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 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 70 86
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 31 21 33
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.64% 1.84% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.46% 5.15% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 19
10th Percentile £325 £363 £458
25th Percentile £349 £410 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -8.72% -22.67%
75th Percentile £581 £544 £500
90th Percentile £650 £588 £508
South East median daily rate £492 £445 £498
% change year-on-year +10.45% -10.55% -20.40%

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 695 408 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.83% 35.66% 29.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 243 317
10th Percentile £300 £300 £210
25th Percentile £368 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 35
10th Percentile £19.34 £32.05 £11.85
25th Percentile £31.31 £48.75 £19.94
Median hourly rate £83.00 £62.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% +49.39% -35.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.44 £60.83
90th Percentile - £88.87 £68.81
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £33.89 £55.00
% change year-on-year +77.07% -38.39% +4.76%

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 28 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Berkshire

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 28 June 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 -24 16 £650 +54.76% 15
Wokingham -17 13 £358 -24.74%
Bracknell +2 1 - - 3
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 7 (22.58%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.23%) Appian
2 1 (3.23%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) CPLEX
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) AWS
3 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) Azure AKS
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.45%) IaaS
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.23%) Datadog
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Google Docs
7 1 (3.23%) Google Sheets
7 1 (3.23%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.23%) iPaaS
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) BGP
1 7 (22.58%) LAN
1 7 (22.58%) MPLS
1 7 (22.58%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) NoSQL
2 7 (22.58%) MongoDB
2 7 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.23%) GIS
4 1 (3.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Architect
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Python Developer
4 6 (19.35%) IP Architect
4 6 (19.35%) Network Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Service Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Security Specialist
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) REST
2 7 (22.58%) Django
2 7 (22.58%) FastAPI
2 7 (22.58%) Flask
2 7 (22.58%) Kafka
2 7 (22.58%) NETCONF
2 7 (22.58%) NumPy
2 7 (22.58%) OpenAPI
2 7 (22.58%) Pandas
2 7 (22.58%) pytest
2 7 (22.58%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (22.58%) RESTful
2 7 (22.58%) Swagger
2 7 (22.58%) YANG
3 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
3 3 (9.68%) Jinja
3 3 (9.68%) OAuth
3 3 (9.68%) SAML
4 2 (6.45%) OpenID
5 1 (3.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Algorithms
1 7 (22.58%) Data Structures
1 7 (22.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) DevOps
2 15 (48.39%) Microservices
3 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (38.71%) Roadmaps
5 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
5 10 (32.26%) Containerisation
6 9 (29.03%) Analytics
6 9 (29.03%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (29.03%) TOGAF
7 8 (25.81%) TDD
8 7 (22.58%) Data Analytics
8 7 (22.58%) Mathematics
8 7 (22.58%) Network Architecture
8 7 (22.58%) Network Design
8 7 (22.58%) Network Segmentation
8 7 (22.58%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (22.58%) OOP
8 7 (22.58%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
8 7 (22.58%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.13%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) Bicep
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) CCIE
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (22.58%) JNCIE
2 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Ansible
2 9 (29.03%) Terraform
3 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.23%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.23%) ESRI
3 1 (3.23%) Foundry
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Sparx
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk