Serverless Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Serverless Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 152 97
Rank change year-on-year +41 -55 -12
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 427 733 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.85% 2.17% 3.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.27% 5.00% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 359 547 863
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,300 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £107,500 £102,023
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,870 14,651 20,340
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.22% 43.29% 47.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,641 12,003 14,920
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,640 £37,885
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +0.78%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

Serverless
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Serverless trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Serverless.

Serverless salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Serverless
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Serverless over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 82 (19.20%) Apache Spark
2 79 (18.50%) Apache
3 74 (17.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.70%) CMS
5 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Strapi
6 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 352 (82.44%) AWS
2 302 (70.73%) AWS Lambda
3 117 (27.40%) Amazon S3
4 115 (26.93%) Amazon ECS
5 108 (25.29%) Azure
6 90 (21.08%) Amazon EC2
7 72 (16.86%) OpenShift
8 71 (16.63%) dbt
9 69 (16.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (12.65%) Azure Functions
11 43 (10.07%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (7.96%) GitHub
13 30 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (6.32%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (6.09%) Power Platform
16 23 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (5.39%) GCP
17 21 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
17 21 (4.92%) Power Automate
18 20 (4.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.04%) Network Security
2 6 (1.41%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.17%) Firewall
3 5 (1.17%) Internet
4 4 (0.94%) IPv4
4 4 (0.94%) VPN
5 2 (0.47%) OSPF
5 2 (0.47%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (18.97%) Amazon Athena
2 74 (17.33%) DynamoDB
3 71 (16.63%) Apache Arrow
3 71 (16.63%) Apache Iceberg
3 71 (16.63%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (16.63%) Dremio
4 53 (12.41%) Amazon RDS
5 52 (12.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (5.39%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.92%) MySQL
8 20 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (4.22%) Power BI
10 17 (3.98%) Data Lake
10 17 (3.98%) NoSQL
11 16 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (3.04%) Relational Database
13 11 (2.58%) Big Data
14 8 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (17.33%) Artifactory
2 60 (14.05%) Git
3 33 (7.73%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.15%) GitLab
5 18 (4.22%) Cucumber
6 15 (3.51%) JUnit
7 14 (3.28%) IntelliJ
7 14 (3.28%) Maven
7 14 (3.28%) Mockito
8 9 (2.11%) JIRA
8 9 (2.11%) Selenium
9 8 (1.87%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.94%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.47%) ESLint
11 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.47%) Postman
11 2 (0.47%) Sinon.JS
11 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 145 (33.96%) Finance
2 96 (22.48%) Front Office
3 95 (22.25%) Social Skills
4 30 (7.03%) Banking
5 19 (4.45%) Tech for Good
6 18 (4.22%) Health Technology
6 18 (4.22%) Publishing
7 15 (3.51%) Retail
8 14 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.81%) Marketing
10 12 (2.81%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.11%) Advertising
11 9 (2.11%) Games
12 8 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.64%) Legal
13 7 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.94%) Electronics
14 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 141 (33.02%) Senior
2 130 (30.44%) AWS Engineer
3 128 (29.98%) Developer
4 118 (27.63%) AWS DevOps
5 112 (26.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 105 (24.59%) Data Engineer
7 104 (24.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 103 (24.12%) Python Engineer
9 76 (17.80%) Senior Developer
10 43 (10.07%) Lead
11 38 (8.90%) Architect
12 37 (8.67%) Software Developer
13 32 (7.49%) Software Engineer
14 29 (6.79%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (6.56%) Senior Software Developer
16 25 (5.85%) DevOps Manager
16 25 (5.85%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (5.62%) AWS Developer
17 24 (5.62%) Finance Manager
18 22 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (23.19%) Kafka
2 91 (21.31%) React
3 81 (18.97%) PySpark
4 71 (16.63%) J2EE
5 61 (14.29%) Node.js
6 49 (11.48%) .NET
7 42 (9.84%) GraphQL
8 39 (9.13%) CSS
9 37 (8.67%) HTML
10 33 (7.73%) RESTful
11 28 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (6.09%) REST
13 24 (5.62%) AngularJS
13 24 (5.62%) Spring Boot
14 23 (5.39%) Spring
15 18 (4.22%) .NET Framework
16 16 (3.75%) .NET Core
17 14 (3.28%) ActiveMQ
17 14 (3.28%) JMS
18 13 (3.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.03%) Management Information System
3 18 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.51%) IoT
5 14 (3.28%) Credit Derivative
5 14 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.81%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.64%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) Educational Technology
10 6 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.94%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.84%) Linux
2 6 (1.41%) Ubuntu
2 6 (1.41%) Windows
3 3 (0.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (48.71%) DevOps
2 207 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 198 (46.37%) Agile
4 188 (44.03%) Software Engineering
5 104 (24.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 98 (22.95%) Asset Management
6 98 (22.95%) Microservices
7 80 (18.74%) Open Source
8 78 (18.27%) Data Engineering
9 77 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 71 (16.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 63 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (14.52%) Event-Driven
13 61 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 58 (13.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 58 (13.58%) Test Automation
15 47 (11.01%) Analytics
16 46 (10.77%) Unit Testing
17 42 (9.84%) Fintech
18 39 (9.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 224 (52.46%) Python
2 130 (30.44%) Java
3 109 (25.53%) TypeScript
4 107 (25.06%) JavaScript
5 84 (19.67%) Go
6 73 (17.10%) SQL
7 57 (13.35%) C#
8 23 (5.39%) Bash
9 20 (4.68%) C++
10 15 (3.51%) PHP
10 15 (3.51%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.64%) C
12 6 (1.41%) Ladder Logic
12 6 (1.41%) Scala
13 5 (1.17%) Bicep
14 4 (0.94%) Groovy
14 4 (0.94%) R
15 3 (0.70%) Perl
15 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.47%) F#
Qualifications
1 36 (8.43%) Degree
1 36 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 35 (8.20%) AWS Certification
3 28 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.81%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.07%) QA
2 14 (3.28%) GDPR
3 13 (3.04%) HIPAA
4 11 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) GMP
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 157 (36.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 178 (41.69%) Terraform
2 160 (37.47%) Kubernetes
3 27 (6.32%) Ansible
4 25 (5.85%) Grafana
5 22 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.94%) Puppet
7 3 (0.70%) Packer
8 2 (0.47%) Argo
8 2 (0.47%) Kibana
8 2 (0.47%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.45%) IBM
3 17 (3.98%) Databricks
4 10 (2.34%) Google
5 6 (1.41%) Siemens
6 4 (0.94%) SAP
7 3 (0.70%) AppDynamics
7 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.47%) Hitachi
8 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.47%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.23%) Facebook
9 1 (0.23%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle
9 1 (0.23%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.23%) Splunk