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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 63 88
Rank change year-on-year -40 +25 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 19 31 34
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.04% 2.65% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 7.93% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 25
10th Percentile £416 £487 £488
25th Percentile £453 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -12.73%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £650
90th Percentile £700 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +7.50% -16.67% +4.35%

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 549 391 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.92% 33.48% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 241 370
10th Percentile £306 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £624
90th Percentile £653 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 21
10th Percentile £27.73 £24.04 £20.49
25th Percentile £73.40 £29.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £32.05 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +157.41% -45.03% +31.75%
75th Percentile £100.00 £68.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £104.30 £79.02 -
South East median hourly rate £51.25 £28.50 £22.36
% change year-on-year +79.82% +27.47% -6.84%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -4 6 £475 -5.00%
Wokingham -25 6 £500 -
Reading -38 6 £525 -16.00% 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Azure Functions
3 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) GitHub
3 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
4 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
4 5 (26.32%) Power Automate
4 5 (26.32%) PowerApps
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (21.05%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (21.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (15.79%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Platform Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Power Platform Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Node.js
1 5 (26.32%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.53%) ADO
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Mustache
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.26%) Pandas
4 1 (5.26%) pytest
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
6 5 (26.32%) AI
6 5 (26.32%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) API Management
6 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (26.32%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (26.32%) Machine Learning
6 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (26.32%) RBAC
6 5 (26.32%) Scrum
7 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
7 4 (21.05%) Microservices
7 4 (21.05%) SDLC
7 4 (21.05%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) OpenAI