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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 67 93
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 +9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 31 21 29
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.70% 1.85% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.71% 5.13% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 18
10th Percentile £306 £363 £458
25th Percentile £343 £410 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -8.91% -26.81%
75th Percentile £481 £544 £500
90th Percentile £650 £588 £511
South East median daily rate £464 £445 £498
% change year-on-year +4.21% -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 658 409 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.13% 36.04% 29.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 249 319
10th Percentile £283 £300 £205
25th Percentile £363 £406 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 16 33
10th Percentile £19.21 £32.05 £11.82
25th Percentile £31.25 £46.63 £20.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 £73.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% +72.35% -39.29%
75th Percentile £88.00 £88.87 £61.06
90th Percentile - £90.69 £66.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £37.44 £54.00
% change year-on-year +60.25% -30.66% -0.68%

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 13 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 13 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
Wokingham -11 16 £358 -24.74% 1
Reading -22 13 £650 +54.76% 7
Bracknell +2 1 - - 1
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 (19.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.23%) Appian
2 1 (3.23%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) 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 26 (83.87%) Azure
2 18 (58.06%) AWS
3 10 (32.26%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) Azure AKS
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (12.90%) Datadog
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%) 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
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) BGP
1 6 (19.35%) LAN
1 6 (19.35%) MPLS
1 6 (19.35%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) NoSQL
2 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
2 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) 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 14 (45.16%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Marketing
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Architect
1 7 (22.58%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Python Developer
3 5 (16.13%) IP Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Network Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) IP Specialist
7 1 (3.23%) Lead
7 1 (3.23%) Project Owner
7 1 (3.23%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) REST
2 6 (19.35%) Django
2 6 (19.35%) FastAPI
2 6 (19.35%) Flask
2 6 (19.35%) Kafka
2 6 (19.35%) NETCONF
2 6 (19.35%) NumPy
2 6 (19.35%) OpenAPI
2 6 (19.35%) Pandas
2 6 (19.35%) pytest
2 6 (19.35%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (19.35%) RESTful
2 6 (19.35%) Swagger
2 6 (19.35%) YANG
3 4 (12.90%) ARM Templates
3 4 (12.90%) Middleware
4 3 (9.68%) OAuth
4 3 (9.68%) SAML
5 2 (6.45%) Jinja
5 2 (6.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Algorithms
1 6 (19.35%) Data Structures
1 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
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 24 (77.42%) DevOps
2 16 (51.61%) Microservices
3 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (32.26%) Containerisation
5 9 (29.03%) Analytics
5 9 (29.03%) Roadmaps
6 8 (25.81%) TOGAF
7 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (22.58%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
8 6 (19.35%) Network Architecture
8 6 (19.35%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (19.35%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (19.35%) Observability
8 6 (19.35%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
8 6 (19.35%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 8 (25.81%) Bash
4 4 (12.90%) 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 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) CCIE
2 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (19.35%) JNCIE
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (29.03%) Ansible
2 9 (29.03%) Terraform
3 4 (12.90%) Grafana
3 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) AppDynamics
2 4 (12.90%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.90%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.23%) ESRI
3 1 (3.23%) Foundry
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Sparx