Data Centre Contracts in Cambridge

Data Center
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.55% 1.00% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.90% 2.46% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £188 - -
25th Percentile £236 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.17%
75th Percentile £401 - £488
90th Percentile £449 - £570
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £442 - £463
% change year-on-year - - +2.78%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 77 122 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 39.90% 40.67% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 79 67
10th Percentile £230 £150 £179
25th Percentile £350 £226 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £615 £584 £625
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £21.05 £27.60 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £42.81 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -38.24% +280.65%
75th Percentile £66.25 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £57.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £55.00 £39.31 £14.50
% change year-on-year +39.93% +171.07% -7.58%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Cambridge over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Data Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Data Network Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Arista
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Sun
1 1 (33.33%) VMware