Data Centre Contracts in Hertfordshire

Data Center
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 68 28
Rank change year-on-year +36 -40 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 14 7 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.39% 0.83% 6.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.38% 3.33% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 39
10th Percentile £175 £235 £354
25th Percentile £192 £250 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +3.45% +8.75%
75th Percentile £455 £600 £550
90th Percentile £495 £690 £640
East of England median daily rate £423 £300 £435
% change year-on-year +40.83% -31.03% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
East of England median hourly rate £24.66 - -

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 167 210 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 52.35% 25.03% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 81 169
10th Percentile £418 £263 £249
25th Percentile £485 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.55% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £656 £613 £631
90th Percentile £683 £700 £728
East of England median daily rate £523 £459 £456
% change year-on-year +13.90% +0.55% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 60 33
10th Percentile £16.95 £29.60 £21.00
25th Percentile £51.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -0.76% +22.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £85.00 £73.40
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.35% +120.87%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Hertfordshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Hertfordshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Hertfordshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Hertfordshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Watford - 3 £175 - 14
Hemel Hempstead +13 2 £175 - 32
Welwyn Garden City - 2 - - 1
Rickmansworth - 1 - -
Stevenage - 1 £540 - 16
Cheshunt - 1 £198 - 5
Data Centre
East of England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Akamai
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
1 3 (21.43%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) IP Telephony
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) Wireless
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) DMVPN
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) GLBP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
3 1 (7.14%) IPsec
3 1 (7.14%) Multicast
3 1 (7.14%) NetScaler
3 1 (7.14%) SNMP
3 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) TestDirector
2 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Cabling Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Environment Delivery Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Environment Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Change Management
1 2 (14.29%) Project Management
1 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
1 2 (14.29%) Validation
2 1 (7.14%) Agile
2 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
2 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
2 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
2 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
2 1 (7.14%) Migration
2 1 (7.14%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
2 1 (7.14%) Scrum
2 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCDP
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) Arista
2 1 (7.14%) Blue Coat
2 1 (7.14%) Citrix
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) F5
2 1 (7.14%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) Riverbed
2 1 (7.14%) Zscaler