Data Centre Contracts in Bristol

Data Center
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Bristol. 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 40 61 66
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 15 13 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.79% 1.23% 2.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.15% 4.29% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 30
10th Percentile £461 - £138
25th Percentile £523 £333 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £419
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +43.28% -20.24%
75th Percentile £722 £672 £559
90th Percentile £781 £794 £660
South West median daily rate £548 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South West median hourly rate - £40.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +77.78% -67.41%

All Generic Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 164 303 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.54% 28.67% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 126 170
10th Percentile £250 £300 £200
25th Percentile £361 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% +2.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £638
90th Percentile £604 £725 £740
South West median daily rate £535 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 102 105
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 -
25th Percentile £33.19 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £68.63 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +600.26% -84.07%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.74 £79.50 £78.85
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Bristol

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Bristol

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Bristol

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Bristol

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) Network Security
2 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 9 (60.00%) LAN
2 9 (60.00%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
2 9 (60.00%) Network Architect
2 9 (60.00%) Network Technical Architect
2 9 (60.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) CentOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (60.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 1 (6.67%) Coaching
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Network Management
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Test Management
5 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Puppet
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat