Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Data Center
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Liverpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 8 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 3.38% 3.03% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.53% 10.42% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
Merseyside median daily rate £600 £500 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Generic Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 76 48 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 32.07% 29.09% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 16
10th Percentile £130 £140 £115
25th Percentile £154 £148 £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £228 £238
Median % change year-on-year +60.44% -4.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £548 £425 £403
90th Percentile £719 £549 £566
Merseyside median daily rate £315 £220 £228
% change year-on-year +43.18% -3.51% -49.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £23.66
25th Percentile - £21.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year - -31.50% +77.28%
75th Percentile - £23.00 £34.29
90th Percentile - - £34.32
Merseyside median hourly rate £16.71 £21.10 £32.12
% change year-on-year -20.81% -34.31% +71.55%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (87.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) BGP
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco ISE
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Wireless
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) NX-OS
1 7 (87.50%) VXLAN
1 7 (87.50%) Wireless
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
1 7 (87.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) RF Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Wireless Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) User Experience
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CCNP
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Ekahau
1 7 (87.50%) Remedy
1 7 (87.50%) ServiceNow