Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Data Center
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Cheltenham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.82% 1.20% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.67% 7.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £401 £754 -
25th Percentile £525 £817 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £943 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.64% - -
75th Percentile £575 £967 -
90th Percentile £656 £969 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £725 £400
% change year-on-year -24.14% +81.25% -21.95%

All Generic Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36 39 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 40.91% 15.60% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 18
10th Percentile £282 £400 £321
25th Percentile £525 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £668 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% +6.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £728
90th Percentile £660 £730 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +1.43%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cheltenham

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Cheltenham

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 4 (66.67%) npm
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Maven
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Digital
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Site Manager
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle