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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 156 140
Rank change year-on-year -8 -16 -39
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 36 40 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.48% 1.06% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 3.89% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 20
10th Percentile £76,000 £54,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £60,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +28.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £84,375 £92,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £92,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.77% +14.00% -10.71%

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 1,589 1,028 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.31% 27.20% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,175 479 674
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -12.84% -3.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -9 28 £82,500 +10.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +4 8 £82,500 +65.00% 10
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 3 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) JBoss
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Finacle
1 1 (2.78%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.78%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (61.11%) Amazon EKS
3 20 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
3 20 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (47.22%) Amazon S3
5 14 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (16.67%) Azure
7 5 (13.89%) SaaS
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (5.56%) Apigee
9 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (2.78%) GitHub
10 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 4 (11.11%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.56%) Redis
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (63.89%) Jenkins
2 15 (41.67%) Git
3 10 (27.78%) GitLab
4 9 (25.00%) JUnit
5 8 (22.22%) JIRA
5 8 (22.22%) JMeter
5 8 (22.22%) Mockito
5 8 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 5 (13.89%) Cucumber
7 4 (11.11%) Artifactory
8 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
8 2 (5.56%) Maven
8 2 (5.56%) Mocha
8 2 (5.56%) Postman
8 2 (5.56%) Selenium
8 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.78%) Claude Code
General
1 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Lead
6 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior
9 2 (5.56%) Analyst
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 2 (5.56%) DevOps Developer
10 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (55.56%) REST
2 17 (47.22%) Spring Boot
3 16 (44.44%) Spring
4 14 (38.89%) AngularJS
5 13 (36.11%) Web Services
6 12 (33.33%) React
7 11 (30.56%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (30.56%) JSON
8 10 (27.78%) HTML
8 10 (27.78%) Terraform
9 9 (25.00%) Apache Camel
9 9 (25.00%) Hibernate
10 8 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (22.22%) jQuery
10 8 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (22.22%) WireMock
11 7 (19.44%) .NET
12 6 (16.67%) JPA
12 6 (16.67%) Node.js
12 6 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (19.44%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) Agile
2 30 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 26 (72.22%) Microservices
4 21 (58.33%) TDD
5 18 (50.00%) BDD
5 18 (50.00%) DevOps
6 13 (36.11%) Containerisation
7 11 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (30.56%) Scrum
7 11 (30.56%) Test Automation
8 10 (27.78%) Mentoring
8 10 (27.78%) SDLC
9 8 (22.22%) Kanban
9 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 8 (22.22%) Workflow
10 7 (19.44%) Integration Testing
11 6 (16.67%) AI
11 6 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
11 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 6 (16.67%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) Java
2 17 (47.22%) Python
3 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (27.78%) Shell Script
4 10 (27.78%) SQL
5 8 (22.22%) Groovy
6 7 (19.44%) C#
7 4 (11.11%) Perl
7 4 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.56%) Bash
8 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (72.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (63.89%) Kubernetes
2 12 (33.33%) Kibana
3 11 (30.56%) Ansible
4 4 (11.11%) Packer
5 2 (5.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 8 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 8 (22.22%) IBM
2 8 (22.22%) Splunk
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) FIS
4 1 (2.78%) Temenos