Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 67 86
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 29 57 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.47% 2.87% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 3.23% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 46 23
10th Percentile £261 £288 £305
25th Percentile £386 £333 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -8.51% +11.90%
75th Percentile £661 £608 £700
90th Percentile £675 - £780
South East median daily rate £550 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering 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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Maidenhead +8 9 - - 1
Wokingham -13 8 £600 +93.55% 1
Reading +9 6 £488 -19.42% 13
Slough -4 3 £375 - 4
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DHCP
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
4 2 (6.90%) BIG-IP
4 2 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (6.90%) SSL
5 1 (3.45%) FTP
5 1 (3.45%) Internet
5 1 (3.45%) LAN
5 1 (3.45%) SMTP
5 1 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (3.45%) Telnet
5 1 (3.45%) VLAN
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.45%) Wireless
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Cabling Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.45%) Replication
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 14 (48.28%) Windows Server
3 10 (34.48%) Linux
4 9 (31.03%) Windows 10
5 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (6.90%) AIX
7 2 (6.90%) Unix
8 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) High Availability
1 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.24%) DevSecOps
2 5 (17.24%) ITIL
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.90%) Coaching
5 2 (6.90%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.90%) Network Design
5 2 (6.90%) Project Management
6 1 (3.45%) Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Line Management
6 1 (3.45%) Ticket Management
6 1 (3.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
3 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 2 (6.90%) CCDP
5 2 (6.90%) CCNA
5 2 (6.90%) CCNP
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 10 (34.48%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (10.34%) Docker
3 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.45%) NFS
5 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Ansible
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (13.79%) NetBackup
1 4 (13.79%) Progress Chef
1 4 (13.79%) Puppet
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) SCCM
3 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) VMware
2 13 (44.83%) Dell
3 9 (31.03%) Wyse
4 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
6 4 (13.79%) 3PAR
6 4 (13.79%) HP
6 4 (13.79%) Veritas
7 2 (6.90%) F5
8 1 (3.45%) Computacenter
8 1 (3.45%) Sophos
8 1 (3.45%) Splunk