Serverless Contract Job Trends in Reading

Serverless Computing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 34 59
Rank change year-on-year -29 +25 +14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 6 63 30
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.95% 5.84% 2.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 16.28% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 50 23
10th Percentile - £405 £531
25th Percentile £400 £568 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £625 £601
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% +3.99% +1.65%
75th Percentile £463 £651 £699
90th Percentile £508 £670 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £625 £601
% change year-on-year -28.00% +3.99% +0.17%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 277 387 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 43.97% 35.87% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 250 280
10th Percentile £275 £381 £400
25th Percentile £450 £481 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +1.05% +13.10%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £663 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 1
10th Percentile - £24.05 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £34.38 £16.84
Median hourly rate £15.50 £60.60 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year -74.42% +249.48% -68.47%
75th Percentile £24.88 £62.89 £17.84
90th Percentile £50.25 £66.71 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £58.05 £51.06
% change year-on-year -67.49% +13.69% +126.91%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Reading

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Serverless

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Serverless

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Laravel
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
1 1 (16.67%) Pega
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow