Data Centre Contracts in Cumbria

Data Center
North West > Cumbria

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Cumbria. 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 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 7.18% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 45.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £644 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £433 £500
% change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% +20.48%

All Generic Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31 72 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 15.90% 27.80% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 55 8
10th Percentile £393 £436 £386
25th Percentile £434 £481 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £426
Median % change year-on-year +6.49% +15.73% -11.34%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £486
90th Percentile £643 £638 £500
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 1
10th Percentile £22.65 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - £52.35
Median hourly rate £28.75 £13.00 £56.38
Median % change year-on-year +121.15% -76.94% +12.11%
75th Percentile £34.67 £44.41 £60.41
90th Percentile £55.39 £44.74 -
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cumbria

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Cumbria

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Cumbria

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Cumbria

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 12 £600 - 1
Data Centre
North West

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
2 13 (92.86%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (85.71%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (85.71%) NetScaler
4 11 (78.57%) WAN
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 14 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 14 (100.00%) Network Design
1 14 (100.00%) Network Management
2 12 (85.71%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (7.14%) Agile
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
1 14 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 11 (78.57%) Meraki
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft