Cloud Native Contracts in Reading

Cloud Native
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native 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 52 80 82
Rank change year-on-year +28 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 8 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 0.92% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.85% 3.49% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £432 £693
25th Percentile £313 £473 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £498 £700
Median % change year-on-year -34.67% -28.93% +11.11%
75th Percentile £338 £509 £713
90th Percentile - £526 £765
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £700
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
Reading

Cloud Native 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Reading

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Reading

Cloud Native
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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) BGP
1 5 (62.50%) MPLS
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
1 5 (62.50%) VLAN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Automation Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware