Cloud Engineer Contracts in Reading

Cloud Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Reading is £763 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 75 96
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 3 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.25% 1.36% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 1.42% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £513 £514
25th Percentile £756 £528 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year +32.61% +7.48% +52.86%
75th Percentile £769 £681 £555
90th Percentile - £725 £567
Berkshire median daily rate £763 £564 £535
% change year-on-year +35.25% +5.37% +33.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,096 988 1,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 668 882
10th Percentile £213 £363 £177
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £491
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.92% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Reading

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Reading

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) vCloud
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
1 2 (66.67%) Rancher
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) vCloud
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Rancher
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
2 Cloud Engineer jobs in Berkshire