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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 107 91
Rank change year-on-year -21 -16 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 581 809 1,184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.23% 2.16% 2.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.40% 7.07% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 575 823
10th Percentile £305 £322 £326
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £666
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 43 14
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.08 -
25th Percentile £25.04 £21.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +14.77% -14.18%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £25.76
90th Percentile £66.25 £41.00 £68.73
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £20.71
% change year-on-year +5.67% +14.95% -18.00%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,076 11,447 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.76% 30.63% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,792 7,375 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 832 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.40 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 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
London -7 238 £533 -0.47% 757
North of England +20 103 £450 +3.82% 190
South East 0 98 £450 -12.62% 311
Yorkshire +22 62 £438 -20.45% 67
Midlands -23 55 £540 -10.00% 124
South West -29 46 £550 +2.23% 103
West Midlands -21 42 £538 -10.42% 80
North West +8 39 £525 +21.39% 106
East of England +19 23 £375 +9.09% 142
East Midlands -2 13 £540 +20.00% 43
North East -4 2 £110 -74.12% 18
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 34 (5.85%) Confluence
2 22 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.52%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.17%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.69%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.69%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 110 (18.93%) Azure
2 84 (14.46%) AWS
3 31 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (4.82%) Entra ID
5 22 (3.79%) GCP
6 18 (3.10%) IaaS
6 18 (3.10%) SaaS
7 16 (2.75%) PaaS
8 14 (2.41%) OpenShift
9 12 (2.07%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.38%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.86%) Akamai
12 5 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.86%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.69%) GitHub
14 3 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.52%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.52%) Power Platform
15 2 (0.34%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 148 (25.47%) Firewall
2 87 (14.97%) WAN
3 52 (8.95%) DNS
4 49 (8.43%) BGP
5 48 (8.26%) Network Security
6 47 (8.09%) VPN
7 46 (7.92%) LAN
8 45 (7.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 43 (7.40%) Wireless
10 36 (6.20%) OSPF
10 36 (6.20%) SD-WAN
11 35 (6.02%) DHCP
12 28 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (4.48%) Cisco ISE
14 25 (4.30%) Ethernet VPN
15 24 (4.13%) SAN
16 23 (3.96%) TCP/IP
17 22 (3.79%) VXLAN
18 19 (3.27%) Multicast
19 18 (3.10%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.93%) Oracle Database
1 17 (2.93%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.72%) Big Data
3 10 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.69%) MySQL
7 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.17%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.17%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.17%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 36 (6.20%) JIRA
2 18 (3.10%) GitLab
3 9 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (1.38%) Git
5 4 (0.69%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.34%) Maven
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.17%) Gradle
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 137 (23.58%) Finance
2 134 (23.06%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.43%) Banking
5 39 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.13%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.10%) Retail
8 17 (2.93%) Legal
9 12 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.38%) Law
13 7 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.86%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.69%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.52%) Local Government
16 3 (0.52%) Police
17 2 (0.34%) Fire and Rescue
17 2 (0.34%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 109 (18.76%) Network Engineer
2 96 (16.52%) Architect
3 49 (8.43%) Analyst
4 45 (7.75%) Project Manager
5 43 (7.40%) Senior
6 34 (5.85%) Consultant
6 34 (5.85%) Lead
7 28 (4.82%) Infrastructure Manager
8 27 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.30%) Data Centre Manager
9 25 (4.30%) Support Engineer
10 24 (4.13%) Data Centre Engineer
10 24 (4.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 22 (3.79%) Network Architect
11 22 (3.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 18 (3.10%) Infrastructure Architect
12 18 (3.10%) Senior Network Engineer
13 15 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.41%) Cisco Engineer
14 14 (2.41%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.41%) 802.1X
2 13 (2.24%) RFC 2544
3 8 (1.38%) Kafka
4 6 (1.03%) Middleware
5 5 (0.86%) .NET
6 4 (0.69%) JSON
7 3 (0.52%) ADO
7 3 (0.52%) LDAP
7 3 (0.52%) REST
8 2 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.34%) RESTful
8 2 (0.34%) SAML
8 2 (0.34%) Web Services
8 2 (0.34%) XML
9 1 (0.17%) eBPF
9 1 (0.17%) HTML
9 1 (0.17%) OAuth
9 1 (0.17%) SOAP
9 1 (0.17%) Spring
9 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (3.79%) PKI
2 18 (3.10%) Replication
3 17 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.41%) SCADA
7 13 (2.24%) Fibre Optics
8 12 (2.07%) Enterprise Storage
9 11 (1.89%) Clustering
10 10 (1.72%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.38%) CMDB
12 8 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.20%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.86%) Hedge funds
15 5 (0.86%) Product Ownership
16 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 97 (16.70%) Windows
2 88 (15.15%) Linux
3 39 (6.71%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.79%) Unix
5 19 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.07%) Android
6 12 (2.07%) CentOS
7 11 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 9 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.03%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.69%) HPUX
11 4 (0.69%) Solaris
11 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.17%) AIX
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (22.38%) Migration
2 77 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (9.64%) Agile
4 48 (8.26%) Project Management
5 47 (8.09%) DevOps
6 46 (7.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 44 (7.57%) Roadmaps
8 43 (7.40%) Change Management
9 41 (7.06%) High Availability
9 41 (7.06%) Network Design
9 41 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (5.68%) Network Architecture
12 31 (5.34%) ITIL
13 30 (5.16%) CI/CD
13 30 (5.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (4.82%) Load Balancing
15 27 (4.65%) Risk Management
16 26 (4.48%) Project Delivery
17 24 (4.13%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 47 (8.09%) Python
2 33 (5.68%) PowerShell
3 18 (3.10%) SQL
4 9 (1.55%) Bash
5 8 (1.38%) Java
6 6 (1.03%) Go
6 6 (1.03%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.69%) Tcl
8 3 (0.52%) C
8 3 (0.52%) SystemVerilog
9 2 (0.34%) AWK
9 2 (0.34%) Bicep
9 2 (0.34%) C#
9 2 (0.34%) Perl
9 2 (0.34%) sed
10 1 (0.17%) Groovy
10 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 188 (32.36%) Security Cleared
2 140 (24.10%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.02%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (8.95%) DV Cleared
5 44 (7.57%) Degree
6 35 (6.02%) CCNP
7 17 (2.93%) CCIE
8 12 (2.07%) CCNA
9 11 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.72%) CISSP
11 8 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (1.20%) CISA
12 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.20%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.03%) PMP
14 5 (0.86%) ACCA
14 5 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.86%) CIMA
14 5 (0.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.10%) SLA
2 16 (2.75%) QA
3 12 (2.07%) NIST
3 12 (2.07%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.72%) PMO
6 8 (1.38%) JSP 440
6 8 (1.38%) RMADS
7 5 (0.86%) GDPR
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (10.15%) Active Directory
2 57 (9.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (4.65%) Docker
4 20 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (3.10%) Hyper-V
6 14 (2.41%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.07%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (1.55%) BitLocker
8 9 (1.55%) Terminal Services
9 8 (1.38%) vSphere
10 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.69%) Firmware
12 3 (0.52%) KVM
13 2 (0.34%) GPFS
13 2 (0.34%) NFS
13 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.17%) SRDF
14 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 53 (9.12%) Ansible
2 40 (6.88%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.85%) Terraform
4 17 (2.93%) vCenter Server
5 15 (2.58%) Puppet
6 12 (2.07%) FortiGate
6 12 (2.07%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (2.07%) SCCM
7 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (1.55%) Nagios
8 9 (1.55%) vMotion
9 7 (1.20%) Grafana
9 7 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.86%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.86%) VxRail
10 5 (0.86%) WSUS
11 4 (0.69%) Cisco Prime
11 4 (0.69%) OpenView
11 4 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 150 (25.82%) Cisco
2 80 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.77%) VMware
3 44 (7.57%) HP
3 44 (7.57%) Palo Alto
4 40 (6.88%) Dell
5 38 (6.54%) F5
6 30 (5.16%) Oracle
6 30 (5.16%) SolarWinds
7 29 (4.99%) Arista
8 26 (4.48%) Fortinet
8 26 (4.48%) ServiceNow
9 24 (4.13%) Meraki
10 22 (3.79%) Juniper
11 21 (3.61%) CheckPoint
12 19 (3.27%) Citrix
12 19 (3.27%) Red Hat
13 17 (2.93%) IBM
14 12 (2.07%) Commvault
15 10 (1.72%) Apple
1,628 Data Centre jobs in England