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 advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 59 85
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 115 134 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.60% 3.70% 2.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.87% 13.18% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 118 74
10th Percentile £333 £200 £257
25th Percentile £463 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £573
90th Percentile £685 £704 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £34.35 - £60.52
25th Percentile - £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -67.41% +73.71%
75th Percentile - £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £22.09 £26.75
% change year-on-year +12.61% -17.44% -38.86%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,058 1,017 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 33.08% 28.05% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 703 658
10th Percentile £300 £263 £205
25th Percentile £450 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £588
90th Percentile £691 £725 £666
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 138 58
10th Percentile £13.69 - £15.46
25th Percentile £15.62 - £25.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +359.18% -80.30% +0.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

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 29 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 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
Wiltshire +12 79 £538 -6.43% 25
Somerset +21 16 £160 -73.33% 3
Bristol -4 13 £600 +43.28% 11
Devon -3 3 £600 +14.29% 3
Gloucestershire -14 2 £700 +33.33% 2
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 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.61%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.35%) IaaS
2 27 (23.48%) Cloud Computing
2 27 (23.48%) PaaS
2 27 (23.48%) SaaS
3 8 (6.96%) Azure
4 4 (3.48%) BigCommerce
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.74%) AWS
6 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 52 (45.22%) WAN
2 49 (42.61%) LAN
3 36 (31.30%) Firewall
4 19 (16.52%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (12.17%) VSAN
6 13 (11.30%) DNS
7 9 (7.83%) MPLS
7 9 (7.83%) SAN
8 8 (6.96%) DHCP
8 8 (6.96%) Wireless
9 6 (5.22%) Network Security
9 6 (5.22%) SD-WAN
10 5 (4.35%) Unified Communications
10 5 (4.35%) VoIP
10 5 (4.35%) VPN
11 4 (3.48%) WLAN
12 3 (2.61%) Internet
12 3 (2.61%) NGFW
13 2 (1.74%) Structured Cabling
14 1 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) JIRA
General
1 44 (38.26%) Public Sector
2 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.83%) Aerospace
5 8 (6.96%) Finance
5 8 (6.96%) Marketing
6 5 (4.35%) Electronics
6 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.48%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Billing
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (31.30%) Architect
2 33 (28.70%) Network Architect
2 33 (28.70%) Network Engineer
3 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (14.78%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) VMware Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) Lead
7 10 (8.70%) Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) IT Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Lead Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.61%) Author
11 3 (2.61%) Desktop Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Network Security Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) VML
2 1 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Private Cloud
2 14 (12.17%) PKI
3 8 (6.96%) Client/Server
3 8 (6.96%) Clustering
4 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.48%) NHS
4 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.61%) Solar Power
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.65%) Windows
2 15 (13.04%) Linux
3 11 (9.57%) Unix
4 3 (2.61%) VMS
4 3 (2.61%) Windows 2000
4 3 (2.61%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.26%) Network Management
2 32 (27.83%) Zero Trust
3 27 (23.48%) Business Strategy
3 27 (23.48%) Open Source
4 23 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (15.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 16 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (13.91%) Resource Management
8 15 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
9 13 (11.30%) Migration
9 13 (11.30%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 12 (10.43%) Converged Infrastructure
10 12 (10.43%) Server Management
11 11 (9.57%) Application Packaging
11 11 (9.57%) Decision-Making
12 9 (7.83%) Asset Management
12 9 (7.83%) Load Balancing
13 8 (6.96%) Data Migration
13 8 (6.96%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
3 2 (1.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (71.30%) Security Cleared
2 50 (43.48%) DV Cleared
3 32 (27.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.70%) Degree
5 5 (4.35%) CCNA
5 5 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.61%) CCNP
7 1 (0.87%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.87%) CISM
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) MCSE
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 31 (26.96%) VMware Infrastructure
1 31 (26.96%) vSphere
2 17 (14.78%) VMware NSX
3 14 (12.17%) Active Directory
4 13 (11.30%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (6.96%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (6.96%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.87%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (13.91%) vCenter Server
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (6.96%) Nagios
2 8 (6.96%) NetBackup
2 8 (6.96%) SCCM
3 3 (2.61%) Ansible
3 3 (2.61%) Terraform
4 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (40.87%) VMware
2 12 (10.43%) Cisco
3 9 (7.83%) Dell
3 9 (7.83%) SAP
4 8 (6.96%) Hitachi
4 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.96%) NetApp
5 7 (6.09%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.22%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 4 (3.48%) Adobe
8 4 (3.48%) Aruba
8 4 (3.48%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.48%) F5
8 4 (3.48%) Meraki
8 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.48%) Sitecore
9 3 (2.61%) Intel
9 3 (2.61%) Juniper
10 2 (1.74%) Splunk