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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 47 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 131 62 42
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.70% 4.92% 2.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.11% 13.57% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 46 24
10th Percentile £318 £312 £170
25th Percentile £358 £375 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.57% -20.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £514 £492 £579
90th Percentile £551 £522 £619
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £16.68 - £22.85
25th Percentile £17.68 - £23.92
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £24.87
75th Percentile £23.67 - £25.83
90th Percentile £26.27 - £27.00
England median hourly rate £20.43 £25.15 £24.87
% change year-on-year -18.79% +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 1,082 457 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.81% 36.27% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 271 260
10th Percentile £325 £305 £263
25th Percentile £413 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 66
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.63 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.72 £19.76 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +35.26% +35.08% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £30.10 £15.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £53.47 £35.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.21% -9.59% +53.43%

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 2 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 2 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 -12 48 £430 -11.11% 15
South Yorkshire -27 47 £485 +25.00% 5
East Yorkshire -5 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 (1.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) CICS
2 1 (0.76%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.85%) Azure
2 15 (11.45%) AWS
2 15 (11.45%) GitHub
3 13 (9.92%) GCP
4 11 (8.40%) IaaS
5 6 (4.58%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.82%) Azure Storage
6 5 (3.82%) SaaS
7 3 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.29%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.29%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.29%) OCI
7 3 (2.29%) Serverless
8 2 (1.53%) Datadog
8 2 (1.53%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 30 (22.90%) Firewall
2 22 (16.79%) SAN
3 12 (9.16%) DNS
3 12 (9.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 11 (8.40%) BIG-IP
5 8 (6.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 8 (6.11%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.34%) VLAN
7 6 (4.58%) NAS
7 6 (4.58%) Network Security
8 5 (3.82%) BGP
8 5 (3.82%) OSPF
8 5 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (3.82%) WLAN
9 4 (3.05%) WAN
10 3 (2.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (2.29%) DHCP
10 3 (2.29%) SSL
10 3 (2.29%) VoIP
10 3 (2.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.76%) Power BI
1 1 (0.76%) Power Query
1 1 (0.76%) PowerPivot
1 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (25.19%) JIRA
2 15 (11.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) Git
General
1 32 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.32%) Finance
3 15 (11.45%) Banking
4 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.29%) Legal
6 2 (1.53%) Billing
6 2 (1.53%) Police
6 2 (1.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.53%) Retail
7 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (25.95%) Data Centre Engineer
3 11 (8.40%) Lead
4 10 (7.63%) ICT Engineer
4 10 (7.63%) Network Engineer
5 9 (6.87%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.11%) Senior
7 7 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Architect
8 6 (4.58%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Consultant
9 5 (3.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Analyst
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Data Centre Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.63%) Redfish
2 3 (2.29%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.29%) Middleware
3 2 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.53%) SLSA
3 2 (1.53%) YAML
4 1 (0.76%) JSON
4 1 (0.76%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) SOAP
4 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.27%) Enterprise Storage
2 10 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.58%) Replication
4 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.05%) EMC VMAX
5 4 (3.05%) EMC VNX
5 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.53%) PKI
7 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.27%) Windows
2 19 (14.50%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.53%) AIX
4 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.53%) zOS
5 1 (0.76%) Unix
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (16.03%) CI/CD
2 21 (16.03%) DevOps
2 21 (16.03%) Validation
3 20 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (13.74%) Agile
5 16 (12.21%) Capacity Planning
6 15 (11.45%) Runbook
7 14 (10.69%) Data Centre Operations
7 14 (10.69%) Migration
8 12 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (8.40%) Test Automation
10 10 (7.63%) Asset Management
10 10 (7.63%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (7.63%) Inventory Management
10 10 (7.63%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (6.87%) Operations Management
12 8 (6.11%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (6.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.90%) Python
2 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
3 12 (9.16%) Bash
4 8 (6.11%) ActionScript
5 3 (2.29%) Bicep
5 3 (2.29%) Java
6 2 (1.53%) JCL
6 2 (1.53%) REXX
7 1 (0.76%) SQL
7 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
1 5 (3.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (3.05%) Degree
3 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.29%) CCNP
3 3 (2.29%) NCDA
3 3 (2.29%) NCIE
4 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.53%) CCSK
4 2 (1.53%) CCSP
4 2 (1.53%) CISM
4 2 (1.53%) CISSP
5 1 (0.76%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (0.76%) CCNA
5 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.76%) PMP
5 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) PMO
2 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 28 (21.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (11.45%) Firmware
3 13 (9.92%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (8.40%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (6.87%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.58%) KVM
6 6 (4.58%) vSphere
7 4 (3.05%) NFS
8 3 (2.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.29%) SRDF
9 2 (1.53%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.76%) ACF2
10 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.76%) RACF
10 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.16%) Ansible
1 12 (9.16%) Terraform
2 10 (7.63%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (4.58%) vCenter Server
4 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (3.05%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (3.05%) SnapMirror
6 3 (2.29%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (2.29%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.29%) PowerCLI
6 3 (2.29%) SnapVault
7 2 (1.53%) Argo
7 2 (1.53%) Grafana
7 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.76%) Control-M
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.76%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.76%) Packer
8 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (22.90%) VMware
2 16 (12.21%) Juniper
3 13 (9.92%) Microsoft
4 12 (9.16%) Dell
4 12 (9.16%) F5
5 9 (6.87%) Cisco
6 8 (6.11%) Brocade
7 7 (5.34%) Google
8 6 (4.58%) IBM
9 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
10 4 (3.05%) 3PAR
10 4 (3.05%) Alibaba
10 4 (3.05%) EMC
10 4 (3.05%) NetApp
11 3 (2.29%) Arista
11 3 (2.29%) Aruba
11 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
11 3 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.29%) Veeam