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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 64 96
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 36 73 55
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.63% 3.02% 1.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.11% 11.01% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 51 43
10th Percentile £428 £500 £250
25th Percentile £461 £519 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £678 £671 £650
90th Percentile £771 £738 £675
England median daily rate £519 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -3.53% -0.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +25.75% -13.04% -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 704 663 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.90% 27.39% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 375 642
10th Percentile £213 £213 £250
25th Percentile £369 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £639 £672 £660
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 54 60
10th Percentile £6.00 £14.77 £15.16
25th Percentile £15.48 £35.31 £30.16
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £83.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.37% +3.78% +50.85%

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 14 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 14 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 -25 11 £550 +2.33% 3
Gloucestershire -3 10 £550 -4.35% 9
Bristol -3 9 £475 +65.22% 16
Somerset -3 2 £550 - 7
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) npm
4 5 (13.89%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
7 1 (2.78%) PaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) AMQP
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) BGP
2 4 (11.11%) WAN
3 3 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (8.33%) Network Security
3 3 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (8.33%) Skype
3 3 (8.33%) VSAN
4 2 (5.56%) DWDM
4 2 (5.56%) Multicast
4 2 (5.56%) SDH
4 2 (5.56%) VPN
5 1 (2.78%) MPLS
5 1 (2.78%) NGFW
5 1 (2.78%) OSPF
5 1 (2.78%) SAN
5 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) RDBMS
1 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
1 6 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Applications Support
4 4 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Head of Technology
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.56%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) PKI
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Windows
2 9 (25.00%) Linux
3 6 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (13.89%) CentOS
5 4 (11.11%) Unix
5 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
6 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) ITIL
2 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (16.67%) Migration
3 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (11.11%) Microservices
5 4 (11.11%) People Management
5 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (11.11%) Validation
6 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.33%) Network Design
6 3 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) C
4 1 (2.78%) Bicep
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.56%) CCNP
6 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.78%) CCNA
6 1 (2.78%) CCSP
6 1 (2.78%) CISM
6 1 (2.78%) CISSP
6 1 (2.78%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) Ansible
2 6 (16.67%) Grafana
3 3 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (8.33%) OPNET
3 3 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Cisco
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Juniper
4 2 (5.56%) Arista
4 2 (5.56%) F5
4 2 (5.56%) IBM
4 2 (5.56%) Nokia
4 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.78%) Brocade
5 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.78%) NetApp
5 1 (2.78%) Sophos
5 1 (2.78%) Zscaler