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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 137 77
Rank change year-on-year -54 -60 +38
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,545 2,658 7,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 2.56% 4.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.37% 5.99% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,539 1,915
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £105,150
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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -43 1,320 £75,000 - 295
UK excluding London -80 858 £65,000 -3.70% 157
Work from Home -57 730 £75,000 - 189
London -13 571 £85,000 +3.03% 138
North of England -36 245 £60,000 -13.29% 53
South East -2 243 £70,000 - 24
North West -47 150 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Midlands -13 114 £70,000 - 28
Scotland -104 97 £57,500 -16.91% 7
West Midlands +11 87 £70,000 +7.69% 17
South West -122 78 £67,500 +12.50% 27
East of England +35 57 £57,500 -17.86% 12
Yorkshire -6 57 £60,000 -20.00% 14
North East +13 38 £65,000 +44.17% 8
East Midlands -30 26 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Northern Ireland +13 14 £77,500 -3.13% 6
Wales -47 11 £51,816 -17.41% 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
1 104 (6.73%) Apache Spark
2 101 (6.54%) Apache
3 54 (3.50%) SharePoint
4 42 (2.72%) OpenStack
5 37 (2.39%) Confluence
6 17 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.65%) JBoss
7 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
8 8 (0.52%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.45%) CMS
9 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.45%) nginx
9 7 (0.45%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.39%) WordPress
11 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.065%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.39%) Trello
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.065%) Sketch
4 1 (0.065%) UXPin
4 1 (0.065%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.65%) Shopify
3 3 (0.19%) 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 1,002 (64.85%) AWS
2 705 (45.63%) AWS Lambda
3 701 (45.37%) Azure
4 370 (23.95%) Azure Functions
5 304 (19.68%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (18.77%) Amazon S3
7 246 (15.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 245 (15.86%) Amazon ECS
9 244 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
10 223 (14.43%) Azure Service Bus
11 220 (14.24%) Amazon EKS
12 187 (12.10%) Amazon SQS
12 187 (12.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 164 (10.61%) Azure API Management
14 149 (9.64%) Power Platform
15 136 (8.80%) GitHub
16 125 (8.09%) IBM Cloud
17 105 (6.80%) GCP
18 86 (5.57%) SaaS
19 76 (4.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.39%) AMQP
2 28 (1.81%) Firewall
3 25 (1.62%) HTTP
4 20 (1.29%) Network Security
5 19 (1.23%) DNS
5 19 (1.23%) VPN
6 15 (0.97%) Internet
7 9 (0.58%) WAN
8 7 (0.45%) IPv4
8 7 (0.45%) LAN
9 6 (0.39%) MQTT
10 5 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.32%) Wireless
11 4 (0.26%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.19%) DHCP
13 2 (0.13%) WLAN
14 1 (0.065%) IPsec
14 1 (0.065%) Kerberos
14 1 (0.065%) SSL
14 1 (0.065%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (20.58%) NoSQL
2 253 (16.38%) Relational Database
3 245 (15.86%) PostgreSQL
4 208 (13.46%) DynamoDB
5 180 (11.65%) Amazon RDS
6 167 (10.81%) MongoDB
7 129 (8.35%) Big Data
8 125 (8.09%) DB2
9 117 (7.57%) MySQL
9 117 (7.57%) SQL Server
10 98 (6.34%) Hadoop
11 83 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 76 (4.92%) Power BI
13 55 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 54 (3.50%) Electronic Patient Records
15 49 (3.17%) Data Lake
16 46 (2.98%) RDBMS
17 42 (2.72%) Redis
18 37 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
19 36 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 346 (22.39%) Git
2 172 (11.13%) Jenkins
3 91 (5.89%) GitLab
4 70 (4.53%) JIRA
5 37 (2.39%) Artifactory
6 36 (2.33%) JDeveloper
7 28 (1.81%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.81%) JUnit
8 26 (1.68%) Postman
9 21 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 20 (1.29%) TeamCity
11 18 (1.17%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.97%) Subversion
13 14 (0.91%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.71%) MSTest
14 11 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (0.65%) gulp
15 10 (0.65%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.65%) Yeoman
General
1 322 (20.84%) Social Skills
2 304 (19.68%) Finance
3 212 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 97 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (5.37%) Law
7 61 (3.95%) Legal
8 55 (3.56%) Marketing
9 46 (2.98%) Retail
10 44 (2.85%) Front Office
11 36 (2.33%) Games
12 30 (1.94%) Aerospace
13 29 (1.88%) Banking
14 28 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (1.62%) Automotive
16 22 (1.42%) Tech for Good
17 19 (1.23%) Health Technology
17 19 (1.23%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.84%) Billing
19 11 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 629 (40.71%) Developer
2 298 (19.29%) Software Engineer
3 259 (16.76%) Senior
4 225 (14.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 218 (14.11%) AWS Engineer
6 184 (11.91%) Lead
7 155 (10.03%) Azure Developer
8 144 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 118 (7.64%) Senior Developer
10 100 (6.47%) Architect
11 94 (6.08%) Java Developer
12 89 (5.76%) Data Engineer
13 88 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
14 85 (5.50%) AWS DevOps
15 84 (5.44%) AWS Software Engineer
16 76 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 65 (4.21%) Software Developer
18 62 (4.01%) AWS Developer
19 58 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
20 54 (3.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (33.20%) Node.js
2 421 (27.25%) React
3 405 (26.21%) .NET
4 277 (17.93%) AngularJS
5 270 (17.48%) REST
6 221 (14.30%) HTML
7 211 (13.66%) CSS
8 202 (13.07%) Web Services
9 199 (12.88%) ASP.NET
10 177 (11.46%) Vue
11 158 (10.23%) Spring
12 145 (9.39%) RESTful
13 143 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
14 141 (9.13%) jQuery
15 132 (8.54%) Spring Boot
16 129 (8.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 125 (8.09%) Backbone.js
17 125 (8.09%) Ember.js
18 96 (6.21%) GraphQL
19 88 (5.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 209 (13.53%) Algorithms
2 165 (10.68%) Data Structures
3 141 (9.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 131 (8.48%) Blockchain
5 104 (6.73%) Cloud Native
6 95 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
8 54 (3.50%) Client/Server
9 41 (2.65%) Product Ownership
10 36 (2.33%) Mobile App
11 34 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (2.20%) Tandem
12 27 (1.75%) Low-Code
13 26 (1.68%) IoT
14 25 (1.62%) Onboarding
15 24 (1.55%) Management Information System
16 21 (1.36%) Public Cloud
17 20 (1.29%) Virtual Team
18 18 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
19 17 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 247 (15.99%) Linux
2 187 (12.10%) Windows
3 128 (8.28%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.16%) Android
5 29 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.68%) CentOS
8 25 (1.62%) Debian
9 19 (1.23%) Windows Server
10 16 (1.04%) Unix
11 10 (0.65%) VMS
12 8 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (46.47%) DevOps
2 626 (40.52%) Agile
3 551 (35.66%) CI/CD
4 503 (32.56%) Software Engineering
5 431 (27.90%) Microservices
6 354 (22.91%) Full Stack Development
7 336 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
8 294 (19.03%) Design Patterns
9 274 (17.73%) Containerisation
10 256 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 242 (15.66%) Scrum
12 208 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 196 (12.69%) API Management
14 195 (12.62%) MVC
15 182 (11.78%) OOP
16 180 (11.65%) TDD
17 175 (11.33%) OO
17 175 (11.33%) Web Development
18 172 (11.13%) SOLID
19 165 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 662 (42.85%) Python
2 575 (37.22%) Java
3 554 (35.86%) SQL
4 510 (33.01%) JavaScript
5 427 (27.64%) C#
6 249 (16.12%) TypeScript
7 153 (9.90%) Go
8 96 (6.21%) Bash
9 83 (5.37%) Ruby
10 70 (4.53%) PowerShell
11 66 (4.27%) Scala
12 49 (3.17%) T-SQL
13 47 (3.04%) Perl
14 41 (2.65%) Shell Script
15 39 (2.52%) PHP
16 23 (1.49%) C
17 15 (0.97%) Bicep
18 13 (0.84%) C++
19 11 (0.71%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 171 (11.07%) Degree
2 148 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 99 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 89 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 40 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 39 (2.52%) DBS Check
9 38 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (2.33%) DV Cleared
11 33 (2.14%) Master's Degree
12 17 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
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 (0.19%) PhD
15 3 (0.19%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.63%) QA
2 35 (2.27%) GDPR
3 20 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 15 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.78%) NIST
7 11 (0.71%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.19%) WCAG
11 2 (0.13%) NCSC
12 1 (0.065%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.065%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.065%) SEPA
12 1 (0.065%) SLA
System Software
1 365 (23.62%) Docker
2 52 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
3 42 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 39 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.65%) HDFS
7 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 398 (25.76%) Terraform
2 341 (22.07%) Kubernetes
3 137 (8.87%) Ansible
4 41 (2.65%) Puppet
5 32 (2.07%) Grafana
6 20 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 17 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.97%) Packer
9 7 (0.45%) Argo
9 7 (0.45%) Salt
10 6 (0.39%) Kibana
11 5 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.26%) SCCM
13 3 (0.19%) Autotask
13 3 (0.19%) 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
1 212 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 152 (9.84%) Red Hat
3 127 (8.22%) IBM
4 74 (4.79%) Oracle
5 60 (3.88%) Google
6 52 (3.37%) Databricks
7 42 (2.72%) WSO2
8 25 (1.62%) SaltStack
9 19 (1.23%) ForgeRock
10 15 (0.97%) Sitecore
11 14 (0.91%) Splunk
12 13 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 13 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.84%) VMware
13 11 (0.71%) Facebook
13 11 (0.71%) Informatica
13 11 (0.71%) Sage
14 9 (0.58%) Apple
14 9 (0.58%) GoCardless
14 9 (0.58%) MuleSoft