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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 92 88
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +39
Contract jobs citing IaaS 18 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 0.99% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 3.39% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 25
10th Percentile £407 £453 £406
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £513 £763 £638
90th Percentile £588 £800 £700
South East median daily rate £569 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -7.18% +2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £69.38 -
% change year-on-year -52.76% - -

All Cloud 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 471 501 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.98% 29.23% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 336 374
10th Percentile £320 £375 £340
25th Percentile £413 £475 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £674
90th Percentile £670 £663 £738
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 10
10th Percentile - £19.45 £17.21
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.17 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.56% +29.27% +113.78%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.98 £63.84
90th Percentile £44.08 £64.73 £72.72
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -53.53% +48.62% +30.63%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -3 10 £425 -29.17%
Reading +26 7 £525 -32.26% 2
Bracknell - 1 - -
IaaS
South East

IaaS
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) PaaS
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 9 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (50.00%) Azure Storage
5 4 (22.22%) SaaS
6 3 (16.67%) GCP
7 2 (11.11%) AWS
7 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (11.11%) OCI
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (55.56%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 8 (44.44%) Site Engineer
4 8 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Security Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) ADO
2 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 2 (11.11%) Jinja
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
6 2 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Observability
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (5.56%) Identity Management
7 1 (5.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) VCAP
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) logstash
3 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) vRealize
4 1 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Qualys
2 1 (5.56%) VMware