Data Centre Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Center
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 76 98
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 525 738 850
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.56% 3.14% 2.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.78% 9.65% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 543 610
10th Percentile £286 £300 £260
25th Percentile £403 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +5.26% +8.94%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £550
90th Percentile £725 £709 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 16
10th Percentile £13.13 £16.79 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.69 £20.22 £17.35
Median hourly rate £23.25 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -1.12% -30.65%
75th Percentile £37.13 £23.75 £58.39
90th Percentile £40.00 £57.60 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £21.67 £27.00
% change year-on-year +10.75% -19.74% -43.16%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,981 7,647 9,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.53% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 5,163 6,728
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £614 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 435 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East +10 154 £475 -5.00% 100
South West +7 115 £600 +9.09% 37
North of England -13 95 £433 -17.62% 67
Midlands -16 71 £600 +14.29% 40
West Midlands -3 61 £600 +20.00% 24
Scotland +21 54 £555 +11.00% 27
Yorkshire +22 51 £451 -16.09% 19
North West -23 37 £433 -12.41% 34
Wales +29 22 £91 -78.59% 10
East of England -34 20 £325 -25.29% 42
East Midlands +10 10 £575 +5.75% 16
North East +9 7 £400 -40.74% 14
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.24%) Confluence
3 11 (2.10%) IIS
4 3 (0.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.38%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.38%) RMDS
3 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 64 (12.19%) Azure
2 33 (6.29%) IaaS
3 31 (5.90%) Cloud Computing
4 30 (5.71%) SaaS
5 29 (5.52%) PaaS
6 21 (4.00%) AWS
7 15 (2.86%) GitHub
8 14 (2.67%) OCI
9 13 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.76%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.57%) BigCommerce
12 3 (0.57%) Datadog
12 3 (0.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 107 (20.38%) Firewall
2 94 (17.90%) WAN
3 89 (16.95%) LAN
4 65 (12.38%) SAN
5 64 (12.19%) DNS
6 56 (10.67%) DHCP
7 40 (7.62%) Cisco Nexus
8 37 (7.05%) Wireless
9 34 (6.48%) SD-WAN
10 32 (6.10%) MPLS
11 29 (5.52%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (5.33%) Network Security
13 26 (4.95%) VPN
14 21 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (3.81%) Cisco IOS
15 20 (3.81%) VSAN
16 19 (3.62%) WLAN
17 18 (3.43%) VoIP
18 17 (3.24%) DMZ
19 15 (2.86%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.29%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.10%) Big Data
3 7 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.38%) Metadata
6 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.38%) Power BI
6 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.71%) JIRA
2 17 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.57%) Hudson
4 2 (0.38%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 142 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 74 (14.10%) Public Sector
3 61 (11.62%) Finance
4 49 (9.33%) Telecoms
5 37 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.76%) Law
7 17 (3.24%) Mandarin Language
8 13 (2.48%) Banking
8 13 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.33%) Marketing
12 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.95%) Legal
14 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.76%) Retail
15 3 (0.57%) Electronics
15 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 107 (20.38%) Network Engineer
2 84 (16.00%) Architect
3 62 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 53 (10.10%) Data Centre Engineer
5 40 (7.62%) Network Architect
6 30 (5.71%) Senior
7 29 (5.52%) Support Engineer
8 27 (5.14%) Project Manager
9 25 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (4.57%) VMware Engineer
11 21 (4.00%) Lead
12 18 (3.43%) Analyst
12 18 (3.43%) Storage Engineer
13 17 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.05%) Consultant
14 16 (3.05%) Infrastructure Architect
15 15 (2.86%) Server Engineer
16 14 (2.67%) Infrastructure Manager
17 13 (2.48%) Applications Engineer
17 13 (2.48%) JIRA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.24%) Web Services
2 14 (2.67%) YAML
3 9 (1.71%) REST
4 8 (1.52%) Middleware
5 5 (0.95%) JSON
6 4 (0.76%) LDAP
7 3 (0.57%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.57%) EDI
7 3 (0.57%) VML
8 2 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.38%) Redfish
9 1 (0.19%) Flash
9 1 (0.19%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.19%) Node.js
9 1 (0.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.10%) Private Cloud
2 19 (3.62%) PKI
3 15 (2.86%) Clustering
4 11 (2.10%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.52%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.52%) SCADA
8 7 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.14%) NHS
10 5 (0.95%) CCTV
10 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.76%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.76%) Replication
11 4 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 87 (16.57%) Windows
2 83 (15.81%) Linux
3 35 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 27 (5.14%) Unix
5 26 (4.95%) Windows 10
5 26 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (3.24%) Windows XP
9 14 (2.67%) zOS
10 11 (2.10%) VMS
11 10 (1.90%) Windows 7
12 9 (1.71%) CentOS
13 7 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.14%) Debian
15 5 (0.95%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.57%) Windows 2000
16 3 (0.57%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (16.57%) Migration
2 81 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 57 (10.86%) ITIL
5 51 (9.71%) Project Management
6 46 (8.76%) Project Delivery
7 45 (8.57%) Network Management
8 44 (8.38%) Agile
9 40 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (7.24%) Storage Management
11 35 (6.67%) Break/Fix
12 34 (6.48%) Zero Trust
13 32 (6.10%) Open Source
13 32 (6.10%) Server Management
14 30 (5.71%) Computer Science
14 30 (5.71%) Decision-Making
15 28 (5.33%) Business Strategy
16 26 (4.95%) Converged Infrastructure
17 24 (4.57%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.43%) PowerShell
2 29 (5.52%) Python
3 14 (2.67%) JCL
3 14 (2.67%) REXX
4 13 (2.48%) SQL
5 9 (1.71%) Bash
6 4 (0.76%) ActionScript
7 3 (0.57%) C
7 3 (0.57%) C++
7 3 (0.57%) Java
7 3 (0.57%) Perl
7 3 (0.57%) Ruby
7 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 150 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 86 (16.38%) DV Cleared
3 79 (15.05%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (13.52%) Degree
5 68 (12.95%) SC Cleared
6 57 (10.86%) CCNA
7 41 (7.81%) CCNP
8 22 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (3.62%) Network+ Certification
10 17 (3.24%) MCSE
11 16 (3.05%) CCIE
12 15 (2.86%) A+ Certification
13 13 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.90%) MCSA
15 9 (1.71%) CCIE Data Center
15 9 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (1.52%) PMI Certification
17 7 (1.33%) ISACA
18 6 (1.14%) RHCT
19 5 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.05%) SLA
2 11 (2.10%) GDPR
3 9 (1.71%) COBIT
3 9 (1.71%) NIST
4 6 (1.14%) QA
5 3 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (16.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 46 (8.76%) vSphere
4 43 (8.19%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (7.62%) Hyper-V
6 30 (5.71%) VMware NSX
7 17 (3.24%) KVM
8 16 (3.05%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (2.86%) VMware Workstation
10 14 (2.67%) NFS
10 14 (2.67%) Time Sharing Option
11 11 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
12 7 (1.33%) Firmware
13 5 (0.95%) Docker
14 2 (0.38%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (9.52%) vCenter Server
2 24 (4.57%) Ansible
2 24 (4.57%) SCCM
3 23 (4.38%) NetBackup
4 15 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 14 (2.67%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (2.67%) Kubernetes
5 14 (2.67%) SCOM
5 14 (2.67%) WSUS
6 12 (2.29%) Nagios
7 11 (2.10%) Terraform
8 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (1.33%) VxRail
10 6 (1.14%) OpenView
11 3 (0.57%) Netcool
11 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.57%) Puppet
12 2 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 130 (24.76%) VMware
2 125 (23.81%) Cisco
3 69 (13.14%) Dell
4 62 (11.81%) Palo Alto
5 61 (11.62%) Microsoft
6 40 (7.62%) Juniper
7 38 (7.24%) HP
8 35 (6.67%) F5
9 22 (4.19%) Symantec
10 20 (3.81%) IBM
11 19 (3.62%) Oracle
12 18 (3.43%) CheckPoint
13 16 (3.05%) 3PAR
13 16 (3.05%) Citrix
14 15 (2.86%) Atlassian
14 15 (2.86%) Brocade
14 15 (2.86%) EMC
15 14 (2.67%) Broadcom
15 14 (2.67%) CA
15 14 (2.67%) Veeam