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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 80 55
Rank change year-on-year -23 -25 +33
Contract jobs citing IaaS 18 10 79
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.98% 0.87% 3.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.93% 2.62% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 8
10th Percentile £464 £460 £356
25th Percentile £480 £513 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £413
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +39.39% -39.45%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £666
90th Percentile £688 £600 £788
South East median daily rate £650 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -16.67%

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 615 381 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.37% 33.02% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 248 375
10th Percentile £304 £325 £327
25th Percentile £400 £424 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £652 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.85% +2.93% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 27
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.82 £20.49
25th Percentile £70.85 £28.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.25 £42.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +91.18% -27.10% +151.84%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.42 £61.80
90th Percentile £99.75 £77.02 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £38.56 £27.76 £30.00
% change year-on-year +38.90% -7.47% +35.38%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -6 8 £594 +7.95%
Wokingham -27 8 £513 +28.13% 1
Bracknell -5 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - - 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) AWS
3 11 (61.11%) PaaS
4 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
6 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (22.22%) Azure Storage
6 4 (22.22%) SaaS
7 3 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
8 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (5.56%) Azure App Service
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) RBAC
4 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
6 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (22.22%) Log Analytics
6 4 (22.22%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
7 3 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
8 2 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (22.22%) Bicep
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (11.11%) OCP
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) NCSC
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
1 6 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 6 (33.33%) vSphere
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 6 (33.33%) Argo
3 6 (33.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (11.11%) Data Guard
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (11.11%) SCCM
4 2 (11.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Red Hat
2 6 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) Tenable
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle
6 1 (5.56%) Qualys
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow