Data Centre Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Data Center
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 50 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.81% 1.01% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.21% 4.17% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £248 -
25th Percentile £463 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £442 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -1.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile £488 £451 -
90th Percentile - £458 -
East of England median daily rate £385 £300 £435
% change year-on-year +28.33% -31.03% -8.42%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 120 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 34.78% 24.24% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 73 114
10th Percentile £201 £178 £180
25th Percentile £379 £355 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £560 £525
90th Percentile £635 £630 £575
East of England median daily rate £520 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 6
10th Percentile £17.24 £25.00 £19.17
25th Percentile £18.22 £35.51 £22.03
Median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £39.31
Median % change year-on-year -58.18% +39.93% +171.07%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £61.00 £66.25 £56.25
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cambridgeshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Cambridgeshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Cambridgeshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Huntingdon - 5 £475 -
Data Centre
East of England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) WLAN
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Network Management
1 4 (80.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat