Cloud Computing Contracts in Reading

Cloud Computing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing 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 57 87 80
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.34% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.08% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £314 £108 £528
25th Percentile £316 £113 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £124 £613
Median % change year-on-year +162.10% -79.77% +26.39%
75th Percentile £334 £127 £650
90th Percentile £336 - £713
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £124 £594
% change year-on-year +262.90% -79.12% +22.47%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Reading

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in Reading

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Support
1 1 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Development
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Application Security
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft