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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 47 47
Rank change year-on-year -37 0 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 58 29 55
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.72% 3.20% 3.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.27% 8.98% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 14 36
10th Percentile £318 £352 £305
25th Percentile £345 £358 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +5.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £494 £600 £475
90th Percentile £541 £638 £563
England median daily rate £480 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £24.66 £31.31
% change year-on-year +7.46% -21.23% -43.69%

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 798 323 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.46% 35.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 203 278
10th Percentile £325 £208 £266
25th Percentile £425 £328 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £560
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 37
10th Percentile £14.25 £24.15 £11.52
25th Percentile £15.55 £28.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £37.50 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +156.41% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.00 £21.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £64.16 £23.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -9.46% +17.46% +40.00%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -30 33 £454 +0.89% 7
West Yorkshire -25 22 £355 -15.48% 8
North Yorkshire -8 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 4 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 8 (13.79%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.07%) GCP
4 4 (6.90%) Serverless
5 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Functions
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Storage
5 3 (5.17%) Nutanix
5 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.72%) Datadog
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) IaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) OCI
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) VPN
2 3 (5.17%) WAN
3 2 (3.45%) BGP
3 2 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (3.45%) LAN
3 2 (3.45%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) OSPF
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.72%) Internet
4 1 (1.72%) IPsec
4 1 (1.72%) NAS
4 1 (1.72%) NGFW
4 1 (1.72%) SAN
4 1 (1.72%) SSL
4 1 (1.72%) VLAN
4 1 (1.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Power Query
2 4 (6.90%) PowerPivot
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 22 (37.93%) Finance
2 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Banking
4 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Legal
5 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Billing
6 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Analyst
2 8 (13.79%) Lead
3 6 (10.34%) Data Centre Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.62%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Network Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Network Project Manager
5 4 (6.90%) PMO Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Strategy Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Data Centre Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Project Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Project Support Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Report Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Senior
6 3 (5.17%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.72%) Middleware
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.72%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Replication
3 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Linux
3 1 (1.72%) AIX
3 1 (1.72%) VMS
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (17.24%) Migration
2 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (15.52%) Data Analysis
4 8 (13.79%) Analytics
4 8 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (12.07%) Change Management
5 7 (12.07%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (10.34%) Agile
6 6 (10.34%) DevOps
6 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (10.34%) Operations Management
7 5 (8.62%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (8.62%) Programme Delivery
7 5 (8.62%) Project Management
7 5 (8.62%) Risk Management
7 5 (8.62%) Software Testing
7 5 (8.62%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Python
2 14 (24.14%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.52%) Bash
4 6 (10.34%) SQL
5 4 (6.90%) VBA
6 3 (5.17%) Bicep
6 3 (5.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) CCIE
1 2 (3.45%) CCNP
1 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
1 2 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.72%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (1.72%) CISSP
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) PMO
2 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (12.07%) Hyper-V
3 7 (12.07%) KVM
4 6 (10.34%) Firmware
5 3 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.72%) Docker
6 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
3 3 (5.17%) PowerCLI
3 3 (5.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.72%) Puppet
4 1 (1.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Dell
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
1 10 (17.24%) VMware
2 5 (8.62%) Google
2 5 (8.62%) Intel
3 4 (6.90%) Alibaba
3 4 (6.90%) Cisco
4 3 (5.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.72%) Aruba
5 1 (1.72%) Brocade
5 1 (1.72%) CloudEndure
5 1 (1.72%) F5
5 1 (1.72%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk