Data Centre Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Center
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 73 96
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 541 774 855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.60% 3.20% 2.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.79% 9.85% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 571 613
10th Percentile £280 £300 £260
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +8.11% +7.18%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £550
90th Percentile £725 £709 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.79 £11.51
25th Percentile £18.14 £20.22 £15.95
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.26 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -6.55% -40.52%
75th Percentile £40.00 £23.75 £65.50
90th Percentile - £57.60 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £24.44 £21.67 £28.75
% change year-on-year +12.76% -24.63% -43.63%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,156 7,857 9,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.62% 32.50% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,682 5,314 6,763
10th Percentile £208 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £619 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 715 446 470
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
South East +9 162 £500 - 120
South West +12 116 £550 - 47
North of England -14 95 £433 -17.62% 63
Midlands -20 73 £600 +14.29% 44
West Midlands +1 63 £600 +20.00% 28
Scotland +2 56 £565 +13.57% 29
Yorkshire +18 51 £451 -18.00% 18
North West -33 37 £433 -13.50% 36
Wales +32 25 £147 -53.12% 16
East of England -27 20 £363 -16.43% 39
East Midlands +8 10 £575 +9.52% 16
North East +9 7 £448 -29.80% 9
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.14%) Confluence
3 11 (2.03%) IIS
4 3 (0.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.37%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 27 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.37%) RMDS
3 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.83%) Azure
2 33 (6.10%) IaaS
3 31 (5.73%) Cloud Computing
4 30 (5.55%) SaaS
5 29 (5.36%) PaaS
6 24 (4.44%) AWS
7 15 (2.77%) GitHub
8 13 (2.40%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.22%) OCI
10 5 (0.92%) BigCommerce
10 5 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.74%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (0.74%) Serverless
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (0.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 115 (21.26%) Firewall
2 102 (18.85%) WAN
3 96 (17.74%) LAN
4 65 (12.01%) DNS
5 62 (11.46%) SAN
6 57 (10.54%) DHCP
7 44 (8.13%) Cisco Nexus
8 43 (7.95%) Wireless
9 35 (6.47%) SD-WAN
10 32 (5.91%) MPLS
10 32 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (5.55%) Network Security
11 30 (5.55%) VPN
12 21 (3.88%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (3.88%) VoIP
12 21 (3.88%) VSAN
13 20 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
14 19 (3.51%) WLAN
15 17 (3.14%) DMZ
16 16 (2.96%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.03%) Big Data
3 7 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.37%) Metadata
6 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.37%) Power BI
6 2 (0.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.18%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (5.55%) JIRA
2 17 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.55%) GitLab
3 3 (0.55%) Hudson
4 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 142 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 82 (15.16%) Public Sector
3 64 (11.83%) Finance
4 52 (9.61%) Telecoms
5 34 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.44%) Law
7 17 (3.14%) Mandarin Language
8 13 (2.40%) Banking
9 11 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.85%) Marketing
11 9 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.11%) Electronics
14 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.11%) Retail
15 5 (0.92%) Legal
16 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.74%) Local Government
17 3 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 114 (21.07%) Network Engineer
2 91 (16.82%) Architect
3 61 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (9.06%) Data Centre Engineer
5 42 (7.76%) Network Architect
6 32 (5.91%) Senior
7 29 (5.36%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 25 (4.62%) Project Manager
9 24 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
10 20 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
10 20 (3.70%) Lead
11 18 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.14%) Analyst
12 17 (3.14%) Consultant
12 17 (3.14%) Infrastructure Manager
13 15 (2.77%) Storage Engineer
14 13 (2.40%) JIRA Engineer
14 13 (2.40%) Migration Engineer
14 13 (2.40%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.96%) Web Services
2 14 (2.59%) YAML
3 8 (1.48%) Middleware
3 8 (1.48%) REST
4 5 (0.92%) JSON
4 5 (0.92%) LDAP
5 3 (0.55%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.55%) EDI
5 3 (0.55%) VML
6 2 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.37%) Redfish
7 1 (0.18%) Django
7 1 (0.18%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.18%) Node.js
7 1 (0.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.10%) Private Cloud
2 22 (4.07%) PKI
3 15 (2.77%) Clustering
3 15 (2.77%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 10 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.66%) NHS
6 9 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.48%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.48%) SCADA
8 7 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.11%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.92%) CCTV
10 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.74%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.74%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 3 (0.55%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 93 (17.19%) Windows
2 88 (16.27%) Linux
3 37 (6.84%) Windows Server
4 31 (5.73%) Unix
5 27 (4.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (4.44%) Windows 10
7 21 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (2.77%) Windows XP
10 14 (2.59%) zOS
11 11 (2.03%) VMS
12 10 (1.85%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.66%) CentOS
14 7 (1.29%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (1.11%) Debian
15 6 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.92%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.55%) Windows 2000
17 3 (0.55%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (16.64%) Migration
2 76 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (13.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 63 (11.65%) ITIL
5 52 (9.61%) Project Management
6 48 (8.87%) Agile
6 48 (8.87%) Project Delivery
7 46 (8.50%) Network Management
8 44 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (6.84%) Storage Management
10 34 (6.28%) Zero Trust
11 32 (5.91%) Break/Fix
11 32 (5.91%) Open Source
12 31 (5.73%) Decision-Making
12 31 (5.73%) Server Management
13 29 (5.36%) Computer Science
14 28 (5.18%) Business Strategy
15 27 (4.99%) Converged Infrastructure
16 24 (4.44%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.58%) PowerShell
2 29 (5.36%) Python
3 16 (2.96%) SQL
4 14 (2.59%) JCL
4 14 (2.59%) REXX
5 9 (1.66%) Bash
6 4 (0.74%) ActionScript
6 4 (0.74%) C
7 3 (0.55%) C++
7 3 (0.55%) Java
7 3 (0.55%) Perl
7 3 (0.55%) Ruby
7 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 151 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 86 (15.90%) DV Cleared
3 80 (14.79%) Cisco Certification
4 70 (12.94%) Degree
5 68 (12.57%) SC Cleared
6 54 (9.98%) CCNA
7 42 (7.76%) CCNP
8 20 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.33%) CCIE
9 18 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
10 16 (2.96%) MCSE
11 14 (2.59%) A+ Certification
12 12 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.85%) MCSA
14 9 (1.66%) CCIE Data Center
14 9 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (1.48%) ISACA
16 7 (1.29%) PMI Certification
17 6 (1.11%) RHCT
18 5 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.84%) SLA
2 12 (2.22%) GDPR
3 10 (1.85%) COBIT
3 10 (1.85%) NIST
4 5 (0.92%) QA
5 3 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (16.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (11.83%) Active Directory
3 46 (8.50%) vSphere
4 43 (7.95%) VMware ESXi
5 41 (7.58%) Hyper-V
6 31 (5.73%) VMware NSX
7 16 (2.96%) Virtual Servers
8 15 (2.77%) KVM
8 15 (2.77%) VMware Workstation
9 14 (2.59%) NFS
9 14 (2.59%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (1.11%) Docker
11 6 (1.11%) Firmware
12 2 (0.37%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.18%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (9.06%) vCenter Server
2 27 (4.99%) Ansible
3 23 (4.25%) NetBackup
4 22 (4.07%) SCCM
5 15 (2.77%) Kubernetes
6 14 (2.59%) Terraform
6 14 (2.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 12 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (2.22%) Nagios
7 12 (2.22%) SCOM
7 12 (2.22%) WSUS
8 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (1.85%) VxRail
9 6 (1.11%) OpenView
10 4 (0.74%) Puppet
11 3 (0.55%) Grafana
11 3 (0.55%) Netcool
11 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.55%) vRealize
12 2 (0.37%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 136 (25.14%) VMware
2 130 (24.03%) Cisco
3 69 (12.75%) Dell
4 62 (11.46%) Microsoft
4 62 (11.46%) Palo Alto
5 42 (7.76%) F5
6 39 (7.21%) HP
6 39 (7.21%) Juniper
7 21 (3.88%) CheckPoint
8 20 (3.70%) Symantec
9 19 (3.51%) Citrix
10 18 (3.33%) IBM
11 17 (3.14%) 3PAR
11 17 (3.14%) Brocade
11 17 (3.14%) Oracle
12 16 (2.96%) SolarWinds
13 15 (2.77%) Atlassian
14 14 (2.59%) Broadcom
14 14 (2.59%) CA
14 14 (2.59%) Fortinet