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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 142 101
Rank change year-on-year -12 -41 +97
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 43 55 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.11% 1.14% 2.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.04% 4.22% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 64
10th Percentile £54,375 £42,500 £52,875
25th Percentile £60,938 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £92,813 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £71,250 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -10.71% -

All Cloud 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 1,065 1,304 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.53% 26.93% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 483 713 1,133
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.04%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -7 39 £75,000 +12.36% 18
Oxfordshire +27 3 £80,000 +77.78% 1
Buckinghamshire -21 1 £50,000 -28.57% 3
Serverless
South East

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.28%) JBoss
1 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 42 (97.67%) AWS
2 35 (81.40%) Amazon ECS
3 33 (76.74%) Amazon EKS
4 27 (62.79%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
5 7 (16.28%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.98%) Azure
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (2.33%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.33%) GCP
9 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (76.74%) PostgreSQL
1 33 (76.74%) Relational Database
2 24 (55.81%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 34 (79.07%) Jenkins
2 31 (72.09%) JUnit
3 24 (55.81%) JMeter
3 24 (55.81%) Mockito
4 9 (20.93%) Git
5 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 32 (74.42%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Games
4 1 (2.33%) Law
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
4 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (76.74%) Developer
2 32 (74.42%) Java Developer
3 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (20.93%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Consultant
9 1 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Integration Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (79.07%) REST
1 34 (79.07%) Spring
1 34 (79.07%) Spring Boot
2 33 (76.74%) Web Services
3 31 (72.09%) Apache Camel
4 24 (55.81%) ActiveMQ
4 24 (55.81%) Hibernate
4 24 (55.81%) HTML
4 24 (55.81%) jQuery
4 24 (55.81%) WireMock
5 18 (41.86%) JSON
6 17 (39.53%) XML
7 8 (18.60%) RESTful
8 7 (16.28%) J2EE
8 7 (16.28%) SOAP
9 3 (6.98%) Kafka
9 3 (6.98%) Mustache
9 3 (6.98%) React
10 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (4.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (76.74%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.63%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) IVR
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (81.40%) Agile
1 35 (81.40%) Microservices
2 33 (76.74%) TDD
3 31 (72.09%) BDD
4 29 (67.44%) CI/CD
5 24 (55.81%) Process Management
5 24 (55.81%) Workflow
6 17 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (37.21%) Scrum
8 14 (32.56%) Kanban
9 11 (25.58%) SDLC
10 10 (23.26%) DevOps
11 7 (16.28%) Architectural Design
11 7 (16.28%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
13 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
14 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (81.40%) Java
2 29 (67.44%) Python
3 27 (62.79%) JavaScript
4 25 (58.14%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (67.44%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) SLA
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (81.40%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (81.40%) Kubernetes
2 24 (55.81%) Kibana
3 11 (25.58%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Terraform
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Nessus
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) Dynatrace
1 24 (55.81%) Splunk
2 1 (2.33%) Avaya
2 1 (2.33%) Genesys
2 1 (2.33%) Juniper
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft