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 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 57 92
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 46 85 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.34% 3.19% 2.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.21% 11.24% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 59 52
10th Percentile £425 £440 £250
25th Percentile £468 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £556 £641
90th Percentile £775 £659 £675
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.90 £23.25
% change year-on-year +14.84% -5.81% -61.25%

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 638 756 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.42% 28.39% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 434 640
10th Percentile £225 £266 £300
25th Percentile £375 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -2.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £650
90th Percentile £706 £700 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 107 52
10th Percentile £6.00 £15.62 £18.55
25th Percentile £15.48 £65.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £22.84 £70.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.37% -7.28% +37.27%
75th Percentile £44.81 £72.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.89 £57.35 £46.18
% change year-on-year -42.65% +24.19% +77.62%

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
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 13 September 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 13 September 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
Bristol +15 14 £550 +91.30% 10
Wiltshire -20 14 £613 +14.49% 3
Gloucestershire +23 7 £550 -27.51% 11
Somerset +6 7 £550 +243.75% 4
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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 4 (8.70%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) npm
4 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.17%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) WAN
3 6 (13.04%) Network Security
4 5 (10.87%) BGP
5 4 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (8.70%) LAN
5 4 (8.70%) Multicast
5 4 (8.70%) VPN
5 4 (8.70%) VSAN
6 3 (6.52%) AMQP
6 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
6 3 (6.52%) Skype
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.17%) IGMP
7 1 (2.17%) MPLS
7 1 (2.17%) OSPF
7 1 (2.17%) SAN
7 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
1 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Maven
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Network Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Network Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Coordinator
4 4 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Security Assurance Coordinator
5 3 (6.52%) Lead
5 3 (6.52%) Network Technical Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Data Centre Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Head of Technology
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (6.52%) PKI
3 3 (6.52%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Windows
2 9 (19.57%) Linux
3 4 (8.70%) CentOS
3 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.70%) Unix
3 4 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Migration
2 6 (13.04%) DevOps
2 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (13.04%) ITIL
2 6 (13.04%) Network Architecture
2 6 (13.04%) Validation
3 5 (10.87%) Agile
3 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
3 5 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (8.70%) NsoIT
4 4 (8.70%) People Management
4 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
4 4 (8.70%) Server Migrations
4 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (8.70%) Test Automation
4 4 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (8.70%) Waterfall
5 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) Java
1 3 (6.52%) SQL
2 2 (4.35%) C
2 2 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (2.17%) Bicep
3 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) DV Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) CISSP
5 4 (8.70%) CESG Certified Professional
5 4 (8.70%) CISA
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.52%) Degree
7 2 (4.35%) CCNP
8 1 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.17%) CCNA
8 1 (2.17%) CCSP
8 1 (2.17%) CISM
8 1 (2.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.70%) JSP 440
2 4 (8.70%) RMADS
3 3 (6.52%) NCSC
4 2 (4.35%) NIST
5 1 (2.17%) GRC
5 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) OPNET
2 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (6.52%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) Nessus
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
5 1 (2.17%) VxRail
5 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Cisco
1 7 (15.22%) VMware
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.52%) Arista
5 1 (2.17%) Brocade
5 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.17%) Dell
5 1 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.17%) F5
5 1 (2.17%) Juniper
5 1 (2.17%) NetApp
5 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat