IaaS Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 90 119
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 -37
Contract jobs citing IaaS 22 25 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.12% 1.40% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 4.88% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 11
10th Percentile £362 £524 £363
25th Percentile £400 £588 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +42.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £650 £739 £531
90th Percentile £770 £799 £550
South East median daily rate £500 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 532 512 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.02% 28.59% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 369 527
10th Percentile £325 £385 £191
25th Percentile £459 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £714 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 13
10th Percentile £20.49 £18.95 £17.20
25th Percentile £41.25 £21.16 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £44.25 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +31.75% +110.21% -
75th Percentile £61.60 £72.94 £52.50
90th Percentile - £79.19 £77.82
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in Berkshire

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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 3 May 2024. 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 - 9 £650 -
Bracknell - 4 £363 -
Reading -26 2 £425 -38.74% 2
Maidenhead - 2 - - 1
Newbury - 2 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) PaaS
2 15 (68.18%) SaaS
3 12 (54.55%) Azure
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (18.18%) Azure API Management
5 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.64%) AWS
6 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) 5G
1 8 (36.36%) Broadband
2 4 (18.18%) DNS
2 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 4 (18.18%) VPN
3 3 (13.64%) DHCP
3 3 (13.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
1 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (36.36%) Law
1 8 (36.36%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (36.36%) Security Penetration Tester
1 8 (36.36%) Security Specialist
1 8 (36.36%) Security Tester
1 8 (36.36%) Tester
1 8 (36.36%) Testing Specialist
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Author
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Integration Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Scrum Master
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Mobile App
2 4 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (36.36%) Application Security
3 8 (36.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 8 (36.36%) OWASP
3 8 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (36.36%) Security Testing
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) API Management
5 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
5 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 6 (27.27%) Migration
5 6 (27.27%) Network Architecture
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
7 4 (18.18%) Affinity Analysis
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) High Availability
7 4 (18.18%) Security Architecture
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) C#
1 3 (13.64%) Java
1 3 (13.64%) PHP
1 3 (13.64%) Python
1 3 (13.64%) Ruby
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) CREST Certified
1 8 (36.36%) GIAC
1 8 (36.36%) GPEN
1 8 (36.36%) OSCP
1 8 (36.36%) SANS
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) GDPR
1 8 (36.36%) NCSC
1 8 (36.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 6 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) vCenter Server
2 3 (13.64%) WSUS
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Virgin Media
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) VMware