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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 87 59
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 24 24 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.29% 1.21% 3.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.85% 4.80% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 46
10th Percentile £190 £105 £320
25th Percentile £198 £250 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £451 £550
90th Percentile £574 £475 £616
England median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £32.19 - -
25th Percentile £43.50 £26.25 £22.09
Median hourly rate £62.33 £27.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +126.65% +13.75% +12.44%
75th Percentile £81.17 £28.75 £26.26
90th Percentile £92.47 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £21.67
% change year-on-year +1.13% +14.77% -14.18%

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 410 500 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 39.12% 25.30% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 237 370
10th Percentile £225 £177 £205
25th Percentile £395 £290 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £593
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 125 36
10th Percentile £16.95 £12.86 £20.50
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +1.28% +78.14%
75th Percentile £81.18 £65.00 £66.69
90th Percentile £87.50 £80.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.05 £36.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -9.45% +62.26% -15.11%

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 23 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 June 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
Cambridgeshire +17 10 £475 +7.47% 66
Hertfordshire +29 8 £198 -43.43% 104
Suffolk - 4 £300 - 22
Essex +8 1 - - 42
Bedfordshire -5 1 - - 25
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 4 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Akamai
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) DNS
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) LAN
2 6 (25.00%) WAN
3 5 (20.83%) iSCSI
3 5 (20.83%) SAN
3 5 (20.83%) VPN
3 5 (20.83%) WLAN
4 4 (16.67%) Network Security
4 4 (16.67%) Wireless
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (12.50%) DHCP
5 3 (12.50%) IPsec
5 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (8.33%) BIG-IP
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (8.33%) IOS XR
6 2 (8.33%) IP Telephony
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) GitLab
3 4 (16.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Cabling Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Network Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Facilities Technician
6 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (20.83%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Clustering
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.17%) FMCG
2 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) CentOS
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (20.83%) ITSM
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (16.67%) Network Management
4 3 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 3 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (8.33%) Change Management
5 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.33%) Data Science
5 2 (8.33%) High Availability
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Network Design
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.17%) Scrum
6 1 (4.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.17%) CCDP
4 1 (4.17%) CCSP
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 2 (8.33%) Docker
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
4 3 (12.50%) F5
5 2 (8.33%) Meraki
5 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.17%) Apple
6 1 (4.17%) Arista
6 1 (4.17%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.17%) Citrix
6 1 (4.17%) Dell
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) HP
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper
6 1 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.17%) Riverbed