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 26 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 51 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 31 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.57% 1.57% 3.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.54% 4.90% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 10
10th Percentile £295 £411 £186
25th Percentile £302 £550 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £565 £400
Median % change year-on-year -35.40% +41.25% +13.48%
75th Percentile £431 £579 £588
90th Percentile £509 £580 £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -15.36% +29.41% +6.25%
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 325 143 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 47.86% 32.13% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 85 78
10th Percentile £319 £209 £279
25th Percentile £388 £300 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -2.44% -3.30%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £598
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £38.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year -56.05% +81.84% +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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +1 29 £388 -33.07% 1
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 6 (19.35%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.45%) CICS
3 2 (6.45%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.45%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (12.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.90%) PowerApps
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.23%) FCoE
2 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) Multicast
2 1 (3.23%) NAS
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) Data Mining
2 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.68%) Apache Hive
3 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
3 3 (9.68%) HBase
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (74.19%) Finance
2 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (25.81%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Billing
5 4 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (61.29%) Analyst
2 9 (29.03%) Data Analyst
3 7 (22.58%) Project Manager
4 6 (19.35%) Business Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Report Analyst
5 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (12.90%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Data Centre Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Data Centre Business Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Hadoop Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (9.68%) Service Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Finance Business Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Financial Business Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Middleware
1 3 (9.68%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (6.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Mainframe
2 6 (19.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Clustering
3 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Solaris
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) zOS
3 1 (3.23%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Budgeting
1 12 (38.71%) Cost Management
1 12 (38.71%) Virtual Environments
2 10 (32.26%) ITIL
2 10 (32.26%) Service Management
3 9 (29.03%) Analytics
3 9 (29.03%) Data Analysis
4 8 (25.81%) Visualisation
5 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (22.58%) Data Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (19.35%) Data Mapping
6 6 (19.35%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (19.35%) FinOps
6 6 (19.35%) Portfolio Management
6 6 (19.35%) Waterfall
7 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 5 (16.13%) Cost Reduction
7 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) RIBA
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) HDFS
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.45%) KVM
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) NFS
3 1 (3.23%) SRDF
3 1 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Ansible
2 4 (12.90%) Puppet
3 3 (9.68%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Terraform
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco
3 2 (6.45%) EMC
3 2 (6.45%) F5
3 2 (6.45%) NetApp
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Commvault
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) Pure Storage