Data Centre Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 64 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 62 42 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.84% 2.43% 1.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.19% 8.75% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 24 35
10th Percentile £312 £170 £298
25th Percentile £375 £320 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £492 £579 £584
90th Percentile £522 £619 £690
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £24.87 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £21.67
% change year-on-year +1.13% +14.77% -14.18%

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 470 480 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.66% 27.75% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 262 413
10th Percentile £306 £263 £258
25th Percentile £394 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 65 37
10th Percentile £15.00 - £9.80
25th Percentile £17.63 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £19.76 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +35.08% +37.58% -48.85%
75th Percentile £30.10 £15.25 £19.50
90th Percentile £53.47 £36.63 £22.35
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Yorkshire

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 3 July 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 +12 30 £388 +2.78% 26
West Yorkshire +23 27 £484 -14.00% 23
North Yorkshire +10 2 £200 - 7
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 14 (22.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (1.61%) AWS
2 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Fabric
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.13%) Firewall
2 9 (14.52%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (14.52%) SD-WAN
2 9 (14.52%) WAN
3 8 (12.90%) Ethernet
4 6 (9.68%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (9.68%) Wireless
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.61%) BGP
7 1 (1.61%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.61%) HSRP
7 1 (1.61%) MPLS
7 1 (1.61%) NGFW
7 1 (1.61%) VLAN
7 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) Oracle Database
2 10 (16.13%) Oracle Reports
General
1 24 (38.71%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Banking
3 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.23%) Aviation
6 2 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (3.23%) Police
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 2 (3.23%) Swedish Language
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) Analyst
2 11 (17.74%) Network Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) Network Analyst
4 9 (14.52%) Backup Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Commvault Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Implementation Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Project Manager
6 6 (9.68%) Business Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Data Centre Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Data Centre Business Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Architect
9 2 (3.23%) IT Manager
9 2 (3.23%) Service Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Licensing
1 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.23%) Replication
1 2 (3.23%) Robotics
2 1 (1.61%) AS400
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.61%) iSeries
2 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Linux
1 5 (8.06%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.23%) HPUX
3 2 (3.23%) Solaris
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.03%) Migration
2 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (22.58%) Change Management
3 14 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (19.35%) Analytics
4 12 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (19.35%) Problem Management
4 12 (19.35%) Translating Business Requirements
5 11 (17.74%) Performance Monitoring
6 10 (16.13%) Data Migration
7 8 (12.90%) Agile
8 6 (9.68%) Data Centre Operations
8 6 (9.68%) Project Delivery
9 5 (8.06%) Decision-Making
9 5 (8.06%) Waterfall
10 4 (6.45%) Business Case
10 4 (6.45%) Data Analysis
10 4 (6.45%) Project Governance
10 4 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (4.84%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.61%) Bicep
1 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.45%) RIBA
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) CCNA
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) PMO
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (3.23%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.23%) Grafana
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (3.23%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.19%) SolarWinds
3 13 (20.97%) Cisco
4 12 (19.35%) Commvault
4 12 (19.35%) Oracle
5 6 (9.68%) F5
5 6 (9.68%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (6.45%) IBM
7 2 (3.23%) HP
7 2 (3.23%) Ribbon
7 2 (3.23%) Sun
7 2 (3.23%) Tenable
7 2 (3.23%) Unisys
7 2 (3.23%) VMware
8 1 (1.61%) Dell
8 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.61%) Veeam