IaaS Contract Job Trends in Reading

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring IaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 82 75
Rank change year-on-year +22 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing IaaS 7 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.21% 0.90% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 2.72% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 19
10th Percentile £379 £514 £463
25th Percentile £403 £646 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £775 £625
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +24.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £588 £800 £681
90th Percentile - - £703
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -32.54% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £69.38 -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 252 368 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 43.45% 33.27% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 252 278
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +0.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £674
90th Percentile £664 £670 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.74% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile - £31.63 £24.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £47.03 £35.17
Median hourly rate £15.50 £60.83 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.52% +10.60% +49.66%
75th Percentile £16.25 £63.81 £67.85
90th Percentile £31.70 £67.21 £74.65
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £58.17 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.56% +29.27% +113.78%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IaaS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Reading over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IaaS

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (71.43%) PaaS
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (28.57%) OCI
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Security Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Jinja
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Transformation
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) VCAP
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) logstash
2 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware