Data Centre Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Center
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 69 105
Rank change year-on-year -24 +36 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 38 66 55
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.76% 2.73% 1.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.53% 10.08% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 46 44
10th Percentile £430 £470 £250
25th Percentile £463 £519 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year - -1.12% +5.95%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £650
90th Percentile £768 £738 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% +3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.48% -63.49%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 687 655 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.85% 27.11% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 369 647
10th Percentile £213 £209 £252
25th Percentile £346 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £664
90th Percentile £715 £724 £725
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 56 62
10th Percentile £6.00 £15.01 £15.20
25th Percentile £15.48 £35.94 £32.04
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £83.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -41.05% +6.15% +65.86%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South West over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire -21 11 £613 +13.95% 4
Bristol +2 9 £475 +65.22% 16
Gloucestershire -1 9 £550 -24.14% 11
Somerset -3 5 £550 - 11
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) npm
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
4 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) AMQP
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) BGP
2 4 (10.53%) WAN
3 3 (7.89%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (7.89%) Network Security
3 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
3 3 (7.89%) Skype
3 3 (7.89%) VSAN
4 2 (5.26%) DWDM
4 2 (5.26%) Multicast
4 2 (5.26%) SDH
4 2 (5.26%) VPN
5 1 (2.63%) MPLS
5 1 (2.63%) NGFW
5 1 (2.63%) OSPF
5 1 (2.63%) SAN
5 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) RDBMS
1 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.89%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
1 5 (13.16%) Maven
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.26%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Applications Support
5 3 (7.89%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Network Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.53%) Private Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) PKI
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 8 (21.05%) Linux
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.53%) CentOS
4 4 (10.53%) Unix
4 4 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) ITIL
1 9 (23.68%) Migration
2 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
2 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.16%) DevOps
3 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
3 5 (13.16%) Validation
4 4 (10.53%) Agile
4 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 4 (10.53%) People Management
4 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (7.89%) Data Centre Operations
5 3 (7.89%) Design Patterns
5 3 (7.89%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (7.89%) Microservices
5 3 (7.89%) NsoIT
5 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) C
4 1 (2.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) DV Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.26%) CCNP
5 2 (5.26%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) CCNA
6 1 (2.63%) CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (2.63%) CISA
6 1 (2.63%) CISM
6 1 (2.63%) Degree
6 1 (2.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) NCSC
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
1 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Ansible
2 5 (13.16%) Grafana
3 3 (7.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (7.89%) OPNET
3 3 (7.89%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Cisco
2 6 (15.79%) Oracle
2 6 (15.79%) VMware
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.89%) Juniper
5 2 (5.26%) Arista
5 2 (5.26%) F5
5 2 (5.26%) IBM
5 2 (5.26%) Nokia
5 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Brocade
6 1 (2.63%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.63%) NetApp
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.63%) Zscaler