Cloud Native Contracts in Reading

Cloud Native
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 82 81
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 11 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.92% 0.48% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.50% 1.53% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 15
10th Percentile £432 £693 £563
25th Percentile £473 - £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £700 £630
Median % change year-on-year -28.93% +11.11% +9.57%
75th Percentile £509 £713 £650
90th Percentile £526 £765 £661
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
Reading

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 314 326 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 26.36% 31.32% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 223 257
10th Percentile £205 £347 £264
25th Percentile £213 £453 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £608 £654 £625
90th Percentile £650 £721 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 1
10th Percentile £42.31 £45.70 -
25th Percentile £52.90 £63.14 £25.50
Median hourly rate £60.89 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +169.23% -40.23%
75th Percentile £63.29 £79.19 £26.50
90th Percentile £69.62 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £64.68 £22.49
% change year-on-year -34.29% +187.64% -27.47%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Reading

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Reading

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) GCP
3 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) Azure API Management
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
1 1 (9.09%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Applications Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
1 1 (9.09%) Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Developer
1 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
3 8 (72.73%) Performance Optimisation
3 8 (72.73%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (72.73%) Translating Business Requirements
4 7 (63.64%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (63.64%) Time Management
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) B2C
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) API Management
6 1 (9.09%) Change Advisory Board
6 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
6 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (81.82%) Terraform
3 7 (63.64%) Istio
3 7 (63.64%) Rancher
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) BMC
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow