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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 96 115
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 784 1,237 1,724
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.14% 2.51% 2.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.01% 7.48% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 875 1,237
10th Percentile £300 £332 £310
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 23
10th Percentile £21.25 - £15.25
25th Percentile £22.13 £20.22 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -18.23% -33.75%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.63 £69.05
90th Percentile £41.25 £73.00 £69.61
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £21.67 £28.75
% change year-on-year +10.75% -24.63% -39.47%

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 11,189 16,543 23,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.61% 33.63% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,340 11,495 17,098
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
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 £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 584 642
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +48.99% -16.66% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -9 321 £525 -12.50% 237
South East +9 153 £463 -7.50% 106
South West +12 114 £600 +9.09% 34
North of England -18 93 £433 -17.62% 68
Midlands -11 73 £600 +14.29% 50
West Midlands -2 61 £600 +20.00% 26
Yorkshire +15 50 £472 -14.18% 20
North West -23 36 £433 -11.28% 35
East of England -34 20 £325 -25.29% 44
East Midlands +18 12 £550 -2.22% 24
North East +5 7 £400 -40.74% 13
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 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.30%) Confluence
3 14 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.02%) IIS
5 6 (0.77%) IBM Domino
5 6 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.64%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.26%) Apache
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.26%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 32 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.91%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.64%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.51%) Revit
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
1 3 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.26%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.26%) RMDS
3 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 131 (16.71%) Azure
2 65 (8.29%) AWS
3 49 (6.25%) SaaS
4 44 (5.61%) IaaS
5 41 (5.23%) PaaS
6 37 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 19 (2.42%) GitHub
10 14 (1.79%) GCP
10 14 (1.79%) OCI
11 10 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.28%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.15%) Nutanix
13 8 (1.02%) Mimecast
14 7 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (0.64%) Serverless
17 4 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 167 (21.30%) Firewall
2 121 (15.43%) WAN
3 114 (14.54%) LAN
4 92 (11.73%) DNS
5 75 (9.57%) SAN
6 73 (9.31%) DHCP
7 59 (7.53%) Cisco Nexus
8 57 (7.27%) Wireless
9 54 (6.89%) Network Security
10 50 (6.38%) SD-WAN
11 47 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (5.87%) MPLS
13 43 (5.48%) VPN
14 37 (4.72%) BGP
15 32 (4.08%) OSPF
16 31 (3.95%) Internet
17 28 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
17 28 (3.57%) IPsec
18 21 (2.68%) Cisco IOS
18 21 (2.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.79%) Big Data
3 9 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (0.89%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.38%) Metadata
7 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.26%) Power BI
8 2 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.13%) GIS
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (4.21%) Jenkins
1 33 (4.21%) JIRA
2 6 (0.77%) GitLab
3 4 (0.51%) Git
4 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.38%) Hudson
5 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 183 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 120 (15.31%) Finance
3 83 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 49 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 35 (4.46%) Banking
7 26 (3.32%) Law
8 17 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.91%) Marketing
10 12 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.89%) Billing
12 7 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Legal
13 6 (0.77%) Local Government
13 6 (0.77%) Police
13 6 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 170 (21.68%) Network Engineer
2 134 (17.09%) Architect
3 64 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 63 (8.04%) Senior
5 58 (7.40%) Data Centre Engineer
6 57 (7.27%) Project Manager
7 51 (6.51%) Network Architect
8 32 (4.08%) Analyst
8 32 (4.08%) Consultant
9 30 (3.83%) Support Engineer
10 29 (3.70%) Lead
11 28 (3.57%) Server Engineer
12 27 (3.44%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (3.32%) VMware Engineer
14 25 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.68%) Infrastructure Manager
16 20 (2.55%) Data Centre Technician
16 20 (2.55%) Infrastructure Architect
16 20 (2.55%) Security Engineer
16 20 (2.55%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.42%) YAML
2 14 (1.79%) LDAP
3 13 (1.66%) Web Services
4 9 (1.15%) Middleware
5 7 (0.89%) Node.js
6 6 (0.77%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.77%) JSON
7 5 (0.64%) .NET
7 5 (0.64%) REST
8 4 (0.51%) SAML
9 3 (0.38%) EDI
9 3 (0.38%) VML
10 2 (0.26%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.26%) Redfish
10 2 (0.26%) Software Packaging
11 1 (0.13%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.13%) OpenID
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.72%) Private Cloud
2 25 (3.19%) PKI
3 21 (2.68%) Clustering
4 20 (2.55%) Public Cloud
5 19 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.53%) Client/Server
10 10 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.02%) SCADA
13 6 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.77%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.64%) Market Risk
14 5 (0.64%) Social Media
14 5 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 127 (16.20%) Linux
2 125 (15.94%) Windows
3 47 (5.99%) Windows Server
4 41 (5.23%) Unix
5 30 (3.83%) Windows 10
6 23 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (2.17%) Windows XP
9 16 (2.04%) zOS
10 11 (1.40%) VMS
11 10 (1.28%) Windows 7
12 9 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.51%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.38%) CentOS
14 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.38%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (22.32%) Migration
2 107 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (11.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 81 (10.33%) Agile
5 78 (9.95%) ITIL
6 69 (8.80%) Project Management
7 60 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (6.63%) Network Management
9 50 (6.38%) Computer Science
10 49 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (5.87%) Disaster Recovery
12 43 (5.48%) Change Management
13 41 (5.23%) Server Management
13 41 (5.23%) Storage Management
14 39 (4.97%) Project Delivery
15 38 (4.85%) CI/CD
16 37 (4.72%) Business Strategy
17 36 (4.59%) Capacity Management
18 35 (4.46%) Mentoring
19 34 (4.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.78%) PowerShell
2 59 (7.53%) Python
3 26 (3.32%) SQL
4 18 (2.30%) Bash
5 15 (1.91%) JCL
5 15 (1.91%) REXX
6 13 (1.66%) Java
7 7 (0.89%) C
7 7 (0.89%) VBScript
8 6 (0.77%) Go
9 5 (0.64%) Ruby
10 4 (0.51%) ActionScript
10 4 (0.51%) C++
11 3 (0.38%) Perl
11 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.26%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) Bicep
13 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 201 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 115 (14.67%) Cisco Certification
3 108 (13.78%) DV Cleared
4 103 (13.14%) Degree
5 99 (12.63%) SC Cleared
6 67 (8.55%) CCNP
7 60 (7.65%) CCNA
8 33 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.19%) CCIE
10 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
11 10 (1.28%) A+ Certification
12 9 (1.15%) CCIE Data Center
12 9 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (1.02%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.89%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.89%) ISACA
14 7 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.19%) SLA
2 12 (1.53%) NIST
3 11 (1.40%) GDPR
4 10 (1.28%) QA
5 9 (1.15%) COBIT
6 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) IASME
8 1 (0.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 111 (14.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (10.97%) Active Directory
3 54 (6.89%) vSphere
4 48 (6.12%) Hyper-V
5 44 (5.61%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (5.10%) VMware NSX
7 18 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (2.17%) Docker
8 17 (2.17%) KVM
9 16 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (1.91%) NFS
10 15 (1.91%) Time Sharing Option
11 14 (1.79%) VMware Workstation
12 13 (1.66%) Firmware
13 4 (0.51%) vCloud
14 3 (0.38%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.26%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.26%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 49 (6.25%) vCenter Server
2 40 (5.10%) SCCM
3 39 (4.97%) Ansible
4 32 (4.08%) Kubernetes
5 31 (3.95%) Terraform
6 26 (3.32%) NetBackup
7 23 (2.93%) SCOM
8 16 (2.04%) Puppet
8 16 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 15 (1.91%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.79%) WSUS
11 13 (1.66%) Nagios
12 10 (1.28%) FortiGate
12 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (1.02%) VxRail
14 7 (0.89%) SCVMM
15 5 (0.64%) Grafana
15 5 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 194 (24.74%) Cisco
2 165 (21.05%) VMware
3 109 (13.90%) Microsoft
4 97 (12.37%) Palo Alto
5 78 (9.95%) Dell
6 56 (7.14%) Juniper
7 51 (6.51%) F5
8 46 (5.87%) HP
9 32 (4.08%) IBM
10 31 (3.95%) CheckPoint
10 31 (3.95%) Oracle
11 21 (2.68%) Brocade
12 20 (2.55%) Symantec
13 19 (2.42%) EMC
13 19 (2.42%) SolarWinds
14 18 (2.30%) Citrix
15 17 (2.17%) Broadcom
15 17 (2.17%) Fortinet
15 17 (2.17%) Red Hat
15 17 (2.17%) ServiceNow