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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 93 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 -51 +64
Contract jobs citing IaaS 21 10 93
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.42% 0.65% 5.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 2.09% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 22
10th Percentile - £515 £403
25th Percentile £413 £570 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £750 £588
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +27.66% -12.96%
75th Percentile £540 £800 £638
90th Percentile £588 - -
South East median daily rate £530 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -15.20% +4.17% -0.83%
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 585 479 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 39.53% 31.14% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 299 376
10th Percentile £267 £366 £321
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £570 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% - +5.36%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.83% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £20.00 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.26 £27.38 £42.76
Median hourly rate £57.72 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% -32.54% +186.36%
75th Percentile £92.75 £64.73 £79.78
90th Percentile £98.75 - £90.25
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.75 £29.66
% change year-on-year -30.43% -3.07% +48.30%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 - 10 £469 -
Reading +14 9 £525 -32.26% 1
Bracknell -4 2 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) AWS
3 13 (61.90%) PaaS
4 6 (28.57%) Azure Storage
4 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) SaaS
6 4 (19.05%) Azure AKS
6 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (19.05%) GCP
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 2 (9.52%) Retail
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Architect
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Site Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
5 2 (9.52%) DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Security Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) ADO
2 2 (9.52%) Jinja
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) DevOps
2 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (33.33%) RBAC
4 6 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
6 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (14.29%) Runbook
7 3 (14.29%) Security Architecture
7 3 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (9.52%) Data Engineering
8 2 (9.52%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) CISSP
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) OCP
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) VCAP
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 7 (33.33%) vSphere
2 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (42.86%) Terraform
3 8 (38.10%) Ansible
4 6 (28.57%) Argo
4 6 (28.57%) vCenter Server
5 2 (9.52%) Data Guard
5 2 (9.52%) logstash
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (9.52%) SCCM
5 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (9.52%) systemd
6 1 (4.76%) vRealize
6 1 (4.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 7 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (28.57%) Pure Storage
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) Tenable
5 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
5 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) Google
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle
5 2 (9.52%) Qualys
6 1 (4.76%) Databricks