Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Harlow

Data Center
Essex > Harlow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Harlow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Harlow 75.00% - 9.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 75.00% - 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £541
25th Percentile £278 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.26%
75th Percentile £293 - £734
90th Percentile - - £774
Essex median daily rate £285 £363 £316
% change year-on-year -21.38% +14.72% -29.78%

All Generic Skills
Harlow

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 Harlow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Harlow 100.00% 50.00% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £249
25th Percentile £278 £713 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -60.69% +38.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £293 £738 £655
90th Percentile - - £761
Essex median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +5.88%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Harlow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Harlow

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Harlow

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

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

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Harlow 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Site Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Fault Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) NIST