Data Centre Contracts in the East of England

Data Center
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 93 58
Rank change year-on-year +33 -35 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 22 19 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.35% 1.00% 3.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.29% 3.71% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 47
10th Percentile £177 £103 £289
25th Percentile £196 £225 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £300 £435
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -31.03% -8.42%
75th Percentile £455 £463 £550
90th Percentile £486 £561 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £24.87 £22.09
% change year-on-year -0.84% +12.61% -17.44%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the East of England

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the East of England

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the East of England

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the East of England

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +36 15 £423 -6.11% 67
Cambridgeshire +10 5 £475 +7.47% 25
Suffolk - 2 £245 - 10
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Akamai
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
1 7 (31.82%) WAN
2 6 (27.27%) VPN
3 5 (22.73%) LAN
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (18.18%) WLAN
5 3 (13.64%) Network Security
5 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
6 2 (9.09%) IP Telephony
6 2 (9.09%) Wireless
7 1 (4.55%) DHCP
7 1 (4.55%) DNS
7 1 (4.55%) DWDM
7 1 (4.55%) HTTP
7 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
7 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.55%) IPsec
7 1 (4.55%) SNMP
7 1 (4.55%) SSL
7 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) JMeter
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) TestDirector
2 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Cabling Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Environment Delivery Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Environment Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Electrical Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Clustering
1 1 (4.55%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
1 1 (4.55%) FMCG
1 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (22.73%) Network Management
2 4 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (9.09%) Change Management
3 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Migration
3 2 (9.09%) Project Management
3 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 2 (9.09%) Validation
4 1 (4.55%) Break/Fix
4 1 (4.55%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (4.55%) IT Strategy
4 1 (4.55%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (4.55%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (4.55%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (4.55%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (4.55%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Java
1 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCDP
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE Data Center
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) VMware NSX
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Podman
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Cisco
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) Apple
2 1 (4.55%) Arista
2 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
2 1 (4.55%) Citrix
2 1 (4.55%) Dell
2 1 (4.55%) F5
2 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.55%) HP
2 1 (4.55%) Juniper
2 1 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) Riverbed
2 1 (4.55%) Zscaler