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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 65 161
Rank change year-on-year -77 +96 +8
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 27 112 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.59% 3.80% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 12.11% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6 35 24
10th Percentile £61,250 - £54,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -23.08% +28.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £87,250
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 1,262 925 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.53% 31.41% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 728 528 1,393
10th Percentile £31,375 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,563 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +11.55% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £59,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.43% +18.25% -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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -64 22 £62,500 -0.79% 5
Oxfordshire +1 4 £67,500 +22.73% 1
Buckinghamshire -2 1 £82,500 - 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 6 (22.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Amazon S3
3 15 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (48.15%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (44.44%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (40.74%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (22.22%) SaaS
8 5 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (18.52%) Azure
8 5 (18.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (18.52%) GCP
8 5 (18.52%) GitHub
9 3 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (48.15%) Relational Database
2 7 (25.93%) RDBMS
3 6 (22.22%) MySQL
4 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) JUnit
3 7 (25.93%) Git
3 7 (25.93%) JMeter
3 7 (25.93%) Mockito
4 5 (18.52%) git-flow
5 3 (11.11%) MLflow
6 1 (3.70%) JIRA
6 1 (3.70%) Postman
6 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 15 (55.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 13 (48.15%) Java Developer
4 10 (37.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (37.04%) Senior
5 8 (29.63%) Senior Developer
6 7 (25.93%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 5 (18.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
9 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (7.41%) AWS Software Engineer
10 2 (7.41%) Lead
10 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 1 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
11 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) REST
2 14 (51.85%) React
2 14 (51.85%) Spring
2 14 (51.85%) Spring Boot
3 12 (44.44%) Web Services
4 11 (40.74%) HTML
4 11 (40.74%) Kafka
5 7 (25.93%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (25.93%) Apache Camel
5 7 (25.93%) Hibernate
5 7 (25.93%) jQuery
5 7 (25.93%) JSON
5 7 (25.93%) WireMock
5 7 (25.93%) XML
6 6 (22.22%) .NET
6 6 (22.22%) CSS
6 6 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (22.22%) Mustache
6 6 (22.22%) Node.js
7 5 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
4 3 (11.11%) Animation
4 3 (11.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 22 (81.48%) Agile
3 20 (74.07%) Microservices
4 17 (62.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (51.85%) TDD
6 13 (48.15%) DevOps
6 13 (48.15%) SDLC
7 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (29.63%) BDD
9 7 (25.93%) Process Management
9 7 (25.93%) Scrum
9 7 (25.93%) Workflow
10 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
10 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
11 5 (18.52%) B2B
11 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
11 5 (18.52%) Software Delivery
11 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
12 4 (14.81%) AI
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 14 (51.85%) Java
3 11 (40.74%) Python
4 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
4 7 (25.93%) TypeScript
5 6 (22.22%) C#
6 3 (11.11%) C++
7 1 (3.70%) PHP
7 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Kibana
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Dynatrace
1 7 (25.93%) Splunk