Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Infrastructure Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 77 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 6 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.91% 1.39% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.57% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £252 - £621
25th Percentile £368 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £663
75th Percentile £533 - £684
90th Percentile £548 - £694
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £501 £574
% change year-on-year -5.19% -12.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Infrastructure Management 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 593 958 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.12% 88.54% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 528 633
10th Percentile £350 £350 £240
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +9.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £535 £501
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.89% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 14
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.50 £29.04
25th Percentile £14.75 £38.44 £59.32
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -4.52% +15.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.74 £67.42
90th Percentile £74.40 £76.13 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -52.98% -5.34% +23.58%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in Reading over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in Reading

Infrastructure Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Observability
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) GitOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Argo
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Kustomize
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Google