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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 73 103
Rank change year-on-year -35 +30 -17
Contract jobs citing IaaS 12 17 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.66% 1.51% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.26% 4.18% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
10th Percentile £457 - £399
25th Percentile £513 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -12.82% -27.78%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £638
90th Percentile £690 £600 £709
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 531 407 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.18% 36.11% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 257 359
10th Percentile £306 £340 £336
25th Percentile £401 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £597 £600 £619
90th Percentile £653 £668 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 26
10th Percentile £27.31 £24.66 £20.49
25th Percentile £31.25 £31.15 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +152.24% -44.58% +150.21%
75th Percentile £103.94 £61.75 £61.39
90th Percentile £110.75 £77.19 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.76 £27.22
% change year-on-year +89.12% +2.00% -15.74%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -20 7 £675 +12.50% 1
Maidenhead - 2 £500 - 1
Wokingham -30 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) PaaS
3 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (25.00%) AWS
6 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (16.67%) Azure Storage
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (16.67%) SaaS
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (8.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) RBAC
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 4 (33.33%) Log Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) MLOps
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (8.33%) Runbook
7 1 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
7 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) OCP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (8.33%) PMP
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Data Guard
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (8.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Foundry
3 1 (8.33%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Tenable
3 1 (8.33%) VMware