Data Centre Jobs in Berkshire

Data Center
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 50 124
Rank change year-on-year -38 +74 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 75 179 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.43% 5.63% 1.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.27% 12.39% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 53 76 44
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £36,450
25th Percentile £31,000 £45,000 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,425 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.54% -8.83% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £81,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% -4.82% -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 907 1,445 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.42% 45.43% 39.89%
Number of salaries quoted 638 713 732
10th Percentile £28,100 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £44,525 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,963 £73,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - +4.76%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -28 44 £59,000 +15.69% 11
Bracknell 0 10 £27,000 -60.00% 2
Slough +4 4 £36,000 +2.86% 22
Newbury -15 2 £54,500 +21.11% 1
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) OCI
3 5 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.00%) AWS
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.67%) IaaS
5 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) Firewall
2 15 (20.00%) DNS
3 13 (17.33%) DHCP
4 12 (16.00%) SAN
5 10 (13.33%) Internet
5 10 (13.33%) Structured Cabling
5 10 (13.33%) VPN
6 7 (9.33%) IPsec
6 7 (9.33%) Network Security
7 6 (8.00%) OSPF
8 5 (6.67%) SNMP
9 3 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (4.00%) Wireless
10 2 (2.67%) BGP
10 2 (2.67%) LAN
10 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
10 2 (2.67%) WAN
11 1 (1.33%) SSH
11 1 (1.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.00%) Legal
4 3 (4.00%) Marketing
5 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.33%) Automotive
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Data Centre Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) Architect
3 10 (13.33%) Consultant
3 10 (13.33%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) DataOps Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) PowerShell Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) VMware Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Junior
6 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Data Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (6.67%) NetApp Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Security Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Firewall Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Network Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (6.67%) YAML
2 4 (5.33%) 802.1X
3 3 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 5 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 4 (5.33%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.33%) PKI
2 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.67%) Robotics
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.67%) Linux
2 22 (29.33%) Windows
3 14 (18.67%) Windows Server
3 14 (18.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (16.00%) Windows 10
4 12 (16.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (16.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (16.00%) Windows XP
5 5 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (4.00%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.67%) OS/2
7 2 (2.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (24.00%) Project Management
3 17 (22.67%) ITIL
3 17 (22.67%) Storage Management
4 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (18.67%) Server Management
6 12 (16.00%) Break/Fix
6 12 (16.00%) Converged Infrastructure
6 12 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (16.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 12 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (16.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 10 (13.33%) DataOps
8 8 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (10.67%) SIEM
9 7 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.33%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
9 7 (9.33%) OWASP
9 7 (9.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.00%) Python
3 4 (5.33%) SQL
4 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (26.67%) Degree
3 17 (22.67%) DV Cleared
4 14 (18.67%) SC Cleared
5 12 (16.00%) CCNA
5 12 (16.00%) CCNP
5 12 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.33%) CISSP
7 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.67%) ISACA
9 1 (1.33%) CCSK
9 1 (1.33%) CISA
9 1 (1.33%) CISM
9 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) NIST
1 8 (10.67%) SLA
2 4 (5.33%) COBIT
2 4 (5.33%) GDPR
2 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 21 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (18.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (18.67%) Hyper-V
2 14 (18.67%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (12.00%) Docker
4 7 (9.33%) Firmware
5 2 (2.67%) KVM
5 2 (2.67%) QEMU
5 2 (2.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (22.67%) vCenter Server
2 14 (18.67%) WSUS
3 12 (16.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 12 (16.00%) NetBackup
3 12 (16.00%) SCCM
3 12 (16.00%) SCOM
4 9 (12.00%) Kubernetes
5 5 (6.67%) Ansible
5 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.00%) Suricata
7 2 (2.67%) Grafana
7 2 (2.67%) Nessus
7 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) Juniper
1 21 (28.00%) VMware
2 20 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 17 (22.67%) Cisco
4 16 (21.33%) Extreme Networks
4 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
5 14 (18.67%) Dell
6 12 (16.00%) 3PAR
6 12 (16.00%) EMC
6 12 (16.00%) HP
6 12 (16.00%) Oracle
6 12 (16.00%) Symantec
6 12 (16.00%) Veeam
7 7 (9.33%) Red Hat
8 5 (6.67%) NetApp
8 5 (6.67%) SolidFire
9 3 (4.00%) Splunk
10 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.33%) Citrix