Data Centre Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Data Centre Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £285 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - -41
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 14 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.69% - 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £280 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - £190
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.46%
75th Percentile £290 - £193
90th Percentile - - £197
South East median daily rate £285 £425 £320
% change year-on-year -32.94% +32.81% +4.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,919 1,749 2,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 94.49% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 1,124 1,486
10th Percentile £213 £331 £206
25th Percentile £381 £417 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +8.14% +7.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 54 43
10th Percentile £18.99 £17.57 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £21.99 £17.00
Median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.47 £73.00 £44.00
90th Percentile £86.05 £80.25 £75.65
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Data Centre Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in Berkshire

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in Berkshire

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in Berkshire

Data Centre Engineer
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 Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Slough - 9 £285 - 4
Bracknell - 1 £200 - 1
Data Centre Engineer
South East

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Data Centre Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (64.29%) HP
2 9 (64.29%) Dell
3 8 (57.14%) SAN
3 8 (57.14%) Unix
3 8 (57.14%) SLA
3 8 (57.14%) Incident Management
3 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (42.86%) Break/Fix
5 5 (35.71%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (7.14%) JIRA
6 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
6 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.14%) ITIL
6 1 (7.14%) Linux
6 1 (7.14%) Telecoms

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
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 8 (57.14%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 6 (42.86%) Break/Fix
3 5 (35.71%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Dell
1 9 (64.29%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow