Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Data Center
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Blackpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 13.79% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £588 £500 -
% change year-on-year +17.50% - -

All Generic Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 27.59% 50.00% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £220 - £573
25th Percentile £306 - £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 - £666
90th Percentile £648 - £696
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £15.00
% change year-on-year +58.12% +91.67% -33.33%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) OCI
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (100.00%) WLAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Aruba
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) F5