Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 94 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 +22 -30
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 44 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.23% 0.99% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 14 13
10th Percentile £310 £308 -
25th Percentile £356 £447 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +11.90% +22.52%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £729
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £440
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +21.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,863 1,720 2,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 94.82% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,102 1,476
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £376 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +7 24 £605 -3.20% 3
Wokingham +5 8 £305 -28.24%
Bracknell -5 7 £375 - 2
Windsor - 2 £600 -
Newbury - 1 £525 -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (75.00%) VMware
3 32 (72.73%) Windows
3 32 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (63.64%) Windows Server
5 26 (59.09%) DNS
6 25 (56.82%) DHCP
6 25 (56.82%) Active Directory
6 25 (56.82%) Security Cleared
6 25 (56.82%) Azure
7 22 (50.00%) DV Cleared
8 21 (47.73%) SCCM
9 20 (45.45%) PowerShell
10 19 (43.18%) Microsoft
10 19 (43.18%) Linux
10 19 (43.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (43.18%) vCenter Server
11 18 (40.91%) WSUS
11 18 (40.91%) SC Cleared
12 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (38.64%) Windows 10
12 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
12 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
13 16 (36.36%) Firewall
14 15 (34.09%) Oracle
14 15 (34.09%) SAN
14 15 (34.09%) Veeam
15 14 (31.82%) Hyper-V
15 14 (31.82%) Cisco Certification

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (56.82%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) OCI
3 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.82%) IaaS
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (59.09%) DNS
2 25 (56.82%) DHCP
3 16 (36.36%) Firewall
4 15 (34.09%) SAN
5 2 (4.55%) NAS
5 2 (4.55%) Network Security
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.27%) LAN
6 1 (2.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.55%) MySQL
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Robot Framework
1 2 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.09%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.82%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) Fat Client
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (72.73%) Windows
2 28 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 19 (43.18%) Linux
3 19 (43.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (38.64%) Windows 10
4 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (29.55%) Windows XP
6 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (9.09%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (29.55%) Break/Fix
3 13 (29.55%) Converged Infrastructure
3 13 (29.55%) ITIL
3 13 (29.55%) Performance Monitoring
3 13 (29.55%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (29.55%) Proactive Monitoring
3 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (29.55%) Project Management
3 13 (29.55%) Server Management
3 13 (29.55%) Storage Management
4 6 (13.64%) Configuration Management
4 6 (13.64%) DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) Software Distribution
5 4 (9.09%) Agile
5 4 (9.09%) Application Packaging
5 4 (9.09%) Application Virtualisation
5 4 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (6.82%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) Python
2 4 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (56.82%) Security Cleared
2 22 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 18 (40.91%) SC Cleared
4 14 (31.82%) CCNA
4 14 (31.82%) CCNP
4 14 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (31.82%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) CCDP
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 32 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (56.82%) Active Directory
3 16 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (31.82%) Hyper-V
5 7 (15.91%) XenApp
5 7 (15.91%) XenDesktop
6 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) SCCM
2 19 (43.18%) vCenter Server
3 18 (40.91%) WSUS
4 13 (29.55%) EMC NetWorker
4 13 (29.55%) NetBackup
4 13 (29.55%) SCOM
5 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (6.82%) Ansible
7 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (4.55%) Nessus
7 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (75.00%) VMware
2 19 (43.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (34.09%) Oracle
3 15 (34.09%) Veeam
4 14 (31.82%) Cisco
5 13 (29.55%) 3PAR
5 13 (29.55%) Dell
5 13 (29.55%) EMC
5 13 (29.55%) Extreme Networks
5 13 (29.55%) HP
5 13 (29.55%) Juniper
5 13 (29.55%) Palo Alto
5 13 (29.55%) Symantec
6 8 (18.18%) Citrix
7 3 (6.82%) FireEye
7 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
7 3 (6.82%) Tanium
8 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.27%) Meraki