Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Data Center
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 18 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.25% 0.73% 7.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.44% 2.70% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile - - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.89% -2.49%
75th Percentile - - £656
90th Percentile - - £675
South East median daily rate £419 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -19.47% +1.46% -0.97%

All Generic Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 45 37 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 28.13% 27.01% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 50
10th Percentile £199 £210 £180
25th Percentile £329 £325 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £491
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.16% +9.00%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £634
90th Percentile £606 £598 £653
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £17.60 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.99 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -19.59% +94.58%
75th Percentile £26.13 - -
90th Percentile £26.80 - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.38% - +54.41%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Oxford - 2 £600 - 1
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos