Data Centre Operations Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Data Center Operations
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £425 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 273 178 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 78.45% 89.45% 71.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 87 58
10th Percentile £225 £363 £216
25th Percentile £350 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -2.44% +2.41%
75th Percentile £652 £588 £631
90th Percentile £712 £662 £743
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 24 44
10th Percentile £19.75 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £33.98 £23.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £61.57 £40.83 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year +50.81% +54.64% -42.83%
75th Percentile £71.50 £63.40 £43.10
90th Percentile £71.91 £71.06 £46.18
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £27.38 £35.00
% change year-on-year +64.38% -21.79% +14.20%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Operations within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Preston - 2 £400 - 1
Data Centre Operations
North West

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware