Data Centre Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Data Center
South East > East Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in East Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.23% 1.14% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.00% 5.26% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £613 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +31.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £513
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -

All Generic Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20 19 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 24.69% 21.59% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 7
10th Percentile £172 £321 £376
25th Percentile £290 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% -18.80%
75th Percentile £493 £638 £669
90th Percentile £634 £725 £730
South East median daily rate £492 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% +2.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £12.50 - -
25th Percentile £13.13 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% - -
75th Percentile £27.94 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £31.73 - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +53.62%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Bexhill-On-Sea - 1 £475 - 1
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft