Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Infrastructure Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 91 112
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 24 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.60% 0.82% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 0.91% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 3
10th Percentile - £456 £532
25th Percentile £175 £513 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -47.36% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £488 - £669
90th Percentile £528 £560 £688
South East median daily rate £425 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -10.53% -20.83% +12.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Infrastructure Management 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 1,308 1,325 1,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.43% 90.82% 91.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 744 950
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £412 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -0.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £614
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.62% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 37 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.15 £24.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £61.50 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -0.24% +20.87%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £70.15 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £48.62 £55.00
% change year-on-year -53.73% -11.60% +41.94%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in Berkshire

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Wokingham -18 16 £184 -64.95% 1
Reading +16 11 £175 - 2
Slough - 3 £475 - 3
Infrastructure Management
South East

Infrastructure Management
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 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 15 (62.50%) AWS
3 12 (50.00%) GCP
4 8 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Consultant
1 5 (20.83%) Consultant
1 5 (20.83%) Site Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Technology Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Loki
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) ATL
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 8 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Change Management
1 12 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (50.00%) ITIL
1 12 (50.00%) ITSM
1 12 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (50.00%) Service Management
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (33.33%) Observability
3 8 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (12.50%) Time Management
5 1 (4.17%) Business Process Mapping
5 1 (4.17%) Data Management
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) ERP
5 1 (4.17%) High Availability
5 1 (4.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Bash
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (33.33%) vSphere
3 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Argo
1 8 (33.33%) Grafana
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 8 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 8 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Google
2 11 (45.83%) VMware
3 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft