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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 77 107
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 -22
Contract jobs citing IaaS 10 14 14
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.55% 1.20% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 3.54% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 13
10th Percentile £523 £411 £362
25th Percentile £555 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +2.63% -30.28%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £650
90th Percentile - £600 £770
South East median daily rate £700 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% -13.04%

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 549 395 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 30.05% 33.91% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 243 364
10th Percentile £306 £319 £325
25th Percentile £400 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £653 £662 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 21
10th Percentile £27.86 £24.04 £20.49
25th Percentile £75.24 £29.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.25 £32.05 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +159.75% -45.03% +48.91%
75th Percentile £100.63 £68.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £104.15 £79.02 -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year +87.50% +20.61% +1.49%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -19 7 £650 +8.33% 2
Wokingham -30 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) PaaS
3 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) AWS
5 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (30.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (30.00%) Azure Storage
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
8 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) RBAC
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) MLOps
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Runbook
5 2 (20.00%) Statistics
5 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) AI
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bicep
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) OCP
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (10.00%) PMP
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NCSC
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (20.00%) systemd
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Foundry
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Tenable