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 advertised in Slough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 16 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 23 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 29.11% 6.13% 3.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 62.16% 15.15% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 6
10th Percentile - £263 £195
25th Percentile £280 £306 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £325 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -21.21% -11.48%
75th Percentile £315 £400 £463
90th Percentile £578 £460 £631
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +22.22% -7.69% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -65.71% - -

All Generic Skills
Slough

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 Slough with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 37 66 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 46.84% 40.49% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 49 91
10th Percentile - £273 £220
25th Percentile £280 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -18.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £550 £485 £553
90th Percentile £584 £585 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £11.79 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.37%
75th Percentile £15.97 - £20.50
90th Percentile £23.49 - £25.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -39.29% +169.23% -38.82%

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 June 2024.

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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) SAN
2 5 (21.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (21.74%) NetScaler
3 4 (17.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Break Fix Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Data Centre Technician
2 5 (21.74%) Data Technician
2 5 (21.74%) Hardware Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Server Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Operations Technician
5 1 (4.35%) Operations Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Break/Fix
2 10 (43.48%) Incident Management
3 7 (30.43%) ITIL
4 6 (26.09%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (21.74%) Migration
5 5 (21.74%) Problem Management
6 2 (8.70%) Ticket Management
7 1 (4.35%) Asset Management
7 1 (4.35%) Data Management
7 1 (4.35%) Data Protection
7 1 (4.35%) Issue Tracking
7 1 (4.35%) Line Management
7 1 (4.35%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (4.35%) Runbook
7 1 (4.35%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Server+ Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Dell
1 12 (52.17%) HP
2 5 (21.74%) F5
2 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft