Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 120 111
Rank change year-on-year +29 -9 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £570
25th Percentile - £275 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £325 £588
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -44.68% +135.00%
75th Percentile - £443 £603
90th Percentile - £542 £605
South East median daily rate £575 £275 £588
% change year-on-year +109.09% -53.19% +135.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support Engineer
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 Support Engineer 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
Reading +31 1 £250 -58.68% 1
Wokingham -11 1 - -
Infrastructure Support Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Telnet

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) Telnet
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune