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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 88 105
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 46 28 18
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.33% 1.74% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.58% 5.71% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 18
10th Percentile £398 £325 £500
25th Percentile £428 £457 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £493 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -21.12% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £688
90th Percentile £728 £525 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £510 £625
% change year-on-year -6.86% -18.40% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £86.50 - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £101.75 - -
90th Percentile £104.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 536 490 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 38.81% 30.53% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 244 349
10th Percentile £293 £315 £210
25th Percentile £410 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £675 £694 £700
South East median daily rate £496 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.17% +2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 26
10th Percentile £20.59 £19.31 £22.80
25th Percentile £25.65 £37.69 £45.21
Median hourly rate £58.75 £57.50 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.94% +14.81%
75th Percentile £86.94 £61.36 £67.75
90th Percentile £96.75 £62.99 £78.68
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% -1.87% +45.58%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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
Reading +25 28 £500 - 11
Wokingham -19 8 £500 +2.56% 4
Windsor - 5 £450 - 1
Bracknell - 2 £525 -
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 6 (13.04%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.35%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) Azure
2 25 (54.35%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) GCP
3 8 (17.39%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) SaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 3 (6.52%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.17%) Datadog
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) Stackdriver
7 1 (2.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) MPLS
1 9 (19.57%) WAN
2 6 (13.04%) BGP
2 6 (13.04%) LAN
3 4 (8.70%) Firewall
4 3 (6.52%) Broadband
4 3 (6.52%) NaaS
4 3 (6.52%) Network Security
4 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
4 3 (6.52%) VPN
5 1 (2.17%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) MLflow
3 1 (2.17%) Mocha
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.87%) Billing
5 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Security Architect
3 6 (13.04%) IP Architect
3 6 (13.04%) IP Specialist
4 5 (10.87%) Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Site Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Telecoms Specialist
7 1 (2.17%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) REST
2 8 (17.39%) Loki
3 6 (13.04%) NETCONF
3 6 (13.04%) YANG
4 5 (10.87%) ADO
5 3 (6.52%) Node.js
5 3 (6.52%) RESTful
6 2 (4.35%) OAuth
6 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.35%) Web Services
7 1 (2.17%) .NET
7 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.17%) HTML
7 1 (2.17%) JSON
7 1 (2.17%) Middleware
7 1 (2.17%) OpenID
7 1 (2.17%) SOAP
7 1 (2.17%) XML
7 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (17.39%) Virtual Team
3 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Smart Meter
7 1 (2.17%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
1 8 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
2 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
3 17 (36.96%) Roadmaps
3 17 (36.96%) TOGAF
4 16 (34.78%) DevOps
5 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (26.09%) DevSecOps
7 11 (23.91%) Observability
8 10 (21.74%) Microservices
8 10 (21.74%) Strategic Thinking
9 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (15.22%) Network Architecture
11 7 (15.22%) Network Design
12 6 (13.04%) MODAF
12 6 (13.04%) Security Architecture
12 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) Bash
3 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (23.91%) AWS Certification
5 9 (19.57%) Azure Certification
6 8 (17.39%) CCIE
7 6 (13.04%) JNCIE
7 6 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (10.87%) CISSP
9 4 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (8.70%) CCSP
9 4 (8.70%) Degree
10 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (2.17%) CCNP
12 1 (2.17%) CCSM
12 1 (2.17%) CISM
12 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
12 1 (2.17%) PhD
12 1 (2.17%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) GDPR
1 6 (13.04%) NIST
2 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.87%) PCI DSS
2 5 (10.87%) PSD2
3 3 (6.52%) SLA
4 2 (4.35%) QA
5 1 (2.17%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (17.39%) vSphere
2 6 (13.04%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.57%) Grafana
3 8 (17.39%) Ansible
3 8 (17.39%) Argo
3 8 (17.39%) Kustomize
3 8 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.52%) Terraform
5 1 (2.17%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) VMware
2 9 (19.57%) Cisco
3 8 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.87%) MuleSoft
4 5 (10.87%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.52%) Juniper
6 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.17%) Citrix
6 1 (2.17%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.17%) Pega
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) Splunk
6 1 (2.17%) Virgin Media