Cloud Native Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 100 107
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 20 24 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.71% 1.21% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.89% 4.01% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 7
10th Percentile £377 £475 £590
25th Percentile £435 £491 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 - £707
90th Percentile £603 £713 £748
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +15.00% -25.93% +9.76%

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 409 599 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.87% 30.19% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 334 393
10th Percentile £307 £205 £313
25th Percentile £424 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +28 8 £325 -34.67% 35
Wokingham -13 8 £475 -5.00% 1
Windsor - 2 £575 -
Bracknell +18 1 - - 1
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 2 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 8 (40.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.00%) Azure API Management
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.00%) IaaS
6 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 2 (10.00%) SaaS
6 2 (10.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) MPLS
2 5 (25.00%) BGP
2 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (25.00%) VLAN
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) 5G
4 1 (5.00%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) VoIP
4 1 (5.00%) VoLTE
4 1 (5.00%) VoWiFi
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Robot Framework
1 5 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Automation Tester
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (25.00%) Tester
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) OAuth
1 2 (10.00%) OpenID
1 2 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Mathematics
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Optimization Problems
5 5 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Data Collection
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) Bicep
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
1 5 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) CCSK
2 1 (5.00%) CEH
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) GIAC
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
2 1 (5.00%) SANS
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Ansible
2 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) CASB
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) VMware