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 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 70 63 74
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 22 50 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.88% 2.95% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 10.08% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 36 31
10th Percentile £400 £534 £556
25th Percentile £410 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £683
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -8.42% +17.17%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £731
90th Percentile £600 £670 £750
South East median daily rate £425 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +3.67%

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 468 496 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.90% 29.23% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 333 376
10th Percentile £320 £375 £340
25th Percentile £413 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £673
90th Percentile £664 £663 £738
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 10
10th Percentile - £19.45 £17.21
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.17 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.56% +29.27% +113.78%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.98 £63.84
90th Percentile £44.08 £64.73 £72.72
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
% change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +33.41%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 17 September 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -11 8 £413 -34.00% 5
Bracknell - 5 £420 - 1
Windsor -8 2 £750 +34.83% 1
Wokingham -8 2 £508 -
Serverless
South East

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) nginx
1 1 (4.55%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 12 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Functions
4 5 (22.73%) OCI
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (13.64%) GitHub
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Storage
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (22.73%) Couchbase
2 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
3 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.09%) MySQL
5 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) JMeter
2 2 (9.09%) JUnit
2 2 (9.09%) Mockito
2 2 (9.09%) Postman
2 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Automotive
2 1 (4.55%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 5 (22.73%) RESTful
3 4 (18.18%) JSON
3 4 (18.18%) XML
4 3 (13.64%) .NET
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 3 (13.64%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) SOAP
4 3 (13.64%) Web Services
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
5 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (9.09%) Apache Camel
5 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
5 2 (9.09%) jQuery
5 2 (9.09%) Node.js
5 2 (9.09%) Spring
5 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (9.09%) WireMock
5 2 (9.09%) WSDL
5 2 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Replication
2 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
1 5 (22.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) High Availability
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) Security Patching
7 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.64%) LLM
8 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Code Quality
9 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
9 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (9.09%) Event-Driven
9 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Shell Script
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kibana
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Confluent
1 5 (22.73%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Virgin Media
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.55%) Pega
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow