Data Center
Manchester > Salford
The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Salford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 29 Sep 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 9 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing Data Centre | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Salford | - | - | 6.90% |
| As % of the Miscellaneous category | - | - | 20.00% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | £270 |
| Manchester median daily rate | £550 | £498 | £475 |
| % change year-on-year | +10.55% | +4.74% | -2.56% |
All Generic Skills
Salford
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 Salford.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills | 3 | 17 | 10 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salford | 12.00% | 44.74% | 34.48% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 3 | 16 | 9 |
| 10th Percentile | £465 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £563 | - | £233 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £750 | £294 | £270 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +154.78% | +9.03% | -36.47% |
| 75th Percentile | £775 | - | £538 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £618 |
| Manchester median daily rate | £475 | £490 | £475 |
| % change year-on-year | -3.06% | +3.16% | -5.00% |
Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford
Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Salford.
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Daily Rate Trend in Salford
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Data Centre.
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Hourly Rate Trend in Salford
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Data Centre.
