Data Centre Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Center
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 46 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 33 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.48% 1.86% 4.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.46% 5.33% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 10
10th Percentile £295 £314 £186
25th Percentile £308 £377 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £558 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.25% +39.38% +9.59%
75th Percentile £484 £576 £588
90th Percentile £531 £580 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £420 £400
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 349 150 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 47.35% 34.88% 33.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 94 77
10th Percentile £314 £209 £292
25th Percentile £389 £311 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £594
90th Percentile £644 £646 £727
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £27.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.21% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.43 £37.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year -50.87% +75.97% +12.16%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in South Yorkshire

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Sheffield -5 31 £400 -12.71%
Barnsley -10 2 £303 -45.74%
Data Centre
Yorkshire

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.06%) CICS
3 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.06%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (12.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) PowerApps
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) LAN
2 2 (6.06%) WAN
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.03%) FCoE
3 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
3 1 (3.03%) IPsec
3 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.03%) Multicast
3 1 (3.03%) NAS
3 1 (3.03%) SAN
3 1 (3.03%) SSL
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) Power BI
2 4 (12.12%) Data Mining
2 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.09%) Apache Hive
3 3 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 3 (9.09%) HBase
4 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Power Query
5 1 (3.03%) PowerPivot
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (75.76%) Finance
2 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 10 (30.30%) Banking
4 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Billing
5 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Analyst
2 9 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 8 (24.24%) Project Manager
4 6 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Report Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Senior
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Data Centre Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Data Centre Business Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Hadoop Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (9.09%) Service Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Finance Business Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Middleware
1 3 (9.09%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (6.06%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 6 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.06%) Clustering
4 2 (6.06%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Solaris
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) zOS
3 1 (3.03%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Budgeting
1 12 (36.36%) Cost Management
1 12 (36.36%) Virtual Environments
2 10 (30.30%) Analytics
2 10 (30.30%) Data Analysis
2 10 (30.30%) ITIL
2 10 (30.30%) Service Management
3 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (24.24%) Visualisation
4 7 (21.21%) Data Analytics
5 6 (18.18%) Agile
5 6 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (18.18%) Data Mapping
5 6 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (18.18%) FinOps
5 6 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
5 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 5 (15.15%) Data Management
6 5 (15.15%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) RIBA
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) HDFS
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.06%) KVM
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) NFS
3 1 (3.03%) SRDF
3 1 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
2 4 (12.12%) Puppet
3 3 (9.09%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco
2 2 (6.06%) EMC
2 2 (6.06%) F5
2 2 (6.06%) NetApp
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) Pure Storage