IaaS Job Trends in Berkshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 104 120
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 +44
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 7 32 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.39% 1.46% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 5.06% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 11
10th Percentile - £66,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £75,000 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £80,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -59.38% +45.32% -8.25%
75th Percentile £61,500 £93,750 £77,000
90th Percentile £78,900 £94,125 £105,000
South East median annual salary £59,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -21.33% +20.00% +5.04%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 628 633 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.72% 28.90% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 188 272 396
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,688 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69,840 £81,250 £73,875
90th Percentile £84,125 £84,875 £84,375
South East median annual salary £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -4.35%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

IaaS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

IaaS
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for IaaS in Berkshire

IaaS
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +20 4 £32,500 -59.38% 4
Wokingham - 1 - - 1
Bracknell - 1 £87,000 - 2
IaaS
South East

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) OCI
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Presales
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCNA
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
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%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Tenable