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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 49 61
Rank change year-on-year -24 +12 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 46 126 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.62% 3.83% 3.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.57% 12.13% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 90 99
10th Percentile £463 £460 £232
25th Percentile £522 £463 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.18% +7.32%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £628
90th Percentile £738 - £700
England median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% +4.76%
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% -56.48%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £21.67
% change year-on-year +1.13% +14.77% -14.18%

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 537 1,039 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.56% 31.57% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 619 675
10th Percentile £225 £300 £300
25th Percentile £363 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £609 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 183 118
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.51 £24.31 -
Median hourly rate £22.84 £55.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -58.47% +461.22% -77.20%
75th Percentile £58.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.74 £72.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +24 15 £575 -4.17% 25
Wiltshire -28 13 £575 +6.88% 17
Somerset -6 8 £550 +243.75% 9
Gloucestershire +27 7 £545 -22.14% 24
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 4 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) AWS
2 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.17%) GCP
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.17%) npm
4 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) VPN
3 6 (13.04%) LAN
3 6 (13.04%) WAN
4 5 (10.87%) BGP
4 5 (10.87%) Network Security
5 4 (8.70%) DNS
5 4 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (8.70%) Kerberos
5 4 (8.70%) Multicast
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.17%) Internet
6 1 (2.17%) MPLS
6 1 (2.17%) OSPF
6 1 (2.17%) SAN
6 1 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.17%) VSAN
6 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
1 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Maven
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Coordinator
2 8 (17.39%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 7 (15.22%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Network Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Network Technical Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Data Centre Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Head of Technology
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Head of Infrastructure
7 2 (4.35%) Head of IT
7 2 (4.35%) IT Director
7 2 (4.35%) Senior
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Director
7 2 (4.35%) Technology Director
7 2 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
1 4 (8.70%) PKI
1 4 (8.70%) Replication
2 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.35%) CentOS
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Migration
2 8 (17.39%) Critical Thinking
3 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
4 6 (13.04%) Network Architecture
4 6 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (10.87%) Agile
5 5 (10.87%) Validation
6 4 (8.70%) DevOps
6 4 (8.70%) RBAC
6 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.70%) Waterfall
7 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.52%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (6.52%) NsoIT
7 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.52%) Project Management
7 3 (6.52%) Server Migrations
7 3 (6.52%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (4.35%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) Python
2 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.17%) C
3 1 (2.17%) Java
3 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (28.26%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) CESG Certified Professional
4 4 (8.70%) CISA
4 4 (8.70%) CISSP
4 4 (8.70%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) CCNP
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.17%) MCSA
6 1 (2.17%) MCSE
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.17%) OCA
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) JSP 440
1 8 (17.39%) RMADS
2 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.17%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Ansible
1 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.17%) Nessus
3 1 (2.17%) OPNET
3 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
3 1 (2.17%) SCCM
3 1 (2.17%) VxRail
3 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Cisco
2 5 (10.87%) SolarWinds
3 4 (8.70%) VMware
4 3 (6.52%) Arista
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.17%) Dell
6 1 (2.17%) F5
6 1 (2.17%) Juniper
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam