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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -25 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 39 43 16
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.54% 6.75% 3.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.25% 16.54% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 9
10th Percentile - £297 -
25th Percentile £358 £338 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £375 £472
Median % change year-on-year +32.27% -20.55% -0.63%
75th Percentile £530 £407 £565
90th Percentile £557 £499 £579
Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £405 £563
% change year-on-year +14.81% -28.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 - £24.87

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 473 260 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.88% 40.82% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 158 79
10th Percentile £358 £306 £208
25th Percentile £413 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £431 £520
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% -17.07% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £614
90th Percentile £688 £600 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £514
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.59% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £14.61 - £20.41
25th Percentile £16.00 - £33.41
Median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -
75th Percentile £22.20 - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
% change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -31.37%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -36 29 £519 +37.48% 7
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 (10.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) GCP
3 4 (10.26%) GitHub
4 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (5.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Storage
5 2 (5.13%) Datadog
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) SAN
2 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) NAS
3 2 (5.13%) BGP
3 2 (5.13%) Network Security
3 2 (5.13%) VSAN
4 1 (2.56%) Calico
4 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.56%) NaaS
4 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) Git
General
1 20 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Banking
3 12 (30.77%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Billing
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Consultant
3 5 (12.82%) Design Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) ICT Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Network Design Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Network Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior Design Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Storage Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) GCP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Redfish
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Middleware
3 2 (5.13%) SLSA
3 2 (5.13%) YAML
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Private Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (10.26%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (10.26%) EMC VNX
4 4 (10.26%) Replication
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.56%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.56%) IoT
6 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (5.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Runbook
2 13 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 13 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (25.64%) Migration
3 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
4 9 (23.08%) Asset Management
4 9 (23.08%) Data Centre Operations
4 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
4 9 (23.08%) Inventory Management
5 8 (20.51%) Cloud Security
5 8 (20.51%) DevOps
6 7 (17.95%) Risk Management
7 6 (15.38%) Agile
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (12.82%) Observability
9 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 4 (10.26%) DevSecOps
9 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (10.26%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (5.13%) JCL
3 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.13%) REXX
4 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.69%) NCDA
1 3 (7.69%) NCIE
1 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (5.13%) CCSK
2 2 (5.13%) CCSP
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.13%) CISM
2 2 (5.13%) CISSP
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) PMO
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Firmware
2 8 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) NFS
4 3 (7.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (7.69%) SRDF
4 3 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.69%) vSphere
5 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.13%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (2.56%) ACF2
6 1 (2.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Dell DRAC
2 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.38%) Ansible
4 4 (10.26%) EMC VPLEX
4 4 (10.26%) SnapMirror
5 3 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (7.69%) NetBackup
5 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.69%) SnapVault
5 3 (7.69%) vCenter Server
6 2 (5.13%) Argo
6 2 (5.13%) Grafana
6 2 (5.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Cilium
7 1 (2.56%) Control-M
7 1 (2.56%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) VMware
2 6 (15.38%) Brocade
2 6 (15.38%) Dell
3 5 (12.82%) Cisco
3 5 (12.82%) Juniper
4 4 (10.26%) 3PAR
4 4 (10.26%) EMC
4 4 (10.26%) NetApp
5 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
5 3 (7.69%) IBM
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.69%) Veeam
6 2 (5.13%) Broadcom
6 2 (5.13%) Google
6 2 (5.13%) Pure Storage
6 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle
7 1 (2.56%) Splunk