Data Centre Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Center
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 54 58 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 21 47 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.12% 2.89% 2.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.54% 10.35% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 32
10th Percentile £319 £335 £267
25th Percentile £404 £463 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £594 - £576
90th Percentile £619 £644 £656
Yorkshire median daily rate £451 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -18.00% +22.22% -5.26%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 246 454 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.80% 27.89% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 339 435
10th Percentile £259 £350 £213
25th Percentile £363 £450 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £661
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £538 £495
% change year-on-year -11.63% +8.59% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 3 24
10th Percentile - £17.94 £10.75
25th Percentile £12.15 £19.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% +14.97% -1.01%
75th Percentile £15.19 £31.57 £23.05
90th Percentile £15.25 £37.17 £27.03
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £10.63 £18.70
% change year-on-year +37.58% -43.16% +6.86%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +7 15 £563 +2.27% 9
Wakefield - 5 £338 -
Bradford +2 1 £475 +40.74% 1
Data Centre
Yorkshire

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (19.05%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DHCP
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
2 6 (28.57%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (19.05%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Data Centre Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Migration Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) IT Technician
4 4 (19.05%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Technician
5 3 (14.29%) Data Technician
5 3 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Online Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Procurement Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) VMS
2 8 (38.10%) Windows 10
3 6 (28.57%) Windows 7
4 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (19.05%) Linux
5 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Runbook
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 3 (14.29%) Validation
4 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (4.76%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (4.76%) Data Migration
5 1 (4.76%) Information Assurance
5 1 (4.76%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Scrum
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CCNA
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (28.57%) KVM
3 6 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (28.57%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Aruba
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) Juniper
2 1 (4.76%) Meraki
2 1 (4.76%) Zscaler