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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 52 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 113 44 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.28% 4.11% 2.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.25% 11.67% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 33 28
10th Percentile £318 £328 £170
25th Percentile £336 £365 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% -10.24% -9.81%
75th Percentile £507 £492 £570
90th Percentile £538 £505 £619
England median daily rate £495 £520 £531
% change year-on-year -4.81% -2.12% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £16.68 - £21.25
25th Percentile £17.68 - £21.92
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £24.87
75th Percentile £23.67 - £25.83
90th Percentile £26.27 - -
England median hourly rate £19.85 £38.75 £24.87
% change year-on-year -48.77% +55.81% +14.77%

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 1,004 377 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.99% 35.23% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 224 258
10th Percentile £318 £266 £266
25th Percentile £413 £375 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £681 £625 £638
England median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 71
10th Percentile £14.36 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.13 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.25 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +65.81% +37.58%
75th Percentile £60.69 £32.80 £18.51
90th Percentile £68.75 £66.35 £25.83
England median hourly rate £44.50 £34.13 £35.50
% change year-on-year +30.40% -3.87% +59.55%

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 29 May 2026.

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 29 May 2026. 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
South Yorkshire -27 50 £474 +24.74% 5
West Yorkshire -10 42 £335 -30.93% 11
East Yorkshire -12 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 2 (1.77%) Confluence
1 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) CICS
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.35%) Azure
2 14 (12.39%) AWS
3 13 (11.50%) GCP
4 12 (10.62%) GitHub
5 8 (7.08%) IaaS
6 6 (5.31%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.54%) SaaS
9 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.65%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.65%) Serverless
10 2 (1.77%) Datadog
10 2 (1.77%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.77%) OCI
10 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.93%) Firewall
2 15 (13.27%) SAN
3 8 (7.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (6.19%) BIG-IP
4 7 (6.19%) DNS
4 7 (6.19%) Network Security
5 6 (5.31%) NAS
6 5 (4.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.65%) BGP
7 3 (2.65%) OSPF
7 3 (2.65%) SSL
7 3 (2.65%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.65%) WAN
8 2 (1.77%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.77%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.77%) VLAN
8 2 (1.77%) VPN
8 2 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.77%) Power BI
1 2 (1.77%) Power Query
1 2 (1.77%) PowerPivot
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (20.35%) JIRA
2 12 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.77%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Git
General
1 32 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.89%) Finance
3 16 (14.16%) Banking
4 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.65%) Legal
6 2 (1.77%) Billing
6 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (22.12%) Data Centre Engineer
2 18 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (12.39%) Lead
4 8 (7.08%) ICT Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Architect
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.31%) Storage Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Analyst
7 5 (4.42%) Consultant
7 5 (4.42%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Senior
8 4 (3.54%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Data Centre Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Network Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Network Project Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Storage Architect
9 3 (2.65%) Data Centre Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) Redfish
2 3 (2.65%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.65%) Middleware
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.77%) SLSA
3 2 (1.77%) YAML
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) SOAP
4 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.31%) Replication
3 4 (3.54%) EMC VMAX
3 4 (3.54%) EMC VNX
4 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.77%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) CMDB
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.88%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.70%) Windows
2 19 (16.81%) Linux
3 4 (3.54%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.77%) AIX
4 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.77%) zOS
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (15.04%) CI/CD
3 17 (15.04%) DevOps
4 15 (13.27%) Agile
4 15 (13.27%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (13.27%) Validation
5 14 (12.39%) Data Centre Operations
5 14 (12.39%) Runbook
6 13 (11.50%) Migration
7 11 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (8.85%) Inventory Management
8 10 (8.85%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (8.85%) Project Management
8 10 (8.85%) Risk Management
8 10 (8.85%) Test Automation
9 9 (7.96%) Asset Management
9 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (7.96%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.78%) Python
2 18 (15.93%) PowerShell
3 13 (11.50%) Bash
4 5 (4.42%) ActionScript
5 3 (2.65%) Bicep
5 3 (2.65%) Java
6 2 (1.77%) JCL
6 2 (1.77%) REXX
6 2 (1.77%) SQL
6 2 (1.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (4.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (3.54%) Degree
3 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.65%) CISSP
3 3 (2.65%) NCDA
3 3 (2.65%) NCIE
3 3 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.77%) CCNP
4 2 (1.77%) CCSK
4 2 (1.77%) CCSP
4 2 (1.77%) CISM
5 1 (0.88%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) CCIE
5 1 (0.88%) CCNA
5 1 (0.88%) City & Guilds
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMP
5 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) PMO
2 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 22 (19.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (13.27%) Firmware
3 12 (10.62%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (8.85%) Hyper-V
5 7 (6.19%) KVM
5 7 (6.19%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.31%) vSphere
7 4 (3.54%) NFS
8 3 (2.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.65%) SRDF
9 2 (1.77%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.88%) ACF2
10 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.88%) RACF
10 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (9.73%) Ansible
1 11 (9.73%) Terraform
2 9 (7.96%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (5.31%) vCenter Server
4 5 (4.42%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (3.54%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (3.54%) SnapMirror
6 3 (2.65%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (2.65%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.65%) PowerCLI
6 3 (2.65%) SnapVault
7 2 (1.77%) Argo
7 2 (1.77%) Grafana
7 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.88%) Control-M
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.88%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.88%) Packer
8 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (22.12%) VMware
2 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.62%) Dell
4 9 (7.96%) Juniper
5 8 (7.08%) Brocade
5 8 (7.08%) Cisco
5 8 (7.08%) F5
6 7 (6.19%) Google
7 6 (5.31%) IBM
8 4 (3.54%) 3PAR
8 4 (3.54%) Alibaba
8 4 (3.54%) EMC
8 4 (3.54%) NetApp
8 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.65%) Aruba
9 3 (2.65%) OpenAI
9 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.65%) Veeam
10 2 (1.77%) Oracle
10 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds