Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Data Center
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Northampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.16% - 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.15% - 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.18%
75th Percentile £540 - £498
90th Percentile £547 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £533 - £495
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

All Generic Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 97 20 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 41.81% 17.39% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 16 18
10th Percentile £331 - £320
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £428 £445
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% -3.76% +1.14%
75th Percentile £449 £556 £477
90th Percentile £492 £575 £500
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £445 £445
% change year-on-year -5.51% -0.11% +0.56%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Northampton

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Northampton over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Northampton

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Payments Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Debt
2 3 (60.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft