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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 38 48
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 42 35 17
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.60% 5.96% 3.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.62% 16.51% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 11
10th Percentile - £299 -
25th Percentile £358 £334 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £375 £340
Median % change year-on-year +29.33% +10.29% -47.79%
75th Percentile £515 £405 £558
90th Percentile £553 £493 £579
Yorkshire median daily rate £365 £405 £556
% change year-on-year -9.88% -27.19% +1.14%

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 487 212 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 41.70% 36.12% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 128 77
10th Percentile £351 £313 £265
25th Percentile £413 £365 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £514
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.32% -10.61%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £613 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £14.61 - £21.64
25th Percentile £16.00 - £33.84
Median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% +106.25%
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% -31.98%

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 July 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 26 July 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 -38 26 £514 +35.26% 4
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 1 (2.38%) CICS
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 5 (11.90%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) GCP
4 4 (9.52%) GitHub
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 3 (7.14%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.76%) Datadog
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.76%) SaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) SAN
2 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 4 (9.52%) NAS
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (35.71%) Finance
3 11 (26.19%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Billing
5 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Consultant
3 5 (11.90%) ICT Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Storage Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Operations Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) GCP Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Storage Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Banking Project Manager
7 1 (2.38%) CICS Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) Redfish
2 2 (4.76%) Middleware
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.76%) SLSA
2 2 (4.76%) YAML
3 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (9.52%) EMC VMAX
2 4 (9.52%) EMC VNX
2 4 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
4 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Windows
3 4 (9.52%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (4.76%) zOS
5 1 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Capacity Planning
1 15 (35.71%) Runbook
2 12 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (26.19%) Data Centre Operations
3 11 (26.19%) Test Automation
4 10 (23.81%) Asset Management
4 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Management
4 10 (23.81%) Inventory Management
5 9 (21.43%) DevOps
5 9 (21.43%) Migration
6 8 (19.05%) Risk Management
7 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.29%) Agile
8 6 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (14.29%) Operations Management
9 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) JCL
4 2 (4.76%) REXX
5 1 (2.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.14%) NCDA
2 3 (7.14%) NCIE
3 2 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (4.76%) CCSK
3 2 (4.76%) CCSP
3 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.76%) CISM
3 2 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (28.57%) Firmware
3 7 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 6 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (14.29%) vSphere
5 5 (11.90%) KVM
6 4 (9.52%) NFS
7 3 (7.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (7.14%) SRDF
8 2 (4.76%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (2.38%) ACF2
9 1 (2.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Dell DRAC
2 8 (19.05%) Ansible
3 6 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
5 4 (9.52%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (9.52%) SnapMirror
6 3 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (7.14%) NetBackup
6 3 (7.14%) PowerCLI
6 3 (7.14%) SnapVault
6 3 (7.14%) Terraform
7 2 (4.76%) Argo
7 2 (4.76%) Grafana
7 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Control-M
8 1 (2.38%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) VMware
2 8 (19.05%) Dell
3 6 (14.29%) Brocade
4 4 (9.52%) 3PAR
4 4 (9.52%) Cisco
4 4 (9.52%) EMC
4 4 (9.52%) Juniper
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.52%) NetApp
5 3 (7.14%) IBM
5 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.14%) Veeam
6 2 (4.76%) Broadcom
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (4.76%) Pure Storage
6 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.38%) Alibaba
7 1 (2.38%) Google
7 1 (2.38%) OpenAI