Data Centre Contracts in Leeds

Data Center
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 53 60
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 16 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.43% 1.65% 2.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.64% 6.50% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 26
10th Percentile £422 £505 £388
25th Percentile £458 £556 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +7.14% +2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £619 £550
90th Percentile £681 - £663
West Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.14% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 166 200 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 35.55% 25.32% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 116 262
10th Percentile £301 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £553 £594 £625
90th Percentile £645 £622 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -1.60% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 32 1
10th Percentile £36.81 - -
25th Percentile £44.81 £12.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £62.25 £12.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +406.10% -42.79% -4.02%
75th Percentile £82.45 £15.19 £22.25
90th Percentile £92.11 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.81 £12.90 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.34% -40.00% +14.97%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Leeds

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Leeds

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Leeds

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Leeds

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (31.25%) Ethernet
1 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
1 5 (31.25%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Wireless
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Network Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Implementation Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) HPUX
2 2 (12.50%) Solaris
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (6.25%) ITSM
5 1 (6.25%) Project Management
5 1 (6.25%) Project Planning
5 1 (6.25%) Runbook
5 1 (6.25%) Service Management
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Thinking
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (37.50%) SolarWinds
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Sun
2 2 (12.50%) Unisys
3 1 (6.25%) Aruba
3 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat