Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Data Center
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Stevenage. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 30 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 2.24% 0.75% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.78% 1.41% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £464 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £540 £465
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +16.13% +24.00%
75th Percentile £492 - £473
90th Percentile £495 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £477 £423 £440
% change year-on-year +12.78% -3.98% +3.53%

All Generic Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 90 71 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 28.85% 53.38% 39.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 16 17
10th Percentile £178 £297 £242
25th Percentile £386 £328 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £533 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +42.00% -
75th Percentile £561 £613 £473
90th Percentile £681 £625 £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £485 £540 £475
% change year-on-year -10.19% +13.68% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 40 58
10th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 £42.25
25th Percentile £50.25 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £71.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +10.38% -5.45%
75th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £95.00 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £55.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +7.69% -1.52%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Administrator
1 7 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) LDAP
1 7 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) CentOS
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Information Management
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 7 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 7 (100.00%) Podman
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft