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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 36 101
Rank change year-on-year -46 +65 -20
Contract jobs citing Serverless 26 71 21
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.77% 5.09% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.47% 15.92% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 52 10
10th Percentile £406 £405 £500
25th Percentile £411 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% +3.00%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £684
90th Percentile £600 £669 £699
South East median daily rate £475 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -24.00% +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 582 446 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.67% 31.95% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 280 358
10th Percentile £274 £366 £310
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £659 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 10
10th Percentile £16.10 £19.30 £47.37
25th Percentile £34.88 £27.00 £60.53
Median hourly rate £81.00 £42.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.59% -37.04% +193.48%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.24 £79.78
90th Percentile £100.55 £64.73 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £28.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year +28.70% -11.05% +53.90%

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 January 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 8 January 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
Windsor -3 7 £475 -5.00% 2
Reading -33 7 £425 -32.00% 3
Bracknell - 6 £423 -
Wokingham -24 4 £500 - 1
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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Azure Functions
2 10 (38.46%) GitHub
3 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (23.08%) OCI
5 5 (19.23%) Azure API Management
5 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (23.08%) Couchbase
2 6 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) Postman
4 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Law
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Data Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) .NET
2 7 (26.92%) .NET Core
2 7 (26.92%) REST
3 6 (23.08%) GraphQL
3 6 (23.08%) Kafka
4 5 (19.23%) Node.js
4 5 (19.23%) OAuth
4 5 (19.23%) RESTful
5 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth2
5 4 (15.38%) SOAP
6 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
6 3 (11.54%) OpenID
6 3 (11.54%) SAML
7 2 (7.69%) ADO
7 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (7.69%) WSDL
7 2 (7.69%) XML
7 2 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
1 6 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 16 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (46.15%) DevOps
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (30.77%) AI
6 7 (26.92%) High Availability
6 7 (26.92%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) API Management
7 6 (23.08%) Security Patching
8 5 (19.23%) Analytics
8 5 (19.23%) Code Quality
8 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps
8 5 (19.23%) Observability
8 5 (19.23%) RBAC
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven
9 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 8 (30.77%) C#
4 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
4 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 5 (19.23%) Bash
5 5 (19.23%) PHP
5 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
6 4 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
1 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Confluent
1 6 (23.08%) IBM
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.85%) Pega