Data Centre Contracts in the North of England

Data Center
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 79 86
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 95 169 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.02% 2.91% 2.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.54% 9.44% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 140 128
10th Percentile £320 £300 £250
25th Percentile £378 £410 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £541
90th Percentile £619 £691 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - £24.73 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.48 -
Median hourly rate £23.69 £43.10 £9.90
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +335.38% -77.50%
75th Percentile £25.83 £54.61 -
90th Percentile - £61.29 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £26.50
% change year-on-year +14.77% -18.23% -33.33%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,260 1,791 2,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.85% 30.83% 34.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 1,214 1,824
10th Percentile £265 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £516 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% +8.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £620 £575
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 83 104
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.35
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £13.72
Median hourly rate £15.05 £16.85 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -9.89% +4.47%
75th Percentile £26.54 £46.99 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.55 £43.95
England median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Yorkshire +10 51 £451 -18.00% 26
North West -25 37 £433 -13.50% 33
North East +7 7 £448 -29.80% 15
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.21%) IIS
3 1 (1.05%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.74%) GitHub
2 11 (11.58%) Azure
3 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.11%) GCP
4 2 (2.11%) IaaS
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.11%) PaaS
4 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.11%) SaaS
5 1 (1.05%) AWS
5 1 (1.05%) Kong
5 1 (1.05%) Miro
5 1 (1.05%) Serverless
5 1 (1.05%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.84%) Cisco Nexus
1 16 (16.84%) DMZ
1 16 (16.84%) SD-WAN
2 14 (14.74%) Wireless
3 13 (13.68%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (11.58%) SAN
5 10 (10.53%) DHCP
5 10 (10.53%) DNS
5 10 (10.53%) Firewall
6 7 (7.37%) Remote Desktop
6 7 (7.37%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (6.32%) LAN
7 6 (6.32%) WAN
8 4 (4.21%) WLAN
9 3 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (2.11%) Network Security
11 1 (1.05%) SMTP
11 1 (1.05%) VPN
11 1 (1.05%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) Big Data
2 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.11%) Metadata
3 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 31 (32.63%) Finance
2 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Banking
4 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Law
6 1 (1.05%) Legal
6 1 (1.05%) Marketing
6 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.74%) Data Centre Engineer
3 12 (12.63%) Storage Manager
4 11 (11.58%) Migration Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Data Migration Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Senior
6 8 (8.42%) VMware Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) SAN Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) SAN Storage Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Wireless Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) IT Technician
10 4 (4.21%) Network Operations Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) YAML
2 2 (2.11%) Redfish
3 1 (1.05%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.05%) JSON
3 1 (1.05%) LDAP
3 1 (1.05%) Middleware
3 1 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (1.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.26%) Clustering
2 4 (4.21%) NHS
2 4 (4.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.05%) PKI
3 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Linux
2 16 (16.84%) Windows
3 14 (14.74%) zOS
4 9 (9.47%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.42%) VMS
6 7 (7.37%) Windows 7
6 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
7 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (3.16%) CentOS
10 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.26%) Migration
2 22 (23.16%) Agile
3 15 (15.79%) Project Management
4 14 (14.74%) Problem Management
4 14 (14.74%) Storage Management
5 13 (13.68%) ITSM
6 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.47%) Cost Management
7 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (9.47%) Software Testing
8 7 (7.37%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (7.37%) Project Delivery
8 7 (7.37%) Runbook
9 6 (6.32%) Change Management
10 5 (5.26%) Computer Science
11 4 (4.21%) DevOps
11 4 (4.21%) High Availability
11 4 (4.21%) Waterfall
12 3 (3.16%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.74%) JCL
1 14 (14.74%) Python
1 14 (14.74%) REXX
2 8 (8.42%) SQL
3 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.05%) Bash
4 1 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) CCNA
1 9 (9.47%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (8.42%) Network+ Certification
3 7 (7.37%) Degree
3 7 (7.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.21%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.11%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) CCNP
7 1 (1.05%) MCSE
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (14.74%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.74%) NFS
2 14 (14.74%) Time Sharing Option
3 10 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.37%) KVM
4 7 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (7.37%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (6.32%) Firmware
5 6 (6.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.05%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.05%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (15.79%) vCenter Server
2 14 (14.74%) Ansible
2 14 (14.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (2.11%) Grafana
4 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.05%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.05%) vMotion
4 1 (1.05%) vRealize
4 1 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Cisco
2 18 (18.95%) Palo Alto
3 17 (17.89%) F5
3 17 (17.89%) VMware
4 15 (15.79%) Dell
5 14 (14.74%) Broadcom
5 14 (14.74%) Brocade
5 14 (14.74%) CA
5 14 (14.74%) IBM
6 11 (11.58%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.21%) Juniper
8 1 (1.05%) Aruba
8 1 (1.05%) Citrix
8 1 (1.05%) Google
8 1 (1.05%) HP
8 1 (1.05%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.05%) Meraki
8 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Symantec