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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 138 77
Rank change year-on-year -58 -61 +35
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,508 2,600 7,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 2.57% 4.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 5.99% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,012 1,500 1,897
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £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 £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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 -41 1,297 £75,000 - 305
UK excluding London -78 836 £65,000 -3.70% 163
Work from Home -67 699 £75,000 - 189
London -16 566 £85,000 +3.03% 138
South East -13 239 £70,000 - 24
North of England -32 239 £60,000 -13.29% 57
North West -53 148 £60,000 -11.11% 35
Midlands -30 115 £70,000 - 28
Scotland -106 94 £57,500 -17.06% 6
West Midlands +10 89 £70,000 +7.69% 19
South West -125 76 £66,250 +10.42% 28
East of England +37 54 £57,500 -17.86% 13
Yorkshire +5 54 £60,000 -21.31% 17
North East +12 37 £65,000 +44.17% 5
East Midlands -39 25 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Northern Ireland +8 11 £86,250 +7.81% 6
Wales -52 9 £57,500 -6.31% 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
1 103 (6.83%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.50%) Apache
3 52 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 42 (2.79%) OpenStack
5 37 (2.45%) Confluence
6 17 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (0.66%) JBoss
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Pig
10 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.46%) nginx
10 7 (0.46%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.40%) CMS
11 6 (0.40%) WordPress
12 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.40%) Trello
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.066%) Sketch
4 1 (0.066%) UXPin
4 1 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.66%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 989 (65.58%) AWS
2 699 (46.35%) AWS Lambda
3 695 (46.09%) Azure
4 367 (24.34%) Azure Functions
5 301 (19.96%) Azure DevOps
6 286 (18.97%) Amazon S3
7 242 (16.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 241 (15.98%) Amazon ECS
9 239 (15.85%) Amazon EC2
10 222 (14.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 216 (14.32%) Amazon EKS
12 187 (12.40%) Amazon SQS
13 185 (12.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 162 (10.74%) Azure API Management
15 145 (9.62%) Power Platform
16 135 (8.95%) GitHub
17 125 (8.29%) IBM Cloud
18 102 (6.76%) GCP
19 86 (5.70%) SaaS
20 76 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.52%) AMQP
2 29 (1.92%) Firewall
3 25 (1.66%) HTTP
4 19 (1.26%) DNS
4 19 (1.26%) Network Security
4 19 (1.26%) VPN
5 15 (0.99%) Internet
6 9 (0.60%) WAN
7 7 (0.46%) IPv4
7 7 (0.46%) LAN
8 6 (0.40%) MQTT
9 5 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.33%) Wireless
10 3 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.20%) DHCP
11 2 (0.13%) NGFW
11 2 (0.13%) WLAN
12 1 (0.066%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.066%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.066%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (21.15%) NoSQL
2 250 (16.58%) Relational Database
3 242 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
4 206 (13.66%) DynamoDB
5 176 (11.67%) Amazon RDS
6 165 (10.94%) MongoDB
7 128 (8.49%) Big Data
8 125 (8.29%) DB2
9 116 (7.69%) MySQL
10 114 (7.56%) SQL Server
11 97 (6.43%) Hadoop
12 79 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 72 (4.77%) Power BI
14 55 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 54 (3.58%) Electronic Patient Records
16 48 (3.18%) Data Lake
17 46 (3.05%) RDBMS
18 41 (2.72%) Redis
19 36 (2.39%) Oracle Database
20 34 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 328 (21.75%) Git
2 167 (11.07%) Jenkins
3 88 (5.84%) GitLab
4 69 (4.58%) JIRA
5 36 (2.39%) JDeveloper
6 34 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 28 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.86%) JUnit
8 25 (1.66%) Postman
9 20 (1.33%) SonarQube
10 19 (1.26%) TeamCity
11 18 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.99%) Subversion
13 12 (0.80%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.73%) MSTest
15 10 (0.66%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.66%) gulp
15 10 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 307 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 298 (19.76%) Finance
3 211 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 98 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (5.70%) Law
7 61 (4.05%) Legal
8 55 (3.65%) Marketing
9 46 (3.05%) Retail
10 43 (2.85%) Front Office
11 36 (2.39%) Games
12 31 (2.06%) Aerospace
13 29 (1.92%) Banking
14 27 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.72%) Automotive
16 22 (1.46%) Tech for Good
17 19 (1.26%) Health Technology
17 19 (1.26%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.86%) Billing
19 11 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 619 (41.05%) Developer
2 281 (18.63%) Software Engineer
3 254 (16.84%) Senior
4 224 (14.85%) Full Stack Developer
5 217 (14.39%) AWS Engineer
6 184 (12.20%) Lead
7 154 (10.21%) Azure Developer
8 139 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 116 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 97 (6.43%) Architect
11 94 (6.23%) Java Developer
12 87 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
13 84 (5.57%) AWS Software Engineer
14 83 (5.50%) Data Engineer
15 82 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
16 73 (4.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 63 (4.18%) Software Developer
18 62 (4.11%) AWS Developer
19 59 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
20 53 (3.51%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 512 (33.95%) Node.js
2 407 (26.99%) React
3 401 (26.59%) .NET
4 277 (18.37%) AngularJS
5 270 (17.90%) REST
6 220 (14.59%) HTML
7 209 (13.86%) CSS
8 202 (13.40%) Web Services
9 196 (13.00%) ASP.NET
10 175 (11.60%) Vue
11 143 (9.48%) ASP.NET Core
11 143 (9.48%) RESTful
12 141 (9.35%) jQuery
12 141 (9.35%) Spring
13 134 (8.89%) Spring Boot
14 129 (8.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 125 (8.29%) Backbone.js
15 125 (8.29%) Ember.js
16 95 (6.30%) GraphQL
17 87 (5.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 207 (13.73%) Algorithms
2 164 (10.88%) Data Structures
3 141 (9.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (8.55%) Blockchain
5 100 (6.63%) Cloud Native
6 92 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
8 54 (3.58%) Client/Server
9 41 (2.72%) Product Ownership
10 36 (2.39%) Mobile App
11 33 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (2.12%) Tandem
13 26 (1.72%) IoT
13 26 (1.72%) Low-Code
14 23 (1.53%) Management Information System
15 22 (1.46%) Onboarding
16 21 (1.39%) Public Cloud
17 19 (1.26%) Virtual Team
18 18 (1.19%) Blog
18 18 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 241 (15.98%) Linux
2 184 (12.20%) Windows
3 128 (8.49%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.36%) Android
5 30 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.79%) CentOS
8 26 (1.72%) Debian
9 19 (1.26%) Windows Server
10 15 (0.99%) Unix
11 9 (0.60%) VMS
12 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (46.62%) DevOps
2 620 (41.11%) Agile
3 533 (35.34%) CI/CD
4 480 (31.83%) Software Engineering
5 412 (27.32%) Microservices
6 353 (23.41%) Full Stack Development
7 308 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (17.90%) Design Patterns
9 253 (16.78%) Containerisation
10 251 (16.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 240 (15.92%) Scrum
12 207 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
13 194 (12.86%) API Management
14 193 (12.80%) MVC
15 184 (12.20%) OOP
16 178 (11.80%) TDD
17 176 (11.67%) OO
18 175 (11.60%) Web Development
19 174 (11.54%) SOLID
20 160 (10.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 633 (41.98%) Python
2 553 (36.67%) Java
3 546 (36.21%) SQL
4 508 (33.69%) JavaScript
5 403 (26.72%) C#
6 249 (16.51%) TypeScript
7 149 (9.88%) Go
8 96 (6.37%) Bash
9 70 (4.64%) PowerShell
10 64 (4.24%) Scala
11 63 (4.18%) Ruby
12 48 (3.18%) T-SQL
13 46 (3.05%) Perl
14 39 (2.59%) Shell Script
15 38 (2.52%) PHP
16 23 (1.53%) C
17 15 (0.99%) Bicep
18 13 (0.86%) C++
19 11 (0.73%) Kotlin
20 9 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 162 (10.74%) Degree
2 147 (9.75%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.43%) AWS Certification
5 81 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 39 (2.59%) DBS Check
8 38 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 37 (2.45%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.92%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.27%) CEH
14 4 (0.27%) CISSP
14 4 (0.27%) GSEC
14 4 (0.27%) OSCP
15 3 (0.20%) PhD
15 3 (0.20%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.70%) QA
2 34 (2.25%) GDPR
3 21 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.93%) NIST
6 11 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.20%) WCAG
10 2 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.066%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.066%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.066%) SEPA
11 1 (0.066%) SLA
System Software
1 353 (23.41%) Docker
2 52 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 41 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 39 (2.59%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.66%) HDFS
7 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.066%) RACF
Systems Management
1 389 (25.80%) Terraform
2 333 (22.08%) Kubernetes
3 137 (9.08%) Ansible
4 43 (2.85%) Puppet
5 33 (2.19%) Grafana
6 21 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.26%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.93%) Packer
9 7 (0.46%) Argo
9 7 (0.46%) Salt
10 6 (0.40%) Kibana
11 5 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.27%) SCCM
13 3 (0.20%) Autotask
13 3 (0.20%) 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
1 208 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 153 (10.15%) Red Hat
3 126 (8.36%) IBM
4 74 (4.91%) Oracle
5 58 (3.85%) Google
6 51 (3.38%) Databricks
7 42 (2.79%) WSO2
8 26 (1.72%) SaltStack
9 20 (1.33%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.06%) Sitecore
11 14 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.93%) Splunk
12 13 (0.86%) VMware
13 12 (0.80%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.73%) Facebook
14 11 (0.73%) Informatica
14 11 (0.73%) Sage
15 9 (0.60%) GoCardless
15 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.60%) PayPal