Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Virtual Infrastructure
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 108 119
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.50% 0.059% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.068% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £219 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +20.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £267 - £525
90th Percentile £269 - -
South East median daily rate £267 £593 £500
% change year-on-year -54.94% +18.50% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Virtual Infrastructure 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 1,099 1,472 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.66% 86.44% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 780 1,004
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £698 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.87% +2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 74 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.92 £18.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £44.13 £48.18
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%
75th Percentile £62.24 £72.18 £72.40
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £57.35 £51.76
% change year-on-year -61.14% +10.80% +86.66%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in Berkshire

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Virtual Infrastructure within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 - 6 £250 - 3
Virtual Infrastructure
South East

Virtual Infrastructure
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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Server+ Certification
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware