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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 65 54
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 14 10 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.43% 0.94% 3.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.87% 3.40% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 32
10th Percentile £480 £420 £139
25th Percentile £544 £550 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £438
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +37.14% -16.67%
75th Percentile £764 £650 £606
90th Percentile £804 £815 £660
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +7.32%
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 178 294 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.85% 27.55% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 113 171
10th Percentile £250 £300 £200
25th Percentile £358 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -1.40% +3.56%
75th Percentile £547 £638 £641
90th Percentile £601 £698 £775
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 116 90
10th Percentile - £36.25 -
25th Percentile £18.51 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +614.29% -84.07%
75th Percentile £76.85 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £70.00
South West median hourly rate £31.00 £50.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year -38.00% +410.20% -80.39%

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 29 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) LAN
2 7 (50.00%) Network Security
2 7 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Architect
2 7 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 7 (50.00%) Network Technical Architect
2 7 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) CentOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Coaching
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Data Science
5 1 (7.14%) Data Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
5 1 (7.14%) PLM
5 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.14%) Release Management
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Test Management
5 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat