Data Centre Contracts in Slough

Data Center
Berkshire > Slough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Slough. 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 16 1 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 5 23 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 7.04% 30.26% 4.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% 62.16% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 5
10th Percentile £378 - £245
25th Percentile £400 £280 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £500 £315 £450
90th Percentile £523 £578 £465
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -11.36% +22.22% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £24.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.75% -65.71% -

All Generic Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35 37 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 49.30% 48.68% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 58
10th Percentile £213 - £275
25th Percentile £363 £280 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £475
90th Percentile £599 £585 £587
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £11.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +109.16% - -
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 Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Slough

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Slough

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Slough

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Slough

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Slough

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (20.00%) NGN
1 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Zerto