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 advertised in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 67 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 10 18 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.29% 1.74% 3.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.95% 6.25% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 33
10th Percentile - £308 £319
25th Percentile £525 £438 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £550
90th Percentile £685 £650 £588
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £22.09 £26.75
% change year-on-year +12.61% -17.44% -38.86%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 202 288 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.00% 27.88% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 205 338
10th Percentile £167 £202 £188
25th Percentile £230 £350 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £525
90th Percentile £625 £686 £619
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.80 £13.45
25th Percentile £12.28 £18.34 £14.82
Median hourly rate £14.00 £21.97 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% +28.41% +16.36%
75th Percentile £18.32 £62.50 £20.75
90th Percentile £24.59 £65.00 £23.25
England median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -15.15% +0.26%

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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
Leicestershire - 4 £600 - 2
Nottinghamshire +5 3 £550 -12.00% 8
Derbyshire +3 2 - - 1
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 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (10.00%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) Ethereal
3 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (20.00%) Wireless
3 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (10.00%) Multicast
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Network Support
3 2 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Market Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) OpenView
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Juniper
3 3 (30.00%) F5
3 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat