Data Centre Contracts in Birmingham

Data Center
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 62 35
Rank change year-on-year +16 -27 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 5 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.65% 4.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.76% 2.14% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 21
10th Percentile £282 £550 £363
25th Percentile £430 £588 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% +22.73% +46.67%
75th Percentile £586 £763 £731
90th Percentile £609 £800 -
West Midlands median daily rate £583 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -2.92% +20.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.22
Median hourly rate - - £20.71
75th Percentile - - £21.19
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £20.71
% change year-on-year - - +33.58%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 145 234 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.78% 30.27% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 155 206
10th Percentile £160 £260 £263
25th Percentile £349 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £648
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile £30.05 £18.88 £14.10
25th Percentile £30.11 £22.33 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.45 £26.00 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +16.32% +26.29%
75th Percentile £30.68 £40.81 £64.69
90th Percentile - £54.80 £98.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Document Management
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) PDM
3 1 (25.00%) PLM
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto