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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 134 74
Rank change year-on-year -64 -60 +34
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 1,486 2,568 7,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 2.62% 4.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% 6.08% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 989 1,437 1,940
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £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 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,497 £66,450
% change year-on-year -5.11% +3.08% +10.75%

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 35,597 42,246 79,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.14% 43.08% 48.54%
Number of salaries quoted 26,751 27,684 41,359
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,797
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 £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
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 24 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 24 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 -49 1,281 £75,000 - 440
UK excluding London -93 819 £65,000 -5.11% 273
Work from Home -66 683 £75,000 - 242
London -23 563 £85,000 +6.25% 267
South East +3 234 £70,000 - 114
North of England -47 232 £60,000 -13.29% 65
North West -67 143 £60,000 -11.11% 40
Midlands -19 120 £70,000 - 35
West Midlands +27 93 £70,000 +1.08% 25
Scotland -111 91 £47,500 -31.36% 10
South West -126 72 £67,500 +12.50% 26
East of England +30 53 £57,500 -17.86% 15
Yorkshire -9 52 £60,000 -20.00% 19
North East +11 37 £65,000 +57.58% 6
East Midlands -35 26 £76,250 +8.93% 10
Northern Ireland 0 10 £86,250 +7.81% 4
Wales -55 8 £57,500 -8.35% 5

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
1 105 (7.07%) Apache Spark
2 99 (6.66%) Apache
3 49 (3.30%) SharePoint
4 41 (2.76%) OpenStack
5 36 (2.42%) Confluence
6 16 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
8 9 (0.61%) JBoss
9 8 (0.54%) nginx
10 7 (0.47%) Apache Pig
11 6 (0.40%) CMS
11 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.34%) WordPress
13 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.067%) 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 (0.067%) Sketch
4 1 (0.067%) UXPin
4 1 (0.067%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.67%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 981 (66.02%) AWS
2 692 (46.57%) AWS Lambda
3 687 (46.23%) Azure
4 368 (24.76%) Azure Functions
5 299 (20.12%) Azure DevOps
6 277 (18.64%) Amazon S3
7 241 (16.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 238 (16.02%) Amazon EC2
9 235 (15.81%) Amazon ECS
10 224 (15.07%) Azure Service Bus
11 214 (14.40%) Amazon EKS
12 184 (12.38%) Amazon SQS
12 184 (12.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 160 (10.77%) Azure API Management
14 146 (9.83%) Power Platform
15 125 (8.41%) IBM Cloud
16 124 (8.34%) GitHub
17 97 (6.53%) GCP
18 82 (5.52%) SaaS
19 80 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.69%) AMQP
2 28 (1.88%) Firewall
3 26 (1.75%) HTTP
4 19 (1.28%) DNS
4 19 (1.28%) VPN
5 16 (1.08%) Network Security
6 12 (0.81%) Internet
7 9 (0.61%) WAN
8 7 (0.47%) IPv4
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
9 6 (0.40%) MQTT
10 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.34%) Wireless
11 3 (0.20%) DHCP
11 3 (0.20%) NGFW
12 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.13%) WLAN
13 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.067%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (21.47%) NoSQL
2 239 (16.08%) PostgreSQL
3 238 (16.02%) Relational Database
4 211 (14.20%) DynamoDB
5 185 (12.45%) Amazon RDS
6 165 (11.10%) MongoDB
7 128 (8.61%) Big Data
8 125 (8.41%) DB2
9 112 (7.54%) MySQL
10 110 (7.40%) SQL Server
11 98 (6.59%) Hadoop
12 70 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 68 (4.58%) Power BI
14 55 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 54 (3.63%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (3.10%) Data Lake
17 42 (2.83%) Redis
18 34 (2.29%) RDBMS
19 30 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
19 30 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 324 (21.80%) Git
2 156 (10.50%) Jenkins
3 91 (6.12%) GitLab
4 65 (4.37%) JIRA
5 30 (2.02%) Artifactory
6 26 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 26 (1.75%) JUnit
7 25 (1.68%) Postman
8 24 (1.62%) JDeveloper
9 19 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.21%) Cypress.io
11 17 (1.14%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.87%) Subversion
13 11 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.74%) MSTest
14 10 (0.67%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.67%) gulp
14 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.67%) Yeoman
15 9 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 318 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 295 (19.85%) Finance
3 204 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 100 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (6.06%) Law
7 61 (4.10%) Legal
8 58 (3.90%) Marketing
9 44 (2.96%) Retail
10 41 (2.76%) Front Office
11 34 (2.29%) Games
12 33 (2.22%) Aerospace
13 29 (1.95%) Banking
14 26 (1.75%) Automotive
14 26 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.28%) Tech for Good
16 18 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.14%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.87%) Billing
19 11 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 611 (41.12%) Developer
2 273 (18.37%) Software Engineer
3 254 (17.09%) Senior
4 225 (15.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 211 (14.20%) AWS Engineer
6 189 (12.72%) Lead
7 152 (10.23%) Azure Developer
8 131 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 113 (7.60%) Senior Developer
10 95 (6.39%) Architect
11 89 (5.99%) Java Developer
12 88 (5.92%) AWS Software Engineer
13 83 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
14 76 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
15 75 (5.05%) Data Engineer
16 67 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 64 (4.31%) AWS Developer
18 62 (4.17%) Python Engineer
18 62 (4.17%) Software Developer
19 59 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (33.45%) Node.js
2 400 (26.92%) .NET
3 396 (26.65%) React
4 280 (18.84%) AngularJS
5 279 (18.78%) REST
6 220 (14.80%) HTML
7 209 (14.06%) CSS
8 200 (13.46%) Web Services
9 193 (12.99%) ASP.NET
10 173 (11.64%) Vue
11 149 (10.03%) RESTful
12 143 (9.62%) ASP.NET Core
13 139 (9.35%) jQuery
14 137 (9.22%) Spring
15 132 (8.88%) Spring Boot
16 129 (8.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 125 (8.41%) Backbone.js
17 125 (8.41%) Ember.js
18 106 (7.13%) GraphQL
19 90 (6.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 206 (13.86%) Algorithms
2 163 (10.97%) Data Structures
3 141 (9.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (8.68%) Blockchain
5 99 (6.66%) Cloud Native
6 90 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 56 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (3.57%) Client/Server
9 45 (3.03%) Product Ownership
10 36 (2.42%) Mobile App
11 31 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (1.88%) Tandem
13 25 (1.68%) IoT
14 24 (1.62%) Low-Code
15 21 (1.41%) Management Information System
15 21 (1.41%) Onboarding
16 19 (1.28%) Blog
16 19 (1.28%) Public Cloud
17 17 (1.14%) Virtual Team
18 16 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 236 (15.88%) Linux
2 180 (12.11%) Windows
3 128 (8.61%) Apple iOS
4 126 (8.48%) Android
5 32 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.95%) CentOS
8 28 (1.88%) Debian
9 19 (1.28%) Windows Server
10 15 (1.01%) Unix
11 8 (0.54%) VMS
12 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (45.56%) DevOps
2 621 (41.79%) Agile
3 523 (35.20%) CI/CD
4 472 (31.76%) Software Engineering
5 400 (26.92%) Microservices
6 364 (24.50%) Full Stack Development
7 305 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
8 253 (17.03%) Design Patterns
9 245 (16.49%) Scrum
10 244 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 240 (16.15%) Containerisation
12 200 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 192 (12.92%) API Management
13 192 (12.92%) TDD
14 191 (12.85%) MVC
15 182 (12.25%) OOP
16 176 (11.84%) OO
16 176 (11.84%) Web Development
17 174 (11.71%) SOLID
18 161 (10.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 622 (41.86%) Python
2 534 (35.94%) Java
2 534 (35.94%) SQL
3 495 (33.31%) JavaScript
4 404 (27.19%) C#
5 244 (16.42%) TypeScript
6 131 (8.82%) Go
7 76 (5.11%) Bash
8 70 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 64 (4.31%) Scala
10 52 (3.50%) Ruby
11 48 (3.23%) T-SQL
12 37 (2.49%) Shell Script
13 35 (2.36%) PHP
14 34 (2.29%) Perl
15 23 (1.55%) C
16 13 (0.87%) Bicep
17 12 (0.81%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.67%) C++
19 9 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 161 (10.83%) Degree
2 141 (9.49%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 82 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (3.36%) Azure Certification
7 48 (3.23%) DBS Check
8 38 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.49%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.54%) 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%) Sun Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.05%) QA
2 33 (2.22%) GDPR
3 21 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.21%) NIST
6 13 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.20%) WCAG
11 2 (0.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.067%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.067%) NCSC
12 1 (0.067%) SEPA
System Software
1 337 (22.68%) Docker
2 52 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 38 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.61%) HDFS
7 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 375 (25.24%) Terraform
2 322 (21.67%) Kubernetes
3 131 (8.82%) Ansible
4 41 (2.76%) Puppet
5 32 (2.15%) Grafana
6 20 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.81%) Packer
9 8 (0.54%) Argo
10 6 (0.40%) Kibana
11 5 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.34%) SCCM
12 3 (0.20%) Autotask
12 3 (0.20%) Consul
12 3 (0.20%) Salt
13 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) CASB
13 2 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 203 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 155 (10.43%) Red Hat
3 126 (8.48%) IBM
4 58 (3.90%) Google
4 58 (3.90%) Oracle
5 49 (3.30%) Databricks
6 41 (2.76%) WSO2
7 28 (1.88%) SaltStack
8 20 (1.35%) ForgeRock
9 16 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.08%) Sitecore
10 14 (0.94%) Splunk
11 13 (0.87%) VMware
12 11 (0.74%) Facebook
12 11 (0.74%) Informatica
12 11 (0.74%) Sage
13 10 (0.67%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.61%) Apple
14 9 (0.61%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.61%) PayPal