Serverless Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Serverless Computing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 85 175
Rank change year-on-year -57 +90 -32
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 29 78 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.53% 2.70% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 8.89% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 27
10th Percentile - - £47,659
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -13.79% +7.41%
75th Percentile £84,063 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £79,750 £85,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% +1.79%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,442 877 1,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.24% 30.30% 29.36%
Number of salaries quoted 871 504 1,545
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +17.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,125 £75,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Serverless job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Serverless
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in the Thames Valley

Serverless
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
Berkshire -31 23 £82,500 +29.92% 4
Buckinghamshire -19 4 £82,500 +65.00% 2
Oxfordshire -16 2 £77,500 +40.91% 1
Serverless
South East

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (72.41%) Amazon EKS
3 16 (55.17%) Amazon ECS
3 16 (55.17%) Amazon S3
3 16 (55.17%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (41.38%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (27.59%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (24.14%) Azure
7 5 (17.24%) SaaS
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) Relational Database
2 11 (37.93%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) MySQL
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (75.86%) Jenkins
2 18 (62.07%) Git
3 6 (20.69%) GitLab
3 6 (20.69%) JIRA
3 6 (20.69%) JUnit
3 6 (20.69%) SonarQube
4 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
5 4 (13.79%) Artifactory
5 4 (13.79%) JMeter
5 4 (13.79%) Mockito
5 4 (13.79%) Postman
5 4 (13.79%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.45%) git-flow
6 1 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Developer
2 15 (51.72%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Java Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Backend Developer
6 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (86.21%) REST
2 16 (55.17%) Spring
3 15 (51.72%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (51.72%) Spring Boot
4 14 (48.28%) React
4 14 (48.28%) Web Services
5 10 (34.48%) AngularJS
6 9 (31.03%) JSON
6 9 (31.03%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (24.14%) Kafka
7 7 (24.14%) Mustache
7 7 (24.14%) Node.js
8 5 (17.24%) .NET
8 5 (17.24%) Apache Camel
8 5 (17.24%) HTML
9 4 (13.79%) .NET Framework
9 4 (13.79%) Java EE
9 4 (13.79%) JMS
9 4 (13.79%) jQuery
9 4 (13.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (68.97%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Animation
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Life Science
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Agile
2 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
3 23 (79.31%) Microservices
4 20 (68.97%) TDD
5 15 (51.72%) DevOps
6 13 (44.83%) BDD
6 13 (44.83%) Scrum
7 10 (34.48%) SDLC
7 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
8 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
9 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (20.69%) Auto-Scaling
10 6 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (20.69%) Kanban
10 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
11 5 (17.24%) Domain-Driven Design
11 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (17.24%) Security Hardening
11 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) Java
2 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
2 12 (41.38%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) Groovy
3 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
4 5 (17.24%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 4 (13.79%) Perl
5 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
System Software
1 22 (75.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (75.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (41.38%) Ansible
3 10 (34.48%) Terraform
4 8 (27.59%) Kibana
5 4 (13.79%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) AppDynamics
2 8 (27.59%) IBM
3 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian