IaaS Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 90 88
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing IaaS 13 34 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.11% 1.71% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 6.17% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 20
10th Percentile £410 £356 £534
25th Percentile £413 £393 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -33.33% +38.46%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £732
90th Percentile £600 £788 £799
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £578
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.42% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -35.29%

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 396 551 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.76% 27.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 369 367
10th Percentile £350 £329 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £18.03
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

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

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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

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

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 1 May 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 -14 5 £425 -39.29%
Windsor - 4 £575 -
Reading +28 2 £600 +41.18% 7
Bracknell +13 2 £550 +51.72%
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 2 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (92.31%) PaaS
3 10 (76.92%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Azure AKS
5 5 (38.46%) SaaS
6 4 (30.77%) Azure Storage
6 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
7 3 (23.08%) Azure API Management
7 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (23.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (15.38%) AWS
8 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (15.38%) GCP
8 2 (15.38%) GitHub
8 2 (15.38%) Serverless
9 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
9 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) React Developer
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) SAML
2 3 (23.08%) ADO
2 3 (23.08%) OAuth
2 3 (23.08%) OpenID
3 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) MACH
4 1 (7.69%) React
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 3 (23.08%) API Management
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Business Case
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Data Management
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) Information Security
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Value Proposition
7 1 (7.69%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 5 (38.46%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) Bicep
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) VMware