Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Telford

Data Center
Shropshire > Telford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Telford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.79% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £466 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £465 - -

All Generic Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 118 21 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 18.61% 16.67% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 13 21
10th Percentile £290 £231 £141
25th Percentile £425 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £358
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +25.70% -28.40%
75th Percentile £626 £561 £500
90th Percentile £681 £635 £536
Shropshire median daily rate £492 £450 £358
% change year-on-year +9.33% +25.70% -28.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
Shropshire median hourly rate £14.00 - £10.42
% change year-on-year - - -81.05%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Telford

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 (80.00%) Confluence
1 4 (80.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Pair Programming
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Perl
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft