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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 87 99
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 +33
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cloud Native 27 24 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.29% 1.42% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.28% 5.01% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 16
10th Percentile £400 £456 £500
25th Percentile £416 £458 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £663
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -25.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £700
90th Percentile £724 £520 £707
South East median daily rate £445 £495 £625
% change year-on-year -10.10% -20.80% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 430 479 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.41% 28.29% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 255 384
10th Percentile £300 £258 £300
25th Percentile £400 £416 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £514
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +8.03% +2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £660 £694 £720
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 22
10th Percentile £32.05 £11.87 £18.75
25th Percentile £44.63 £19.72 £40.47
Median hourly rate £62.00 £41.50 £64.09
Median % change year-on-year +49.39% -35.24% +4.21%
75th Percentile £87.44 £60.44 £73.19
90th Percentile £88.87 £69.93 £74.23
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -40.92% +11.53% +126.82%

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 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +30 17 £525 +6.06% 5
Wokingham -13 6 £500 +2.56% 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 4 (14.81%) 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 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
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 AKS
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
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 8 (29.63%) MPLS
2 4 (14.81%) 5G
2 4 (14.81%) BGP
2 4 (14.81%) LAN
2 4 (14.81%) VoIP
2 4 (14.81%) WAN
3 3 (11.11%) 4G
3 3 (11.11%) DOCSIS
3 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) GPON
3 3 (11.11%) LTE
3 3 (11.11%) Network Security
3 3 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (11.11%) xDSL
4 2 (7.41%) Converged Networks
5 1 (3.70%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (3.70%) VoLTE
5 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 4 (14.81%) Selenium
2 3 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (3.70%) MLflow
4 1 (3.70%) Mocha
General
1 7 (25.93%) Telecoms
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Architect
2 7 (25.93%) Security Architect
3 4 (14.81%) IP Architect
3 4 (14.81%) IP Specialist
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) OSS Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Test Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) NETCONF
2 4 (14.81%) YANG
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%) .NET
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.70%) Fastify
5 1 (3.70%) HTML
5 1 (3.70%) JSON
5 1 (3.70%) Middleware
5 1 (3.70%) OpenID
5 1 (3.70%) SOAP
5 1 (3.70%) Web Services
5 1 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
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%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) DevOps
2 11 (40.74%) Microservices
2 11 (40.74%) TOGAF
3 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 8 (29.63%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (29.63%) Strategic Thinking
6 7 (25.93%) Agile
6 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
7 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
7 6 (22.22%) Functional Testing
7 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (22.22%) Network Architecture
7 6 (22.22%) Network Design
7 6 (22.22%) Security Architecture
7 6 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
8 5 (18.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bicep
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (25.93%) Degree
3 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
4 5 (18.52%) CISSP
4 5 (18.52%) Master's Degree
5 4 (14.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
5 4 (14.81%) CCIE
5 4 (14.81%) CCSP
5 4 (14.81%) JNCIE
6 3 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
8 1 (3.70%) CCNP
8 1 (3.70%) CISM
8 1 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) NIST
1 6 (22.22%) QA
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
4 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Terraform
4 2 (7.41%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (3.70%) Grafana
5 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Amdocs
1 2 (7.41%) Ericsson
1 2 (7.41%) Huawei
1 2 (7.41%) NetCracker
1 2 (7.41%) Nokia
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Pega
2 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk