Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Reading is £431, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.90% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £304 - -
25th Percentile £348 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £431 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 621 988 974
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 90.39% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 543 637
10th Percentile £313 £342 £213
25th Percentile £448 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.58% +1.71%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £623
90th Percentile £650 £700 £692
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -5.58% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 15
10th Percentile £14.75 £48.18 £59.58
25th Percentile £16.03 £56.25 £61.04
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.15 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -0.22% +19.42%
75th Percentile £94.26 £100.00 £67.09
90th Percentile £97.00 - £75.15
Berkshire median hourly rate £43.96 £61.28 £61.79
% change year-on-year -28.27% -0.83% +49.99%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Reading

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 20 November 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 Reading region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
3 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Commvault
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow