Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Warwick

Data Center
Warwickshire > Warwick

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Warwick. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 28 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 15 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Warwick 5.05% 2.41% 6.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.50% 4.55% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £300 £534 £256
25th Percentile £338 £565 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -35.25% +6.00% -21.43%
75th Percentile £384 £590 £600
90th Percentile £457 £602 £690
Warwickshire median daily rate £425 £592 £600
% change year-on-year -28.15% -1.42% -

All Generic Skills
Warwick

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 Warwick.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 120 88 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwick 40.40% 53.01% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 40 39
10th Percentile £330 £463 £350
25th Percentile £403 £522 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.24% +1.39% +6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £725
90th Percentile £687 £739 £750
Warwickshire median daily rate £540 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -7.30% +5.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.54 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.08% - -
Warwickshire median hourly rate £50.00 £33.54 £21.25
% change year-on-year +49.08% +57.84% +45.75%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwick

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Warwick

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Warwick

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

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

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwick

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Warwick over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Warwick

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwick

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

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

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwick 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) WAN
3 6 (40.00%) VPN
3 6 (40.00%) Wireless
4 5 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (33.33%) DMVPN
4 5 (33.33%) DNS
4 5 (33.33%) IPsec
4 5 (33.33%) Network Security
4 5 (33.33%) SSL
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) LAN
5 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
5 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (6.67%) 3GPP
6 1 (6.67%) BGP
6 1 (6.67%) DMZ
6 1 (6.67%) OSPF
6 1 (6.67%) SMS
6 1 (6.67%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Test Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Test Manager
4 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) OSS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) OSS Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) OSS Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Remote Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 3 (20.00%) RFC 2544
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Change Management
1 5 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 4 (26.67%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) Test Management
3 3 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (20.00%) Use Case
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) System Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE Routing and Switching
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE Wireless
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CWSP
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) F5
2 6 (40.00%) Juniper
3 5 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.67%) Aruba
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler