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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 10 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.74% 2.30% 2.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.11% 6.67% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 11
10th Percentile £356 £143 £240
25th Percentile £400 £358 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £481 £445
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.15% -7.29%
75th Percentile £425 £550 £515
90th Percentile £613 £551 £625
England median daily rate £534 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.60% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.08 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.22% +5.67% +1.28%

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 322 285 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 23.71% 34.50% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 202 120
10th Percentile £213 £309 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% -0.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £659 £638 £590
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 16 4
10th Percentile £12.76 £18.69 £12.76
25th Percentile £13.51 £18.87 £14.26
Median hourly rate £19.29 £21.35 £32.55
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -34.42% +55.00%
75th Percentile £25.75 £21.92 £55.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £25.11 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.59%

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
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 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the East Midlands

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 2 October 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
Nottinghamshire - 5 £400 - 9
Leicestershire -6 4 - - 3
Lincolnshire -15 1 £800 +407.94% 2
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Server Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Server Management
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Application Rationalisation
3 1 (10.00%) Business Case
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) FinOps
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp