Data Centre Contracts 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 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 60 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 51 115 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.04% 3.59% 3.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.43% 10.89% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 83 118
10th Percentile £485 £333 £200
25th Percentile £519 £463 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £685 £704
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
10th Percentile - £34.35 -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -67.41%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £24.87 £22.09
% change year-on-year -0.84% +12.61% -17.44%

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 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the South West

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the South West

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 1 May 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 -18 16 £575 +6.88% 29
Bristol +21 15 £613 +2.08% 29
Gloucestershire +29 14 £547 -21.86% 28
Somerset -10 3 £518 +223.44% 11
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.69%) AWS
2 1 (1.96%) Azure
2 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (47.06%) Firewall
2 13 (25.49%) DNS
2 13 (25.49%) Kerberos
3 10 (19.61%) LAN
3 10 (19.61%) Network Security
4 9 (17.65%) WAN
5 6 (11.76%) VPN
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (3.92%) Internet
7 1 (1.96%) BGP
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.96%) IGMP
7 1 (1.96%) Multicast
7 1 (1.96%) NGFW
7 1 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.96%) VSAN
7 1 (1.96%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Aerospace
3 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (56.86%) Architect
2 12 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (21.57%) Network Architect
4 9 (17.65%) Network Technical Architect
4 9 (17.65%) Technical Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Coordinator
5 7 (13.73%) Security Assurance Coordinator
6 3 (5.88%) Head of Technology
6 3 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (3.92%) Hardware Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Head of IT
7 2 (3.92%) IT Director
7 2 (3.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.92%) Network Design Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Technical Director
7 2 (3.92%) Technology Director
8 1 (1.96%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) .NET
2 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Replication
2 12 (23.53%) PKI
3 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) CentOS
5 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) RBAC
2 10 (19.61%) Network Architecture
2 10 (19.61%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (13.73%) Critical Thinking
4 6 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 4 (7.84%) Agile
5 4 (7.84%) Cryptography
5 4 (7.84%) Key Management
5 4 (7.84%) Migration
5 4 (7.84%) NsoIT
5 4 (7.84%) Roadmaps
6 3 (5.88%) Network Design
6 3 (5.88%) Service Management
6 3 (5.88%) Waterfall
7 2 (3.92%) Change Management
7 2 (3.92%) Configuration Management
7 2 (3.92%) ITIL
7 2 (3.92%) Project Management
7 2 (3.92%) Security Management
7 2 (3.92%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) Python
2 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 26 (50.98%) SC Cleared
3 10 (19.61%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) Degree
5 3 (5.88%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (5.88%) CISA
5 3 (5.88%) CISSP
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) MCSA
6 1 (1.96%) MCSE
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.96%) OCA
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) JSP 440
1 7 (13.73%) RMADS
2 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 4 (7.84%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) GRC
4 1 (1.96%) NIST
4 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Ansible
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
1 2 (3.92%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.96%) Nessus
2 1 (1.96%) OPNET
2 1 (1.96%) PowerCLI
2 1 (1.96%) Puppet
2 1 (1.96%) SCCM
2 1 (1.96%) VxRail
2 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) SolarWinds
2 3 (5.88%) Cisco
2 3 (5.88%) VMware
3 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.96%) Dell
4 1 (1.96%) F5
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.96%) Veeam