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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 88 94
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 +35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 27 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.29% 1.23% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.05% 4.23% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 20
10th Percentile £400 £338 £500
25th Percentile £413 £457 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -25.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £700
90th Percentile £724 £523 £702
South East median daily rate £425 £493 £625
% change year-on-year -13.79% -21.12% +2.04%

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 446 496 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.86% 28.94% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 254 375
10th Percentile £277 £281 £250
25th Percentile £376 £401 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +4.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £664 £691 £713
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 22
10th Percentile £32.05 £18.94 £21.03
25th Percentile £44.63 £27.69 £37.08
Median hourly rate £58.00 £52.37 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -18.57% -24.34%
75th Percentile £85.44 £61.36 £73.59
90th Percentile £88.87 £70.03 £78.70
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +132.12%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +38 19 £525 +50.00% 4
Windsor - 3 £438 - 3
Wokingham -15 1 £500 +3.73%
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.41%) Camunda
3 1 (3.70%) CMS
3 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
3 1 (3.70%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 17 (62.96%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) SaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Stackdriver
6 1 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) MPLS
2 6 (22.22%) BGP
2 6 (22.22%) LAN
2 6 (22.22%) WAN
3 4 (14.81%) 5G
3 4 (14.81%) VoIP
4 3 (11.11%) 4G
4 3 (11.11%) DOCSIS
4 3 (11.11%) Firewall
4 3 (11.11%) GPON
4 3 (11.11%) LTE
4 3 (11.11%) Network Security
4 3 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (11.11%) xDSL
5 2 (7.41%) Converged Networks
6 1 (3.70%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (3.70%) VoLTE
6 1 (3.70%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.70%) MySQL
1 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.70%) Redis
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) MLflow
3 1 (3.70%) Mocha
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Telecoms
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Billing
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Architect
2 7 (25.93%) Security Architect
3 6 (22.22%) IP Architect
3 6 (22.22%) IP Specialist
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) OSS Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) REST
2 6 (22.22%) NETCONF
2 6 (22.22%) YANG
3 3 (11.11%) ADO
3 3 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) OAuth
4 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.70%) Fastify
5 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.70%) Jest
5 1 (3.70%) NestJS
5 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.70%) OpenID
5 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.70%) Swagger
5 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (14.81%) Security Posture
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (11.11%) TM Forum
5 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) DevOps
2 13 (48.15%) Microservices
2 13 (48.15%) TOGAF
3 11 (40.74%) Roadmaps
4 10 (37.04%) Strategic Thinking
5 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (29.63%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (29.63%) Network Architecture
6 8 (29.63%) Network Design
7 6 (22.22%) Agile
7 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
7 6 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (22.22%) Security Architecture
7 6 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
8 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (18.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 6 (22.22%) CCIE
2 6 (22.22%) JNCIE
3 5 (18.52%) CISSP
3 5 (18.52%) Degree
4 4 (14.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (14.81%) CCSP
5 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 3 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.70%) CCNP
7 1 (3.70%) CISM
7 1 (3.70%) PhD
7 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) NIST
2 5 (18.52%) GDPR
2 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (18.52%) PCI DSS
2 5 (18.52%) PSD2
3 2 (7.41%) OASIS TOSCA
3 2 (7.41%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Ansible
2 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (7.41%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (3.70%) Grafana
5 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) MuleSoft
1 3 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.41%) Amdocs
2 2 (7.41%) Ericsson
2 2 (7.41%) Huawei
2 2 (7.41%) NetCracker
2 2 (7.41%) Nokia
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Pega
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk