Data Centre Contracts in the North West

Data Center
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 100 72 95
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 37 96 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.34% 3.00% 2.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.03% 8.89% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 76 65
10th Percentile £378 £319 £250
25th Percentile £412 £410 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £415
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +20.48% +0.61%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £525
90th Percentile £556 £681 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £43.10 £9.90
Median % change year-on-year - +335.38% -73.24%
England median hourly rate £24.87 £22.09 £26.75
% change year-on-year +12.61% -17.44% -38.86%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 735 1,080 1,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.60% 33.80% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 722 1,070
10th Percentile £295 £296 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.14%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £588
90th Percentile £672 £675 £672
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 47 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.74 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +51.24% +3.35%
75th Percentile £42.19 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester -18 27 £433 -17.62% 21
Cheshire -1 10 £513 -8.89% 4
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (35.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.70%) Kong
3 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) DMZ
1 16 (43.24%) SD-WAN
2 14 (37.84%) Wireless
3 13 (35.14%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (35.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (16.22%) SAN
5 2 (5.41%) Network Security
6 1 (2.70%) DHCP
6 1 (2.70%) DNS
6 1 (2.70%) Firewall
6 1 (2.70%) LAN
6 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.41%) Big Data
2 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Metadata
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
General
1 18 (48.65%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Network Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) SAN Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) SAN Storage Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Storage Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Wireless Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.41%) DBA
6 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) ITSM
2 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
3 3 (8.11%) Agile
3 3 (8.11%) DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (8.11%) Migration
4 2 (5.41%) Analytics
4 2 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.41%) Data Architecture
4 2 (5.41%) Data Modelling
4 2 (5.41%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (5.41%) ETL
4 2 (5.41%) Information Management
4 2 (5.41%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (5.41%) Machine Learning
4 2 (5.41%) Metadata Management
4 2 (5.41%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (5.41%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (5.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 1 (2.70%) Bash
2 1 (2.70%) Bicep
2 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.70%) CCNA
2 1 (2.70%) CCNP
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.70%) MCSE
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Firmware
1 6 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Cisco
2 17 (45.95%) F5
2 17 (45.95%) Palo Alto
3 7 (18.92%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft