Data Centre Contracts

Data Center
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies. 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 101 93 113
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 964 1,577 2,157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.23% 2.64% 2.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.33% 7.92% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 1,144 1,552
10th Percentile £300 £350 £310
25th Percentile £405 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.95% +8.26%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £593
90th Percentile £725 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +7.50% +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £20.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.22 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.44 £21.67 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -24.63% -43.63%
75th Percentile £40.00 £55.56 £69.05
90th Percentile £41.25 £74.50 £69.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £21.26 £22.75
% change year-on-year +12.89% -6.55% -40.52%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England -5 818 £525 -4.55% 526
UK excluding London +2 534 £538 +7.50% 324
London +11 345 £525 -12.50% 231
Work from Home -55 236 £550 - 173
South East +12 161 £500 - 114
South West +10 115 £550 - 46
North of England -17 95 £433 -17.62% 61
Midlands -18 73 £600 +14.29% 38
West Midlands +6 63 £600 +20.00% 25
Scotland +10 56 £565 +13.57% 26
Yorkshire +7 51 £451 -18.00% 19
North West -34 37 £433 -13.50% 34
Wales +26 21 £91 -70.88% 16
East of England -29 19 £300 -31.03% 43
East Midlands +8 10 £575 +9.52% 13
North East +10 7 £448 -29.80% 8

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.32%) Confluence
3 15 (1.56%) IIS
4 14 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.73%) IBM Domino
5 7 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.52%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.31%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.21%) Apache
9 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.10%) nginx
Applications
1 37 (3.84%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.41%) Revit
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.10%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (1.14%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.41%) Shopify
3 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.21%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.21%) RMDS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (17.43%) Azure
2 84 (8.71%) AWS
3 52 (5.39%) SaaS
4 46 (4.77%) IaaS
5 44 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (4.36%) PaaS
7 40 (4.15%) Cloud Computing
8 27 (2.80%) Entra ID
9 23 (2.39%) GitHub
10 14 (1.45%) GCP
11 13 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.35%) OCI
12 11 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (1.14%) Power Platform
13 10 (1.04%) Amazon S3
14 9 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.93%) Nutanix
15 8 (0.83%) AWS Direct Connect
15 8 (0.83%) Mimecast
16 7 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 195 (20.23%) Firewall
2 142 (14.73%) WAN
3 131 (13.59%) LAN
4 102 (10.58%) DNS
5 79 (8.20%) SAN
6 77 (7.99%) DHCP
7 68 (7.05%) Network Security
8 65 (6.74%) Wireless
9 62 (6.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 62 (6.43%) VPN
10 58 (6.02%) MPLS
11 54 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
12 53 (5.50%) BGP
12 53 (5.50%) SD-WAN
13 46 (4.77%) OSPF
14 35 (3.63%) IPsec
15 34 (3.53%) Internet
16 33 (3.42%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (2.70%) VSAN
18 25 (2.59%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.35%) Big Data
3 10 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.73%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.62%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (0.52%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.41%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.31%) Metadata
9 3 (0.31%) Power BI
9 3 (0.31%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.31%) Redis
9 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (5.29%) JIRA
2 45 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.83%) GitLab
4 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (0.52%) Git
6 4 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.31%) Hudson
8 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
General
1 231 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 139 (14.42%) Finance
3 108 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 64 (6.64%) Telecoms
5 53 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.05%) Banking
7 25 (2.59%) Law
8 20 (2.07%) Marketing
9 17 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (1.66%) Mandarin Language
10 16 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.04%) Legal
15 9 (0.93%) Electronics
15 9 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.73%) Local Government
16 7 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 192 (19.92%) Network Engineer
2 158 (16.39%) Architect
3 93 (9.65%) Senior
4 74 (7.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 71 (7.37%) Data Centre Engineer
6 64 (6.64%) Project Manager
7 55 (5.71%) Network Architect
8 52 (5.39%) Support Engineer
9 37 (3.84%) Consultant
10 33 (3.42%) Analyst
11 30 (3.11%) Applications Engineer
12 29 (3.01%) Infrastructure Manager
13 28 (2.90%) Lead
13 28 (2.90%) Server Engineer
13 28 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
14 27 (2.80%) Infrastructure Architect
14 27 (2.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (2.80%) VMware Engineer
15 26 (2.70%) Applications Support
15 26 (2.70%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.39%) YAML
2 20 (2.07%) Web Services
3 14 (1.45%) LDAP
4 12 (1.24%) REST
5 10 (1.04%) Middleware
6 8 (0.83%) Node.js
7 7 (0.73%) 802.1X
8 6 (0.62%) JSON
8 6 (0.62%) Loki
9 4 (0.41%) .NET
10 3 (0.31%) EDI
10 3 (0.31%) Kafka
10 3 (0.31%) SAML
10 3 (0.31%) VML
11 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.21%) NETCONF
11 2 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.21%) Redfish
11 2 (0.21%) Software Packaging
12 1 (0.10%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.36%) Private Cloud
2 31 (3.22%) PKI
3 29 (3.01%) Public Cloud
4 26 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.28%) Clustering
6 18 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.87%) Replication
7 15 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.24%) Client/Server
8 12 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.14%) CCTV
10 10 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (0.93%) NHS
11 9 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.83%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.83%) SCADA
12 8 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 175 (18.15%) Windows
2 165 (17.12%) Linux
3 61 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 54 (5.60%) Unix
5 30 (3.11%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (1.97%) zOS
9 16 (1.66%) Windows XP
10 13 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (1.24%) VMS
11 12 (1.24%) Windows 7
12 10 (1.04%) CentOS
13 9 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.62%) Debian
15 5 (0.52%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.52%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (22.10%) Migration
2 123 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (10.58%) Agile
4 95 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 89 (9.23%) ITIL
5 89 (9.23%) Project Management
6 70 (7.26%) Project Delivery
7 63 (6.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
9 54 (5.60%) Computer Science
9 54 (5.60%) Disaster Recovery
9 54 (5.60%) Network Management
10 51 (5.29%) High Availability
11 48 (4.98%) DevOps
12 47 (4.88%) Change Management
13 44 (4.56%) Data Migration
13 44 (4.56%) Storage Management
14 43 (4.46%) CI/CD
15 42 (4.36%) Mentoring
16 41 (4.25%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (8.40%) Python
2 75 (7.78%) PowerShell
3 40 (4.15%) SQL
4 26 (2.70%) Bash
5 18 (1.87%) JCL
5 18 (1.87%) REXX
6 13 (1.35%) Java
7 8 (0.83%) C
8 7 (0.73%) Go
8 7 (0.73%) VBScript
9 5 (0.52%) Perl
9 5 (0.52%) Ruby
10 4 (0.41%) ActionScript
10 4 (0.41%) C++
11 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.21%) C#
13 1 (0.10%) Bicep
13 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 219 (22.72%) Security Cleared
2 135 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
3 116 (12.03%) DV Cleared
4 112 (11.62%) Degree
5 110 (11.41%) SC Cleared
6 79 (8.20%) CCNP
7 67 (6.95%) CCNA
8 36 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (3.42%) CCIE
10 24 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.76%) A+ Certification
13 16 (1.66%) MCSE
14 12 (1.24%) MCSA
15 10 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 9 (0.93%) CCIE Data Center
16 9 (0.93%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.83%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.83%) ISACA
18 7 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.29%) SLA
2 12 (1.24%) GDPR
3 11 (1.14%) NIST
3 11 (1.14%) QA
4 10 (1.04%) COBIT
5 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.10%) IASME
8 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 135 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 98 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 61 (6.33%) vSphere
4 55 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 49 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
6 44 (4.56%) VMware NSX
7 27 (2.80%) Docker
8 22 (2.28%) KVM
9 18 (1.87%) NFS
9 18 (1.87%) Time Sharing Option
9 18 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
10 17 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.56%) VMware Workstation
12 9 (0.93%) Firmware
13 5 (0.52%) vCloud
14 3 (0.31%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.21%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.10%) Citrix Presentation Server
16 1 (0.10%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 56 (5.81%) vCenter Server
2 52 (5.39%) Ansible
3 45 (4.67%) Kubernetes
4 38 (3.94%) SCCM
4 38 (3.94%) Terraform
5 26 (2.70%) Puppet
6 24 (2.49%) NetBackup
7 23 (2.39%) SCOM
8 21 (2.18%) Nagios
9 18 (1.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 15 (1.56%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.45%) Grafana
12 13 (1.35%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (1.35%) WSUS
13 12 (1.24%) Microsoft Clustering
13 12 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (1.24%) VxRail
14 11 (1.14%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.04%) Prometheus
16 7 (0.73%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 217 (22.51%) Cisco
2 194 (20.12%) VMware
3 130 (13.49%) Microsoft
4 108 (11.20%) Palo Alto
5 91 (9.44%) Dell
6 63 (6.54%) Juniper
7 59 (6.12%) F5
8 47 (4.88%) HP
9 36 (3.73%) CheckPoint
9 36 (3.73%) Oracle
10 34 (3.53%) Citrix
10 34 (3.53%) IBM
11 27 (2.80%) Fortinet
11 27 (2.80%) Red Hat
12 26 (2.70%) SolarWinds
13 25 (2.59%) Arista
14 24 (2.49%) Atlassian
15 23 (2.39%) Brocade
16 21 (2.18%) Symantec
17 18 (1.87%) CA