Data Centre Operations Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Data Center Operations
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 92 122
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.16% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £332 - -
25th Percentile £342 £303 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £305 £285
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +7.02% -
75th Percentile £397 £308 £293
90th Percentile £410 - £295
South East median daily rate £385 £465 £285
% change year-on-year -17.15% +63.16% -

All Process & 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 1,599 1,102 1,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.53% 93.63% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 637 990
10th Percentile £300 £309 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £653 £686 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 29 102
10th Percentile £19.86 £25.93 £18.96
25th Percentile £57.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.57
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +1.53% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £71.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.27 £87.41
South East median hourly rate £35.50 £33.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +5.97% -13.55% -13.89%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Centre Operations

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 23 March 2026. 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 £358 -
Data Centre Operations
South East

Data Centre Operations
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 1 (33.33%) GeoServer
1 1 (33.33%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
1 1 (33.33%) QGIS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Compliance Audit
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Facilities Management
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ESRI
1 1 (33.33%) Intergraph