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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 96 85
Rank change year-on-year -58 -11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 728 1,454 2,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.16% 3.37% 4.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 7.07% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 539 867 1,133
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,114 £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 14,616 20,567 35,076
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.31% 47.67% 52.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 15,067 21,832
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,847 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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

Serverless
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 27 April 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 28 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.71%) OpenStack
3 25 (3.43%) Confluence
4 16 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.51%) Apache
6 10 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 8 (1.10%) JBoss
7 8 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
8 6 (0.82%) nginx
8 6 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.82%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) UXPin
3 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 16 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.41%) Shopify
2 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 499 (68.54%) AWS
2 356 (48.90%) AWS Lambda
3 260 (35.71%) Azure
4 128 (17.58%) Amazon S3
5 114 (15.66%) Azure Functions
6 104 (14.29%) GitHub
7 89 (12.23%) Amazon ECS
8 82 (11.26%) Power Platform
9 80 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
10 77 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
11 75 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
12 74 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (9.07%) SaaS
14 58 (7.97%) Amazon SQS
15 54 (7.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
17 48 (6.59%) GCP
18 41 (5.63%) PowerApps
19 39 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
19 39 (5.36%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.06%) Internet
2 14 (1.92%) VPN
3 12 (1.65%) DNS
3 12 (1.65%) Network Security
4 11 (1.51%) AMQP
5 10 (1.37%) Firewall
6 5 (0.69%) IPv4
7 4 (0.55%) HTTP
8 3 (0.41%) WAN
9 2 (0.27%) LAN
9 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.27%) WLAN
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (16.35%) DynamoDB
2 93 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
3 76 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (10.16%) Relational Database
5 72 (9.89%) MySQL
6 54 (7.42%) NoSQL
6 54 (7.42%) SQL Server
7 41 (5.63%) Power BI
7 41 (5.63%) RDBMS
8 36 (4.95%) Oracle Database
9 33 (4.53%) Data Lake
9 33 (4.53%) Redis
10 27 (3.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (3.30%) Big Data
11 24 (3.30%) MongoDB
12 18 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (2.34%) Metadata
14 15 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 224 (30.77%) Git
2 78 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 71 (9.75%) GitLab
4 40 (5.49%) JIRA
5 36 (4.95%) JDeveloper
6 20 (2.75%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.79%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.37%) gulp
9 10 (1.37%) Yeoman
10 9 (1.24%) JUnit
10 9 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (1.24%) Subversion
11 8 (1.10%) git-flow
12 7 (0.96%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.96%) Postman
12 7 (0.96%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.82%) Maven
13 6 (0.82%) Mocha
13 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 152 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 106 (14.56%) Finance
3 49 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.71%) Games
6 26 (3.57%) Retail
7 21 (2.88%) Marketing
8 20 (2.75%) Tech for Good
9 19 (2.61%) Automotive
9 19 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.06%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.51%) Law
11 11 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.37%) Legal
12 10 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.24%) Advertising
13 9 (1.24%) Banking
14 6 (0.82%) Aviation
15 5 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.69%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 266 (36.54%) Developer
2 147 (20.19%) Software Engineer
3 137 (18.82%) Senior
4 119 (16.35%) Lead
5 94 (12.91%) AWS Engineer
6 73 (10.03%) Senior Developer
7 72 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 58 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 55 (7.55%) Architect
10 52 (7.14%) Java Developer
11 40 (5.49%) Full Stack Developer
11 40 (5.49%) Python Engineer
11 40 (5.49%) Software Developer
12 39 (5.36%) Data Engineer
13 37 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
14 36 (4.95%) Ruby Engineer
15 33 (4.53%) AWS Developer
16 32 (4.40%) Backend Developer
17 31 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 28 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (32.69%) Node.js
2 144 (19.78%) React
3 131 (17.99%) .NET
4 101 (13.87%) RESTful
5 76 (10.44%) Spring
6 68 (9.34%) AngularJS
7 64 (8.79%) REST
8 60 (8.24%) GraphQL
9 47 (6.46%) Spring Boot
10 46 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
11 44 (6.04%) JSON
12 43 (5.91%) Django
13 39 (5.36%) HTML
13 39 (5.36%) Web Services
14 36 (4.95%) ASP.NET
15 31 (4.26%) .NET Core
16 30 (4.12%) CSS
17 29 (3.98%) J2EE
17 29 (3.98%) Vue
18 27 (3.71%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
2 49 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
3 46 (6.32%) Client/Server
4 36 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 32 (4.40%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.88%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.06%) Low-Code
7 15 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.79%) IoT
8 13 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.79%) Online Games
9 11 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 65 (8.93%) Linux
2 33 (4.53%) Windows
3 12 (1.65%) Unix
4 7 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (42.17%) DevOps
2 264 (36.26%) Agile
3 251 (34.48%) Microservices
4 241 (33.10%) Software Engineering
5 227 (31.18%) CI/CD
6 218 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (24.45%) Containerisation
8 123 (16.90%) Full Stack Development
9 120 (16.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 119 (16.35%) Design Patterns
11 112 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
12 104 (14.29%) TDD
13 103 (14.15%) Scrum
14 95 (13.05%) Unit Testing
15 83 (11.40%) Clean Code
16 77 (10.58%) Mentoring
17 73 (10.03%) Event-Driven
18 66 (9.07%) Code Quality
19 64 (8.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 63 (8.65%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 300 (41.21%) Python
2 203 (27.88%) Java
2 203 (27.88%) JavaScript
3 188 (25.82%) SQL
4 155 (21.29%) C#
5 136 (18.68%) TypeScript
6 82 (11.26%) Go
7 78 (10.71%) Ruby
8 69 (9.48%) Bash
9 42 (5.77%) Perl
10 38 (5.22%) T-SQL
11 34 (4.67%) PowerShell
12 19 (2.61%) PHP
12 19 (2.61%) Shell Script
13 16 (2.20%) C
14 10 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.96%) R
15 7 (0.96%) XAML
16 6 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 75 (10.30%) Degree
1 75 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 58 (7.97%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.73%) AWS Certification
4 36 (4.95%) DBS Check
5 30 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.55%) CEH
12 4 (0.55%) CISSP
12 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.55%) GSEC
12 4 (0.55%) OSCP
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.28%) QA
2 20 (2.75%) GDPR
3 12 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.24%) NIST
5 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.41%) WCAG
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 204 (28.02%) Docker
2 26 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (3.43%) Active Directory
4 23 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 198 (27.20%) Terraform
2 170 (23.35%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.79%) Ansible
4 29 (3.98%) Grafana
5 16 (2.20%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.65%) Packer
7 12 (1.65%) Puppet
8 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.55%) Salt
10 3 (0.41%) Argo
10 3 (0.41%) Consul
10 3 (0.41%) SCCM
11 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 100 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.42%) Oracle
3 33 (4.53%) Databricks
4 27 (3.71%) WSO2
5 20 (2.75%) Google
6 18 (2.47%) ForgeRock
7 14 (1.92%) Sitecore
8 9 (1.24%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.24%) GoCardless
8 9 (1.24%) PayPal
8 9 (1.24%) Sage
9 8 (1.10%) McAfee
10 7 (0.96%) DevExpress
10 7 (0.96%) VMware
11 6 (0.82%) Adobe
11 6 (0.82%) Apple
11 6 (0.82%) Facebook
12 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.55%) SAP
13 4 (0.55%) Splunk