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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 63 157
Rank change year-on-year -71 +94 +8
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 28 124 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.64% 3.90% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 12.17% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5 37 25
10th Percentile £60,250 - £54,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -21.88% +26.48%
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £86,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -18.37% +13.08%

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 1,247 1,019 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.45% 32.03% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 707 543 1,334
10th Percentile £31,375 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,300 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% +19.40% -8.64%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -60 24 £62,500 -0.79% 2
Oxfordshire +2 4 £67,500 +22.73% 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 6 (21.43%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (60.71%) Amazon S3
3 15 (53.57%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (46.43%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (17.86%) Azure
7 5 (17.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (17.86%) GCP
7 5 (17.86%) GitHub
7 5 (17.86%) SaaS
8 3 (10.71%) Amazon Cognito
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (53.57%) Relational Database
2 9 (32.14%) RDBMS
3 6 (21.43%) MySQL
4 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (17.86%) DynamoDB
4 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (35.71%) JUnit
3 9 (32.14%) JMeter
3 9 (32.14%) Mockito
4 7 (25.00%) Git
5 5 (17.86%) git-flow
6 3 (10.71%) MLflow
7 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (53.57%) Java Developer
4 12 (42.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (35.71%) Senior
6 9 (32.14%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 8 (28.57%) Senior Developer
8 5 (17.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (10.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
10 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 1 (3.57%) Lead
11 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
11 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) REST
1 16 (57.14%) Spring
1 16 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 14 (50.00%) React
2 14 (50.00%) Web Services
3 13 (46.43%) HTML
4 11 (39.29%) Kafka
5 9 (32.14%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (32.14%) Apache Camel
5 9 (32.14%) Hibernate
5 9 (32.14%) jQuery
5 9 (32.14%) JSON
5 9 (32.14%) WireMock
5 9 (32.14%) XML
6 6 (21.43%) CSS
6 6 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (21.43%) Mustache
6 6 (21.43%) Node.js
7 5 (17.86%) Material-UI
7 5 (17.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (10.71%) Animation
4 3 (10.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 23 (82.14%) Agile
3 22 (78.57%) Microservices
4 19 (67.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (53.57%) SDLC
5 15 (53.57%) TDD
6 13 (46.43%) DevOps
7 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (32.14%) BDD
8 9 (32.14%) Process Management
8 9 (32.14%) Workflow
9 7 (25.00%) Scrum
10 6 (21.43%) Machine Learning
11 5 (17.86%) B2B
11 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
11 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
11 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (17.86%) Software Delivery
12 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 3 (10.71%) Data Acquisition
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) JavaScript
2 16 (57.14%) Java
3 13 (46.43%) Python
4 9 (32.14%) Shell Script
5 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (17.86%) C#
7 3 (10.71%) C++
8 1 (3.57%) PHP
8 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (32.14%) Kibana
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Dynatrace
1 9 (32.14%) Splunk