Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £399 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £616 - -
South East median daily rate £510 - £515
% change year-on-year - - +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £68.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,655 1,071 1,549
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 91.62% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 683 826
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £450 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £661 £695
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 40 79
10th Percentile £17.85 £14.75 £41.40
25th Percentile £30.00 £16.66 £56.39
Median hourly rate £71.00 £32.18 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +120.63% -47.92% +8.63%
75th Percentile £87.98 £68.75 £76.20
90th Percentile £104.20 £87.28 £97.50
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £57.43
% change year-on-year +98.81% -56.20% +14.85%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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 Infrastructure Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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
Reading - 3 £513 - 3
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) FinOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) FinOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat