Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Dundee

Data Center
Scotland > Dundee

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Dundee. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dundee 25.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £438 £553
% change year-on-year +8.57% -20.81% +11.34%

All Generic Skills
Dundee

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 Dundee.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dundee 50.00% 62.50% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £273 £191 £320
25th Percentile £288 £191 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £195 £451
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -56.79% -21.52%
75th Percentile £388 £199 £546
90th Percentile £418 £200 £597
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -2.56%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Dundee

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Dundee

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Dundee

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dundee 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) VMware