Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 97 122
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 2 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.14% 0.39% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.44% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £453 £621
25th Percentile £563 £513 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £663
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -18.87% +4.74%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £684
90th Percentile - £619 £694
South East median daily rate £538 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +2.38% -22.22% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Infrastructure Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,301 1,372 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.44% 90.32% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 760 964
10th Percentile £305 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 39 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.68 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.25 £68.57 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.38 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -53.16% -10.69% +42.67%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
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 Infrastructure Automation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Reading +11 1 £575 +9.52% 1
Bracknell -8 1 - -
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) VCAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware