Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Data Center
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Bradford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 6.03% - 2.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.28% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.43%
75th Percentile £597 - £488
90th Percentile £621 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £490 £563
% change year-on-year -12.16% -12.98% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 - £26.25

All Generic Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 43 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 37.07% 15.22% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 8
10th Percentile £283 £404 £325
25th Percentile £413 £421 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £618 - £625
90th Percentile £685 - £644
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £22.60 - -
25th Percentile £23.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £32.81 £13.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +143.04% -36.65%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Bradford

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Bradford

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
1 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) IPsec
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 2 (28.57%) WLAN
3 1 (14.29%) DMZ
3 1 (14.29%) PSTN
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Police
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Database Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Mitel Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) AIOps
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Categorisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Server Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Mitel
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow