Data Centre Contracts in Berkshire

Data Center
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 47 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 32 83 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.79% 4.35% 3.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.10% 14.56% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 63 37
10th Percentile £300 £280 £241
25th Percentile £313 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £705
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.25 -
25th Percentile - £20.88 £65.00
Median hourly rate £24.66 £24.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -65.71% -
75th Percentile - £25.13 £75.00
90th Percentile - £27.15 -
South East median hourly rate £24.42 £24.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.75% -65.71% -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 395 570 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.50% 29.87% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 325 385
10th Percentile £302 £205 £313
25th Percentile £406 £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £620
90th Percentile £646 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 28 15
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £20.50 £38.94
Median hourly rate £53.50 £42.00 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +27.38% -35.06% +181.20%
75th Percentile £87.28 £61.63 £74.50
90th Percentile £91.05 £68.30 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.31% -5.63% +132.56%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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 13 £550 -4.35% 2
Reading +2 6 £375 -38.02% 21
Slough -12 5 £413 +37.50% 50
Bracknell +21 2 - - 9
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) GCP
3 2 (6.25%) PaaS
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) Firewall
2 6 (18.75%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 5 (15.63%) Network Security
4 4 (12.50%) DHCP
5 3 (9.38%) WAN
6 2 (6.25%) BGP
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (6.25%) LAN
6 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
6 2 (6.25%) VPN
6 2 (6.25%) VXLAN
7 1 (3.13%) EIGRP
7 1 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (3.13%) IPFIX
7 1 (3.13%) NGFW
7 1 (3.13%) NGN
7 1 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (3.13%) Wireless
7 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Electronics
4 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Lead
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Data Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Network Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Test Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) RFC 2544
2 1 (3.13%) LDAP
2 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) CMDB
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) PMI
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Migration
2 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.88%) Capacity Management
4 6 (18.75%) Change Management
4 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (18.75%) ITIL
4 6 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 5 (15.63%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps
5 5 (15.63%) Incident Management
5 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.50%) Defect Management
6 4 (12.50%) High Availability
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) Project Management
6 4 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.50%) Service Management
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) CCNP
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.25%) CCNA
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.13%) CCIE
5 1 (3.13%) CCSP
5 1 (3.13%) CEH
5 1 (3.13%) CISM
5 1 (3.13%) CISSP
5 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) COBIT
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) HP ALM
3 1 (3.13%) QRadar
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Cisco
1 9 (28.13%) VMware
2 8 (25.00%) HP
3 6 (18.75%) Dell
3 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
4 4 (12.50%) 3PAR
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (12.50%) Veritas
5 3 (9.38%) Splunk
6 2 (6.25%) IBM
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Apple
7 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.13%) NetApp
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle
7 1 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.13%) Zerto
7 1 (3.13%) Zscaler