Cloud Native Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 82 105
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +18
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 22 35 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.84% 1.77% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.16% 6.00% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 14
10th Percentile £366 £458 £500
25th Percentile £415 £482 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -22.67% +6.25%
75th Percentile £522 £500 £700
90th Percentile £588 £508 £709
South East median daily rate £445 £498 £625
% change year-on-year -10.55% -20.40% +0.81%

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 426 583 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.56% 29.53% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 311 416
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £721
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 34 21
10th Percentile £32.05 £11.84 £18.50
25th Percentile £48.75 £19.66 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £41.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +49.39% -35.83% +135.18%
75th Percentile £87.44 £60.44 £73.59
90th Percentile £88.87 £69.03 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -38.39% +7.32% +138.98%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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
Wokingham -18 9 £500 +1.42% 1
Reading +23 7 £420 -17.65% 16
Windsor - 2 £575 - 2
Bracknell +8 1 - - 2
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (9.09%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) SaaS
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
5 2 (9.09%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) 5G
1 4 (18.18%) MPLS
1 4 (18.18%) VoIP
2 3 (13.64%) 4G
2 3 (13.64%) DOCSIS
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) GPON
2 3 (13.64%) LTE
2 3 (13.64%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (13.64%) xDSL
3 2 (9.09%) Converged Networks
4 1 (4.55%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) VoLTE
4 1 (4.55%) VoWiFi
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Billing
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) OSS Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) OAuth
1 2 (9.09%) OpenID
1 2 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) TM Forum
3 2 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (36.36%) Migration
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Mathematics
4 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) Optimization Problems
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (22.73%) Data Collection
5 5 (22.73%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Functional Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (18.18%) ITIL
6 4 (18.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) Bicep
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 8 (36.36%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.64%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.09%) CISSP
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) PhD
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.55%) CCNP
5 1 (4.55%) CCSK
5 1 (4.55%) CEH
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.55%) CISM
5 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.55%) GIAC
5 1 (4.55%) SANS
5 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) OASIS TOSCA
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Ansible
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (27.27%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) CASB
5 1 (4.55%) Grafana
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Amdocs
2 2 (9.09%) Ericsson
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Huawei
2 2 (9.09%) NetCracker
2 2 (9.09%) Nokia
3 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.55%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) VMware