diff --git a/src/Plugins/Pagination.js b/src/Plugins/Pagination.js
index 627ba9698..c071d1b73 100755
--- a/src/Plugins/Pagination.js
+++ b/src/Plugins/Pagination.js
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ class Pagination {
 
     this.size = data.pagination.size;
     this.alias = data.pagination.alias;
+
     // TODO do we need the full data set for serverless?
     this.fullDataSet = this._get(this.data, this._getDataKey());
     // this returns an array
@@ -96,7 +97,20 @@ class Pagination {
         data.pagination.serverlessFilter(this.fullDataSet, serverlessPaginationKey),
       ];
     } else {
-      this.chunkedItems = this.pagedItems;
+      // this returns an array and skips no elements by default
+      this.target = this._resolveItems();
+
+      // Serverless Shortcut when key is not found in data set (probably running local build and expected a :path param in data)
+      // Only collections are relevant for templates that don’t have a permalink.build, they don’t have a templateContent and aren’t written to disk
+      if (
+        data.pagination.serverless &&
+        !data.pagination.addAllPagesToCollections
+      ) {
+        // use the first page only
+        this.chunkedItems = [this.pagedItems[0]];
+      } else {
+        this.chunkedItems = this.pagedItems;
+      }
     }
   }
 
@@ -183,6 +197,15 @@ class Pagination {
       result = result.filter((value) => !this.isFiltered(value));
     }
 
+    if (this.data.pagination.skip) {
+      if (typeof this.data.pagination.skip !== "number") {
+        throw new Error(
+          `Missing pagination skip in front matter data${this.inputPathForErrorMessages}`
+        );
+      }
+      result = result.slice(this.data.pagination.skip);
+    }
+
     return result;
   }
 
diff --git a/test/PaginationTest.js b/test/PaginationTest.js
index c5b29750b..86b3051f6 100644
--- a/test/PaginationTest.js
+++ b/test/PaginationTest.js
@@ -828,3 +828,41 @@ test("Pagination and eleventyComputed permalink, issue #1555 and #1865", async (
   t.is(templates[1].data.page.url, "/venues/second/");
   t.is(templates[2].data.page.url, "/venues/third/");
 });
+
+test("Pagination with skip parameter, issue #1036", async (t) => {
+  let eleventyConfig = new TemplateConfig();
+  let tmpl = getNewTemplate(
+    "./test/stubs/pagination-skip.md",
+    "./test/stubs/",
+    "./dist",
+    null,
+    null,
+    eleventyConfig
+  );
+
+  let data = await tmpl.getData();
+  let paging = new Pagination(tmpl, data, tmpl.config);
+  paging.setTemplate(tmpl);
+
+  t.truthy(data.pagination);
+  t.is(paging.getPageCount(), 2);
+  t.is(data.pagination.size, 2);
+  t.deepEqual(paging.target, ["second", "third", "fourth", "fifth"]);
+});
+
+test("Pagination with skip parameter required to be number, issue #1036", async (t) => {
+  let eleventyConfig = new TemplateConfig();
+  let tmpl = getNewTemplate(
+    "./test/stubs/pagination-skip-string.md",
+    "./test/stubs/",
+    "./dist",
+    null,
+    null,
+    eleventyConfig
+  );
+
+  let data = await tmpl.getData();
+  t.throws(() => {
+    new Pagination(tmpl, data, tmpl.config);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/stubs/pagination-skip-string.md b/test/stubs/pagination-skip-string.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2d83f7b75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/stubs/pagination-skip-string.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+venues:
+  - first
+  - second
+  - third
+  - fourth
+  - fifth
+pagination:
+  data: venues
+  size: 2
+  skip: one
+  addAllPagesToCollections: true
+---
diff --git a/test/stubs/pagination-skip.md b/test/stubs/pagination-skip.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd0c7510a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/stubs/pagination-skip.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+venues:
+  - first
+  - second
+  - third
+  - fourth
+  - fifth
+pagination:
+  data: venues
+  size: 2
+  skip: 1
+  addAllPagesToCollections: true
+---