Data Centre Contracts in Glasgow

Data Center
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 57 58
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 16 25 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.01% 2.85% 2.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.21% 9.03% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 23
10th Percentile £313 - £338
25th Percentile £362 £313 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.22% +11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £438 £675 £539
90th Percentile £474 £730 £690
Scotland median daily rate £425 £565 £499
% change year-on-year -24.78% +13.28% +7.84%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 307 277 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.47% 31.58% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 163 238
10th Percentile £313 £214 £267
25th Percentile £407 £356 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £440 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -9.74% +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £613
90th Percentile £589 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £15.65 £15.42 -
25th Percentile £18.28 £15.86 -
Median hourly rate £20.29 £18.00 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% +69.33% -51.68%
75th Percentile £36.64 £28.06 £22.81
90th Percentile £64.58 £57.13 £41.37
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Glasgow

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) BGP
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
1 4 (25.00%) LAN
1 4 (25.00%) OSPF
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
1 4 (25.00%) WAN
1 4 (25.00%) Wireless
2 3 (18.75%) Network Security
3 2 (12.50%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Project Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Collaboration Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Field Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Report Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Risk Officer
3 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Wintel Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) BCP
3 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 4 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 4 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Network Design
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CCNP
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Juniper
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (18.75%) Nokia
3 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 1 (6.25%) Dell
5 1 (6.25%) HP
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat