Data Centre Contracts in Merseyside

Data Center
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.19% - 2.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% - 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £481 - £313
25th Percentile £490 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £533 - £438
90th Percentile £534 - £488
North West median daily rate £500 £433 £500
% change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% +20.48%

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 42 32 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 25.00% 14.04% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 66
10th Percentile £143 £115 £288
25th Percentile £150 £169 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £369 £450
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% -18.06% +4.65%
75th Percentile £534 £497 £626
90th Percentile £550 £540 £675
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £17.90 £16.53
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.09 £17.31
Median hourly rate £22.00 £32.12 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.50% +66.83% -41.75%
75th Percentile £23.00 £34.24 £21.81
90th Percentile - £34.32 £22.98
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Merseyside

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Merseyside

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Merseyside

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Liverpool - 2 £518 - 6
Data Centre
North West

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IGMP
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) LAN Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Consultant
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) F5