Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Yeovil

Data Center
Somerset > Yeovil

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Yeovil. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Yeovil 3.92% 11.11% 30.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 40.00% 75.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £674 £469 -
25th Percentile £679 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £697 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.90% - -
75th Percentile £712 £553 -
90th Percentile £716 £566 -
Somerset median daily rate £600 £550 £160
% change year-on-year +9.09% +243.75% -73.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.00
Somerset median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.00

All Generic Skills
Yeovil

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 Yeovil.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10 4 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yeovil 9.80% 14.81% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £595 £469 -
25th Percentile £643 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.32% - -
75th Percentile £708 £553 -
90th Percentile £715 £566 -
Somerset median daily rate £514 £633 £500
% change year-on-year -18.77% +26.50% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £100.00 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% +62.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile - £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - £41.50
Somerset median hourly rate £15.24 £43.01 £40.00
% change year-on-year -64.56% +7.51% -3.03%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Yeovil

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Yeovil

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yeovil 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) VCAP
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (25.00%) Thales