Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Data Center
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Nottingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.29% - 3.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £191
25th Percentile - - £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £275
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £363 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -65.63%

All Generic Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 92 35 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 26.59% 28.00% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 22 24
10th Percentile £190 £206 £247
25th Percentile £233 £405 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £483 £489
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% -1.28% -13.11%
75th Percentile £594 £559 £556
90th Percentile £658 £586 £600
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.69% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile - £14.04 £14.50
25th Percentile £12.95 £14.39 £18.63
Median hourly rate £13.51 £14.96 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% -42.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £15.54 £26.50
90th Percentile - £15.88 -
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.51 £13.81 £21.32
% change year-on-year -2.17% -35.21% +6.58%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware