Data Centre Contract Job Trends 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 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 55 54
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 8 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.66% 1.12% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.69% 5.75% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £278 £515 £358
25th Percentile £463 £538 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +81.25% -21.95%
75th Percentile £616 £964 £448
90th Percentile £738 £968 £458
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +9.52%

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 104 87 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 34.55% 19.55% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 57 88
10th Percentile £225 £400 £354
25th Percentile £278 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +1.43%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £700
90th Percentile £700 £743 £775
South West median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 17
10th Percentile £32.60 £21.50 £49.70
25th Percentile £34.67 £22.50 £70.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% -10.26% +140.74%
75th Percentile £66.88 - £83.40
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £26.25 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -62.50% -10.26% +41.82%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Gloucestershire

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Data Centre

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 21 September 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 +26 6 £550 -41.64% 4
Gloucester -8 1 £725 +45.00%
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 4 (50.00%) npm
1 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) AMQP
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Digital
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) CentOS
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft