Data Centre Contracts in Suffolk

Data Center
East of England > Suffolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Suffolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 2.70% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £201 - -
25th Percentile £218 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 - -
75th Percentile £273 - -
90th Percentile £289 - -
East of England median daily rate £385 £300 £435
% change year-on-year +28.33% -31.03% -8.42%

All Generic Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 33 24 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 44.59% 39.34% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 27
10th Percentile £205 - £370
25th Percentile £225 £105 £642
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £210 £700
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -70.00% +44.33%
75th Percentile £444 £475 -
90th Percentile £600 £560 -
East of England median daily rate £520 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £17.79 £14.13 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.95% -11.72% -25.58%
75th Percentile - £23.31 £16.25
90th Percentile - £34.68 -
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Suffolk

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Suffolk

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Suffolk over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Suffolk

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Suffolk.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Suffolk

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Ipswich - 1 £190 - 7
Data Centre
East of England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cabling Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) VMware