Data Centre Contracts in England

Data Center
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 96 114
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 818 1,279 1,750
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.21% 2.53% 2.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.19% 7.52% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 915 1,265
10th Percentile £300 £346 £305
25th Percentile £411 £431 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £598
90th Percentile £700 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £514
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.95% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 23
10th Percentile £21.25 - £15.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £20.22 £19.40
Median hourly rate £24.87 £22.09 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -18.20% -38.29%
75th Percentile £40.00 £68.13 £69.05
90th Percentile £41.25 £79.38 £69.61
UK median hourly rate £24.44 £21.67 £28.75
% change year-on-year +12.76% -24.63% -43.63%

All Generic Skills
England

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 17,010 24,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 33.65% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,425 11,824 17,120
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 598 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +11 345 £525 -12.50% 231
South East +12 161 £500 - 114
South West +10 115 £550 - 46
North of England -17 95 £433 -17.62% 61
Midlands -18 73 £600 +14.29% 38
West Midlands +6 63 £600 +20.00% 25
Yorkshire +7 51 £451 -18.00% 19
North West -34 37 £433 -13.50% 34
East of England -29 19 £300 -31.03% 43
East Midlands +8 10 £575 +9.52% 13
North East +10 7 £448 -29.80% 8
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 33 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.44%) Confluence
3 11 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.98%) IIS
5 7 (0.86%) IBM Domino
6 6 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.61%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.37%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.24%) Apache
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.83%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.61%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.49%) Revit
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Shopify
2 3 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.24%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.24%) RMDS
4 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 132 (16.14%) Azure
2 65 (7.95%) AWS
3 49 (5.99%) SaaS
4 44 (5.38%) IaaS
5 41 (5.01%) PaaS
6 37 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (2.32%) GitHub
9 18 (2.20%) Entra ID
10 13 (1.59%) OCI
11 12 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.22%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.22%) GCP
12 10 (1.22%) Power Platform
13 9 (1.10%) Nutanix
14 8 (0.98%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
17 5 (0.61%) Serverless
18 4 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 182 (22.25%) Firewall
2 134 (16.38%) WAN
3 126 (15.40%) LAN
4 96 (11.74%) DNS
5 75 (9.17%) DHCP
6 70 (8.56%) SAN
7 63 (7.70%) Network Security
8 62 (7.58%) Cisco Nexus
9 61 (7.46%) Wireless
10 59 (7.21%) VPN
11 54 (6.60%) MPLS
12 53 (6.48%) Wi-Fi
13 50 (6.11%) SD-WAN
14 48 (5.87%) BGP
15 43 (5.26%) OSPF
16 35 (4.28%) IPsec
17 33 (4.03%) Internet
18 32 (3.91%) Cisco ASA
19 25 (3.06%) Cisco IOS
19 25 (3.06%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.59%) Big Data
3 9 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (0.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.37%) Metadata
8 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.24%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.24%) Power BI
10 1 (0.12%) GIS
10 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (4.28%) JIRA
2 34 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.98%) GitLab
4 4 (0.49%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.49%) Git
5 3 (0.37%) Hudson
6 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 193 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.01%) Finance
3 91 (11.12%) Public Sector
4 46 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 37 (4.52%) Banking
7 25 (3.06%) Law
8 19 (2.32%) Marketing
9 15 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.10%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.10%) Electronics
13 9 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.98%) Legal
15 7 (0.86%) Billing
15 7 (0.86%) Local Government
15 7 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 187 (22.86%) Network Engineer
2 142 (17.36%) Architect
3 70 (8.56%) Senior
4 65 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 59 (7.21%) Data Centre Engineer
6 57 (6.97%) Project Manager
7 53 (6.48%) Network Architect
8 31 (3.79%) Analyst
8 31 (3.79%) Consultant
9 29 (3.55%) Support Engineer
10 28 (3.42%) Lead
11 27 (3.30%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (3.30%) Server Engineer
12 26 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
12 26 (3.18%) VMware Engineer
13 25 (3.06%) Infrastructure Manager
14 22 (2.69%) Cisco Engineer
14 22 (2.69%) Infrastructure Architect
14 22 (2.69%) Security Engineer
15 21 (2.57%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.44%) YAML
2 14 (1.71%) LDAP
3 13 (1.59%) Web Services
4 9 (1.10%) Middleware
5 7 (0.86%) Node.js
6 6 (0.73%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.73%) JSON
7 5 (0.61%) REST
8 4 (0.49%) .NET
9 3 (0.37%) EDI
9 3 (0.37%) SAML
9 3 (0.37%) VML
10 2 (0.24%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.24%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.24%) Redfish
10 2 (0.24%) Software Packaging
11 1 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.12%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.12%) Kafka
11 1 (0.12%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.65%) Private Cloud
2 29 (3.55%) PKI
3 25 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (2.69%) Public Cloud
5 20 (2.44%) Clustering
6 17 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.47%) Client/Server
10 10 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (1.10%) NHS
11 9 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.98%) SCADA
12 8 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.73%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.61%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 132 (16.14%) Linux
2 126 (15.40%) Windows
3 50 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 42 (5.13%) Unix
5 29 (3.55%) Windows 10
6 21 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (1.96%) Windows XP
8 16 (1.96%) zOS
9 11 (1.34%) VMS
9 11 (1.34%) Windows 7
10 10 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.49%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.37%) CentOS
12 3 (0.37%) Windows 2000
12 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (21.52%) Migration
2 107 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (10.64%) Agile
4 86 (10.51%) ITIL
5 85 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 77 (9.41%) Project Management
7 59 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 54 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
9 52 (6.36%) Network Management
10 49 (5.99%) Computer Science
11 47 (5.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 44 (5.38%) Change Management
13 42 (5.13%) Project Delivery
14 41 (5.01%) Server Management
14 41 (5.01%) Storage Management
15 39 (4.77%) CI/CD
15 39 (4.77%) Mentoring
16 38 (4.65%) Business Strategy
17 37 (4.52%) Capacity Management
17 37 (4.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (8.19%) Python
2 59 (7.21%) PowerShell
3 25 (3.06%) SQL
4 19 (2.32%) Bash
5 15 (1.83%) JCL
5 15 (1.83%) REXX
6 13 (1.59%) Java
7 8 (0.98%) C
8 7 (0.86%) VBScript
9 6 (0.73%) Go
10 5 (0.61%) Perl
10 5 (0.61%) Ruby
11 4 (0.49%) ActionScript
11 4 (0.49%) C++
12 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.24%) C#
14 1 (0.12%) Bicep
14 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 205 (25.06%) Security Cleared
2 121 (14.79%) Cisco Certification
3 111 (13.57%) DV Cleared
4 101 (12.35%) Degree
4 101 (12.35%) SC Cleared
5 71 (8.68%) CCNP
6 58 (7.09%) CCNA
7 31 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (3.67%) CCIE
9 13 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
10 10 (1.22%) A+ Certification
10 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.10%) CCIE Data Center
12 8 (0.98%) ISACA
12 8 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
14 6 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.06%) SLA
2 12 (1.47%) GDPR
3 11 (1.34%) NIST
4 10 (1.22%) COBIT
4 10 (1.22%) QA
5 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.12%) IASME
7 1 (0.12%) PMO
7 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 114 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 84 (10.27%) Active Directory
3 53 (6.48%) vSphere
4 46 (5.62%) Hyper-V
4 46 (5.62%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (5.13%) VMware NSX
6 19 (2.32%) Docker
7 18 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (1.96%) KVM
8 16 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (1.83%) NFS
9 15 (1.83%) Time Sharing Option
9 15 (1.83%) VMware Workstation
10 9 (1.10%) Firmware
11 4 (0.49%) vCloud
12 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.24%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.12%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 50 (6.11%) vCenter Server
2 39 (4.77%) Ansible
3 38 (4.65%) SCCM
4 35 (4.28%) Kubernetes
5 31 (3.79%) Terraform
6 24 (2.93%) NetBackup
7 22 (2.69%) SCOM
8 17 (2.08%) Puppet
9 15 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 14 (1.71%) Nagios
11 13 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (1.59%) WSUS
12 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.22%) FortiGate
13 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
14 8 (0.98%) VxRail
15 7 (0.86%) SCVMM
16 6 (0.73%) Grafana
17 5 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 206 (25.18%) Cisco
2 168 (20.54%) VMware
3 112 (13.69%) Microsoft
4 103 (12.59%) Palo Alto
5 77 (9.41%) Dell
6 60 (7.33%) Juniper
7 53 (6.48%) F5
8 45 (5.50%) HP
9 35 (4.28%) CheckPoint
10 31 (3.79%) IBM
11 29 (3.55%) Oracle
12 24 (2.93%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.69%) Arista
13 22 (2.69%) Fortinet
14 20 (2.44%) Citrix
15 19 (2.32%) Red Hat
15 19 (2.32%) Symantec
16 18 (2.20%) Brocade
17 17 (2.08%) EMC
18 16 (1.96%) ServiceNow
604 Data Centre jobs Nationwide