Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 72 94
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 35 43 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.98% 2.49% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 2.86% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 18
10th Percentile £219 £350 £300
25th Percentile £267 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £605 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.25% +27.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £530 £608 £616
90th Percentile £553 £620 £803
South East median daily rate £483 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -7.25% +11.11%

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 1,076 1,501 1,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.50% 86.91% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 785 1,013
10th Percentile £345 £325 £305
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £667 £696 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £518
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 76 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.34 £18.20
25th Percentile £16.66 £45.31 £48.40
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +2.67% +97.08%
75th Percentile £62.62 £71.89 £71.62
90th Percentile £87.28 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £52.10
% change year-on-year -61.81% +10.08% +60.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

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 7 September 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 +1 15 £360 +2.86% 4
Maidenhead +3 7 - -
Bracknell +1 7 £500 +33.33% 2
Reading +6 2 - - 5
Slough -1 1 £520 - 7
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 (2.86%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) DHCP
1 7 (20.00%) DNS
1 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.86%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.86%) VSAN
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
2 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (17.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Windows
2 12 (34.29%) Linux
3 8 (22.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (17.14%) Windows 10
5 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.71%) CentOS
6 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.86%) Unix
7 1 (2.86%) VMS
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) ITIL
2 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
4 7 (20.00%) Service Management
4 7 (20.00%) Validation
4 7 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (11.43%) DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Analytics
6 3 (8.57%) Architectural Design
6 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps
6 3 (8.57%) Log Analytics
7 2 (5.71%) Computer Science
7 2 (5.71%) Containerisation
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 2 (5.71%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (5.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (2.86%) Network Design
8 1 (2.86%) Problem Management
8 1 (2.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) DV Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
3 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) Server+ Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) CCDP
5 1 (2.86%) CCNA
5 1 (2.86%) CCNP
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (28.57%) vSphere
3 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.43%) Docker
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (77.14%) VMware
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.14%) Dell
3 6 (17.14%) Wyse
4 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Commvault
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.86%) NetApp