Data Centre Contracts in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 77 66
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 154 158 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.79% 2.79% 3.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.94% 8.18% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 105 210
10th Percentile £280 £335 £250
25th Percentile £336 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £471
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.25% -0.93%
75th Percentile £608 £645 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £15.25 - -
25th Percentile £20.88 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £70.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +191.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £25.13 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £27.15 - -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £26.50
% change year-on-year +14.77% -18.23% -33.75%

All Generic Skills
South East

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,549 1,931 2,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.07% 34.14% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,313 1,655
10th Percentile £205 £213 £217
25th Percentile £363 £374 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 93 120
10th Percentile £11.72 £18.08 £13.36
25th Percentile £18.35 £19.00 £16.37
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.45
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +124.20% -39.25%
75th Percentile £61.30 £66.21 £45.28
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £61.57
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.99
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.69% +1.70%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +10 95 £550 +15.79% 44
Berkshire +4 85 £550 +22.22% 33
Hampshire -26 25 £563 -2.17% 16
Surrey +16 14 £488 +8.33% 9
West Sussex - 11 £400 - 8
Buckinghamshire +17 10 £488 +1.44% 5
Kent -1 5 £394 -46.25% 8
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £600 -
East Sussex - 1 - - 1
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.30%) IBM Domino
2 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.83%) Azure
2 14 (9.09%) OCI
3 11 (7.14%) AWS
4 5 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.95%) Datadog
6 3 (1.95%) IaaS
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.30%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.30%) dbt
7 2 (1.30%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.65%) SaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (32.47%) Firewall
2 34 (22.08%) SAN
3 26 (16.88%) DNS
4 25 (16.23%) DHCP
5 18 (11.69%) Network Security
6 16 (10.39%) LAN
7 13 (8.44%) BGP
7 13 (8.44%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (8.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 13 (8.44%) WAN
8 11 (7.14%) IPsec
9 9 (5.84%) OSPF
9 9 (5.84%) VPN
10 8 (5.19%) MPLS
11 7 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (4.55%) Wireless
12 6 (3.90%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (3.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (3.90%) HSRP
12 6 (3.90%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.30%) Big Data
3 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.84%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) Hudson
2 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.30%) Git
3 2 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.44%) Finance
2 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.90%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.95%) Local Government
7 2 (1.30%) Back Office
7 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.30%) Legal
7 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (25.32%) Network Engineer
2 24 (15.58%) Architect
3 23 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (12.34%) Data Centre Engineer
5 17 (11.04%) Senior
6 14 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
7 11 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Data Centre Technician
8 9 (5.84%) Data Technician
8 9 (5.84%) Project Manager
8 9 (5.84%) Server Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.55%) Consultant
9 7 (4.55%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 6 (3.90%) Network Security Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Security Consultant
10 6 (3.90%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.25%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
11 5 (3.25%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.60%) JSON
2 3 (1.95%) EDI
2 3 (1.95%) LDAP
3 2 (1.30%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.30%) Middleware
3 2 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.65%) Flash
4 1 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Private Cloud
2 10 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.90%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.60%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.95%) CCTV
6 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.95%) PMI
6 3 (1.95%) Replication
6 3 (1.95%) SCADA
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.30%) PKI
7 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) Tandem
8 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.48%) Windows
2 28 (18.18%) Linux
3 16 (10.39%) Windows Server
4 14 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 14 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (9.09%) Windows XP
5 11 (7.14%) Unix
6 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.38%) ITIL
2 28 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (16.88%) Migration
5 25 (16.23%) Break/Fix
6 24 (15.58%) Project Management
7 18 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (11.69%) Server Management
8 17 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (11.04%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (9.74%) Storage Management
10 14 (9.09%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
11 11 (7.14%) Conflict Resolution
11 11 (7.14%) Data Centre Operations
12 10 (6.49%) Agile
12 10 (6.49%) High Availability
12 10 (6.49%) Incident Management
12 10 (6.49%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.34%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.39%) Python
3 8 (5.19%) Bash
4 4 (2.60%) ActionScript
4 4 (2.60%) SQL
5 3 (1.95%) C
5 3 (1.95%) C++
5 3 (1.95%) Java
5 3 (1.95%) Perl
5 3 (1.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.08%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (20.13%) DV Cleared
4 29 (18.83%) Degree
5 25 (16.23%) CCNP
6 24 (15.58%) CCNA
7 21 (13.64%) SC Cleared
8 7 (4.55%) ISACA
9 4 (2.60%) CCIE
9 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.95%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.30%) PhD
11 2 (1.30%) Server+ Certification
11 2 (1.30%) VCAP
11 2 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.14%) GDPR
1 11 (7.14%) SLA
2 9 (5.84%) COBIT
2 9 (5.84%) NIST
3 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.04%) Hyper-V
4 14 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (7.79%) VMware NSX
6 8 (5.19%) vSphere
7 5 (3.25%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.95%) Docker
8 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.65%) Firmware
10 1 (0.65%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (9.74%) NetBackup
2 14 (9.09%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (9.09%) SCCM
2 14 (9.09%) SCOM
2 14 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 14 (9.09%) WSUS
3 8 (5.19%) Terraform
4 7 (4.55%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.90%) Ansible
6 3 (1.95%) Nagios
6 3 (1.95%) Netcool
6 3 (1.95%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.95%) Puppet
7 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.30%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.30%) vRealize
7 2 (1.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.65%) SafeCom
8 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 55 (35.71%) Cisco
2 39 (25.32%) VMware
3 36 (23.38%) Dell
4 34 (22.08%) HP
5 32 (20.78%) Palo Alto
6 30 (19.48%) Juniper
7 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
8 16 (10.39%) 3PAR
9 15 (9.74%) EMC
9 15 (9.74%) Oracle
10 14 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (9.09%) Symantec
10 14 (9.09%) Veeam
11 11 (7.14%) F5
12 9 (5.84%) CheckPoint
13 5 (3.25%) IBM
13 5 (3.25%) ServiceNow
14 4 (2.60%) Aruba
14 4 (2.60%) Citrix
14 4 (2.60%) SolarWinds