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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 127 183
Rank change year-on-year -14 +56 -66
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 31 60 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.52% 1.72% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 6.50% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 17
10th Percentile - £50,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £51,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £59,000 £62,168
Median % change year-on-year +39.83% -5.10% -11.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £93,375 £85,250
South East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 1,455 923 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.31% 26.45% 27.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 459 1,460
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,938 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,975 £76,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

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 28 June 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 -19 24 £82,500 +10.74% 2
Buckinghamshire +3 7 £82,500 +65.00% 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 3 (9.68%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) JBoss
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (64.52%) Amazon EKS
3 17 (54.84%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (51.61%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (45.16%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (41.94%) Amazon S3
7 7 (22.58%) SaaS
8 6 (19.35%) Azure
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (3.23%) Apigee
10 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Relational Database
2 12 (38.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.68%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Redis
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (67.74%) Jenkins
2 16 (51.61%) Git
3 9 (29.03%) GitLab
4 8 (25.81%) JIRA
4 8 (25.81%) JUnit
5 7 (22.58%) JMeter
5 7 (22.58%) Mockito
5 7 (22.58%) SonarQube
6 5 (16.13%) Cucumber
7 4 (12.90%) Artifactory
7 4 (12.90%) Postman
7 4 (12.90%) SpecFlow
8 2 (6.45%) Mocha
8 2 (6.45%) Selenium
9 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (3.23%) Maven
General
1 12 (38.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Developer
2 13 (41.94%) Java Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Java Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Lead
5 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
7 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (12.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
8 3 (9.68%) Backend Developer
8 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (9.68%) Senior
9 2 (6.45%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
10 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (67.74%) REST
2 15 (48.39%) Spring
2 15 (48.39%) Spring Boot
3 14 (45.16%) AngularJS
4 12 (38.71%) Web Services
5 11 (35.48%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (35.48%) React
6 10 (32.26%) JSON
7 9 (29.03%) HTML
8 8 (25.81%) Apache Camel
8 8 (25.81%) Hibernate
8 8 (25.81%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (22.58%) .NET
9 7 (22.58%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (22.58%) jQuery
9 7 (22.58%) WireMock
10 6 (19.35%) JPA
11 5 (16.13%) Node.js
11 5 (16.13%) RESTful
11 5 (16.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) 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 28 (90.32%) CI/CD
3 23 (74.19%) Microservices
4 22 (70.97%) TDD
5 19 (61.29%) BDD
6 17 (54.84%) DevOps
7 15 (48.39%) Containerisation
8 13 (41.94%) Test Automation
9 11 (35.48%) Scrum
10 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
11 9 (29.03%) Integration Testing
12 8 (25.81%) Kanban
12 8 (25.81%) SDLC
13 7 (22.58%) AI
13 7 (22.58%) Architectural Patterns
13 7 (22.58%) CQRS
13 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
13 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 7 (22.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 7 (22.58%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) Java
2 15 (48.39%) Python
3 12 (38.71%) JavaScript
4 9 (29.03%) Shell Script
5 7 (22.58%) C#
5 7 (22.58%) Groovy
6 6 (19.35%) SQL
7 4 (12.90%) Perl
7 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.23%) Bash
8 1 (3.23%) PHP
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (70.97%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Ansible
2 11 (35.48%) Kibana
3 10 (32.26%) Terraform
4 4 (12.90%) Packer
5 1 (3.23%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) AppDynamics
2 8 (25.81%) IBM
3 7 (22.58%) Dynatrace
3 7 (22.58%) Splunk
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Atlassian