Data Centre Contract Job Trends in East Kilbride

Data Center
South Lanarkshire > East Kilbride

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Kilbride 12.50% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 27.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Lanarkshire median daily rate £800 - -

All Generic Skills
East Kilbride

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 East Kilbride.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11 0 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Kilbride 45.83% - 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 43
10th Percentile - - £250
25th Percentile £610 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £632 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.81%
75th Percentile £696 - £675
90th Percentile £773 - £700
South Lanarkshire median daily rate £632 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +18.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.71
South Lanarkshire median hourly rate - - £16.71

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in East Kilbride

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in East Kilbride

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in East Kilbride

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Kilbride citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Kilbride 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
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