Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 86 96
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 57 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.89% 1.60% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 1.76% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 23 31
10th Percentile £288 £305 £363
25th Percentile £333 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +11.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £688
90th Percentile - £780 £730
South East median daily rate £456 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +1.39% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.44 £55.50 £66.76
% change year-on-year +3.49% -16.87% +134.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,751 1,647 2,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.88% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,060 1,377
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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 28 £605 -3.20% 10
Wokingham +5 11 £310 -27.06%
Bracknell -4 10 £375 - 3
Maidenhead - 3 - -
Windsor - 2 £600 -
Newbury - 1 £525 -
Slough - 1 - - 1
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 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) OCI
3 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.26%) IaaS
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.51%) AWS
5 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.51%) Serverless
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (49.12%) DNS
2 27 (47.37%) DHCP
3 17 (29.82%) SAN
4 16 (28.07%) Firewall
5 4 (7.02%) NAS
6 2 (3.51%) Network Security
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.75%) LAN
7 1 (1.75%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.02%) MySQL
2 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Robot Framework
1 2 (3.51%) Selenium
2 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Maven
2 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (77.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Analyst
3 6 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) Server Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Coordinator
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (3.51%) Solutions Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Storage Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) PKI
3 4 (7.02%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.02%) Fat Client
3 4 (7.02%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) CCTV
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (64.91%) Windows
2 31 (54.39%) Windows Server
3 23 (40.35%) Linux
4 21 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (29.82%) Windows 10
6 17 (29.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (22.81%) Windows XP
8 6 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
9 4 (7.02%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Disaster Recovery
1 14 (24.56%) ITIL
1 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (24.56%) Project Management
2 13 (22.81%) Break/Fix
2 13 (22.81%) Converged Infrastructure
2 13 (22.81%) Performance Monitoring
2 13 (22.81%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (22.81%) Proactive Monitoring
2 13 (22.81%) Server Management
2 13 (22.81%) Storage Management
3 7 (12.28%) DevOps
4 6 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 6 (10.53%) Software Distribution
5 5 (8.77%) Agile
5 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
6 4 (7.02%) Application Packaging
6 4 (7.02%) Application Virtualisation
6 4 (7.02%) Project Delivery
6 4 (7.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.77%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) VBScript
4 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (54.39%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.11%) DV Cleared
3 22 (38.60%) SC Cleared
4 16 (28.07%) Degree
5 15 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (24.56%) CCNA
6 14 (24.56%) CCNP
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.75%) CCDP
8 1 (1.75%) CCIE
8 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.75%) PMO
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 35 (61.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (47.37%) Active Directory
3 18 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (28.07%) Hyper-V
5 7 (12.28%) XenApp
5 7 (12.28%) XenDesktop
6 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.26%) vSphere
7 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (36.84%) SCCM
1 21 (36.84%) vCenter Server
2 20 (35.09%) WSUS
3 13 (22.81%) EMC NetWorker
3 13 (22.81%) NetBackup
3 13 (22.81%) SCOM
4 6 (10.53%) Ansible
5 4 (7.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.02%) Nessus
5 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (7.02%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (64.91%) VMware
2 24 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (29.82%) Oracle
3 17 (29.82%) Veeam
4 15 (26.32%) 3PAR
4 15 (26.32%) Dell
4 15 (26.32%) HP
5 14 (24.56%) Cisco
6 13 (22.81%) EMC
6 13 (22.81%) Extreme Networks
6 13 (22.81%) Juniper
6 13 (22.81%) Palo Alto
6 13 (22.81%) Symantec
7 8 (14.04%) Citrix
8 7 (12.28%) Red Hat
9 3 (5.26%) FireEye
9 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
9 3 (5.26%) Tanium
10 2 (3.51%) NetApp
10 2 (3.51%) Nimble Storage