Data Centre Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Center
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 58 56 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 21 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.73% 2.10% 2.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 8.57% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 43
10th Percentile £383 £319 £335
25th Percentile £431 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £594 -
90th Percentile £688 £619 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £451 £550
% change year-on-year -16.85% -18.00% +22.22%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 177 245 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.30% 24.52% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 138 342
10th Percentile £263 £264 £350
25th Percentile £400 £373 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 34 1
10th Percentile £28.34 - -
25th Percentile £31.47 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.90 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +217.83% -25.17% -7.81%
75th Percentile £96.64 £15.19 -
90th Percentile £97.79 £15.23 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
% change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -8 4 £525 -6.67% 22
Data Centre
Yorkshire

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) HPUX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Sun
1 2 (50.00%) Unisys
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (25.00%) HP