Data Centre Contracts in Gloucestershire

Data Center
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 27 56 41
Rank change year-on-year +29 -15 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 14 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.11% 0.47% 4.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.72% 2.06% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 20
10th Percentile £525 - £245
25th Percentile £545 £675 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.86% +33.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £548 £725 £600
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £548 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.36% - +10.00%

All Generic Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 71 97 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.91% 22.61% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 59 87
10th Percentile £211 £295 £200
25th Percentile £414 £369 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £685
South West median daily rate £535 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 16
10th Percentile £28.81 - £63.75
25th Percentile £31.50 £14.00 £70.38
Median hourly rate £34.50 £15.89 £80.66
Median % change year-on-year +117.12% -80.30% +303.28%
75th Percentile £65.25 £21.00 £83.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.80 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Gloucestershire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Gloucestershire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Gloucestershire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheltenham +21 12 £547 -21.86% 10
Filton - 1 - -
Data Centre
South West

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) DNS
1 13 (92.86%) Firewall
1 13 (92.86%) Kerberos
General
1 9 (64.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Architect
2 12 (85.71%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Replication
2 12 (85.71%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) RBAC
2 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
2 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (7.14%) Change Management
2 1 (7.14%) Demand Management
2 1 (7.14%) Facilities Management
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory