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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 84 171
Rank change year-on-year -56 +87 -16
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 29 81 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.54% 2.83% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 9.22% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 26
10th Percentile - - £51,099
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -15.25% +13.46%
75th Percentile £84,063 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £79,750 £86,250
South East median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -17.24% +3.57%

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 1,434 879 1,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.46% 30.72% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 861 507 1,551
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,400 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +16.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £63,055
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.58% -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 23 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 23 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 -35 23 £82,500 +29.92% 5
Buckinghamshire -21 4 £82,500 +65.00% 2
Oxfordshire -14 2 £77,500 +40.91% 3
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 20 (68.97%) Amazon EKS
3 17 (58.62%) Amazon S3
3 17 (58.62%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (51.72%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (37.93%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (31.03%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (27.59%) Azure
8 6 (20.69%) SaaS
9 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (6.90%) GCP
9 2 (6.90%) GitHub
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Relational Database
2 10 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) MySQL
3 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
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%) SonarQube
4 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
4 5 (17.24%) JUnit
5 4 (13.79%) Artifactory
5 4 (13.79%) Postman
5 4 (13.79%) SpecFlow
6 3 (10.34%) JMeter
6 3 (10.34%) Mockito
7 2 (6.90%) git-flow
8 1 (3.45%) MLflow
General
1 9 (31.03%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 15 (51.72%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Backend 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 Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (82.76%) REST
2 15 (51.72%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (51.72%) React
2 15 (51.72%) Spring
3 14 (48.28%) Spring Boot
4 13 (44.83%) Web Services
5 10 (34.48%) AngularJS
5 10 (34.48%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (27.59%) JSON
6 8 (27.59%) Kafka
7 7 (24.14%) Mustache
7 7 (24.14%) Node.js
8 6 (20.69%) .NET
9 5 (17.24%) HTML
10 4 (13.79%) .NET Framework
10 4 (13.79%) Apache Camel
10 4 (13.79%) Java EE
10 4 (13.79%) JMS
10 4 (13.79%) JPA
10 4 (13.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (65.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Animation
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Life Science
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 19 (65.52%) TDD
5 16 (55.17%) DevOps
6 13 (44.83%) Scrum
7 12 (41.38%) BDD
8 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
9 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
9 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (31.03%) SDLC
10 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (20.69%) Auto-Scaling
11 6 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven
11 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (20.69%) Kanban
11 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
12 5 (17.24%) Domain-Driven Design
12 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) Groovy
4 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 4 (13.79%) Perl
5 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.45%) C++
7 1 (3.45%) PHP
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 8 (27.59%) QA
System Software
1 21 (72.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (72.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (41.38%) Ansible
3 10 (34.48%) Terraform
4 7 (24.14%) 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%) Oracle
4 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian