Data Centre Contracts in Reading

Data Center
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre 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 53 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 7 36 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 3.02% 3.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.24% 11.43% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 19
10th Percentile £325 £363 £294
25th Percentile £363 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £700
90th Percentile £727 - £715
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -11.36% +22.22% +0.43%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Reading

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Reading

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Reading

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Reading

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Head of Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Head of Security
1 2 (28.57%) Head of Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RFC 2544
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Application Security
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) OWASP
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Contract Negotiation
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) COBIT
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Dell
1 1 (14.29%) HP
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow