Data Centre Contracts in the Midlands

Data Center
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 43 96
Rank change year-on-year -18 +53 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 73 156 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.69% 4.48% 2.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.69% 14.18% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 99 85
10th Percentile £440 £350 £189
25th Percentile £525 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £772 £623 £563
90th Percentile £825 £713 £609
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £20.07 -
25th Percentile - £20.17 £15.25
Median hourly rate - £20.71 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.58% -38.00%
75th Percentile - £21.31 £15.75
90th Percentile - £21.53 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +10.53% -16.67% -43.16%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 840 1,100 1,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.95% 31.58% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 739 1,107
10th Percentile £213 £224 £213
25th Percentile £350 £370 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £573
90th Percentile £729 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 43 58
10th Percentile £10.62 £16.88 £12.27
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £14.66
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +37.43% +2.33%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.13 £19.94
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £22.90
England median hourly rate £28.13 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.09% +1.92%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 April 2024. 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
West Midlands 0 63 £600 +20.00% 33
East Midlands +3 10 £575 +2.22% 17
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (9.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (2.74%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.59%) Azure
2 1 (1.37%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.88%) WAN
2 20 (27.40%) LAN
3 16 (21.92%) Cisco Nexus
4 13 (17.81%) MPLS
5 12 (16.44%) Firewall
5 12 (16.44%) VPN
6 10 (13.70%) DHCP
6 10 (13.70%) DNS
7 9 (12.33%) PBX
7 9 (12.33%) SD-WAN
7 9 (12.33%) VoIP
7 9 (12.33%) WLAN
8 6 (8.22%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (8.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (8.22%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (8.22%) Internet
8 6 (8.22%) Wireless
9 5 (6.85%) Ethereal
9 5 (6.85%) Ethernet
9 5 (6.85%) Wireshark
General
1 23 (31.51%) Law
2 17 (23.29%) Telecoms
3 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Billing
7 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Architect
2 11 (15.07%) Network Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Data Centre Manager
4 8 (10.96%) Commercial Manager
4 8 (10.96%) IT Manager
4 8 (10.96%) Programme Manager
5 7 (9.59%) Network Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Project Manager
5 7 (9.59%) Vendor Manager
6 6 (8.22%) Consultant
6 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Buyer
7 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (6.85%) IT Buyer
7 5 (6.85%) IT Consultant
7 5 (6.85%) Network Support
7 5 (6.85%) Network Support Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Procurement Consultant
8 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) Web Services
2 5 (6.85%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (6.85%) SCADA
2 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.74%) CCTV
4 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Unix
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (19.18%) Cost Reduction
2 13 (17.81%) Computer Science
2 13 (17.81%) Migration
3 12 (16.44%) ITIL
3 12 (16.44%) Network Architecture
3 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (15.07%) Analytics
4 11 (15.07%) Programme Management
5 10 (13.70%) Architectural Design
6 9 (12.33%) Data Analytics
6 9 (12.33%) Performance Management
6 9 (12.33%) SOA
6 9 (12.33%) Storage Management
7 8 (10.96%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (9.59%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
8 7 (9.59%) Resource Management
9 6 (8.22%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (8.22%) Decision-Making
9 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (19.18%) Degree
3 9 (12.33%) CCIE
3 9 (12.33%) CCIE Data Center
4 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.85%) CCNA
5 5 (6.85%) CCNP
6 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.96%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.11%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.74%) Docker
5 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.85%) OpenView
Vendors
1 27 (36.99%) Cisco
2 11 (15.07%) VMware
3 5 (6.85%) BMC
3 5 (6.85%) CheckPoint
3 5 (6.85%) Infoblox
3 5 (6.85%) Juniper
3 5 (6.85%) Palo Alto
3 5 (6.85%) Symantec
3 5 (6.85%) Zscaler
4 4 (5.48%) F5
5 3 (4.11%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.11%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.74%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.37%) Citrix
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow