Serverless Jobs

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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 134 74
Rank change year-on-year -75 -60 +27
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,452 2,449 8,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 2.62% 4.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.98% 6.07% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1,375 1,991
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,599 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -3.33% +3.81%
75th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +17.39%

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 36,441 40,322 83,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.19% 48.65%
Number of salaries quoted 27,115 27,151 41,754
10th Percentile £30,190 £34,250 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.45% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -64 1,261 £75,000 - 322
UK excluding London -95 800 £65,000 -3.70% 175
Work from Home -86 648 £75,000 +3.45% 203
London -26 551 £85,000 +6.25% 158
North of England -60 228 £60,000 -11.11% 69
South East -18 220 £67,500 -3.57% 22
North West -69 139 £57,500 -14.81% 43
Midlands -21 128 £70,000 - 33
West Midlands +29 99 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Scotland -111 84 £57,500 -11.54% 11
South West -134 73 £68,750 +14.58% 22
East of England +1 53 £58,750 -18.97% 12
Yorkshire -5 51 £60,000 -14.29% 18
North East +4 38 £65,000 +52.94% 8
East Midlands -59 28 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Northern Ireland -7 8 £86,250 +102.94% 3
Wales -66 7 £53,000 -15.53% 6

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 98 (6.75%) Apache Spark
2 92 (6.34%) Apache
3 46 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 34 (2.34%) OpenStack
5 31 (2.13%) Confluence
6 15 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
8 9 (0.62%) JBoss
9 8 (0.55%) nginx
10 7 (0.48%) CMS
11 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.34%) Apache Pig
12 5 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.21%) WordPress
15 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.069%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.48%) Trello
2 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Sketch
5 1 (0.069%) UXPin
5 1 (0.069%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 25 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.76%) Shopify
3 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 973 (67.01%) AWS
2 675 (46.49%) AWS Lambda
3 674 (46.42%) Azure
4 373 (25.69%) Azure Functions
5 297 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
6 266 (18.32%) Amazon S3
7 241 (16.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 228 (15.70%) Amazon EC2
9 227 (15.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 215 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
11 195 (13.43%) Amazon EKS
12 186 (12.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 172 (11.85%) Amazon SQS
14 158 (10.88%) Azure API Management
15 143 (9.85%) Power Platform
16 125 (8.61%) IBM Cloud
17 115 (7.92%) GitHub
18 96 (6.61%) GCP
19 87 (5.99%) SaaS
20 86 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.82%) AMQP
2 27 (1.86%) Firewall
3 26 (1.79%) HTTP
4 18 (1.24%) DNS
4 18 (1.24%) VPN
5 15 (1.03%) Network Security
6 10 (0.69%) Internet
7 9 (0.62%) WAN
8 7 (0.48%) LAN
8 7 (0.48%) MQTT
9 6 (0.41%) IPv4
10 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.34%) Wireless
11 3 (0.21%) DHCP
11 3 (0.21%) NGFW
12 2 (0.14%) WLAN
13 1 (0.069%) Bluetooth
13 1 (0.069%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.069%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (21.63%) NoSQL
2 225 (15.50%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (14.60%) DynamoDB
4 208 (14.33%) Relational Database
5 177 (12.19%) Amazon RDS
6 169 (11.64%) MongoDB
7 125 (8.61%) DB2
8 120 (8.26%) Big Data
9 110 (7.58%) SQL Server
10 106 (7.30%) MySQL
11 89 (6.13%) Hadoop
12 63 (4.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 62 (4.27%) Power BI
14 54 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 50 (3.44%) Electronic Patient Records
16 42 (2.89%) Data Lake
16 42 (2.89%) Redis
17 30 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
18 29 (2.00%) Cloudera CDH
19 26 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 287 (19.77%) Git
2 138 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 87 (5.99%) GitLab
4 64 (4.41%) JIRA
5 26 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 25 (1.72%) JUnit
6 25 (1.72%) Postman
7 24 (1.65%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.17%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.76%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.76%) MSTest
12 10 (0.69%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.69%) gulp
12 10 (0.69%) Subversion
12 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.69%) Yeoman
13 9 (0.62%) Mocha
13 9 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 324 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 283 (19.49%) Finance
3 200 (13.77%) Public Sector
4 91 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (5.65%) Law
7 58 (3.99%) Marketing
8 57 (3.93%) Legal
9 47 (3.24%) Retail
10 37 (2.55%) Front Office
11 34 (2.34%) Aerospace
11 34 (2.34%) Games
12 30 (2.07%) Banking
13 26 (1.79%) Automotive
14 24 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.31%) Tech for Good
16 17 (1.17%) Health Technology
16 17 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.90%) Billing
18 12 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 603 (41.53%) Developer
2 254 (17.49%) Senior
3 249 (17.15%) Software Engineer
4 224 (15.43%) Full Stack Developer
5 200 (13.77%) AWS Engineer
6 191 (13.15%) Lead
7 151 (10.40%) Azure Developer
8 123 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 115 (7.92%) Senior Developer
10 102 (7.02%) Architect
11 84 (5.79%) AWS Software Engineer
12 79 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 74 (5.10%) Java Developer
14 68 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
14 68 (4.68%) Data Engineer
15 65 (4.48%) Python Engineer
16 62 (4.27%) Software Developer
17 59 (4.06%) AWS Developer
17 59 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 58 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (32.16%) Node.js
2 401 (27.62%) .NET
3 379 (26.10%) React
4 271 (18.66%) AngularJS
5 269 (18.53%) REST
6 219 (15.08%) HTML
7 207 (14.26%) CSS
8 194 (13.36%) Web Services
9 192 (13.22%) ASP.NET
10 175 (12.05%) Vue
11 150 (10.33%) RESTful
12 143 (9.85%) ASP.NET Core
13 139 (9.57%) jQuery
14 129 (8.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 126 (8.68%) Spring
15 126 (8.68%) Spring Boot
16 125 (8.61%) Backbone.js
16 125 (8.61%) Ember.js
17 108 (7.44%) GraphQL
18 83 (5.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 202 (13.91%) Algorithms
2 162 (11.16%) Data Structures
3 141 (9.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (8.88%) Blockchain
5 98 (6.75%) Cloud Native
6 80 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
7 59 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (3.65%) Client/Server
9 45 (3.10%) Product Ownership
10 34 (2.34%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.86%) IoT
12 25 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.65%) Tandem
14 23 (1.58%) Low-Code
15 21 (1.45%) Management Information System
16 19 (1.31%) Blog
17 17 (1.17%) Onboarding
18 15 (1.03%) Public Cloud
18 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
19 14 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 234 (16.12%) Linux
2 178 (12.26%) Windows
3 128 (8.82%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.68%) Android
5 33 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 30 (2.07%) CentOS
8 29 (2.00%) Debian
9 19 (1.31%) Windows Server
10 16 (1.10%) Unix
11 7 (0.48%) VMS
12 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (43.87%) DevOps
2 594 (40.91%) Agile
3 508 (34.99%) CI/CD
4 444 (30.58%) Software Engineering
5 367 (25.28%) Microservices
6 366 (25.21%) Full Stack Development
7 290 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
8 248 (17.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 234 (16.12%) Scrum
10 228 (15.70%) Design Patterns
11 214 (14.74%) Containerisation
12 196 (13.50%) Artificial Intelligence
13 194 (13.36%) API Management
14 189 (13.02%) MVC
15 184 (12.67%) TDD
16 182 (12.53%) OOP
17 176 (12.12%) OO
17 176 (12.12%) Web Development
18 173 (11.91%) SOLID
19 160 (11.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 598 (41.18%) Python
2 510 (35.12%) SQL
3 488 (33.61%) Java
4 467 (32.16%) JavaScript
5 410 (28.24%) C#
6 245 (16.87%) TypeScript
7 99 (6.82%) Go
8 72 (4.96%) PowerShell
9 57 (3.93%) Scala
10 54 (3.72%) Bash
11 47 (3.24%) T-SQL
12 34 (2.34%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.20%) PHP
14 30 (2.07%) Ruby
15 23 (1.58%) C
16 12 (0.83%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.76%) Perl
18 10 (0.69%) Bicep
18 10 (0.69%) C++
19 9 (0.62%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 161 (11.09%) Degree
2 136 (9.37%) Security Cleared
3 112 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.68%) AWS Certification
5 81 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (3.17%) DBS Check
7 42 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 41 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 39 (2.69%) DV Cleared
10 34 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 31 (2.13%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.28%) CEH
14 4 (0.28%) CISSP
14 4 (0.28%) GSEC
14 4 (0.28%) OSCP
15 3 (0.21%) MCSA
15 3 (0.21%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.24%) QA
2 33 (2.27%) GDPR
3 25 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.52%) NIST
5 20 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.76%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.21%) WCAG
11 2 (0.14%) SLA
12 1 (0.069%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.069%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.069%) NCSC
12 1 (0.069%) SEPA
System Software
1 324 (22.31%) Docker
2 54 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.48%) HDFS
6 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 358 (24.66%) Terraform
2 310 (21.35%) Kubernetes
3 121 (8.33%) Ansible
4 42 (2.89%) Puppet
5 30 (2.07%) Grafana
6 20 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.62%) Argo
8 9 (0.62%) Packer
9 7 (0.48%) Kibana
10 6 (0.41%) SCCM
11 5 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.21%) Autotask
12 3 (0.21%) Consul
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) CASB
13 2 (0.14%) Istio
13 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.14%) Podman
14 1 (0.069%) logstash
Vendors
1 204 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 156 (10.74%) Red Hat
3 126 (8.68%) IBM
4 58 (3.99%) Google
5 47 (3.24%) Databricks
6 34 (2.34%) WSO2
7 29 (2.00%) Oracle
7 29 (2.00%) SaltStack
8 20 (1.38%) ForgeRock
9 19 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.10%) Sitecore
11 15 (1.03%) Splunk
12 13 (0.90%) VMware
13 12 (0.83%) Facebook
14 11 (0.76%) Informatica
14 11 (0.76%) Sage
15 10 (0.69%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.62%) GoCardless
16 9 (0.62%) PayPal
17 8 (0.55%) Atlassian