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 advertised in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 55 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 15 34 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.89% 2.56% 2.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.46% 9.32% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 18
10th Percentile £438 £440 £296
25th Percentile £534 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +12.24% -4.39%
75th Percentile £619 - £550
90th Percentile - £653 £594
West Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +3.63%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 201 365 517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.35% 27.53% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 289 358
10th Percentile £292 £363 £275
25th Percentile £403 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £619 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 3 12
10th Percentile - £17.94 £18.03
25th Percentile £12.15 £19.00 £20.59
Median hourly rate £12.30 £21.50 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.79% -9.28% +35.43%
75th Percentile £15.19 £31.57 £26.69
90th Percentile £15.24 £37.17 £28.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £21.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -37.21% +14.97% -1.01%

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 25 April 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (26.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Data Migration Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Online Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Procurement Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Procurement Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) VMS
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Runbook
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Validation
3 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (6.67%) Information Assurance
4 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Service Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) KVM
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Aruba
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) Meraki
3 1 (6.67%) Zscaler