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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 98 124
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 +59
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 40 99 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.15% 2.30% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.56% 8.13% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 34
10th Percentile £61,250 £53,688 £50,803
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +1.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £92,000 £84,625
South East median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% +7.69%

All Cloud 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 1,125 1,217 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 32.25% 28.30% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 544 597 938
10th Percentile £29,450 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,688 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,525 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% +2.77% -6.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -4.35%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 -45 34 £65,000 +4.00% 96
Oxfordshire - 6 £73,750 - 6
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 4 (10.00%) JBoss
1 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (65.00%) Amazon ECS
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (32.50%) Amazon S3
5 12 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (12.50%) Azure
9 4 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (10.00%) GCP
9 4 (10.00%) GitHub
9 4 (10.00%) SaaS
10 3 (7.50%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
1 3 (7.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 19 (47.50%) RDBMS
3 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 23 (57.50%) JUnit
3 19 (47.50%) JMeter
3 19 (47.50%) Mockito
4 6 (15.00%) Git
5 4 (10.00%) git-flow
6 3 (7.50%) MLflow
General
1 24 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (72.50%) Developer
2 25 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 21 (52.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (42.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (37.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 10 (25.00%) Senior
7 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 4 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (7.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) Consultant
11 1 (2.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) REST
1 26 (65.00%) Spring
1 26 (65.00%) Spring Boot
2 25 (62.50%) Web Services
3 23 (57.50%) Apache Camel
4 22 (55.00%) HTML
5 19 (47.50%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (47.50%) Hibernate
5 19 (47.50%) jQuery
5 19 (47.50%) JSON
5 19 (47.50%) WireMock
6 18 (45.00%) XML
7 7 (17.50%) React
8 6 (15.00%) Kafka
9 4 (10.00%) AWS CDK
9 4 (10.00%) CSS
9 4 (10.00%) Material-UI
9 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (10.00%) RESTful
9 4 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (62.50%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.50%) Animation
4 3 (7.50%) Life Science
5 1 (2.50%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Agile
1 30 (75.00%) Microservices
2 28 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (62.50%) TDD
4 23 (57.50%) BDD
4 23 (57.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (47.50%) Process Management
5 19 (47.50%) Workflow
6 15 (37.50%) SDLC
7 14 (35.00%) DevOps
8 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
9 7 (17.50%) Scrum
10 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 5 (12.50%) Kanban
11 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
12 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven
12 4 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Java
1 26 (65.00%) Python
2 22 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (47.50%) Shell Script
4 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) C++
6 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
1 4 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (72.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (47.50%) Kibana
3 10 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (7.50%) Kubeflow
4 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Dynatrace
1 19 (47.50%) Splunk
2 1 (2.50%) Avaya
2 1 (2.50%) Genesys