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 advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 35 72
Rank change year-on-year -23 +37 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 6 45 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.80% 4.87% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.61% 13.80% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 16
10th Percentile £550 £373 £168
25th Percentile £588 £438 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +46.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £475
90th Percentile £790 £731 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £20.71 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +33.58% -38.00%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 230 326 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.54% 35.28% 27.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 209 271
10th Percentile £258 £255 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +1.33%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £556
90th Percentile £706 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £504 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +0.70% +5.26% +14.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 6
10th Percentile £18.88 £13.80 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.33 £16.63 £15.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +16.98% -26.25%
75th Percentile £40.81 £60.75 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £98.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £23.25 £15.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +50.00% -7.85%

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 18 April 2024.

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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (16.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
2 1 (16.67%) CATAPAN
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (16.67%) Ethereal
2 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) HSRP
2 1 (16.67%) IPsec
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Market Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
1 1 (16.67%) Business Case
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
1 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
1 1 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Security Management
1 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) VMware