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 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 35 5 25
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.17% 1.81% 5.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.93% 3.55% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 3 14
10th Percentile £296 £331 £223
25th Percentile £330 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £406
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +4.62% -10.22%
75th Percentile £486 £550 £427
90th Percentile £526 £618 £430
Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £420 £400
% change year-on-year +4.29% +5.00% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -40.00% -
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year - -40.00% -

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 392 141 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 46.72% 50.90% 35.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 91 90
10th Percentile £320 £209 £383
25th Percentile £414 £244 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £588
90th Percentile £675 £653 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +1.99% +8.94% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £11.75 £10.97
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £12.73
Median % change year-on-year - +6.09% +24.27%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.78 £40.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +128.57% +64.63%

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 19 January 2026.

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 19 January 2026. 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 -30 33 £454 +6.82% 2
Barnsley - 2 £285 -
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 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.71%) CICS
3 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) LAN
2 3 (8.57%) WAN
3 2 (5.71%) VPN
4 1 (2.86%) BGP
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.86%) FCoE
4 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.86%) Internet
4 1 (2.86%) IPsec
4 1 (2.86%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.86%) Multicast
4 1 (2.86%) NAS
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) OSPF
4 1 (2.86%) SAN
4 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) Power BI
2 4 (11.43%) Data Mining
2 4 (11.43%) Power Query
2 4 (11.43%) PowerPivot
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
3 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.57%) HBase
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (68.57%) Finance
2 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 13 (37.14%) Banking
4 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (25.71%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (11.43%) Billing
7 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Data Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Project Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Report Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Network Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Network Project Manager
5 4 (11.43%) PMO Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Strategy Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 2 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Project Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
1 3 (8.57%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (5.71%) LDAP
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Mainframe
2 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Solaris
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) zOS
3 1 (2.86%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Analytics
1 12 (34.29%) Budgeting
1 12 (34.29%) Cost Management
1 12 (34.29%) Virtual Environments
2 11 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 10 (28.57%) ITIL
3 10 (28.57%) Service Management
4 9 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 7 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (17.14%) Data Mapping
7 6 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (17.14%) FinOps
7 6 (17.14%) Portfolio Management
7 6 (17.14%) Visualisation
8 5 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) VBA
4 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) CCIE
1 1 (2.86%) CCNP
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.86%) CISSP
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.43%) PMO
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) HDFS
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.71%) KVM
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) NFS
3 1 (2.86%) SRDF
3 1 (2.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.86%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) Puppet
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 3 (8.57%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Alibaba
3 2 (5.71%) EMC
3 2 (5.71%) F5
3 2 (5.71%) NetApp
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Aruba
4 1 (2.86%) ForeScout
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage