Data Centre Operations Contracts in Berkshire

Data Center Operations
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 117 -
Rank change year-on-year +29 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.35% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £306 - -
25th Percentile £310 £280 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £285 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% - -
75th Percentile £358 £293 -
90th Percentile £394 £295 -
South East median daily rate £325 £285 -
% change year-on-year +14.04% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Data Centre Operations 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in Berkshire

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in Berkshire

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in Berkshire

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Operations within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 3 £325 -
Reading - 1 - -
Data Centre Operations
South East

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Data Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (20.00%) QA Manager
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP