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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 35 25
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 33 12 28
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.32% 3.60% 6.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.57% 9.16% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 14
10th Percentile £342 £361 £170
25th Percentile £358 £365 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £388 £414
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -6.22% -31.04%
75th Percentile £493 £463 £430
90th Percentile £538 £488 £532
Yorkshire median daily rate £365 £382 £414
% change year-on-year -4.33% -7.79% -24.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.12 - £23.69

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 436 131 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.82% 39.34% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 92 85
10th Percentile £358 £220 £345
25th Percentile £425 £365 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £564
90th Percentile £685 £649 £598
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 - £11.04
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.18%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £54.00 £36.91 £14.63
% change year-on-year +46.32% +152.34% +37.58%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -47 21 £474 +22.16% 1
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 (12.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 3 (9.09%) Nutanix
4 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) LAN
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
1 2 (6.06%) VPN
1 2 (6.06%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) IPsec
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) OSPF
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Power BI
1 4 (12.12%) Power Query
1 4 (12.12%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 17 (51.52%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Legal
6 2 (6.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Lead
3 5 (15.15%) Project Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Network Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Network Project Manager
4 4 (12.12%) PMO Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Strategy Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Operations Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Redfish
2 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
1 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.21%) Analytics
3 7 (21.21%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (18.18%) Data Centre Operations
4 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 5 (15.15%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (15.15%) Inventory Management
5 5 (15.15%) Operations Management
6 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.12%) Data Extraction
6 4 (12.12%) Data Governance
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (12.12%) Risk Analytics
6 4 (12.12%) Runbook
6 4 (12.12%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) VBA
5 3 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.03%) CCIE
2 1 (3.03%) CCNP
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (18.18%) Firmware
3 5 (15.15%) Hyper-V
3 5 (15.15%) KVM
3 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.09%) vSphere
5 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Ansible
1 4 (12.12%) Dell DRAC
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) PowerCLI
2 3 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Alibaba
3 4 (12.12%) Google
4 3 (9.09%) Dell
4 3 (9.09%) OpenAI
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle
6 1 (3.03%) Aruba
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk