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 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 50 60
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 130 71 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.55% 4.63% 2.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.59% 12.16% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 50 21
10th Percentile £318 £300 £363
25th Percentile £358 £360 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -20.35% +18.95%
75th Percentile £529 £492 £619
90th Percentile £576 £539 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £16.68 - £14.40
25th Percentile £17.68 - £18.38
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £25.00
75th Percentile £23.67 - £26.88
90th Percentile £26.27 - £28.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £21.90
% change year-on-year +19.28% +14.84% -5.81%

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 1,122 584 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.26% 38.05% 28.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 360 261
10th Percentile £350 £290 £209
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 8 30
10th Percentile £13.47 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.41 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.20 £17.03 £14.90
Median % change year-on-year +30.36% +14.31% -30.40%
75th Percentile £43.96 £19.21 £36.25
90th Percentile - £44.48 £43.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +14.02% -42.65% +20.74%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 0 52 £500 +1.88% 19
South Yorkshire -28 37 £514 +37.07% 11
East Yorkshire -4 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 7 (5.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) CICS
2 1 (0.77%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.08%) Azure
2 18 (13.85%) AWS
3 15 (11.54%) GitHub
4 12 (9.23%) GCP
5 11 (8.46%) IaaS
6 8 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.85%) SaaS
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.31%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.31%) OCI
8 3 (2.31%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.54%) Datadog
9 2 (1.54%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.77%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (33.08%) Firewall
2 25 (19.23%) SAN
3 22 (16.92%) DNS
4 18 (13.85%) VLAN
5 14 (10.77%) BGP
5 14 (10.77%) TCP/IP
6 13 (10.00%) DHCP
6 13 (10.00%) Network Security
7 12 (9.23%) BIG-IP
7 12 (9.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (9.23%) OSPF
7 12 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (8.46%) VPN
8 11 (8.46%) WAN
8 11 (8.46%) WLAN
9 10 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
9 10 (7.69%) LAN
10 9 (6.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 9 (6.92%) Wireless
11 8 (6.15%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (26.92%) JIRA
2 15 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.31%) GitLab
4 2 (1.54%) Git
General
1 31 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.15%) Finance
3 17 (13.08%) Banking
4 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.85%) Police
7 4 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.31%) Retail
9 1 (0.77%) Billing
9 1 (0.77%) Cyber-Physical System
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (19.23%) Network Engineer
3 24 (18.46%) Data Centre Engineer
4 21 (16.15%) Senior
5 15 (11.54%) Senior Network Engineer
6 14 (10.77%) Lead
7 11 (8.46%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) ICT Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) Architect
9 8 (6.15%) Technical Manager
10 6 (4.62%) Data Centre Manager
10 6 (4.62%) Design Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Network Design Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Consultant
11 5 (3.85%) Data Manager
11 5 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.85%) Senior Design Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Senior Network Design Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.00%) Terraform
2 6 (4.62%) Redfish
3 3 (2.31%) Middleware
3 3 (2.31%) SAML
3 3 (2.31%) YAML
4 2 (1.54%) SLSA
5 1 (0.77%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.77%) JSON
5 1 (0.77%) REST
5 1 (0.77%) SOAP
5 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.62%) Enterprise Storage
2 12 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.38%) PKI
6 5 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.85%) Replication
7 4 (3.08%) EMC VMAX
7 4 (3.08%) EMC VNX
8 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.54%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.77%) IoT
10 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.85%) Windows
2 16 (12.31%) Linux
3 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.08%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.54%) zOS
6 1 (0.77%) AIX
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (16.92%) Validation
3 20 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 19 (14.62%) DevOps
4 19 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (13.85%) Agile
6 16 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
9 12 (9.23%) Migration
10 11 (8.46%) High Availability
10 11 (8.46%) Runbook
11 10 (7.69%) Cloud Security
11 10 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
11 10 (7.69%) ITIL
12 9 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (6.15%) Project Delivery
14 7 (5.38%) Budget Management
14 7 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (5.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.92%) Python
2 11 (8.46%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.92%) ActionScript
4 7 (5.38%) Bash
5 2 (1.54%) JCL
5 2 (1.54%) REXX
6 1 (0.77%) Bicep
6 1 (0.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (7.69%) CCNP
3 9 (6.92%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.62%) Degree
5 5 (3.85%) CISSP
5 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.31%) CEH
7 3 (2.31%) CISM
7 3 (2.31%) NCDA
7 3 (2.31%) NCIE
7 3 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.54%) CCNA
8 2 (1.54%) CCSK
8 2 (1.54%) CCSP
8 2 (1.54%) GIAC
9 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.77%) NIST
1 1 (0.77%) NIST 800
1 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 26 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.77%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (7.69%) Firmware
4 7 (5.38%) vSphere
5 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.08%) NFS
6 3 (2.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.31%) SRDF
6 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.54%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.77%) ACF2
8 1 (0.77%) RACF
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (10.00%) Ansible
2 9 (6.92%) Dell DRAC
3 8 (6.15%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.38%) vCenter Server
5 4 (3.08%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (3.08%) SnapMirror
5 4 (3.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (3.08%) vMotion
6 3 (2.31%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (2.31%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.31%) SnapVault
7 2 (1.54%) Argo
7 2 (1.54%) Grafana
8 1 (0.77%) Cilium
8 1 (0.77%) Control-M
8 1 (0.77%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.77%) Packer
8 1 (0.77%) SCCM
8 1 (0.77%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 27 (20.77%) VMware
2 23 (17.69%) Cisco
3 15 (11.54%) F5
3 15 (11.54%) Juniper
4 12 (9.23%) Dell
5 9 (6.92%) CheckPoint
5 9 (6.92%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.38%) Brocade
6 7 (5.38%) Palo Alto
6 7 (5.38%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.62%) Google
8 5 (3.85%) IBM
9 4 (3.08%) 3PAR
9 4 (3.08%) Arista
9 4 (3.08%) EMC
9 4 (3.08%) NetApp
10 3 (2.31%) Aruba
10 3 (2.31%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.31%) ForeScout
10 3 (2.31%) SolarWinds