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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 60 75
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 71 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.60% 3.06% 2.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.03% 10.77% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 21 36
10th Percentile £300 £363 £344
25th Percentile £360 £550 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £565 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +22.16% +15.63%
75th Percentile £492 £619 £550
90th Percentile £539 £638 £694
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.90 £23.50
% change year-on-year +14.84% -6.81% -61.16%

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 590 427 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.24% 28.45% 26.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 262 357
10th Percentile £295 £201 £306
25th Percentile £381 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £698 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 16
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £14.91
25th Percentile £15.28 £13.87 £18.18
Median hourly rate £15.55 £15.17 £21.41
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -29.13% +12.66%
75th Percentile £18.51 £40.31 £23.38
90th Percentile £19.63 £48.00 £46.49
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
South Yorkshire +15 38 £375 -32.74% 8
West Yorkshire -2 29 £491 -16.65% 12
East Yorkshire - 2 - -
North Yorkshire -7 1 £200 - 6
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (22.54%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.82%) CICS
3 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.86%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.04%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) AWS
4 3 (4.23%) GCP
4 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) Firewall
2 10 (14.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 10 (14.08%) WAN
3 9 (12.68%) SD-WAN
4 8 (11.27%) Ethernet
5 6 (8.45%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (8.45%) Wireless
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Wireless
7 2 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.41%) BGP
8 1 (1.41%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.41%) FCoE
8 1 (1.41%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.41%) HSRP
8 1 (1.41%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.41%) MPLS
8 1 (1.41%) Multicast
8 1 (1.41%) NAS
8 1 (1.41%) NGFW
8 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle Database
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle Reports
1 8 (11.27%) Power BI
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Hive
2 3 (4.23%) Data Mining
2 3 (4.23%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.23%) HBase
2 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (43.66%) Finance
2 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.08%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Billing
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.82%) Aviation
8 2 (2.82%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Police
8 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 2 (2.82%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (40.85%) Analyst
2 11 (15.49%) Network Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) Network Analyst
3 10 (14.08%) Project Manager
4 9 (12.68%) Business Analyst
4 9 (12.68%) Implementation Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Commvault Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Backup Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Data Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Data Centre Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Data Centre Business Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) Middleware
1 3 (4.23%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (2.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Mainframe
2 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.63%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Clustering
4 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Robotics
4 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Linux
2 7 (9.86%) Windows
3 4 (5.63%) Solaris
4 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.82%) HPUX
5 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.82%) zOS
6 1 (1.41%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Analytics
2 16 (22.54%) Migration
3 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.49%) Change Management
4 11 (15.49%) Performance Monitoring
5 10 (14.08%) Budgeting
5 10 (14.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (12.68%) Agile
6 9 (12.68%) Cost Management
6 9 (12.68%) Data Migration
6 9 (12.68%) Translating Business Requirements
6 9 (12.68%) Virtual Environments
7 8 (11.27%) Data Analysis
7 8 (11.27%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (11.27%) Problem Management
7 8 (11.27%) Service Management
8 7 (9.86%) Data Centre Operations
8 7 (9.86%) ITIL
8 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (9.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) SQL
2 3 (4.23%) Python
2 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.82%) Java
4 1 (1.41%) Bicep
4 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.63%) RIBA
5 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.41%) CCNA
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) PMO
2 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.23%) HDFS
3 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.82%) KVM
3 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.41%) NFS
4 1 (1.41%) SRDF
4 1 (1.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (7.04%) Ansible
3 4 (5.63%) Puppet
4 3 (4.23%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (4.23%) Terraform
5 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.82%) Grafana
5 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (33.80%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.13%) Cisco
2 15 (21.13%) SolarWinds
3 10 (14.08%) Oracle
4 8 (11.27%) Commvault
4 8 (11.27%) F5
5 6 (8.45%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (5.63%) VMware
7 3 (4.23%) IBM
8 2 (2.82%) EMC
8 2 (2.82%) NetApp
8 2 (2.82%) Ribbon
8 2 (2.82%) Tenable
8 2 (2.82%) Unisys
9 1 (1.41%) HP
9 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.41%) Pure Storage
9 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.41%) Veeam