Public Cloud Contracts in Reading

Public Cloud
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud 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 59 87 74
Rank change year-on-year +28 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 1 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.34% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 1.27% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £578
25th Percentile - £325 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £438 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -35.19% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £595 £713
90th Percentile - £699 £730
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £518
% change year-on-year +7.32% -0.97% -12.29%

All Generic Skills
Reading

Public Cloud 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Reading

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Reading

Public Cloud
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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) HBase
1 1 (100.00%) HDInsight
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) StreamSets