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 1 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	66	52	45
Rank change year-on-year	-14	-7	+10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre	16	23	16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands	1.16%	2.69%	2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	4.61%	7.54%	7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	9	21	10
10^th Percentile	£302	-	£232
25^th Percentile	£400	£154	£300
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£358	£430
Median % change year-on-year	+18.72%	-16.79%	-2.22%
75^th Percentile	£450	£525	£445
90^th Percentile	£550	£630	£473
England median daily rate	£545	£506	£525
% change year-on-year	+7.71%	-3.62%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	0
Median hourly rate	-	£25.08	-
England median hourly rate	£37.50	£25.15	£18.75
% change year-on-year	+49.11%	+34.13%	-18.48%

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 citing generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	347	305	214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands	25.09%	35.71%	29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted	164	218	115
10^th Percentile	£211	£271	£244
25^th Percentile	£344	£358	£350
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£434	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+3.81%	-3.67%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£575	£539	£525
90^th Percentile	£668	£638	£575
England median daily rate	£525	£525	£541
% change year-on-year	-	-2.87%	-1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted	85	16	3
10^th Percentile	£12.76	£18.87	£21.08
25^th Percentile	£13.51	£20.74	£30.05
Median hourly rate	£19.29	£21.39	£50.00
Median % change year-on-year	-9.82%	-57.22%	+138.10%
75^th Percentile	£25.75	£24.06	£55.00
90^th Percentile	£31.28	£25.13	-
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.00	£50.00
% change year-on-year	+16.07%	-44.00%	+12.36%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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 1 November 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.

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 1 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Leicestershire	-3	7	-	-	6
Nottinghamshire	-	6	£413	-	8
Derbyshire	-9	2	£398	-	2
Lincolnshire	-17	1	£800	+407.94%
Data Centre England

Data Centre Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Centre also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region citing Data Centre.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	31.3%	5
1	SC Cleared	31.3%	5
1	Security Cleared	31.3%	5
1	VMware	31.3%	5
1	VMware Infrastructure	31.3%	5
1	vSphere	31.3%	5
1	Windows	31.3%	5
1	Windows Server	31.3%	5
1	Windows Server 2012	31.3%	5
10	Cisco	25.0%	4
10	SCCM	25.0%	4
12	Aruba	18.8%	3
12	Project Delivery	18.8%	3
12	Server Management	18.8%	3
15	Firewall	12.5%	2
15	Infoblox	12.5%	2
15	Infrastructure Engineering	12.5%	2
15	Juniper	12.5%	2
15	Knowledge Transfer	12.5%	2
15	Migration	12.5%	2
15	NEC	12.5%	2
15	Network Security	12.5%	2
15	Structured Cabling	12.5%	2
15	Wireless	12.5%	2
25	Application Rationalisation	6.3%	1
25	AWS	6.3%	1
25	Azure	6.3%	1
25	BGP	6.3%	1
25	BMC	6.3%	1
25	Break/Fix	6.3%	1

Data Centre Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Pricing Data	12.5%	2
2	Linux Command Line	6.3%	1
2	Operational Technology	6.3%	1