Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Wokingham is £335, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 17 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 23 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 6.05% 10.43% 11.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.62% 11.65% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £219 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £350 £305
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +14.75% -25.61%
75th Percentile £486 - £310
90th Percentile - £380 £318
Berkshire median daily rate £275 £350 £363
% change year-on-year -21.43% -3.45% -23.68%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 Wokingham with a recognized job title 302 103 75
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.47% 89.57% 98.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 63 49
10th Percentile £269 £245 £310
25th Percentile £345 £328 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -23.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £517 £570 £575
90th Percentile £641 £600 £630
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Wokingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Wokingham over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Wokingham

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 2026, 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 Wokingham region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 17 (73.91%) ITIL
2 17 (73.91%) Linux
2 17 (73.91%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (73.91%) VMware
3 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 11 (47.83%) Azure Certification
3 11 (47.83%) DHCP
3 11 (47.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (47.83%) DNS
3 11 (47.83%) Hyper-V
3 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
3 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (47.83%) Network+ Certification
3 11 (47.83%) Preventative Maintenance
3 11 (47.83%) Server+ Certification
3 11 (47.83%) Service Management
3 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
3 11 (47.83%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 11 (47.83%) VLAN
3 11 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (47.83%) Windows
4 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
4 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
5 7 (30.43%) Architectural Design
6 6 (26.09%) Ansible
6 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (26.09%) Bicep
6 6 (26.09%) DevOps

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DHCP
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
1 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
1 11 (47.83%) VLAN
General
1 11 (47.83%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) ADO
1 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Linux
2 11 (47.83%) Windows
3 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (73.91%) ITIL
2 17 (73.91%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (47.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (47.83%) Preventative Maintenance
3 11 (47.83%) Service Management
3 11 (47.83%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 7 (30.43%) Architectural Design
5 6 (26.09%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps
6 5 (21.74%) Analytics
6 5 (21.74%) Log Analytics
7 3 (13.04%) Agile
7 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
8 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Azure Certification
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (47.83%) Network+ Certification
1 11 (47.83%) Server+ Certification
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Hyper-V
1 11 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
1 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Satellite
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) VMware
2 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Red Hat