Data Centre Contracts in Sheffield

Data Center
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -24
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 12 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.38% 2.77% 2.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.38% 10.08% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £483 £341 £249
25th Percentile £499 £575 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £410
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +52.44% -11.35%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £466
90th Percentile £585 £678 £519
South Yorkshire median daily rate £415 £621 £405
% change year-on-year -33.17% +53.33% -12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 128 119 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.06% 27.48% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 97 123
10th Percentile £400 £437 £365
25th Percentile £428 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £588
90th Percentile £605 - £685
South Yorkshire median daily rate £448 £581 £500
% change year-on-year -23.01% +16.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile - - £10.86
25th Percentile £10.90 £17.50 £12.00
Median hourly rate £17.63 £20.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +13.38% -52.96%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £21.75
90th Percentile - - £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.75 £10.44 £19.00
% change year-on-year +22.18% -45.08% -9.78%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Sheffield

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Sheffield

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Sheffield

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Storage Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IBM Storage Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Switch Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) YAML
2 2 (16.67%) Redfish
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) zOS
3 3 (25.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 6 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Cost Management
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JCL
1 6 (50.00%) Python
1 6 (50.00%) REXX
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) NFS
1 6 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Dell
2 6 (50.00%) Broadcom
2 6 (50.00%) Brocade
2 6 (50.00%) CA
2 6 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto