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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 118 179
Rank change year-on-year -22 +61 -48
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 34 67 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.60% 1.97% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 7.97% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 22
10th Percentile - - £43,360
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £58,750 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +40.43% -20.34% +7.27%
75th Percentile £84,688 £74,688 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 1,431 841 1,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.18% 24.74% 28.71%
Number of salaries quoted 940 446 1,471
10th Percentile £33,975 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,313 £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 £85,000 £85,625 £76,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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
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 21 May 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 -12 26 £82,500 +28.91% 10
Buckinghamshire +3 7 £82,500 +65.00% 3
Oxfordshire -15 1 £87,500 +59.09% 1
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 8 (23.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) JBoss
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (73.53%) Amazon EKS
3 20 (58.82%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (52.94%) Amazon S3
5 17 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (20.59%) SaaS
9 6 (17.65%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) Relational Database
2 15 (44.12%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (73.53%) Jenkins
2 19 (55.88%) Git
3 9 (26.47%) JUnit
4 7 (20.59%) JMeter
4 7 (20.59%) Mockito
5 6 (17.65%) GitLab
5 6 (17.65%) JIRA
5 6 (17.65%) SonarQube
6 5 (14.71%) Cucumber
7 4 (11.76%) Artifactory
7 4 (11.76%) Postman
7 4 (11.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (38.24%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (55.88%) Developer
2 17 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Lead
4 7 (20.59%) Java Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Senior
7 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Backend Developer
8 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.88%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 1 (2.94%) Lead Developer
10 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Developer
10 1 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (79.41%) REST
2 20 (58.82%) Spring
3 19 (55.88%) Spring Boot
4 17 (50.00%) React
5 16 (47.06%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (47.06%) Web Services
6 13 (38.24%) AngularJS
7 10 (29.41%) JSON
7 10 (29.41%) Mustache
8 8 (23.53%) Apache Camel
8 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
8 8 (23.53%) Node.js
8 8 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (20.59%) .NET
9 7 (20.59%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (20.59%) HTML
9 7 (20.59%) jQuery
9 7 (20.59%) Kafka
9 7 (20.59%) WireMock
10 6 (17.65%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 22 (64.71%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Agile
2 30 (88.24%) CI/CD
3 27 (79.41%) TDD
4 26 (76.47%) Microservices
5 19 (55.88%) BDD
6 16 (47.06%) Scrum
7 15 (44.12%) DevOps
8 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
9 13 (38.24%) Test Automation
10 12 (35.29%) SDLC
11 11 (32.35%) Mentoring
12 9 (26.47%) Integration Testing
13 8 (23.53%) Kanban
13 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
14 7 (20.59%) AI
14 7 (20.59%) CQRS
14 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven
14 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 7 (20.59%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) Java
2 16 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 14 (41.18%) Python
4 9 (26.47%) Shell Script
5 7 (20.59%) C#
6 6 (17.65%) Groovy
7 5 (14.71%) SQL
8 4 (11.76%) Perl
8 4 (11.76%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 29 (85.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (73.53%) Kubernetes
2 11 (32.35%) Ansible
2 11 (32.35%) Kibana
3 10 (29.41%) Terraform
4 4 (11.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) AppDynamics
2 8 (23.53%) IBM
3 7 (20.59%) Dynatrace
3 7 (20.59%) Splunk
4 4 (11.76%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian