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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 103 91
Rank change year-on-year +26 -12 +39
Contract jobs citing IaaS 19 16 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.57% 0.86% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.20% 3.19% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 22
10th Percentile £406 £420 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% - +17.07%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £684
90th Percentile £600 £783 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% -6.25%
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 452 501 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.42% 26.79% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 336 397
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £659 £675 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -1.77% -5.30% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 13
10th Percentile - £20.63 £16.92
25th Percentile £14.75 £41.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.17 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.56% +152.92% +9.26%
75th Percentile £32.31 £60.72 £56.50
90th Percentile £47.70 £61.60 £76.25
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £27.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -31.56% +1.85% +35.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 9 £425 -29.17%
Reading +28 4 £503 -27.17% 2
Windsor - 4 £575 -
Bracknell - 2 - - 1
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 (10.53%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) PaaS
2 17 (89.47%) Azure
3 13 (68.42%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (52.63%) Azure AKS
5 8 (42.11%) Azure Storage
6 7 (36.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (36.84%) SaaS
7 3 (15.79%) AWS
7 3 (15.79%) Azure API Management
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
7 3 (15.79%) GCP
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (10.53%) GitHub
8 2 (10.53%) OCI
8 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Site Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Security Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) React Developer
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS Architect
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) ADO
2 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth
2 3 (15.79%) OpenID
2 3 (15.79%) SAML
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) MACH
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) API Management
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.79%) High Availability
6 3 (15.79%) RBAC
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.53%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (10.53%) Data Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Digital Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) Information Security
7 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (10.53%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) Bicep
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Qualys
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow