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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 74 85
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 32 27 24
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.73% 2.25% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.80% 6.03% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 13
10th Percentile £325 £400 £456
25th Percentile £349 £414 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +1.42% -25.58%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £500
90th Percentile - £736 £520
South East median daily rate £530 £438 £495
% change year-on-year +21.14% -11.62% -20.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.80 - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £70.25 - -
90th Percentile £70.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 - -

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 666 448 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.00% 37.36% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 278 252
10th Percentile £313 £293 £260
25th Percentile £400 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £546
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.47% +6.07%
75th Percentile £613 £583 £618
90th Percentile £700 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 17 26
10th Percentile £17.43 £32.05 £15.23
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £81.75 £61.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% +46.42% -35.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.25 £60.44
90th Percentile - £88.87 £69.93
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +47.56% -40.92% +9.24%

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 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cloud Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cloud Native

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 30 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 -17 22 £575 +9.52% 14
Wokingham -7 8 £358 -28.50% 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
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (93.75%) Azure
2 16 (50.00%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
4 6 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure App Service
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) IaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.13%) PaaS
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) BGP
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
1 5 (15.63%) LAN
1 5 (15.63%) MPLS
1 5 (15.63%) WAN
2 4 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (9.38%) DHCP
3 3 (9.38%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
4 2 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.25%) Big Data
4 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Python Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) IP Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Network Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) DevSecOps Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) REST
3 6 (18.75%) Django
3 6 (18.75%) FastAPI
3 6 (18.75%) Flask
3 6 (18.75%) Kafka
3 6 (18.75%) NumPy
3 6 (18.75%) OpenAPI
3 6 (18.75%) Pandas
3 6 (18.75%) pytest
3 6 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (18.75%) RESTful
3 6 (18.75%) Swagger
4 5 (15.63%) NETCONF
4 5 (15.63%) YANG
5 3 (9.38%) ARM Templates
5 3 (9.38%) Jinja
6 2 (6.25%) PySpark
6 2 (6.25%) YAML
7 1 (3.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 6 (18.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) DevOps
2 16 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (46.88%) Containerisation
4 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (37.50%) Agile
7 11 (34.38%) Roadmaps
8 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
9 9 (28.13%) Analytics
9 9 (28.13%) DevSecOps
9 9 (28.13%) Microservices
9 9 (28.13%) Migration
10 7 (21.88%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (21.88%) Observability
10 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (21.88%) TDD
10 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
11 6 (18.75%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Bash
2 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.50%) Bicep
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
4 5 (15.63%) CCIE
4 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (15.63%) JNCIE
5 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (9.38%) Degree
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (9.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.25%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.13%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) GRC
4 1 (3.13%) NCSC
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Ansible
1 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Istio
2 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
2 3 (9.38%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix
5 1 (3.13%) Foundry
5 1 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Sparx
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk