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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 74 103
Rank change year-on-year -32 +29 -15
Contract jobs citing IaaS 11 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.60% 1.50% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 4.12% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £486 - £400
25th Percentile £500 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -15.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £625
90th Percentile £693 £600 £700
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 530 413 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.07% 36.52% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 259 355
10th Percentile £306 £325 £338
25th Percentile £406 £423 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £610
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 13 26
10th Percentile £24.64 £16.73 £20.49
25th Percentile £31.25 £30.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +152.24% -44.58% +150.21%
75th Percentile £104.00 £51.00 £61.39
90th Percentile £110.75 £76.85 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £26.21 £30.00
% change year-on-year +100.31% -12.63% -0.76%

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 16 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 16 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 5 £675 +12.50% 2
Maidenhead - 3 £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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Entra ID
2 7 (63.64%) PaaS
3 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
5 3 (27.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (18.18%) OCI
6 2 (18.18%) SaaS
7 1 (9.09%) AWS
7 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
5 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) ARM Templates
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OpenID
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) RBAC
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) DevSecOps
3 4 (36.36%) Log Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) MLOps
5 2 (18.18%) Principle of Least Privilege
6 1 (9.09%) B2C
6 1 (9.09%) CRM
6 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Bicep
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Foundry
3 1 (9.09%) Okta
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) VMware