Data Centre Jobs in Reading

Data Center
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 74 52
Rank change year-on-year +20 -22 +62
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 9 52 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.81% 2.91% 5.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.57% 8.74% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 21
10th Percentile £50,848 £39,380 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,674 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £59,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% -12.59% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,625 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £90,000 £97,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,565 £59,000 £52,350
% change year-on-year -5.82% +12.70% -8.96%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 197 595 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 39.72% 33.24% 43.20%
Number of salaries quoted 111 374 336
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,438
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £52,500 £63,875
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -17.81% +2.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £91,250
Berkshire median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +7.00% -14.53% -2.50%

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
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Reading

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Reading over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Reading

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 2 (22.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) DMZ
3 2 (22.22%) DWDM
3 2 (22.22%) Internet
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
3 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Metadata
1 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Scientific Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Acoustics
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Project Management
1 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Capacity Management
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Web Application Development
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Server Management
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Fortran
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
1 2 (22.22%) PhD
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat