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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 67 98
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 43 21 25
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.35% 1.81% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.30% 5.17% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 7 15
10th Percentile £302 £377 £476
25th Percentile £358 £435 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -28.57%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £519
90th Percentile £628 £603 £728
South East median daily rate £469 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +15.00% -25.93%
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 £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 682 406 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.21% 34.94% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 227 330
10th Percentile £280 £302 £205
25th Percentile £363 £425 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £595 £592 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 15 31
10th Percentile £19.34 £26.40 £11.79
25th Percentile £73.00 £32.05 £24.00
Median hourly rate £84.00 £61.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year +36.60% +36.02% -30.10%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.28 £62.23
90th Percentile £88.70 £91.05 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £48.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year +45.83% +6.17% -9.58%

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 23 April 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 April 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 -17 20 £400 -15.79% 3
Reading -19 15 £569 +75.00% 6
Windsor +2 2 £475 -17.39%
Bracknell 0 2 - - 2
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 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.33%) Appian
2 1 (2.33%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) CPLEX
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) Azure
2 24 (55.81%) AWS
3 9 (20.93%) GCP
4 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (16.28%) OpenShift
6 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Storage
6 4 (9.30%) Datadog
6 4 (9.30%) IaaS
6 4 (9.30%) PaaS
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.33%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) MPLS
1 5 (11.63%) WAN
2 3 (6.98%) Broadband
2 3 (6.98%) NaaS
2 3 (6.98%) SD-WAN
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 2 (4.65%) BGP
3 2 (4.65%) Firewall
3 2 (4.65%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.33%) GIS
3 1 (2.33%) Parquet
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.65%) Billing
5 2 (4.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (44.19%) Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Technical Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
5 3 (6.98%) DBA
5 3 (6.98%) Network Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.98%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Telecoms Specialist
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) OpenAPI
1 5 (11.63%) RESTful
1 5 (11.63%) Swagger
2 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
2 4 (9.30%) Middleware
2 4 (9.30%) REST
3 3 (6.98%) Django
3 3 (6.98%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.98%) Flask
3 3 (6.98%) JSON
3 3 (6.98%) Kafka
3 3 (6.98%) NumPy
3 3 (6.98%) Pandas
3 3 (6.98%) pytest
3 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.65%) NETCONF
4 2 (4.65%) OAuth
4 2 (4.65%) SAML
4 2 (4.65%) YANG
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.98%) TM Forum
4 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) DevOps
2 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (41.86%) Microservices
3 14 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
5 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (23.26%) Roadmaps
7 9 (20.93%) Observability
7 9 (20.93%) TOGAF
8 7 (16.28%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (16.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 6 (13.95%) Analytics
9 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (13.95%) DevSecOps
9 6 (13.95%) ITIL
9 6 (13.95%) MODAF
9 6 (13.95%) Service Design
9 6 (13.95%) Technology Roadmap
10 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) Bash
2 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.63%) SQL
4 4 (9.30%) Bicep
5 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.65%) Java
7 1 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.26%) Azure Certification
2 10 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.28%) AWS Certification
4 5 (11.63%) RHCE
4 5 (11.63%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (9.30%) CCIE
5 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.98%) OCP
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.65%) JNCIE
8 1 (2.33%) CCNP
8 1 (2.33%) CCSM
8 1 (2.33%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
1 3 (6.98%) SLA
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (25.58%) Terraform
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
4 5 (11.63%) Grafana
4 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.98%) Data Guard
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (4.65%) systemd
7 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.33%) Argo
7 1 (2.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Red Hat
2 9 (20.93%) Cisco
3 7 (16.28%) VMware
4 4 (9.30%) AppDynamics
4 4 (9.30%) Dynatrace
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.30%) Splunk
5 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.98%) Juniper
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.33%) Citrix
6 1 (2.33%) ESRI
6 1 (2.33%) Foundry
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Virgin Media