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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 36 104
Rank change year-on-year -48 +68 -21
Contract jobs citing Serverless 25 71 21
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.68% 4.90% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.25% 15.37% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 10
10th Percentile £406 £405 £500
25th Percentile £411 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +4.17% +3.00%
75th Percentile £522 £650 £684
90th Percentile £583 £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 588 462 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.46% 31.91% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 293 371
10th Percentile £274 £367 £311
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £651 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £481 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.10% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £27.00 £55.51
Median hourly rate £75.00 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -32.54% +180.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.24 £79.78
90th Percentile £99.50 £64.73 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £33.66
% change year-on-year -4.35% -14.59% +61.36%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -36 7 £425 -32.00% 13
Windsor -2 6 £463 -7.50% 1
Bracknell - 6 £423 -
Wokingham -29 3 £504 - 2
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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) nginx
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 9 (36.00%) GitHub
4 7 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (24.00%) OCI
6 5 (20.00%) Azure API Management
7 4 (16.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Storage
9 2 (8.00%) PaaS
10 1 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (24.00%) Couchbase
2 6 (24.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Postman
3 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Data Engineer
1 7 (28.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) .NET
2 7 (28.00%) .NET Core
2 7 (28.00%) Kafka
2 7 (28.00%) REST
3 6 (24.00%) GraphQL
4 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 5 (20.00%) OAuth
4 5 (20.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (16.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (16.00%) SOAP
6 3 (12.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (12.00%) OpenID
6 3 (12.00%) SAML
7 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (8.00%) JSON
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (8.00%) React
7 2 (8.00%) Swagger
7 2 (8.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
1 6 (24.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (44.00%) DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (32.00%) Agile
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (28.00%) AI
6 7 (28.00%) High Availability
6 7 (28.00%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (24.00%) Security Patching
8 5 (20.00%) Analytics
8 5 (20.00%) API Management
8 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
8 5 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
9 4 (16.00%) Log Analytics
9 4 (16.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (20.00%) Bash
4 5 (20.00%) PHP
4 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (16.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (16.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Confluent
1 6 (24.00%) IBM
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Pega