Data Centre Contract Job Trends 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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 44 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 32 24 31
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 3.83% 3.03% 2.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.63% 12.00% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 27
10th Percentile £379 £358 £338
25th Percentile £452 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £506 £638 £550
90th Percentile £575 - £655
Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -15.36% +29.41% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.25 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £25.00 -

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 301 200 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 36.00% 25.22% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 135 235
10th Percentile £363 £183 £331
25th Percentile £431 £359 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 10
10th Percentile - £17.19 £15.11
25th Percentile - £21.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +44.74% -4.28%
75th Percentile - £40.63 £21.31
90th Percentile - £48.00 £22.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -57.43% +87.71% +12.16%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Centre

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 22 October 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 +7 24 £490 -21.68% 7
Wakefield 0 3 £525 +43.84% 2
Huddersfield - 2 - - 1
Data Centre
Yorkshire

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (3.13%) Datadog
3 1 (3.13%) Serverless
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) Firewall
2 9 (28.13%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (28.13%) SD-WAN
2 9 (28.13%) WAN
3 8 (25.00%) Ethernet
4 6 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (18.75%) Wireless
5 3 (9.38%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (3.13%) NGFW
7 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.13%) Retail
2 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Network Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Network Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Implementation Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Asset Management Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Asset Management Business Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Analytics
1 11 (34.38%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (15.63%) Migration
3 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Operations
4 2 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (6.25%) Agile
4 2 (6.25%) Business Case
4 2 (6.25%) Decision-Making
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
4 2 (6.25%) Quantitative Analysis
4 2 (6.25%) Roadmaps
4 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (3.13%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security
5 1 (3.13%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis
5 1 (3.13%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.13%) Facilities Management
5 1 (3.13%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) Bash
2 1 (3.13%) Bicep
2 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
1 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) SolarWinds
2 13 (40.63%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) F5
3 6 (18.75%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) CloudEndure
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) Intel
5 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) VMware