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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 109 175
Rank change year-on-year -34 +66 -42
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 29 71 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.51% 2.15% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 7.98% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 12 28 23
10th Percentile - - £44,220
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £84,063 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £95,625 £87,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% -

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 1,455 890 1,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.70% 26.98% 29.26%
Number of salaries quoted 897 499 1,515
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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
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 6 May 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 -27 23 £82,500 +29.92% 11
Buckinghamshire -8 5 £82,500 +65.00% 2
Oxfordshire -5 1 £87,500 +59.09% 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 11 (37.93%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (27.59%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (24.14%) Azure
7 6 (20.69%) SaaS
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 21 (72.41%) 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
General
1 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Developer
2 14 (48.28%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Java Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Backend Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
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%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack 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%) React
3 15 (51.72%) Spring Boot
4 14 (48.28%) Web Services
5 11 (37.93%) 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 6 (20.69%) .NET
9 5 (17.24%) Apache Camel
9 5 (17.24%) HTML
10 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
10 4 (13.79%) JMS
10 4 (13.79%) WireMock
10 4 (13.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (68.97%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Agile
2 25 (86.21%) CI/CD
3 23 (79.31%) Microservices
4 21 (72.41%) TDD
5 14 (48.28%) BDD
5 14 (48.28%) DevOps
6 13 (44.83%) Scrum
7 11 (37.93%) Test Automation
8 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
8 10 (34.48%) SDLC
9 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
10 6 (20.69%) Auto-Scaling
10 6 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven
10 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (20.69%) Kanban
10 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
11 5 (17.24%) Domain-Driven Design
11 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) Java
2 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
3 11 (37.93%) Python
4 6 (20.69%) C#
4 6 (20.69%) Groovy
4 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
5 5 (17.24%) SQL
6 4 (13.79%) Perl
6 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.45%) PHP
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
System Software
1 23 (79.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (72.41%) Kubernetes
2 11 (37.93%) Ansible
3 10 (34.48%) Terraform
4 8 (27.59%) Kibana
5 4 (13.79%) Packer
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