Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cloud Native
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 67 89
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 +8
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 35 30 23
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.94% 2.45% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.58% 6.52% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 14
10th Percentile £325 £400 £364
25th Percentile £349 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +2.56% -22.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £511
90th Percentile £673 £750 £524
South East median daily rate £513 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.80 - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.25 - -
90th Percentile £70.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 627 460 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.72% 37.55% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 285 255
10th Percentile £316 £291 £289
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +4.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £664 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 20 23
10th Percentile £19.34 £32.05 £18.88
25th Percentile £31.25 £41.93 £27.63
Median hourly rate £70.50 £58.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.55% +0.87% -9.45%
75th Percentile £87.16 £81.81 £61.65
90th Percentile £101.89 £88.87 £69.25
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +6.57% -42.37% +4.27%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Berkshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cloud Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
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 Cloud Native within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 -23 24 £563 +7.14% 18
Wokingham +1 7 £341 -44.74% 4
Slough - 1 - - 12
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
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 5 (14.29%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (85.71%) Azure
2 19 (54.29%) AWS
3 9 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.71%) SaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub
8 1 (2.86%) IaaS
8 1 (2.86%) PaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) BGP
1 5 (14.29%) DNS
1 5 (14.29%) LAN
1 5 (14.29%) MPLS
1 5 (14.29%) WAN
2 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) VPN
3 2 (5.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
2 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) German Language
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) IP Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Tester
7 1 (2.86%) DevSecOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) Terraform
2 7 (20.00%) REST
3 5 (14.29%) Django
3 5 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 5 (14.29%) Flask
3 5 (14.29%) Kafka
3 5 (14.29%) NETCONF
3 5 (14.29%) NumPy
3 5 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 5 (14.29%) Pandas
3 5 (14.29%) pytest
3 5 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (14.29%) RESTful
3 5 (14.29%) Swagger
3 5 (14.29%) YANG
4 3 (8.57%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.71%) Jinja
5 2 (5.71%) PySpark
5 2 (5.71%) YAML
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 5 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) IoT
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) DevOps
2 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
4 16 (45.71%) Containerisation
5 13 (37.14%) Agile
5 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (34.29%) Roadmaps
6 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
7 11 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (28.57%) Analytics
8 10 (28.57%) Migration
9 9 (25.71%) DevSecOps
9 9 (25.71%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (22.86%) Microservices
10 8 (22.86%) Observability
10 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
11 7 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (20.00%) TOGAF
11 7 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (28.57%) Bash
2 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.43%) Bicep
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
4 5 (14.29%) CCIE
4 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (14.29%) Degree
4 5 (14.29%) JNCIE
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Kubernetes
2 16 (45.71%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Istio
3 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.57%) Puppet
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.86%) Argo
4 1 (2.86%) Podman
4 1 (2.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) VMware
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.71%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Foundry
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Sparx
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk