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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 74 107
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 -22
Contract jobs citing IaaS 12 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.67% 1.40% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 4.05% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 12
10th Percentile £457 - £387
25th Percentile £552 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -12.82% -27.78%
75th Percentile £688 £591 £663
90th Percentile £690 £600 £779
South East median daily rate £688 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +19.57% +15.00% -11.11%

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 514 395 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.49% 34.62% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 252 365
10th Percentile £313 £350 £331
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -6.41% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £653 £661 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 10 24
10th Percentile £26.63 £29.69 £20.49
25th Percentile £31.25 £32.05 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £38.66 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +110.84% -33.70% +150.21%
75th Percentile £104.00 £68.63 £61.53
90th Percentile £110.75 £79.02 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -6.67% +14.29%

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 1 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 1 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 -18 8 £663 +10.42% 3
Wokingham -28 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) PaaS
3 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (25.00%) Azure Storage
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 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%) 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%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
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%) 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%) Solutions Architect
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%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) 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%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) RBAC
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%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) MLOps
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Runbook
6 2 (16.67%) Statistics
6 2 (16.67%) Storage Management
6 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bicep
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Azure Certification
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) OCP
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (8.33%) PMP
4 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) NCSC
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Data Guard
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (16.67%) systemd
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Foundry
3 1 (8.33%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Tenable
3 1 (8.33%) VMware