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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 129 192
Rank change year-on-year -12 +63 -66
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 32 60 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.56% 1.77% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 7.08% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 17
10th Percentile - £51,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £51,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £62,168
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.53% -11.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £93,000 -
South East median annual salary £66,250 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.42% -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 1,429 847 1,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.17% 24.99% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 963 428 1,479
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £76,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,460 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.88% +6.92% -11.50%

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 June 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 -11 25 £82,500 +28.91% 3
Buckinghamshire -6 7 £82,500 +65.00% 2
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 5 (15.63%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (68.75%) Amazon EKS
3 17 (53.13%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (43.75%) Amazon S3
6 7 (21.88%) SaaS
7 6 (18.75%) Azure
8 4 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) Relational Database
2 14 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
5 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.25%) Redis
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Jenkins
2 18 (56.25%) Git
3 8 (25.00%) GitLab
3 8 (25.00%) JIRA
3 8 (25.00%) JUnit
4 7 (21.88%) JMeter
4 7 (21.88%) Mockito
5 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
6 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
7 4 (12.50%) Artifactory
7 4 (12.50%) Postman
7 4 (12.50%) SpecFlow
8 2 (6.25%) Mocha
8 2 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 12 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 14 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Java Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Lead
5 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
9 2 (6.25%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
10 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (71.88%) REST
2 17 (53.13%) Spring
3 16 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 14 (43.75%) Web Services
5 13 (40.63%) AngularJS
5 13 (40.63%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (40.63%) React
6 10 (31.25%) JSON
7 9 (28.13%) HTML
8 8 (25.00%) Apache Camel
8 8 (25.00%) Hibernate
8 8 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (21.88%) .NET
9 7 (21.88%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (21.88%) jQuery
9 7 (21.88%) Mustache
9 7 (21.88%) Node.js
9 7 (21.88%) WireMock
10 6 (18.75%) JPA
11 5 (15.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (59.38%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Agile
2 29 (90.63%) CI/CD
3 25 (78.13%) Microservices
4 24 (75.00%) TDD
5 19 (59.38%) BDD
6 16 (50.00%) DevOps
7 15 (46.88%) Containerisation
8 13 (40.63%) Scrum
8 13 (40.63%) Test Automation
9 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
10 9 (28.13%) Integration Testing
10 9 (28.13%) SDLC
11 8 (25.00%) Kanban
12 7 (21.88%) AI
12 7 (21.88%) CQRS
12 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven
12 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (21.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
12 7 (21.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) Java
2 15 (46.88%) Python
3 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 9 (28.13%) Shell Script
5 7 (21.88%) C#
6 6 (18.75%) Groovy
6 6 (18.75%) SQL
7 4 (12.50%) Perl
7 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (34.38%) Ansible
2 11 (34.38%) Kibana
3 10 (31.25%) Terraform
4 4 (12.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) AppDynamics
2 8 (25.00%) IBM
3 7 (21.88%) Dynatrace
3 7 (21.88%) Splunk
4 4 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian