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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 164 138
Rank change year-on-year -15 -26 -40
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 27 38 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.99% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 3.54% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 21
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £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 £87,500 £93,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £93,750 £92,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £61,250
% change year-on-year -8.77% +16.33% -12.50%

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 1,575 1,072 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.97% 28.03% 27.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 480 662
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 £69,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.56% -11.82% -

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -8 19 £80,000 +6.67% 17
Buckinghamshire - 8 £82,500 - 17
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 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) JBoss
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.70%) Finacle
2 1 (3.70%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (3.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Amazon ECS
3 13 (48.15%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (40.74%) Amazon S3
4 11 (40.74%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (14.81%) SaaS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (7.41%) Apigee
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (3.70%) Azure
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (62.96%) Relational Database
2 6 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 4 (14.81%) DynamoDB
4 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.41%) MySQL
5 2 (7.41%) Redis
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) Jenkins
2 9 (33.33%) JUnit
3 8 (29.63%) JMeter
3 8 (29.63%) Mockito
4 6 (22.22%) Git
5 4 (14.81%) GitLab
6 3 (11.11%) JIRA
7 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (7.41%) Maven
7 2 (7.41%) Mocha
7 2 (7.41%) Selenium
7 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.70%) Claude Code
8 1 (3.70%) Postman
8 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Java Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Lead
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
8 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Spring Boot
2 12 (44.44%) Spring
3 10 (37.04%) Hibernate
3 10 (37.04%) HTML
3 10 (37.04%) REST
3 10 (37.04%) Web Services
4 9 (33.33%) Apache Camel
5 8 (29.63%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (29.63%) AngularJS
5 8 (29.63%) jQuery
5 8 (29.63%) WireMock
6 7 (25.93%) JSON
6 7 (25.93%) Node.js
6 7 (25.93%) React
6 7 (25.93%) XML
7 6 (22.22%) .NET
8 5 (18.52%) Mustache
9 4 (14.81%) Jest
10 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (25.93%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 22 (81.48%) Agile
3 16 (59.26%) Microservices
3 16 (59.26%) TDD
4 13 (48.15%) BDD
4 13 (48.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (37.04%) DevOps
5 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
5 10 (37.04%) SDLC
6 9 (33.33%) Workflow
7 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
7 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
8 7 (25.93%) Process Management
8 7 (25.93%) Scrum
9 6 (22.22%) Integration Testing
10 5 (18.52%) AI
10 5 (18.52%) Biometrics
10 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
10 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 4 (14.81%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) Shell Script
4 6 (22.22%) C#
4 6 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) Groovy
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 20 (74.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (29.63%) Kibana
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 2 (7.41%) HP Fortify
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 8 (29.63%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) FIS
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Temenos