Data Centre Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Cornwall

Data Center
South West > Cornwall

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Cornwall. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

Location	6 months to 17 Sep 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	-	6
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Data Centre	0	0	1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cornwall	-	-	6.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	-	-	14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	1
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£250
South West median daily rate	£550	£535	£569
% change year-on-year	+2.80%	-5.93%	+8.33%

All Generic Skills
Cornwall

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 Cornwall.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	3	10	7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cornwall	27.27%	34.48%	43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	4	5
10^th Percentile	£248	£182	-
25^th Percentile	£290	£184	£250
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£360	£190	£275
Median % change year-on-year	+89.47%	-30.91%	+111.54%
75^th Percentile	£430	£196	£488
90^th Percentile	£472	£199	£555
South West median daily rate	£525	£538	£550
% change year-on-year	-2.33%	-2.27%	+4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	1
Median hourly rate	-	£67.02	£14.03
Median % change year-on-year	-	+377.69%	-
South West median hourly rate	£33.00	£70.00	£71.50
% change year-on-year	-52.86%	-2.10%	+30.00%