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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 69 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 +12 +20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 32 30 32
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.63% 2.48% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.48% 6.68% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 17
10th Percentile £325 £389 £458
25th Percentile £349 £414 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £493
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -1.12% -21.12%
75th Percentile £631 £594 £500
90th Percentile £650 £687 £513
South East median daily rate £505 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +12.22% -8.72% -21.12%

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 715 449 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.50% 37.08% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 268 278
10th Percentile £301 £310 £232
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 19 26
10th Percentile £19.34 £32.05 £11.87
25th Percentile £35.22 £52.25 £18.91
Median hourly rate £83.00 £62.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.80% +50.60% -36.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.38 £59.85
90th Percentile - £88.87 £68.59
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +66.41% -42.37% +14.70%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -22 18 £575 +15.00% 12
Wokingham -14 11 £358 -28.50% 1
Bracknell 0 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 5 (15.63%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) CPLEX
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (90.63%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
5 5 (15.63%) Azure AKS
5 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (9.38%) Azure App Service
8 2 (6.25%) IaaS
8 2 (6.25%) PaaS
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.13%) GitHub
9 1 (3.13%) Google Docs
9 1 (3.13%) Google Sheets
9 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
9 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) BGP
1 5 (15.63%) LAN
1 5 (15.63%) MPLS
1 5 (15.63%) WAN
2 3 (9.38%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
2 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.13%) GIS
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata
6 1 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Python Developer
4 5 (15.63%) IP Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Network Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Tester
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Principal Data Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Security Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Senior
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) REST
2 7 (21.88%) Django
2 7 (21.88%) FastAPI
2 7 (21.88%) Flask
2 7 (21.88%) Kafka
2 7 (21.88%) NumPy
2 7 (21.88%) OpenAPI
2 7 (21.88%) Pandas
2 7 (21.88%) pytest
2 7 (21.88%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (21.88%) RESTful
2 7 (21.88%) Swagger
3 5 (15.63%) NETCONF
3 5 (15.63%) YANG
4 3 (9.38%) ARM Templates
4 3 (9.38%) Jinja
4 3 (9.38%) OAuth
4 3 (9.38%) SAML
5 2 (6.25%) PySpark
5 2 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Algorithms
1 7 (21.88%) Data Structures
2 6 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) DevOps
2 14 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 13 (40.63%) Containerisation
4 12 (37.50%) Analytics
4 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (31.25%) Roadmaps
6 9 (28.13%) Microservices
6 9 (28.13%) Migration
7 8 (25.00%) Agile
7 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (25.00%) TDD
8 7 (21.88%) Data Analytics
8 7 (21.88%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (21.88%) Mathematics
8 7 (21.88%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (21.88%) OOP
8 7 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (21.88%) TOGAF
9 6 (18.75%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.88%) Bash
4 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
3 5 (15.63%) CCIE
3 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (15.63%) JNCIE
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) GRC
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) NCSC
3 1 (3.13%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (37.50%) Terraform
3 11 (34.38%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
4 3 (9.38%) Puppet
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.13%) Istio
6 1 (3.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Databricks
2 3 (9.38%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) ESRI
4 1 (3.13%) Foundry
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Sparx
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk