Data Centre Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Center
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire. 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 55 65 63
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 51 64 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.04% 2.77% 2.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.92% 9.76% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 56 53
10th Percentile £170 £316 £224
25th Percentile £333 £430 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 - £531
90th Percentile £619 £644 £596
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £23.69 - -
75th Percentile £25.83 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £22.09 £26.75
% change year-on-year +12.61% -17.44% -38.86%

All Generic Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 467 656 883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 27.85% 28.44% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 459 643
10th Percentile £263 £279 £205
25th Percentile £400 £428 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +10.26% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £568
90th Percentile £644 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 41
10th Percentile - - £10.75
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.89
Median hourly rate £14.63 £10.63 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +37.58% -43.16% +6.86%
75th Percentile £17.52 - £22.67
90th Percentile £23.96 £22.00 £26.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
South Yorkshire +12 25 £415 -33.17%
West Yorkshire +4 21 £563 +2.27% 14
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.84%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) GitHub
2 4 (7.84%) Azure
3 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.96%) IaaS
4 1 (1.96%) PaaS
4 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) DHCP
1 8 (15.69%) DNS
2 7 (13.73%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (13.73%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (9.80%) Firewall
3 5 (9.80%) LAN
3 5 (9.80%) SAN
3 5 (9.80%) WAN
4 4 (7.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Big Data
2 2 (3.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (45.10%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Finance
3 7 (13.73%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Data Centre Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Storage Manager
3 10 (19.61%) Migration Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Data Migration Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Cabling Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) IT Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) IT Technician
6 4 (7.84%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Technician
6 4 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.84%) Senior
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Network Technician
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Technician
6 4 (7.84%) Wintel Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Data Centre Technician
7 3 (5.88%) Data Technician
7 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) YAML
2 2 (3.92%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Clustering
1 4 (7.84%) NHS
1 4 (7.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Linux
2 14 (27.45%) Windows
2 14 (27.45%) zOS
3 9 (17.65%) Windows 10
4 8 (15.69%) VMS
5 7 (13.73%) Windows 7
6 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
7 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (5.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Migration
2 18 (35.29%) Agile
3 15 (29.41%) Project Management
4 14 (27.45%) Problem Management
4 14 (27.45%) Storage Management
5 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (17.65%) Cost Management
6 9 (17.65%) Software Testing
7 7 (13.73%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.73%) Runbook
8 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (7.84%) Computer Science
10 3 (5.88%) Test Automation
10 3 (5.88%) Validation
10 3 (5.88%) Waterfall
11 2 (3.92%) Data Migration
11 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 2 (3.92%) Service Migration
12 1 (1.96%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) JCL
1 14 (27.45%) Python
1 14 (27.45%) REXX
2 4 (7.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) CCNA
1 8 (15.69%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (15.69%) Network+ Certification
2 7 (13.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (7.84%) A+ Certification
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) NFS
1 14 (27.45%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (13.73%) KVM
4 7 (13.73%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (13.73%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (13.73%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Ansible
1 14 (27.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 7 (13.73%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.92%) Grafana
4 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Dell
2 14 (27.45%) Broadcom
2 14 (27.45%) Brocade
2 14 (27.45%) CA
2 14 (27.45%) IBM
3 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.69%) VMware
4 3 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Aruba
5 1 (1.96%) Juniper
5 1 (1.96%) Meraki
5 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.96%) Zscaler