Data Centre Contracts in Cheshire

Data Center
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 47 44 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 10 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% 3.34% 2.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.54% 7.23% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 11
10th Percentile £469 £283 £356
25th Percentile £478 £450 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +46.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £394
90th Percentile £536 £605 £448
North West median daily rate £433 £500 £415
% change year-on-year -13.50% +20.48% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £9.90
Median % change year-on-year - +561.62% -73.24%
North West median hourly rate - £43.10 £9.90
% change year-on-year - +335.38% -73.24%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 153 249 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 30.54% 46.20% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 146 116
10th Percentile £306 £263 £193
25th Percentile £425 £330 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +5.26% -2.51%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £575
90th Percentile £606 £645 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 5
10th Percentile £14.15 £17.23 -
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.36 £9.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £25.57 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% +34.55% +6.15%
75th Percentile £43.75 £46.44 £23.75
90th Percentile - £66.13 £26.30
North West median hourly rate £25.25 £27.84 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.30% +50.49% +3.35%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cheshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Cheshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Cheshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northwich - 6 - -
Chester +4 2 £494 +64.58% 1
Macclesfield -15 2 £525 +16.67%
Data Centre
North West

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) SAN Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) SAN Storage Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Storage Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Analytics
1 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
1 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (20.00%) Data Science
1 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (20.00%) ETL
1 2 (20.00%) Information Management
1 2 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
1 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Firmware
1 6 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) F5