Data Centre Contracts in Preston

Data Center
Lancashire > Preston

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Preston. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 5.80% - 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 21.05% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £403
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.60%
75th Percentile £538 - £404
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £500 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +84.62%

All Generic Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 27.54% 12.73% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile £334 £593 £272
25th Percentile £360 £621 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £750 £403
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +86.34% -9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £981 £493
90th Percentile £596 £988 £587
Lancashire median daily rate £530 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £26.24 - £17.20
25th Percentile £26.88 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.59%
75th Percentile £33.82 - £53.35
90th Percentile £48.16 - £61.35
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £15.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +91.67% -33.33% -45.59%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Preston

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Preston.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Preston

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Preston over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Preston

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware