Data Centre Contracts in Berkshire

Data Center
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 47 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 38 72 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.28% 3.66% 3.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.25% 12.35% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 49 44
10th Percentile £270 £280 £301
25th Percentile £301 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £431
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +27.54% -13.75%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £576
90th Percentile £669 - £700
South East median daily rate £450 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +1.25% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.30% - -
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £12.08 -
% change year-on-year +104.14% - -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 411 583 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.46% 29.62% 34.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 318 400
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £406 £352 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £721
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 34 18
10th Percentile £32.05 £11.84 £18.50
25th Percentile £48.75 £19.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £62.00 £41.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +49.39% -35.83% +135.18%
75th Percentile £87.44 £60.44 £73.90
90th Percentile £88.87 £69.03 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.39% +4.76% +145.44%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Berkshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
Wokingham +5 13 £550 -4.35% 2
Reading +4 7 £375 -37.76% 61
Slough -14 4 £450 +50.00% 139
Bracknell +11 3 - - 18
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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) PaaS
3 2 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) Firewall
2 6 (15.79%) DNS
2 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 5 (13.16%) Network Security
4 4 (10.53%) DHCP
4 4 (10.53%) WAN
5 3 (7.89%) LAN
6 2 (5.26%) BGP
6 2 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
6 2 (5.26%) VPN
6 2 (5.26%) VXLAN
7 1 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (2.63%) IPFIX
7 1 (2.63%) NGFW
7 1 (2.63%) RIP
7 1 (2.63%) SNMP
7 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.63%) SSL
7 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Git
1 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Lead
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Test Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Network Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Data Centre Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Data Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Network Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) RFC 2544
2 1 (2.63%) LDAP
2 1 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Fibre Optics
2 5 (13.16%) CMDB
3 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (2.63%) PMI
5 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Windows
3 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.63%) Android
4 1 (2.63%) CentOS
4 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Migration
1 10 (26.32%) Test Scripting
2 9 (23.68%) Capacity Management
2 9 (23.68%) Service Management
3 8 (21.05%) Defect Management
3 8 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) Change Management
5 6 (15.79%) Case Management
5 6 (15.79%) ITIL
6 5 (13.16%) DevSecOps
6 5 (13.16%) Incident Management
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.53%) Agile
7 4 (10.53%) Project Management
7 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (10.53%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) CCNP
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.89%) CCNA
5 2 (5.26%) Degree
5 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CCIE
6 1 (2.63%) CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) CEH
6 1 (2.63%) CISM
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) COBIT
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.26%) vSphere
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) NetBackup
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.63%) QRadar
3 1 (2.63%) SCCM
3 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Cisco
2 11 (28.95%) VMware
3 7 (18.42%) HP
4 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (13.16%) Dell
6 4 (10.53%) 3PAR
6 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
6 4 (10.53%) Veritas
7 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
7 3 (7.89%) Splunk
8 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.63%) Apple
9 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.63%) IBM
9 1 (2.63%) Oracle
9 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.63%) Zscaler
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