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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 75 51
Rank change year-on-year -36 -24 +33
Contract jobs citing Serverless 4 21 63
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.22% 1.71% 3.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 4.03% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 45
10th Percentile £393 £401 £568
25th Percentile £438 £410 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% +3.99%
75th Percentile £531 £547 £651
90th Percentile £535 £598 £670
South East median daily rate £600 £425 £625
% change year-on-year +41.18% -32.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Computing 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 537 521 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.47% 42.53% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 318 334
10th Percentile £354 £263 £375
25th Percentile £450 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -
75th Percentile £613 £588 £638
90th Percentile £673 £664 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 17 16
10th Percentile £21.31 - £20.03
25th Percentile £32.43 £14.75 £27.38
Median hourly rate £81.50 £18.87 £50.27
Median % change year-on-year +331.90% -62.46% +43.64%
75th Percentile £100.63 £32.31 £61.98
90th Percentile £110.75 £43.39 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £18.82 £42.50
% change year-on-year +185.60% -55.72% +77.45%

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 2 October 2026.

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 2 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -30 3 £525 +27.27% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce