Data Centre Contract Job Trends 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 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 7 0 36
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 7.07% - 17.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.95% - 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 30
10th Percentile £510 - £563
25th Percentile £516 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +445.45%
75th Percentile £553 - £627
90th Percentile £559 - £674
North West median daily rate £535 £498 £575
% change year-on-year +7.54% -13.48% +35.29%

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 39 48 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 39.39% 21.72% 48.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 73
10th Percentile £415 £321 £454
25th Percentile £447 £455 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -16.67% +40.52%
75th Percentile £541 £513 £630
90th Percentile £562 £653 £668
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £45.10
25th Percentile £27.14 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £30.32 - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +183.78%
75th Percentile £36.68 - £55.00
90th Percentile £46.17 - £72.04
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £40.80
% change year-on-year +7.69% -20.33% +87.30%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

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 12 October 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 - 7 £543 - 6
Data Centre
North West

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) NetScaler
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (14.29%) SAN Technical Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Application Virtualisation
1 4 (57.14%) Customer Service
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (42.86%) Due Diligence
2 3 (42.86%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Network Design
2 3 (42.86%) Network Management
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Meraki
1 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) Capita