Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Reading

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £375 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 532 954 974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.25% 87.28% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 524 657
10th Percentile £330 £350 £263
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £34.38 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.60 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.48% -5.77% +16.93%
75th Percentile £58.00 £64.07 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £84.94 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £59.47 £61.79
% change year-on-year -37.32% -3.75% +21.16%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Reading

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google