Data Centre Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Center
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 51 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 13 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.81% 2.07% 1.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.46% 7.03% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 12
10th Percentile £450 £247 £281
25th Percentile £455 £416 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £503
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.45% +11.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £573
90th Percentile - £625 £644
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.04
25th Percentile £25.04 - £20.11
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £20.71
75th Percentile £25.11 - £21.43
90th Percentile - - £21.57
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £21.67
% change year-on-year +1.13% +14.77% -14.18%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 238 256 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.15% 29.43% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 169 211
10th Percentile £302 £188 £213
25th Percentile £358 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -0.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £578
90th Percentile £630 £614 £685
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 15
10th Percentile - £11.75 £19.40
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.28 £20.36
Median hourly rate £18.69 £14.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +33.50% -37.11% +11.30%
75th Percentile £21.39 £20.43 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 £26.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Derbyshire +12 7 £550 - 13
Northamptonshire -7 6 £503 +13.06% 13
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Architect
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Payments Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Transformation
1 6 (46.15%) ETL
1 6 (46.15%) High Availability
1 6 (46.15%) IT Strategy
1 6 (46.15%) Microservices
1 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
1 6 (46.15%) Strategic Roadmap
1 6 (46.15%) Technical Debt
1 6 (46.15%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (38.46%) Business Strategy
2 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Break/Fix
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (7.69%) Budgeting
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Project Planning
4 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) IBM