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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 83 107
Rank change year-on-year +30 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 62 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.03% 1.43% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.90% 4.52% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 5 16
10th Percentile £306 - £500
25th Percentile £413 £325 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £569 £520 £691
90th Percentile £650 £523 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £520 £580
% change year-on-year -8.65% -10.34% -7.20%
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 569 420 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.02% 31.53% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 203 347
10th Percentile £290 £261 £205
25th Percentile £379 £400 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £600
90th Percentile £664 £651 £675
South East median daily rate £485 £523 £488
% change year-on-year -7.18% +7.18% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 29
10th Percentile £20.08 £24.66 £23.30
25th Percentile £20.79 £35.75 £45.21
Median hourly rate £58.00 £47.25 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% -21.44% +35.91%
75th Percentile £83.50 £62.24 £63.29
90th Percentile £98.50 £74.87 £74.22
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +31.94%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +18 30 £543 +8.50% 12
Wokingham -14 20 £450 - 1
Windsor - 7 £450 -
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 8 (12.90%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.61%) Appian
2 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.61%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 40 (64.52%) AWS
2 39 (62.90%) Azure
3 16 (25.81%) GCP
4 14 (22.58%) OpenShift
5 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.06%) Datadog
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Storage
7 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.84%) SaaS
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) IaaS
8 2 (3.23%) PaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.61%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Serverless
9 1 (1.61%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) MPLS
1 11 (17.74%) WAN
2 8 (12.90%) BGP
2 8 (12.90%) LAN
3 4 (6.45%) Firewall
4 3 (4.84%) Broadband
4 3 (4.84%) NaaS
4 3 (4.84%) Network Security
4 3 (4.84%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.84%) VPN
5 1 (1.61%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.61%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) Mocha
General
1 31 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.29%) Billing
5 5 (8.06%) Finance
5 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 30 (48.39%) Architect
2 7 (11.29%) IP Architect
2 7 (11.29%) IP Specialist
3 6 (9.68%) Business Analyst
3 6 (9.68%) Senior
3 6 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Security Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Site Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Technical Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) DBA
6 3 (4.84%) Network Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (3.23%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) REST
2 8 (12.90%) Loki
2 8 (12.90%) NETCONF
2 8 (12.90%) YANG
3 5 (8.06%) ADO
4 4 (6.45%) Middleware
4 4 (6.45%) RESTful
5 3 (4.84%) JSON
5 3 (4.84%) Node.js
5 3 (4.84%) OpenAPI
5 3 (4.84%) Swagger
6 2 (3.23%) OAuth
6 2 (3.23%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.61%) Express.js
7 1 (1.61%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.61%) Jest
7 1 (1.61%) NumPy
7 1 (1.61%) OpenID
7 1 (1.61%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (14.52%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (12.90%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) TM Forum
6 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.61%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Linux
2 11 (17.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) CI/CD
1 29 (46.77%) DevOps
2 26 (41.94%) Microservices
3 22 (35.48%) Agile
4 19 (30.65%) Roadmaps
5 18 (29.03%) TOGAF
6 16 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (24.19%) Observability
8 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (19.35%) Strategic Thinking
10 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (16.13%) DevSecOps
12 9 (14.52%) Network Architecture
13 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
13 8 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
13 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Management
13 8 (12.90%) Network Design
13 8 (12.90%) Network Segmentation
13 8 (12.90%) Network Virtualisation
13 8 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) Bash
3 6 (9.68%) SQL
4 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.84%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (19.35%) Azure Certification
5 10 (16.13%) AWS Certification
5 10 (16.13%) CCIE
6 8 (12.90%) JNCIE
7 5 (8.06%) RHCE
7 5 (8.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (6.45%) CCSP
8 4 (6.45%) CISSP
9 3 (4.84%) OCP
9 3 (4.84%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (3.23%) Degree
11 1 (1.61%) CCNP
11 1 (1.61%) CCSM
11 1 (1.61%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) GDPR
2 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.06%) NIST
2 5 (8.06%) PCI DSS
2 5 (8.06%) PSD2
3 3 (4.84%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 12 (19.35%) Docker
2 8 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.90%) vSphere
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (22.58%) Ansible
3 13 (20.97%) Grafana
4 12 (19.35%) Prometheus
5 8 (12.90%) Argo
5 8 (12.90%) Kustomize
6 7 (11.29%) Terraform
7 3 (4.84%) Data Guard
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (3.23%) systemd
9 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Red Hat
2 14 (22.58%) VMware
3 9 (14.52%) Cisco
4 6 (9.68%) Salesforce
5 5 (8.06%) MuleSoft
5 5 (8.06%) Splunk
6 4 (6.45%) AppDynamics
6 4 (6.45%) Dynatrace
7 3 (4.84%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.84%) Juniper
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle
8 2 (3.23%) Virgin Media
9 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.61%) Citrix
9 1 (1.61%) Google
9 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.61%) Pega