Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Data Center
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 36 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.34% 0.46% 2.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 1.19% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £82
25th Percentile £695 - £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 - £224
75th Percentile £725 - £312
90th Percentile - - £365
East of England median daily rate £479 £600 £442
% change year-on-year -20.21% +35.75% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £100.00 £31.12
Median % change year-on-year - +221.34% -
East of England median hourly rate £18.53 £100.00 £29.31
% change year-on-year -81.47% +241.18% +21.24%

All Generic Skills
Bedfordshire

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 71 84 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 24.07% 38.71% 27.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 25
10th Percentile £74 £126 £325
25th Percentile £253 £185 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -6.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £643 £650
East of England median daily rate £485 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 7
10th Percentile £61.00 £48.08 £30.67
25th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £42.91
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £88.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £82.20 £91.00 £80.50
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 2026. 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
Luton +4 1 £710 - 2
Data Centre
East of England

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft