Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Reading

Infrastructure Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 81 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 15 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.84% 1.37% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.57% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 1
10th Percentile - £572 -
25th Percentile £255 £603 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -57.02% +21.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £275 £608 £525
90th Percentile £453 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £445 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -11.00% +17.65% -8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Infrastructure Engineering 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 548 956 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.49% 87.31% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 531 657
10th Percentile £346 £350 £263
25th Percentile £450 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £30.31 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -5.89% +16.93%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.96 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.35 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.80 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -40.51% -5.34% +22.36%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Reading

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Reading over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Reading

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) OneDrive
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) 4G
1 6 (54.55%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Database Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) FlexPod
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
2 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
2 1 (9.09%) Data Security
2 1 (9.09%) Database Security
2 1 (9.09%) Database Tuning
2 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) RBAC
2 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
2 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) OCP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Commvault
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) VMware