Serverless Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Serverless Computing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 44 99
Rank change year-on-year -36 +55 +2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 21 74 25
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.58% 4.60% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 13.86% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 56 13
10th Percentile £401 £407 £565
25th Percentile £410 £538 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £650
90th Percentile £595 £664 £697
South East median daily rate £425 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +3.00%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 531 534 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.89% 33.17% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 338 375
10th Percentile £255 £367 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £656 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £486 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 12
10th Percentile - £22.95 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.75 £34.50 £30.99
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.05 £62.13
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% -6.57% +179.21%
75th Percentile £40.65 £62.89 £79.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £64.73 £89.20
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -60.38% +72.73% +32.72%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Berkshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Berkshire

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Serverless

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -34 8 £413 -34.00% 5
Bracknell - 6 £423 -
Windsor -6 2 £750 +46.34%
Wokingham -12 2 £508 -
Serverless
South East

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) CMS
1 1 (4.76%) nginx
1 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Functions
4 7 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (28.57%) GitHub
5 6 (28.57%) OCI
6 5 (23.81%) Azure API Management
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Storage
9 2 (9.52%) SaaS
10 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (28.57%) Couchbase
2 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) MySQL
4 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Postman
2 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Billing
4 1 (4.76%) Automotive
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Kafka
2 6 (28.57%) .NET
3 5 (23.81%) .NET Core
3 5 (23.81%) RESTful
4 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
4 4 (19.05%) OAuth
4 4 (19.05%) OAuth2
4 4 (19.05%) REST
5 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
5 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 3 (14.29%) OpenID
5 3 (14.29%) SAML
5 3 (14.29%) SOAP
6 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (9.52%) Node.js
6 2 (9.52%) Swagger
6 2 (9.52%) WSDL
6 2 (9.52%) XML
6 2 (9.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Replication
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
1 6 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (47.62%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (33.33%) High Availability
5 7 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (28.57%) AI
6 6 (28.57%) Security Patching
7 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Analytics
8 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
8 4 (19.05%) Log Analytics
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) User Experience
9 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
9 3 (14.29%) MLOps
9 3 (14.29%) Observability
9 3 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
4 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) PHP
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Confluent
1 6 (28.57%) IBM
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.76%) Pega
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow