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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 51 55
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 17 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.15% 2.14% 1.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.34% 7.14% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 9
10th Percentile £219 £242 £252
25th Percentile £412 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £445 £495
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -10.10% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £650
90th Percentile £551 £625 £725
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £20.00
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.90 £23.50
% change year-on-year +14.84% -6.81% -61.16%

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 268 238 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.97% 29.97% 26.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 131 165
10th Percentile £273 £270 £213
25th Percentile £358 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £588
90th Percentile £644 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £16.16 £13.09 £17.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £16.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% -20.81% +19.59%
75th Percentile £21.92 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Northamptonshire -10 8 £466 +4.63% 10
Derbyshire +4 6 £550 -12.00% 8
Leicestershire -1 3 £127 -78.88% 5
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Consultant
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Architect
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Field Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Payments Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Technician
5 1 (5.88%) Data Technician
5 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Strategy
1 6 (35.29%) Data Transformation
1 6 (35.29%) ETL
1 6 (35.29%) High Availability
1 6 (35.29%) IT Strategy
1 6 (35.29%) Microservices
1 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
1 6 (35.29%) Strategic Roadmap
1 6 (35.29%) Technical Debt
1 6 (35.29%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Culture
2 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
2 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Break/Fix
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity Management
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Management
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (5.88%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
3 2 (11.76%) CCNA
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.76%) MCSE
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Dell
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) IBM