Public Cloud Contracts in Berkshire

Public Cloud
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud 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 91 116 93
Rank change year-on-year +25 -23 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.40% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 1.34% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 18
10th Percentile - £325 £310
25th Percentile £525 £419 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -0.97% -12.29%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £697
90th Percentile - £686 £716
South East median daily rate £615 £595 £495
% change year-on-year +3.36% +20.20% -8.33%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Public 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 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Berkshire

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Berkshire

Public 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 Public Cloud 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 1 - - 6
Bracknell +18 1 £550 +4.76%
Public Cloud
South East

Public Cloud
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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) HBase
1 1 (50.00%) HDInsight
1 1 (50.00%) Impala
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) StreamSets