Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
South East median daily rate £233 £575 £453
% change year-on-year -59.57% +27.07% -12.14%

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 1,121 1,485 1,669
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.40% 90.77% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 798 1,056
10th Percentile £300 £313 £239
25th Percentile £408 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.62% +2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £510
% change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 64 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £28.37 £23.41
25th Percentile £17.04 £53.86 £48.40
Median hourly rate £31.21 £61.50 £62.40
Median % change year-on-year -49.25% -1.44% +24.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £73.59
90th Percentile £85.08 £99.25 £76.37
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £58.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.82% +11.41% +80.35%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Senior Infrastructure 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 - 2 £275 -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) FlexPod
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
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%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Commvault
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware