Cloud Native Contracts in Berkshire

Cloud Native
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 100 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 27 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.40% 0.68% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% 1.94% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 20
10th Percentile £465 £500 £510
25th Percentile £482 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -28.93% +19.15% +30.56%
75th Percentile £500 £707 £635
90th Percentile £663 £788 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.76%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 567 618 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.42% 34.80% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 397 462
10th Percentile £205 £313 £220
25th Percentile £300 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +6.55%
75th Percentile £608 £620 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 15
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £56.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.23% -38.82%
75th Percentile £61.50 £74.25 £64.88
90th Percentile £68.04 £79.19 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +144.19% -41.58%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Berkshire

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham +15 15 £497 -0.70%
Reading -9 9 £510 -27.14% 6
Bracknell - 1 - -
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (81.48%) OpenShift
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
3 9 (33.33%) GCP
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Stack
6 2 (7.41%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Site Engineer
1 15 (55.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) DevOps
2 19 (70.37%) Containerisation
3 17 (62.96%) Collaborative Working
3 17 (62.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 15 (55.56%) ITSM
5 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 14 (51.85%) GitOps
6 13 (48.15%) Task Automation
7 12 (44.44%) Microservices
8 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
9 10 (37.04%) Change Management
9 10 (37.04%) Incident Response
9 10 (37.04%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
12 7 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (25.93%) Time Management
12 7 (25.93%) Translating Business Requirements
13 4 (14.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Bash
1 1 (3.70%) Bicep
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (66.67%) Istio
3 12 (44.44%) Prometheus
4 11 (40.74%) Argo
4 11 (40.74%) Grafana
4 11 (40.74%) Kibana
5 9 (33.33%) Terraform
6 7 (25.93%) Rancher
7 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Google
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) BMC
2 1 (3.70%) Databricks
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy
2 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow