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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 61 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Centre 11 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.87% 2.52% 2.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.67% 9.27% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 25
10th Percentile £220 £350 £400
25th Percentile £250 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +21.00% -
75th Percentile £663 £608 £638
90th Percentile £739 - £700
Berkshire median daily rate £345 £583 £438
% change year-on-year -40.82% +33.26% -10.26%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 194 302 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.05% 27.21% 29.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 159 228
10th Percentile £350 £315 £263
25th Percentile £450 £464 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +5.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £553 £515
% change year-on-year -9.50% +7.28% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £24.80 £42.05 £44.45
25th Percentile £31.44 £56.25 £62.44
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -6.95% +150.48%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.37 £70.88
90th Percentile £53.50 £71.76 £76.08
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £41.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +48.18% -35.83% +5.16%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Reading over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Reading

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Centre

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) BGP
2 4 (36.36%) MPLS
2 4 (36.36%) OSPF
2 4 (36.36%) SNMP
2 4 (36.36%) TACACS
2 4 (36.36%) Wireless
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (9.09%) VSAN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Designer
1 4 (36.36%) IP Designer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Architect
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (9.09%) FlexPod
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
1 4 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (36.36%) Validation
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Case Management
3 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Network Design
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 4 (36.36%) CCIE
2 4 (36.36%) JNCIE
3 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) CCNA
4 2 (18.18%) CCNP
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (9.09%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) COBIT
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (54.55%) VMware NSX
3 2 (18.18%) vSphere
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (9.09%) vRealize
2 1 (9.09%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) F5
2 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
2 4 (36.36%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Commvault
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp