Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Northumberland

Data Center
North East > Northumberland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Northumberland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northumberland 25.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North East median daily rate £175 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -58.82% +6.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
North East median hourly rate £74.26 - -

All Generic Skills
Northumberland

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 Northumberland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northumberland 87.50% 22.73% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £438 £425 £428
% change year-on-year +2.94% -0.81% -18.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -
North East median hourly rate £16.73 £46.18 £32.50
% change year-on-year -63.77% +42.09% -50.76%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Northumberland

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Northumberland

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Northumberland

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northumberland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware