Data Centre Contracts in Wokingham

Data Center
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 17 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 13 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 7.34% 7.14% 4.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.46% 16.13% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £370 £400 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £750
90th Percentile £675 £659 -
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -11.36% +22.22% +0.43%

All Generic Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 79 31 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 44.63% 44.29% 47.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 16
10th Percentile £350 £400 £425
25th Percentile £423 £480 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% -4.76% -22.22%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £678
90th Percentile £626 £788 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Wokingham

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Wokingham

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Wokingham

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) PaaS
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) BGP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) CMDB
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) PMI
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 4 (30.77%) High Availability
2 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) CCNP
2 1 (7.69%) CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) CEH
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISM
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) 3PAR
2 4 (30.77%) Dell
2 4 (30.77%) HP
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Veritas
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk