Data Centre Contracts in Manchester

Data Center
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 56 103
Rank change year-on-year -18 +47 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 27 60 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.76% 3.17% 1.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.44% 9.54% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 52 27
10th Percentile £378 £349 £300
25th Percentile £404 £463 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +10.53% +4.11%
75th Percentile £454 £627 £526
90th Percentile £568 £723 £602
North West median daily rate £433 £500 £415
% change year-on-year -13.50% +20.48% +0.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
North West median hourly rate - £43.10 £9.90
% change year-on-year - +335.38% -73.24%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 419 629 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.33% 33.23% 36.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 435 763
10th Percentile £300 £320 £226
25th Percentile £406 £419 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £489
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.81% +8.67%
75th Percentile £585 £631 £588
90th Percentile £725 £686 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 31 33
10th Percentile £13.08 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.82 £20.74 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +141.38% -17.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.50 £19.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £22.85
North West median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.76% +51.24% +3.35%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Kong
3 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (59.26%) DMZ
1 16 (59.26%) SD-WAN
2 14 (51.85%) Wireless
3 13 (48.15%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (48.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Legal
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Network Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Wireless Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) DBA
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.70%) Head of IT
5 1 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Security Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) ITSM
2 3 (11.11%) Agile
2 3 (11.11%) DevOps
2 3 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (7.41%) Decision-Making
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
3 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (3.70%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security
4 1 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (3.70%) Design Patterns
4 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps
4 1 (3.70%) GitOps
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (3.70%) Roadmaps
4 1 (3.70%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Bash
2 1 (3.70%) Bicep
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) MCSE
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Palo Alto
2 16 (59.26%) F5
3 14 (51.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) VMware