Infrastructure Support Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support
South East > Berkshire

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in Berkshire is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 114 135
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 -43
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.20% 0.32% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.34% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £464 -
25th Percentile £275 £503 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £588 £250
Median % change year-on-year -44.68% +135.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £443 £600 £275
90th Percentile £542 £604 -
South East median daily rate £275 £588 £263
% change year-on-year -53.19% +123.81% -16.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,919 1,749 2,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 94.49% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 1,124 1,486
10th Percentile £213 £331 £206
25th Percentile £381 £417 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +8.14% +7.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 54 43
10th Percentile £18.99 £17.57 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £21.99 £17.00
Median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.47 £73.00 £44.00
90th Percentile £86.05 £80.25 £75.65
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in Berkshire

Infrastructure Support
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Wokingham - 2 £275 -
Bracknell -6 1 £375 - 1
Reading -7 1 £605 +2.98% 1
Infrastructure Support
South East

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
3 2 (50.00%) Veeam
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) WSUS
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat

Infrastructure Support 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Distribution
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
1 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (50.00%) WSUS
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (25.00%) Nessus
3 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Veeam
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec