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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 91 80
Rank change year-on-year +34 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.95% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.62% 2.94% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £323 £497 £613
25th Percentile £339 £499 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £510 £700
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% -27.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £399 £527 £731
90th Percentile £412 £533 £791
Berkshire median daily rate £445 £498 £675
% change year-on-year -10.55% -26.30% +14.89%

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 138 306 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 26.34% 25.89% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 183 226
10th Percentile £304 £205 £359
25th Percentile £421 £345 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% -9.00% +13.29%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £648
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £35.25 £49.75
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £45.00 £58.20 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% -19.17% +176.92%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.95 £79.19
90th Percentile - £72.73 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +44.69% -39.29% +169.23%

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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) 4G
2 1 (20.00%) 5G
2 1 (20.00%) Converged Networks
2 1 (20.00%) DOCSIS
2 1 (20.00%) GPON
2 1 (20.00%) LTE
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) OSS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware