Data Centre Contracts in Cardiff

Data Center
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.93% 1.18% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 2.88% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £115 -
25th Percentile - £128 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £154 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -68.51% +14.71%
75th Percentile - £184 £531
90th Percentile - £200 -
South Wales median daily rate £91 £200 £450
% change year-on-year -54.50% -55.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 90 139 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 42.06% 40.88% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 102 148
10th Percentile £344 £160 £181
25th Percentile £413 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £434 £426
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% +1.82% +7.44%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £523
90th Percentile £583 £613 £579
South Wales median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £18.73 -
25th Percentile £11.75 £19.77 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.53 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.30% - -
75th Percentile £15.25 £23.27 -
90th Percentile - £24.31 -
South Wales median hourly rate £48.75 £18.10 £16.06
% change year-on-year +169.34% +12.74% -2.70%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cardiff

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Cardiff

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Cardiff

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (50.00%) Brocade
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware