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 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 86 31 51
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.55% 3.05% 3.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.31% 8.88% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 22 30
10th Percentile £318 £325 £170
25th Percentile £345 £362 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £378 £451
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -16.30% -18.00%
75th Percentile £474 £436 £569
90th Percentile £525 £499 £619
England median daily rate £481 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £16.68 - -
25th Percentile £17.68 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £23.69
75th Percentile £23.67 - £25.83
90th Percentile £26.27 - -
England median hourly rate £19.60 £24.66 £24.87
% change year-on-year -20.54% -0.84% +12.61%

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 924 349 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.13% 34.38% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 215 254
10th Percentile £317 £263 £254
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £474
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +0.32% -9.81%
75th Percentile £562 £578 £587
90th Percentile £650 £670 £643
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.93% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 70
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.63 -
25th Percentile £17.34 £27.56 £12.15
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.91 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -24.13% +152.34% +37.58%
75th Percentile £63.38 £82.86 £17.52
90th Percentile £68.75 £97.60 £23.96
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.71% +13.33% +33.33%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 39 £438 +15.26% 5
West Yorkshire +4 30 £335 -20.24% 9
North Yorkshire -6 1 - - 2
East Yorkshire -16 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 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.49%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.28%) Azure
2 8 (9.30%) AWS
3 7 (8.14%) GCP
4 4 (4.65%) Azure Storage
4 4 (4.65%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Functions
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.49%) Nutanix
5 3 (3.49%) Serverless
6 2 (2.33%) GitHub
7 1 (1.16%) Datadog
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.16%) IaaS
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) Firewall
2 9 (10.47%) SAN
3 6 (6.98%) Network Security
4 3 (3.49%) NAS
4 3 (3.49%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (3.49%) VPN
4 3 (3.49%) WAN
5 2 (2.33%) BGP
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.33%) LAN
5 2 (2.33%) OSPF
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.16%) DNS
6 1 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.16%) Internet
6 1 (1.16%) SSL
6 1 (1.16%) VoIP
6 1 (1.16%) VSAN
6 1 (1.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Power BI
1 4 (4.65%) Power Query
1 4 (4.65%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) JIRA
2 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Banking
4 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Legal
6 2 (2.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Data Centre Engineer
2 10 (11.63%) Lead
3 9 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) Analyst
5 7 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Data Centre Manager
6 5 (5.81%) ICT Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Network Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Network Project Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) PMO Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Strategy Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Data Centre Technician
8 3 (3.49%) Data Technician
8 3 (3.49%) IT Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.30%) Redfish
2 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.16%) JSON
4 1 (1.16%) Middleware
4 1 (1.16%) REST
4 1 (1.16%) SOAP
4 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (3.49%) Replication
3 2 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (2.33%) EMC VNX
3 2 (2.33%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.16%) CMDB
4 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.16%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.60%) Windows
2 14 (16.28%) Linux
3 2 (2.33%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.16%) AIX
4 1 (1.16%) Unix
4 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (13.95%) Capacity Planning
2 12 (13.95%) Data Centre Operations
3 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (11.63%) Migration
3 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (11.63%) Validation
4 9 (10.47%) Decision-Making
4 9 (10.47%) Inventory Management
4 9 (10.47%) Operations Management
4 9 (10.47%) Runbook
5 8 (9.30%) Asset Management
5 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Management
5 8 (9.30%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (9.30%) Test Automation
6 7 (8.14%) Analytics
6 7 (8.14%) Change Management
6 7 (8.14%) Data Analysis
6 7 (8.14%) DevOps
7 6 (6.98%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.93%) Python
2 13 (15.12%) PowerShell
3 9 (10.47%) Bash
4 4 (4.65%) SQL
4 4 (4.65%) VBA
5 3 (3.49%) Bicep
5 3 (3.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (3.49%) CCNP
1 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (3.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (2.33%) CCIE
3 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.16%) BICSI Certification
3 1 (1.16%) CCIE Data Center
3 1 (1.16%) CCNA
3 1 (1.16%) CISSP
3 1 (1.16%) City & Guilds
3 1 (1.16%) Degree
3 1 (1.16%) NCDA
3 1 (1.16%) NCIE
3 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.16%) PMP
3 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.12%) Firmware
3 10 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (10.47%) Hyper-V
5 7 (8.14%) KVM
6 5 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.81%) vSphere
7 1 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.16%) NFS
7 1 (1.16%) SRDF
7 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (9.30%) Dell DRAC
2 7 (8.14%) Terraform
3 6 (6.98%) Ansible
4 5 (5.81%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.49%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (2.33%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (2.33%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.33%) SnapMirror
6 2 (2.33%) SnapVault
7 1 (1.16%) Argo
7 1 (1.16%) Grafana
7 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.16%) Puppet
7 1 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) VMware
2 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.63%) Dell
4 6 (6.98%) Cisco
4 6 (6.98%) Juniper
5 5 (5.81%) Google
6 4 (4.65%) Alibaba
7 3 (3.49%) Brocade
7 3 (3.49%) Intel
7 3 (3.49%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.33%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.33%) EMC
8 2 (2.33%) NetApp
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle
8 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.33%) Veeam
9 1 (1.16%) Aruba
9 1 (1.16%) F5
9 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.16%) Splunk