Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Center
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 65 43 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.60% 3.13% 2.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.22% 10.59% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 16 36
10th Percentile £302 £358 £305
25th Percentile £344 £361 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +21.25% -
75th Percentile £502 £594 £550
90th Percentile £550 £638 £669
England median daily rate £506 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.62% -2.78% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £19.38 £23.00
% change year-on-year +29.81% -15.76% -63.49%

All Generic Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 705 406 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.01% 29.55% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 251 331
10th Percentile £313 £180 £263
25th Percentile £400 £357 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £587
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.87 £14.99
25th Percentile £15.41 £20.13 £17.22
Median hourly rate £18.43 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -43.31% +52.51% +12.16%
75th Percentile £21.90 £41.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £31.52 £43.88 £24.06
England median hourly rate £28.00 £46.71 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% +4.97% +64.94%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
West Yorkshire -4 33 £490 +0.93% 10
South Yorkshire -4 31 £375 -33.63%
North Yorkshire -5 1 - - 1
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (12.31%) Confluence
2 3 (4.62%) Apache
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.08%) CICS
3 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.08%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (26.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.77%) MS Visio
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.92%) Power Platform
2 8 (12.31%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) AWS
4 4 (6.15%) GCP
4 4 (6.15%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (1.54%) Datadog
6 1 (1.54%) OCI
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.54%) Firewall
2 12 (18.46%) WAN
3 10 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (15.38%) SD-WAN
4 8 (12.31%) Ethernet
5 7 (10.77%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (9.23%) Wireless
7 3 (4.62%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (3.08%) LAN
8 2 (3.08%) NGFW
9 1 (1.54%) BGP
9 1 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (1.54%) Internet
9 1 (1.54%) IPsec
9 1 (1.54%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.54%) OSPF
9 1 (1.54%) SAN
9 1 (1.54%) SSL
9 1 (1.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) Power BI
2 4 (6.15%) Data Mining
2 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.62%) Apache Hive
3 3 (4.62%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.62%) HBase
4 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (38.46%) Finance
2 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Banking
5 4 (6.15%) Billing
5 4 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (52.31%) Analyst
2 12 (18.46%) Network Engineer
3 11 (16.92%) Data Analyst
4 10 (15.38%) Network Analyst
5 9 (13.85%) Business Analyst
5 9 (13.85%) Implementation Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Project Manager
6 6 (9.23%) Data Centre Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Report Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Data Centre Business Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 3 (4.62%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) Middleware
1 3 (4.62%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (3.08%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Mainframe
2 7 (10.77%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Clustering
3 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Replication
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.54%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Solaris
3 2 (3.08%) zOS
4 1 (1.54%) MVS
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Analytics
2 13 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 12 (18.46%) Budgeting
3 12 (18.46%) Cost Management
3 12 (18.46%) Virtual Environments
4 10 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 10 (15.38%) ITIL
4 10 (15.38%) Service Management
5 9 (13.85%) Visualisation
6 8 (12.31%) Agile
7 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (10.77%) Data Analytics
7 7 (10.77%) Data Centre Operations
7 7 (10.77%) Migration
7 7 (10.77%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (9.23%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (9.23%) FinOps
8 6 (9.23%) Portfolio Management
8 6 (9.23%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) SQL
2 5 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.08%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.15%) RIBA
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.54%) CCIE
5 1 (1.54%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (1.54%) CCNP
5 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) HDFS
1 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.08%) KVM
3 1 (1.54%) Docker
3 1 (1.54%) NFS
3 1 (1.54%) SRDF
3 1 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.54%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Ansible
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Puppet
4 3 (4.62%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (24.62%) Cisco
3 15 (23.08%) SolarWinds
4 8 (12.31%) F5
5 6 (9.23%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (4.62%) VMware
7 2 (3.08%) Dell
7 2 (3.08%) EMC
7 2 (3.08%) Intel
7 2 (3.08%) NetApp
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle
7 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.54%) CloudEndure
8 1 (1.54%) Google
8 1 (1.54%) IBM
8 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.54%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.54%) Red Hat