Data Centre Contracts in Scotland

Data Center
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 86 95
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 56 86 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.54% 3.01% 2.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.77% 8.30% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 64 63
10th Percentile £232 £433 £400
25th Percentile £313 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £499 £463
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +7.84% +8.82%
75th Percentile £720 £531 £538
90th Percentile £750 £654 £580
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £13.43 £13.41 -
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.07 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% - -
75th Percentile £18.75 £21.36 -
90th Percentile - £21.55 -
UK median hourly rate £24.44 £21.67 £27.88
% change year-on-year +12.76% -22.26% -45.34%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 721 1,036 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.67% 36.24% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 712 814
10th Percentile £204 £250 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £13.75 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £38.25 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.38 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -1 25 £555 +11.00% 9
Edinburgh +12 18 £531 +6.25% 10
South Lanarkshire - 7 £750 -
Renfrewshire -2 2 £525 -2.53%
Fife - 1 £310 -
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 11 (19.64%) Confluence
2 6 (10.71%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (5.36%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (5.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (3.57%) Catchpoint
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) SAN
3 5 (8.93%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (7.14%) DNS
4 4 (7.14%) VSAN
5 3 (5.36%) WAN
6 2 (3.57%) DHCP
6 2 (3.57%) IPv6
6 2 (3.57%) LAN
6 2 (3.57%) Network Security
6 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.57%) SSL
6 2 (3.57%) VPN
6 2 (3.57%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.79%) Internet
7 1 (1.79%) SNMP
7 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.79%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) JIRA
General
1 15 (26.79%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Finance
4 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Military
5 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Support Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Applications Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) JIRA Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 8 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (10.71%) Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Field Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Field Service Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Desktop Support
8 3 (5.36%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) REST
1 7 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.14%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Clustering
3 2 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) BYOD
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Windows
2 18 (32.14%) Linux
3 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.71%) CentOS
4 6 (10.71%) Debian
4 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (8.93%) Mac OS X
6 3 (5.36%) Unix
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) Data Migration
1 13 (23.21%) Migration
2 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.86%) Service Management
3 10 (17.86%) Workflow
4 9 (16.07%) Analytics
4 9 (16.07%) Customer Service
4 9 (16.07%) Kalman Filter
5 8 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
6 7 (12.50%) Agile
6 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (8.93%) Break/Fix
7 5 (8.93%) Data Protection
7 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
7 5 (8.93%) Project Management
8 4 (7.14%) Capacity Management
8 4 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.14%) Kanban
8 4 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.43%) MCSE
2 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (16.07%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 6 (10.71%) A+ Certification
5 6 (10.71%) CCNA
5 6 (10.71%) Degree
5 6 (10.71%) MCSA
5 6 (10.71%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (10.71%) RHCT
6 5 (8.93%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (5.36%) CCNP
8 2 (3.57%) CCIE
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (19.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 6 (10.71%) KVM
4 6 (10.71%) vSphere
5 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) vCenter Server
2 4 (7.14%) VxRail
3 2 (3.57%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Nagios
4 1 (1.79%) OpenView
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) VMware
2 11 (19.64%) Atlassian
3 10 (17.86%) Dell
3 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (16.07%) Citrix
5 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 5 (8.93%) Apple
6 5 (8.93%) Cisco
7 4 (7.14%) F5
8 3 (5.36%) Arista
8 3 (5.36%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.36%) McAfee
8 3 (5.36%) Oracle
8 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.57%) AppNeta
9 2 (3.57%) HP
9 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
9 2 (3.57%) Symantec
9 2 (3.57%) Tufin
9 2 (3.57%) Veritas