Data Centre Contract Job Trends in North Lanarkshire

Data Center
Scotland > North Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in North Lanarkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Lanarkshire 11.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Scotland median daily rate £466 £444 £600
% change year-on-year +4.96% -26.04% +19.17%

All Generic Skills
North Lanarkshire

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 North Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Lanarkshire 22.22% 33.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +1.62% - -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £19.97 £18.20
% change year-on-year +50.23% +9.73% +13.82%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in North Lanarkshire

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in North Lanarkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in North Lanarkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Lanarkshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in North Lanarkshire

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 North Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Bellshill - 1 £500 -
Data Centre
Scotland

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Lanarkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware