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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 74 67
Rank change year-on-year -37 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Serverless 9 21 49
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.46% 1.74% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 4.64% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 39
10th Percentile £505 £411 £501
25th Percentile £513 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £598 £598 £688
South East median daily rate £588 £492 £625
% change year-on-year +19.41% -21.28% +8.70%

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 537 453 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.62% 37.59% 26.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 275 340
10th Percentile £349 £335 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £602 £600 £632
90th Percentile £651 £658 £675
South East median daily rate £502 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +0.30% -1.96% -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 17 17
10th Percentile £25.65 - £20.65
25th Percentile £31.38 £14.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £18.87 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +337.20% -67.49% +152.37%
75th Percentile £103.88 £32.31 £60.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £47.70 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £28.50
% change year-on-year +271.94% -33.96% +5.56%

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
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 23 July 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 -34 6 £525 +31.25% 1
Wokingham -20 3 £500 -
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 (11.11%) OpenStack
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
5 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
5 2 (22.22%) SaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) JWT
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Mustache
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) pytest
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Data Munging
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) Statistics
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCSP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) CASB
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft