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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 137 63 43
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.81% 4.55% 2.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.41% 12.55% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 47 22
10th Percentile £318 £314 £170
25th Percentile £358 £375 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £450 £556
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -19.10% +1.14%
75th Percentile £500 £492 £576
90th Percentile £538 £530 £619
England median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £16.68 - -
25th Percentile £17.68 - £23.92
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £24.87
75th Percentile £23.67 - £25.83
90th Percentile £26.27 - £27.29
England median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £24.87
% change year-on-year -21.07% +1.13% +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 1,104 502 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.78% 36.25% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 301 259
10th Percentile £324 £305 £263
25th Percentile £413 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £574 £588
90th Percentile £688 £619 £646
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 63
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.63 £12.20
Median hourly rate £25.36 £19.76 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% +35.08% -32.76%
75th Percentile £43.96 £30.10 £17.72
90th Percentile £68.75 £53.47 £39.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.66% -17.78% +10.73%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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
West Yorkshire -6 54 £488 -0.41% 8
South Yorkshire -23 43 £485 +25.00% 2
East Yorkshire -7 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 (1.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.73%) CICS
2 1 (0.73%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.98%) Azure
2 15 (10.95%) GitHub
3 12 (8.76%) AWS
4 11 (8.03%) GCP
4 11 (8.03%) IaaS
5 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.65%) SaaS
7 4 (2.92%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.19%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.19%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.19%) OCI
9 2 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.46%) Datadog
9 2 (1.46%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.46%) Serverless
10 1 (0.73%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 37 (27.01%) Firewall
2 22 (16.06%) SAN
3 15 (10.95%) DNS
4 12 (8.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 12 (8.76%) TCP/IP
5 11 (8.03%) BIG-IP
5 11 (8.03%) VLAN
6 10 (7.30%) Network Security
7 8 (5.84%) BGP
7 8 (5.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 8 (5.84%) OSPF
7 8 (5.84%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (5.84%) WLAN
8 7 (5.11%) VPN
9 6 (4.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (4.38%) DHCP
9 6 (4.38%) LAN
9 6 (4.38%) VoIP
9 6 (4.38%) WAN
9 6 (4.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) JIRA
2 15 (10.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.19%) GitLab
4 1 (0.73%) Git
General
1 33 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.79%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Banking
4 8 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.92%) Police
7 3 (2.19%) Billing
7 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Legal
8 2 (1.46%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (30.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (27.74%) Data Centre Engineer
3 17 (12.41%) Network Engineer
4 13 (9.49%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) Senior
6 10 (7.30%) ICT Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Lead
8 6 (4.38%) Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Consultant
9 5 (3.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Data Centre Manager
10 4 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) Redfish
2 3 (2.19%) Middleware
2 3 (2.19%) SAML
3 2 (1.46%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.46%) SLSA
3 2 (1.46%) YAML
4 1 (0.73%) JSON
4 1 (0.73%) REST
4 1 (0.73%) SOAP
4 1 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Enterprise Storage
2 10 (7.30%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.38%) Replication
5 5 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.65%) PKI
6 4 (2.92%) EMC VMAX
6 4 (2.92%) EMC VNX
7 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.73%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Windows
2 19 (13.87%) Linux
3 4 (2.92%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.46%) AIX
4 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.46%) zOS
5 1 (0.73%) Unix
5 1 (0.73%) VMS
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (16.06%) Validation
3 20 (14.60%) CI/CD
4 19 (13.87%) DevOps
4 19 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (13.14%) Agile
6 16 (11.68%) Capacity Planning
7 15 (10.95%) Runbook
8 14 (10.22%) Data Centre Operations
9 13 (9.49%) Migration
9 13 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.03%) Test Automation
11 10 (7.30%) Asset Management
11 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (7.30%) Inventory Management
11 10 (7.30%) Operations Management
11 10 (7.30%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (5.84%) Cloud Security
12 8 (5.84%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.44%) Python
2 15 (10.95%) PowerShell
3 11 (8.03%) Bash
4 8 (5.84%) ActionScript
5 3 (2.19%) Java
6 2 (1.46%) Bicep
6 2 (1.46%) JCL
6 2 (1.46%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) CCNP
4 5 (3.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (2.92%) CISSP
5 4 (2.92%) Degree
5 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.19%) NCDA
6 3 (2.19%) NCIE
7 2 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.46%) CCNA
7 2 (1.46%) CCSK
7 2 (1.46%) CCSP
7 2 (1.46%) CEH
7 2 (1.46%) CISM
7 2 (1.46%) GIAC
8 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) PMO
2 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 28 (20.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (10.95%) Firmware
3 13 (9.49%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (7.30%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (6.57%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.38%) KVM
6 6 (4.38%) vSphere
7 4 (2.92%) NFS
8 3 (2.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.19%) SRDF
9 2 (1.46%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.73%) ACF2
10 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.73%) RACF
10 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (8.03%) Ansible
2 10 (7.30%) Dell DRAC
2 10 (7.30%) Terraform
3 6 (4.38%) vCenter Server
4 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (2.92%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (2.92%) SnapMirror
6 3 (2.19%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (2.19%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.19%) PowerCLI
6 3 (2.19%) SnapVault
7 2 (1.46%) Argo
7 2 (1.46%) Grafana
7 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.73%) Control-M
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.73%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.73%) Packer
8 1 (0.73%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (21.90%) VMware
2 16 (11.68%) Cisco
2 16 (11.68%) Juniper
3 15 (10.95%) F5
4 12 (8.76%) Dell
4 12 (8.76%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.84%) Brocade
6 7 (5.11%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.38%) IBM
8 5 (3.65%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.65%) Google
8 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.92%) 3PAR
9 4 (2.92%) EMC
9 4 (2.92%) NetApp
10 3 (2.19%) Arista
10 3 (2.19%) Aruba
10 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.19%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.19%) Veeam