IaaS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 94 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 -45 +40
Contract jobs citing IaaS 21 7 86
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.24% 0.54% 4.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.39% 1.59% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 15
10th Percentile £413 £510 £368
25th Percentile £465 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% -4.17% -12.73%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £595 £728
South East median daily rate £551 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.13% -4.17% -3.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Berkshire

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 620 441 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.71% 33.98% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 278 399
10th Percentile £273 £334 £336
25th Percentile £384 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £638
90th Percentile £664 £656 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £501
% change year-on-year -0.99% +0.90% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 23
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.98 £20.49
25th Percentile £47.66 £29.00 £53.51
Median hourly rate £81.00 £48.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -17.67% +74.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £62.00
90th Percentile £99.75 £76.85 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.50% +19.17% +33.33%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

IaaS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Berkshire

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IaaS

IaaS
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 IaaS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 February 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 11 £563 +12.50% 3
Wokingham -25 9 £513 - 2
Bracknell -5 1 - -
IaaS
South East

IaaS
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 19 (90.48%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) PaaS
3 13 (61.90%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Storage
7 4 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
7 4 (19.05%) SaaS
8 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (14.29%) GCP
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) DBA
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (9.52%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) ADO
1 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.52%) Jinja
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) DevOps
2 17 (80.95%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) RBAC
4 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (28.57%) Load Balancing
6 5 (23.81%) Analytics
6 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
7 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (19.05%) Migration
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
8 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 3 (14.29%) Log Analytics
8 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Runbook
8 3 (14.29%) Security Architecture
8 3 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Bash
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
4 3 (14.29%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Azure Certification
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) CISSP
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (9.52%) OCP
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) NCSC
3 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
1 6 (28.57%) VMware NSX
1 6 (28.57%) vSphere
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (38.10%) Ansible
4 6 (28.57%) Argo
4 6 (28.57%) vCenter Server
5 2 (9.52%) Data Guard
5 2 (9.52%) logstash
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (9.52%) SCCM
5 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (9.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 6 (28.57%) Pure Storage
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) Tenable
5 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
5 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) Google
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle
6 1 (4.76%) Databricks
6 1 (4.76%) Qualys