Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Data Center
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City. 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 11 9 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Welwyn Garden City 6.25% 10.26% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.33% 22.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £477 £423 £440
% change year-on-year +12.78% -3.98% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.66 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate - £24.66 -

All Generic Skills
Welwyn Garden City

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 Welwyn Garden City.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15 18 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 46.88% 46.15% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £453 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% - -
75th Percentile £769 £788 -
90th Percentile £836 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £485 £540 £475
% change year-on-year -10.19% +13.68% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.29 £24.66 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% - -
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 Welwyn Garden City

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Welwyn Garden City

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Procurement Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Licensing
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft