Data Centre Contract Job Trends 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 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 53 51
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 1.82% 2.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 5.58% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 14
10th Percentile £321 £450 £247
25th Percentile £334 £455 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% +20.00% -10.45%
75th Percentile £384 £550 £575
90th Percentile £394 - £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.08 -
England median hourly rate £20.43 £25.15 £24.87
% change year-on-year -18.79% +1.13% +14.77%

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 307 233 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.10% 32.68% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 159 169
10th Percentile £206 £302 £188
25th Percentile £395 £358 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £440 £449
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -2.12% -0.22%
75th Percentile £588 £537 £550
90th Percentile £669 £630 £614
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 21 16
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.09 £12.28
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.83 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +48.79% -37.11%
75th Percentile £25.75 £21.39 £20.43
90th Percentile £74.00 £25.11 £26.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +57.63%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Centre

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 2026. 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 -11 2 - - 1
Nottinghamshire - 2 £363 - 3
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) VMware