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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 68 173
Rank change year-on-year -70 +105 +3
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 32 105 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.65% 3.82% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.41% 11.89% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13 33 23
10th Percentile £66,250 - £54,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £59,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -24.24% +30.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £84,750 £77,500 £87,750
South East median annual salary £82,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +11.11%

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 1,327 883 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.75% 32.12% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 809 519 1,544
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +16.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -46 25 £82,500 +30.95% 10
Oxfordshire -14 4 £67,500 +22.73% 1
Buckinghamshire -17 3 £82,500 +65.00% 4
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 (18.75%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (65.63%) Amazon S3
3 20 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
3 20 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (46.88%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (34.38%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (28.13%) Azure
8 7 (21.88%) SaaS
9 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (12.50%) GCP
9 4 (12.50%) GitHub
10 3 (9.38%) Amazon Cognito
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) Relational Database
2 10 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.63%) MySQL
4 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (71.88%) Jenkins
2 17 (53.13%) Git
3 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 6 (18.75%) JIRA
3 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
4 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
4 5 (15.63%) JUnit
5 4 (12.50%) Artifactory
5 4 (12.50%) git-flow
5 4 (12.50%) JMeter
5 4 (12.50%) Mockito
6 3 (9.38%) MLflow
6 3 (9.38%) Postman
6 3 (9.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) Developer
2 16 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (34.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (25.00%) Senior
5 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (21.88%) Senior Developer
6 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Lead
7 4 (12.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (6.25%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (71.88%) REST
2 17 (53.13%) React
3 15 (46.88%) Spring
4 14 (43.75%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (43.75%) Spring Boot
5 13 (40.63%) Web Services
6 12 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (31.25%) Kafka
8 9 (28.13%) JSON
9 8 (25.00%) AngularJS
9 8 (25.00%) HTML
10 7 (21.88%) .NET
11 6 (18.75%) Mustache
11 6 (18.75%) Node.js
12 5 (15.63%) CSS
13 4 (12.50%) Java EE
13 4 (12.50%) JMS
13 4 (12.50%) JPA
13 4 (12.50%) jQuery
13 4 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (59.38%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.38%) Animation
3 3 (9.38%) Life Science
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Agile
2 25 (78.13%) CI/CD
2 25 (78.13%) Microservices
3 19 (59.38%) DevOps
4 18 (56.25%) TDD
5 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (37.50%) BDD
6 12 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (37.50%) Scrum
7 10 (31.25%) SDLC
8 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
9 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven
10 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (18.75%) Auto-Scaling
11 6 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (15.63%) Domain-Driven Design
12 5 (15.63%) Kanban
12 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
12 5 (15.63%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Java
2 14 (43.75%) Python
3 12 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.88%) C#
5 6 (18.75%) Groovy
5 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
6 5 (15.63%) SQL
7 4 (12.50%) Perl
7 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 3 (9.38%) C++
9 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) QA
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (71.88%) Kubernetes
2 13 (40.63%) Ansible
3 10 (31.25%) Terraform
4 8 (25.00%) Kibana
5 4 (12.50%) Packer
6 3 (9.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) AppDynamics
2 8 (25.00%) IBM
3 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian