Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Private Cloud
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.17% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.66% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £353 £399 £678
25th Percentile £394 £427 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £481 £688
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -30.00% +5.77%
75th Percentile £531 £539 £694
90th Percentile £573 £568 £698
South East median daily rate £625 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.08% +1.96%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Private Cloud 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 624 455 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.74% 37.42% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 285 254
10th Percentile £316 £291 £287
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £664 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 20 23
10th Percentile £19.34 £32.05 £18.88
25th Percentile £31.25 £41.93 £27.63
Median hourly rate £71.00 £58.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +0.87% -9.45%
75th Percentile £87.16 £81.81 £61.65
90th Percentile £102.10 £88.87 £69.25
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +6.57% -42.37% +4.27%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in Berkshire

Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 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 -31 2 £325 -43.48% 2
Private Cloud
South East

Private Cloud
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 (66.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (66.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP PS
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) SNMP
1 2 (66.67%) TACACS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) IP Network Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) NETCONF
1 2 (66.67%) OpenConfig
1 2 (66.67%) RESTCONF
1 2 (66.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Revenue Recognition
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) JNCIE
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP