Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Cloud Native
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Wokingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 7 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 3.04% 8.33% 3.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.29% 25.71% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £438 £457 -
25th Percentile £487 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -3.60% -
75th Percentile £571 £500 -
90th Percentile £655 £507 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +2.56% -22.00% -1.96%

All Generic Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 35 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 41.74% 32.41% 69.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 27 16
10th Percentile £234 £200 £459
25th Percentile £380 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £515 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% -12.34% +6.82%
75th Percentile £559 £579 £778
90th Percentile £650 £600 £906
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Wokingham over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Wokingham

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 5 (71.43%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Site Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Data Collection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Research
3 1 (14.29%) Optimization Problems
3 1 (14.29%) Physics
3 1 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (71.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Argo
1 5 (71.43%) Grafana
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Kustomize
1 5 (71.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media