Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Data Center
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Oxford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.12% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 33 27 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 37.08% 49.09% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 21
10th Percentile £326 £355 £210
25th Percentile £409 £389 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +5.13% +7.44%
75th Percentile £681 £569 £506
90th Percentile £950 £631 £575
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £28.88 - £35.60
25th Percentile £33.62 £13.08 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £14.08 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +201.95% -78.35% +259.51%
75th Percentile £55.94 £15.07 -
90th Percentile £68.88 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £47.54 £14.08 £48.75
% change year-on-year +237.76% -71.13% +169.63%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Oxford

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto