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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 136 76
Rank change year-on-year -56 -60 +43
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,532 2,670 6,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 2.57% 4.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 5.96% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,553 1,922
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,775
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £105,000
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 35,224 44,804 74,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.90% 43.07% 48.01%
Number of salaries quoted 26,669 29,303 41,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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 £95,000 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -44 1,308 £75,000 - 318
UK excluding London -80 848 £65,000 -3.70% 171
Work from Home -56 728 £75,000 - 208
London -14 567 £85,000 +3.03% 157
North of England -33 243 £60,000 -13.60% 64
South East 0 241 £70,000 - 24
North West -42 144 £60,000 -11.11% 37
Midlands -28 114 £70,000 +2.19% 27
Scotland -101 96 £57,500 -15.87% 11
West Midlands +14 86 £70,000 +7.69% 15
South West -120 75 £66,250 +10.42% 28
Yorkshire +11 61 £60,000 -22.58% 18
East of England +30 56 £57,500 -17.86% 8
North East +11 38 £65,000 +33.10% 10
East Midlands -35 27 £55,000 -21.43% 12
Northern Ireland +11 14 £77,500 -3.13% 7
Wales -40 10 £51,816 -17.41% 7

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
1 102 (6.66%) Apache
1 102 (6.66%) Apache Spark
2 55 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.74%) OpenStack
4 37 (2.42%) Confluence
5 18 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.65%) JBoss
6 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
7 9 (0.59%) CMS
8 8 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.46%) nginx
9 7 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.39%) WordPress
11 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.065%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.39%) Trello
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.065%) Sketch
4 1 (0.065%) UXPin
4 1 (0.065%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.65%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.065%) Magento
5 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 996 (65.01%) AWS
2 708 (46.21%) AWS Lambda
3 692 (45.17%) Azure
4 365 (23.83%) Azure Functions
5 300 (19.58%) Azure DevOps
6 291 (18.99%) Amazon S3
7 247 (16.12%) Amazon EC2
8 246 (16.06%) Amazon ECS
9 239 (15.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 219 (14.30%) Amazon EKS
11 215 (14.03%) Azure Service Bus
12 187 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 183 (11.95%) Amazon SQS
14 158 (10.31%) Azure API Management
15 151 (9.86%) Power Platform
16 134 (8.75%) GitHub
17 119 (7.77%) IBM Cloud
18 104 (6.79%) GCP
19 83 (5.42%) SaaS
20 77 (5.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.35%) AMQP
2 26 (1.70%) Firewall
3 25 (1.63%) HTTP
4 19 (1.24%) Network Security
4 19 (1.24%) VPN
5 17 (1.11%) Internet
6 16 (1.04%) DNS
7 8 (0.52%) WAN
8 7 (0.46%) IPv4
8 7 (0.46%) LAN
9 5 (0.33%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.33%) Wireless
10 4 (0.26%) MQTT
11 3 (0.20%) DHCP
12 2 (0.13%) WLAN
13 1 (0.065%) IPsec
13 1 (0.065%) Kerberos
13 1 (0.065%) SSL
13 1 (0.065%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (19.91%) NoSQL
2 246 (16.06%) Relational Database
3 239 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
4 206 (13.45%) DynamoDB
5 183 (11.95%) Amazon RDS
6 159 (10.38%) MongoDB
7 127 (8.29%) Big Data
8 121 (7.90%) SQL Server
9 119 (7.77%) DB2
10 115 (7.51%) MySQL
11 96 (6.27%) Hadoop
12 86 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 79 (5.16%) Power BI
14 54 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 54 (3.52%) Electronic Patient Records
15 51 (3.33%) Data Lake
16 46 (3.00%) RDBMS
17 42 (2.74%) Redis
18 37 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
19 36 (2.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 343 (22.39%) Git
2 175 (11.42%) Jenkins
3 88 (5.74%) GitLab
4 69 (4.50%) JIRA
5 39 (2.55%) Artifactory
6 36 (2.35%) JDeveloper
7 28 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.76%) JUnit
9 26 (1.70%) Postman
10 20 (1.31%) SonarQube
10 20 (1.31%) TeamCity
11 18 (1.17%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.98%) CircleCI
12 15 (0.98%) Subversion
13 11 (0.72%) MSTest
13 11 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.65%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.65%) gulp
14 10 (0.65%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.65%) Yeoman
General
1 320 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 304 (19.84%) Finance
3 208 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 95 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (5.22%) Law
7 61 (3.98%) Legal
8 57 (3.72%) Marketing
9 47 (3.07%) Retail
10 45 (2.94%) Front Office
11 36 (2.35%) Games
12 29 (1.89%) Aerospace
12 29 (1.89%) Banking
12 29 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.57%) Automotive
14 22 (1.44%) Tech for Good
15 19 (1.24%) Health Technology
15 19 (1.24%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.85%) Billing
17 11 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 624 (40.73%) Developer
2 291 (18.99%) Software Engineer
3 252 (16.45%) Senior
4 218 (14.23%) AWS Engineer
4 218 (14.23%) Full Stack Developer
5 182 (11.88%) Lead
6 149 (9.73%) Azure Developer
7 146 (9.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 113 (7.38%) Senior Developer
9 100 (6.53%) Architect
10 94 (6.14%) Java Developer
11 93 (6.07%) Data Engineer
12 89 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 86 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
14 81 (5.29%) AWS Software Engineer
15 78 (5.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 66 (4.31%) Software Developer
17 60 (3.92%) AWS Developer
18 56 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
19 54 (3.52%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (32.70%) Node.js
2 410 (26.76%) React
3 396 (25.85%) .NET
4 270 (17.62%) AngularJS
5 265 (17.30%) REST
6 214 (13.97%) HTML
7 204 (13.32%) CSS
8 196 (12.79%) Web Services
9 193 (12.60%) ASP.NET
10 173 (11.29%) Vue
11 156 (10.18%) Spring
12 142 (9.27%) RESTful
13 136 (8.88%) ASP.NET Core
14 135 (8.81%) jQuery
15 128 (8.36%) Spring Boot
16 123 (8.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 119 (7.77%) Backbone.js
17 119 (7.77%) Ember.js
18 95 (6.20%) GraphQL
19 89 (5.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 203 (13.25%) Algorithms
2 159 (10.38%) Data Structures
3 134 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 125 (8.16%) Blockchain
5 98 (6.40%) Cloud Native
6 96 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
7 54 (3.52%) Client/Server
8 53 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (2.55%) Product Ownership
10 36 (2.35%) Tandem
11 35 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (2.28%) Mobile App
12 27 (1.76%) IoT
12 27 (1.76%) Low-Code
13 26 (1.70%) Onboarding
14 25 (1.63%) Management Information System
15 21 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 20 (1.31%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 17 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 244 (15.93%) Linux
2 180 (11.75%) Windows
3 122 (7.96%) Apple iOS
4 120 (7.83%) Android
5 28 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.63%) CentOS
8 24 (1.57%) Debian
9 18 (1.17%) Windows Server
10 16 (1.04%) Unix
11 10 (0.65%) VMS
12 8 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (46.61%) DevOps
2 625 (40.80%) Agile
3 550 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 499 (32.57%) Software Engineering
5 425 (27.74%) Microservices
6 346 (22.58%) Full Stack Development
7 336 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
8 288 (18.80%) Design Patterns
9 270 (17.62%) Containerisation
10 248 (16.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 238 (15.54%) Scrum
12 200 (13.05%) Artificial Intelligence
13 189 (12.34%) API Management
14 188 (12.27%) MVC
15 178 (11.62%) TDD
16 174 (11.36%) OOP
17 168 (10.97%) Web Development
18 167 (10.90%) Continuous Integration
18 167 (10.90%) OO
19 164 (10.70%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 655 (42.75%) Python
2 563 (36.75%) Java
3 549 (35.84%) SQL
4 501 (32.70%) JavaScript
5 420 (27.42%) C#
6 246 (16.06%) TypeScript
7 156 (10.18%) Go
8 94 (6.14%) Bash
9 84 (5.48%) Ruby
10 65 (4.24%) PowerShell
10 65 (4.24%) Scala
11 49 (3.20%) T-SQL
12 47 (3.07%) Perl
13 42 (2.74%) Shell Script
14 40 (2.61%) PHP
15 23 (1.50%) C
16 16 (1.04%) Bicep
17 13 (0.85%) C++
18 11 (0.72%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 169 (11.03%) Degree
2 147 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 120 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.33%) AWS Certification
5 89 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (2.55%) DBS Check
8 38 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (2.28%) DV Cleared
10 33 (2.15%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.26%) CEH
14 4 (0.26%) CISSP
14 4 (0.26%) GSEC
14 4 (0.26%) OSCP
15 3 (0.20%) PhD
15 3 (0.20%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.48%) QA
2 35 (2.28%) GDPR
3 20 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 15 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 11 (0.72%) NIST
7 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.20%) WCAG
10 2 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.065%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.065%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.065%) PMO
11 1 (0.065%) SEPA
System Software
1 363 (23.69%) Docker
2 49 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 42 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 39 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.65%) HDFS
7 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 395 (25.78%) Terraform
2 338 (22.06%) Kubernetes
3 137 (8.94%) Ansible
4 39 (2.55%) Puppet
5 35 (2.28%) Grafana
6 20 (1.31%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.17%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.98%) Packer
9 7 (0.46%) Argo
9 7 (0.46%) Salt
10 6 (0.39%) Kibana
11 5 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.20%) Autotask
12 3 (0.20%) Consul
12 3 (0.20%) SCCM
13 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) CASB
13 2 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.065%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 216 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 145 (9.46%) Red Hat
3 121 (7.90%) IBM
4 75 (4.90%) Oracle
5 60 (3.92%) Google
6 54 (3.52%) Databricks
7 42 (2.74%) WSO2
8 24 (1.57%) SaltStack
9 18 (1.17%) ForgeRock
10 14 (0.91%) Sitecore
10 14 (0.91%) Splunk
11 13 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 13 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 13 (0.85%) VMware
12 11 (0.72%) Facebook
12 11 (0.72%) Informatica
12 11 (0.72%) Sage
13 9 (0.59%) GoCardless
13 9 (0.59%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.59%) PayPal