6.64%) Cloud Native
6 92 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
8 54 (3.58%) Client/Server
9 41 (2.72%) Product Ownership
10 36 (2.39%) Mobile App
11 33 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (2.12%) Tandem
13 26 (1.73%) IoT
14 25 (1.66%) Low-Code
15 23 (1.53%) Management Information System
16 22 (1.46%) Onboarding
17 21 (1.39%) Public Cloud
18 19 (1.26%) Virtual Team
19 18 (1.19%) Blog
19 18 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 239 (15.86%) Linux
2 184 (12.21%) Windows
3 128 (8.49%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.36%) Android
5 30 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.79%) CentOS
8 26 (1.73%) Debian
9 19 (1.26%) Windows Server
10 15 (1.00%) Unix
11 9 (0.60%) VMS
12 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (46.72%) DevOps
2 620 (41.14%) Agile
3 533 (35.37%) CI/CD
4 481 (31.92%) Software Engineering
5 410 (27.21%) Microservices
6 353 (23.42%) Full Stack Development
7 308 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
8 269 (17.85%) Design Patterns
9 252 (16.72%) Containerisation
9 252 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 240 (15.93%) Scrum
11 207 (13.74%) Artificial Intelligence
12 193 (12.81%) API Management
13 192 (12.74%) MVC
14 183 (12.14%) OOP
15 178 (11.81%) TDD
16 175 (11.61%) OO
16 175 (11.61%) Web Development
17 173 (11.48%) SOLID
18 160 (10.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 636 (42.20%) Python
2 550 (36.50%) Java
3 543 (36.03%) SQL
4 504 (33.44%) JavaScript
5 405 (26.87%) C#
6 247 (16.39%) TypeScript
7 149 (9.89%) Go
8 95 (6.30%) Bash
9 70 (4.64%) PowerShell
10 64 (4.25%) Scala
11 63 (4.18%) Ruby
12 47 (3.12%) T-SQL
13 46 (3.05%) Perl
14 39 (2.59%) Shell Script
15 38 (2.52%) PHP
16 23 (1.53%) C
17 15 (1.00%) Bicep
18 13 (0.86%) C++
19 11 (0.73%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 165 (10.95%) Degree
2 146 (9.69%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 98 (6.50%) AWS Certification
5 84 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.59%) DBS Check
8 38 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.46%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.92%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.53%) 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 88 (5.84%) QA
2 33 (2.19%) GDPR
3 21 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.00%) NIST
6 14 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.73%) 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%) NCSC
12 1 (0.066%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.066%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.066%) SEPA
12 1 (0.066%) SLA
System Software
1 349 (23.16%) Docker
2 52 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 42 (2.79%) Active Directory
4 39 (2.59%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.66%) HDFS
7 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.066%) RACF
Systems Management
1 388 (25.75%) Terraform
2 331 (21.96%) Kubernetes
3 137 (9.09%) Ansible
4 43 (2.85%) Puppet
5 33 (2.19%) Grafana
6 21 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.26%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.93%) Packer
9 7 (0.46%) Argo
9 7 (0.46%) Salt
10 6 (0.40%) Kibana
11 5 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.27%) SCCM
13 3 (0.20%) Autotask
13 3 (0.20%) Consul
14 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.13%) CASB
14 2 (0.13%) Istio
14 2 (0.13%) Podman
14 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 209 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 153 (10.15%) Red Hat
3 126 (8.36%) IBM
4 73 (4.84%) Oracle
5 58 (3.85%) Google
6 50 (3.32%) Databricks
7 42 (2.79%) WSO2
8 26 (1.73%) SaltStack
9 20 (1.33%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.06%) Sitecore
11 14 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.93%) Splunk
12 13 (0.86%) VMware
13 12 (0.80%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.73%) Facebook
14 11 (0.73%) Informatica
14 11 (0.73%) Sage
15 9 (0.60%) GoCardless
15 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.60%) PayPal