Data Centre Contracts in Cambridge

Data Center
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.60% - 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.26% - 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £900 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £800 £442 £493
% change year-on-year +81.00% -10.25% -1.50%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 78 55 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 44.83% 33.54% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 19 60
10th Percentile £376 £310 £180
25th Percentile £438 £381 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.89%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £494
90th Percentile £753 £640 £576
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £459 £450
% change year-on-year +9.05% +1.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £17.11 £23.39 -
25th Percentile £18.70 £45.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +161.11%
75th Percentile £69.38 £66.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £30.00 £52.75 £58.75
% change year-on-year -43.13% -10.21% +111.71%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Cambridge over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 4 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) iSCSI
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 4 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
1 5 (62.50%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Programme Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (62.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) CentOS
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
1 5 (62.50%) ITSM
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GitOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) VMware