Data Centre Contracts in Glasgow

Data Center
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 25 26 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.85% 2.84% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.12% 6.99% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 14
10th Percentile - £338 £308
25th Percentile £313 £441 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £539 £508
90th Percentile £730 £690 £547
Scotland median daily rate £565 £499 £463
% change year-on-year +13.28% +7.84% +8.82%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 274 372 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 31.24% 40.70% 27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 238 191
10th Percentile £246 £267 £208
25th Percentile £356 £411 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £525
90th Percentile £675 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £15.42 - -
25th Percentile £15.86 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £10.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.33% -51.68% -8.33%
75th Percentile £28.06 £22.81 £33.25
90th Percentile £57.13 £41.37 £39.40
Scotland median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (24.00%) IIS
2 4 (16.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (24.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (12.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (8.00%) Catchpoint
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) IPv6
2 2 (8.00%) SSL
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) LAN
3 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (16.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) REST
1 2 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Linux
2 9 (36.00%) Windows
3 6 (24.00%) CentOS
3 6 (24.00%) Debian
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (12.00%) Unix
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (12.00%) Analytics
3 3 (12.00%) Application Security
3 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (12.00%) Cost Control
3 3 (12.00%) DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) High Availability
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (12.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (12.00%) Migration
3 3 (12.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (12.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (12.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (12.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (12.00%) Service Management
3 3 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) MCSA
1 6 (24.00%) MCSE
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (24.00%) RHCT
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CCIE
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (24.00%) KVM
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (28.00%) VMware
2 6 (24.00%) Citrix
3 4 (16.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (12.00%) F5
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.00%) AppNeta
5 2 (8.00%) Arista
5 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.00%) Tufin
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco