Data Centre Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Center
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 73 60
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 96 82 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.61% 2.83% 3.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.26% 8.82% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 48 83
10th Percentile £280 £290 £205
25th Percentile £300 £381 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% +7.72%
75th Percentile £608 £555 £530
90th Percentile £638 £704 £633
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £15.25 - -
25th Percentile £20.88 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £70.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +159.26% -
75th Percentile £25.13 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £27.15 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £70.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -65.71% +191.67% +41.18%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 783 930 1,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.46% 32.09% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 611 697
10th Percentile £205 £280 £210
25th Percentile £295 £408 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £665
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 32
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.43
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £60.39 £70.90 £27.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -37.68%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Berkshire +11 87 £550 +22.22% 35
Buckinghamshire +18 9 £550 +14.45% 4
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.04%) Apache
1 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.75%) Azure
2 14 (14.58%) OCI
3 1 (1.04%) dbt
3 1 (1.04%) GitHub
3 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (30.21%) Firewall
2 24 (25.00%) SAN
3 23 (23.96%) DHCP
3 23 (23.96%) DNS
4 9 (9.38%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (9.38%) Network Security
5 7 (7.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (6.25%) WAN
7 5 (5.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (5.21%) NetScaler
8 4 (4.17%) BGP
8 4 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (4.17%) HSRP
8 4 (4.17%) MPLS
8 4 (4.17%) Wireless
9 3 (3.13%) IPsec
9 3 (3.13%) SNMP
9 3 (3.13%) SSL
9 3 (3.13%) VPLS
9 3 (3.13%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.04%) Big Data
2 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.29%) Finance
4 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Local Government
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (20.83%) Architect
2 14 (14.58%) Data Centre Engineer
2 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (13.54%) Network Engineer
4 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Server Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.29%) Project Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) Data Centre Technician
8 6 (6.25%) Data Technician
8 6 (6.25%) Security Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) Senior
9 5 (5.21%) Break Fix Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Hardware Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) JSON
2 3 (3.13%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.38%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.13%) CCTV
5 3 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.13%) PMI
5 3 (3.13%) SCADA
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.08%) PKI
7 1 (1.04%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.71%) Linux
2 16 (16.67%) Windows
3 14 (14.58%) Windows 10
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (14.58%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (14.58%) Windows XP
4 10 (10.42%) Unix
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.25%) ITIL
2 25 (26.04%) Break/Fix
3 21 (21.88%) Project Management
4 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (14.58%) Converged Infrastructure
6 14 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (14.58%) Performance Monitoring
6 14 (14.58%) Proactive Monitoring
6 14 (14.58%) Server Management
6 14 (14.58%) Storage Management
7 11 (11.46%) Migration
8 10 (10.42%) Incident Management
8 10 (10.42%) Privileged Access Management
8 10 (10.42%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (9.38%) Information Security Management
9 9 (9.38%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.17%) ActionScript
2 4 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (30.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.04%) DV Cleared
3 21 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (20.83%) CCNP
5 19 (19.79%) Degree
6 18 (18.75%) CCNA
7 17 (17.71%) SC Cleared
8 7 (7.29%) ISACA
9 4 (4.17%) PMI Certification
10 3 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (2.08%) Server+ Certification
12 1 (1.04%) APMP
12 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.04%) CCIE
12 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) SLA
2 9 (9.38%) COBIT
2 9 (9.38%) GDPR
2 9 (9.38%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.58%) Hyper-V
2 14 (14.58%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (5.21%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (14.58%) NetBackup
1 14 (14.58%) SCCM
1 14 (14.58%) SCOM
1 14 (14.58%) vCenter Server
1 14 (14.58%) WSUS
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
2 3 (3.13%) Netcool
2 3 (3.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Rundeck
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.04%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 30 (31.25%) Cisco
1 30 (31.25%) Dell
1 30 (31.25%) HP
2 20 (20.83%) Juniper
2 20 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.83%) Palo Alto
3 17 (17.71%) VMware
4 16 (16.67%) 3PAR
5 15 (15.63%) Oracle
6 14 (14.58%) EMC
6 14 (14.58%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (14.58%) Symantec
6 14 (14.58%) Veeam
7 6 (6.25%) CheckPoint
8 5 (5.21%) F5
8 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.13%) Infoblox
9 3 (3.13%) Nokia
9 3 (3.13%) Red Hat