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 21 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	107	79	98
Rank change year-on-year	-28	+19	-22
Contract jobs citing IaaS	11	22	14
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire	0.59%	1.76%	0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category	2.04%	4.20%	2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	9	19	10
10^th Percentile	£446	£411	£458
25^th Percentile	-	£413	£525
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£425	£615
Median % change year-on-year	+17.65%	-30.89%	+2.50%
75^th Percentile	-	£531	£791
90^th Percentile	£719	£588	£800
South East median daily rate	£600	£506	£613
% change year-on-year	+18.52%	-17.35%	+2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£69.06
Median hourly rate	-	-	£69.38
75^th Percentile	-	-	£69.69
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South East median hourly rate	£52.50	£32.77	£69.38
% change year-on-year	+60.21%	-52.76%	-

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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	539	524	514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire	29.14%	41.85%	31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted	304	325	329
10^th Percentile	£361	£255	£373
25^th Percentile	£450	£413	£458
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£545	£500	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+9.00%	-13.04%	-
75^th Percentile	£625	£588	£638
90^th Percentile	£685	£664	£663
South East median daily rate	£500	£488	£513
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	-4.88%	-2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	68	19	16
10^th Percentile	£19.75	-	£20.03
25^th Percentile	£47.19	£14.75	£27.38
Median hourly rate	£82.21	£18.87	£50.27
Median % change year-on-year	+335.64%	-62.46%	-10.47%
75^th Percentile	£101.07	£36.48	£61.98
90^th Percentile	£110.75	£48.20	£64.73
South East median hourly rate	£52.50	£18.82	£42.50
% change year-on-year	+178.96%	-55.72%	+77.45%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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 21 October 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.

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 21 October 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
Wokingham	-11	5	£500	+17.65%	1
Maidenhead	-	3	£500	-	2
Reading	-34	2	£703	+33.81%	2
IaaS South East

IaaS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing IaaS also mentioned 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 with a requirement for IaaS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	RBAC	90.9%	10
2	Azure	72.7%	8
2	PaaS	72.7%	8
4	CI/CD	63.6%	7
4	Entra ID	63.6%	7
4	Identity Access Management	63.6%	7
7	Active Directory	54.5%	6
7	Azure AKS	54.5%	6
7	DevOps	54.5%	6
7	Microsoft	54.5%	6
7	Python	54.5%	6
7	REST	54.5%	6
7	Security Cleared	54.5%	6
7	Terraform	54.5%	6
7	Test Automation	54.5%	6
16	.NET	45.5%	5
16	.NET Core	45.5%	5
16	.NET Framework	45.5%	5
16	Analytics	45.5%	5
16	Azure App Service	45.5%	5
16	Azure DevOps	45.5%	5
16	Azure Key Vault	45.5%	5
16	Azure Monitor	45.5%	5
16	Azure SQL Database	45.5%	5
16	Azure Storage	45.5%	5
16	B2C	45.5%	5
16	C#	45.5%	5
16	Code Coverage	45.5%	5
16	Confluence	45.5%	5
16	Data Management	45.5%	5

IaaS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	72.7%	8
1	PaaS	72.7%	8
3	Entra ID	63.6%	7
4	Azure AKS	54.5%	6
5	Azure App Service	45.5%	5
5	Azure DevOps	45.5%	5
5	Azure Key Vault	45.5%	5
5	Azure Monitor	45.5%	5
5	Azure Storage	45.5%	5
10	Azure API Management	27.3%	3
10	OCI	27.3%	3
10	SaaS	27.3%	3
13	AWS	9.1%	1
13	GitHub	9.1%	1
13	GitHub Actions	9.1%	1
13	Microsoft 365	9.1%	1