Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.054% - 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile £550 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.17%
75th Percentile £650 - £566
90th Percentile - - £686
South East median daily rate £590 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.27% +10.23%

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 675 405 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.19% 35.97% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 241 320
10th Percentile £295 £300 £205
25th Percentile £363 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -4.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 18 33
10th Percentile £19.34 £29.83 £11.82
25th Percentile £31.25 £43.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +44.69% -36.89%
75th Percentile £88.00 £88.53 £61.06
90th Percentile - £89.96 £69.25
South East median hourly rate £66.00 £33.89 £52.00
% change year-on-year +94.78% -34.84% -4.91%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Public 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry