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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 96 104
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 11 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.93% 0.88% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.01% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile - - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £536
75th Percentile £500 - £616
90th Percentile - - £669
South East median daily rate £475 £470 £575
% change year-on-year +1.06% -18.26% +39.39%

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 1,080 1,487 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.22% 87.16% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 766 1,005
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 72 64
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £45.31 £48.18
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +5.40% +41.87%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.39 £72.08
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management 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
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 19 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
Reading +19 3 - - 2
Wokingham - 2 £450 - 1
Bracknell - 1 - -
Windsor - 1 £450 -
Infrastructure Management
South East

Infrastructure Management
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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) BGP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (18.18%) IPv6
2 2 (18.18%) OSPF
2 2 (18.18%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (18.18%) TACACS
2 2 (18.18%) VSAN
3 1 (9.09%) NAS
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Law
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Commercial Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Network Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Axis
2 2 (18.18%) YAML
3 1 (9.09%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) ERP
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Business Process Mapping
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) SOA
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) X++
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Ceph
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Argo
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Dell
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) VMware