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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 160 142
Rank change year-on-year -6 -18 -45
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 31 41 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.44% 1.05% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 3.84% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 20
10th Percentile - £57,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £66,250 £52,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +28.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £84,063 £93,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £93,750 £92,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -7.14%

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 1,593 1,068 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.71% 27.43% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 473 771
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -1.96% -11.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -0.90%

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 6 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 +5 23 £82,500 -2.94% 4
Buckinghamshire -2 8 £82,500 +65.00% 5
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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Finacle
1 1 (3.23%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (3.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (61.29%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (58.06%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (48.39%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (45.16%) Amazon S3
6 13 (41.94%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (19.35%) Azure
7 6 (19.35%) SaaS
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.45%) Apigee
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Relational Database
2 12 (38.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Redis
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (67.74%) Jenkins
2 14 (45.16%) Git
3 10 (32.26%) GitLab
4 8 (25.81%) JIRA
4 8 (25.81%) JUnit
4 8 (25.81%) SonarQube
5 7 (22.58%) JMeter
5 7 (22.58%) Mockito
6 5 (16.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (12.90%) Artifactory
8 3 (9.68%) Postman
8 3 (9.68%) SpecFlow
9 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
9 2 (6.45%) Maven
9 2 (6.45%) Mocha
9 2 (6.45%) Selenium
General
1 12 (38.71%) Public Sector
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
1 13 (41.94%) Java Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Java Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Lead
4 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Backend Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (61.29%) REST
2 15 (48.39%) Spring Boot
3 14 (45.16%) AngularJS
3 14 (45.16%) Spring
4 11 (35.48%) Web Services
5 10 (32.26%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (32.26%) JSON
5 10 (32.26%) Terraform
6 9 (29.03%) HTML
6 9 (29.03%) React
7 8 (25.81%) Apache Camel
7 8 (25.81%) Hibernate
7 8 (25.81%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (22.58%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (22.58%) jQuery
8 7 (22.58%) WireMock
9 6 (19.35%) .NET
9 6 (19.35%) JPA
10 5 (16.13%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (16.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (51.61%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (19.35%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Agile
2 26 (83.87%) CI/CD
3 21 (67.74%) Microservices
4 20 (64.52%) TDD
5 18 (58.06%) BDD
6 17 (54.84%) DevOps
7 14 (45.16%) Containerisation
8 12 (38.71%) Test Automation
9 10 (32.26%) Scrum
10 8 (25.81%) Integration Testing
10 8 (25.81%) Kanban
10 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
10 8 (25.81%) SDLC
11 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (22.58%) Workflow
12 6 (19.35%) AI
12 6 (19.35%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (19.35%) Event-Driven
12 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) Java
2 15 (48.39%) Python
3 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
4 9 (29.03%) Shell Script
5 8 (25.81%) Groovy
5 8 (25.81%) SQL
6 6 (19.35%) C#
7 4 (12.90%) Perl
7 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
8 2 (6.45%) Bash
8 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (80.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (67.74%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Ansible
2 11 (35.48%) Kibana
3 4 (12.90%) Packer
4 2 (6.45%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) AppDynamics
2 8 (25.81%) IBM
3 7 (22.58%) Dynatrace
3 7 (22.58%) Splunk
4 5 (16.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.23%) FIS
5 1 (3.23%) Temenos