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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 135 72 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.66% 4.65% 3.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.79% 12.22% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 51 21
10th Percentile £318 £300 £363
25th Percentile £358 £351 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -20.35% +25.56%
75th Percentile £534 £496 £619
90th Percentile £576 £550 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £20.21 - £14.40
25th Percentile £21.51 - £18.38
Median hourly rate £23.67 - £25.00
75th Percentile £25.84 - £26.88
90th Percentile £27.13 - £28.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £21.90
% change year-on-year +29.22% +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 1,145 589 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.52% 38.07% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 359 256
10th Percentile £353 £297 £204
25th Percentile £413 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.70% +1.25%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 7 25
10th Percentile £13.57 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.28 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.20 £15.55 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% -3.95% -24.36%
75th Percentile £43.96 £18.51 £41.88
90th Percentile - £19.63 £50.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.38 £57.35
% change year-on-year +15.81% -43.54% +25.00%

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 22 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 22 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 -1 52 £508 +3.15% 22
South Yorkshire -37 39 £500 +33.33% 12
East Yorkshire -3 1 - -
North Yorkshire -7 1 - - 6
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 (5.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) CICS
2 1 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.70%) Azure
2 20 (14.81%) AWS
3 17 (12.59%) GitHub
4 14 (10.37%) GCP
5 13 (9.63%) IaaS
6 9 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.70%) SaaS
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.22%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.22%) OCI
8 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.48%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.48%) Datadog
9 2 (1.48%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.74%) PaaS
10 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (32.59%) Firewall
2 25 (18.52%) SAN
3 24 (17.78%) DNS
4 18 (13.33%) VLAN
5 14 (10.37%) BGP
5 14 (10.37%) BIG-IP
5 14 (10.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 14 (10.37%) TCP/IP
6 13 (9.63%) DHCP
7 12 (8.89%) Network Security
7 12 (8.89%) OSPF
7 12 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (8.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 11 (8.15%) VPN
8 11 (8.15%) WAN
8 11 (8.15%) WLAN
9 10 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
9 10 (7.41%) LAN
10 9 (6.67%) Wireless
11 8 (5.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (26.67%) JIRA
2 17 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) Git
General
1 33 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.52%) Finance
3 18 (13.33%) Banking
4 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.70%) Police
7 4 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.22%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) Cyber-Physical System
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 24 (17.78%) Data Centre Engineer
4 21 (15.56%) Senior
5 15 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) Lead
7 11 (8.15%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) ICT Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Technical Manager
9 9 (6.67%) Architect
10 8 (5.93%) Data Centre Manager
11 7 (5.19%) Data Manager
12 6 (4.44%) Design Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Network Design Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Consultant
13 5 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Project Manager
13 5 (3.70%) Senior Design Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Senior Network Design Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.63%) Terraform
2 6 (4.44%) Redfish
3 3 (2.22%) Middleware
3 3 (2.22%) SAML
3 3 (2.22%) YAML
4 2 (1.48%) SLSA
5 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.74%) JSON
5 1 (0.74%) REST
5 1 (0.74%) SOAP
5 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 12 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.19%) PKI
6 5 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.70%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.70%) Replication
7 4 (2.96%) EMC VMAX
7 4 (2.96%) EMC VNX
8 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.48%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.74%) CMDB
10 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.74%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.81%) Windows
2 18 (13.33%) Linux
3 7 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.96%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.48%) zOS
6 1 (0.74%) AIX
6 1 (0.74%) Unix
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (17.04%) Validation
3 22 (16.30%) Agile
3 22 (16.30%) CI/CD
4 21 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (14.81%) DevOps
6 18 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (10.37%) Migration
9 13 (9.63%) Capacity Planning
10 12 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (8.89%) ITIL
11 11 (8.15%) Cloud Security
11 11 (8.15%) High Availability
11 11 (8.15%) Runbook
12 10 (7.41%) Data Centre Operations
12 10 (7.41%) Project Delivery
13 9 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.78%) Python
2 11 (8.15%) ActionScript
2 11 (8.15%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.19%) Bash
4 2 (1.48%) JCL
4 2 (1.48%) REXX
5 1 (0.74%) Bicep
5 1 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (9.63%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (7.41%) CCNP
3 9 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.93%) Degree
5 5 (3.70%) CISSP
5 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.22%) CEH
7 3 (2.22%) CISM
7 3 (2.22%) NCDA
7 3 (2.22%) NCIE
7 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.22%) PMP
7 3 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.48%) CCNA
8 2 (1.48%) CCSP
8 2 (1.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.48%) GRC
2 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.74%) NIST
2 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 27 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.37%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (7.41%) Firmware
4 9 (6.67%) vSphere
5 5 (3.70%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
6 4 (2.96%) NFS
7 3 (2.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.22%) SRDF
7 3 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.48%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.74%) ACF2
9 1 (0.74%) RACF
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (9.63%) Ansible
2 9 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
3 8 (5.93%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.19%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.96%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (2.96%) SnapMirror
5 4 (2.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (2.96%) vMotion
6 3 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (2.22%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.22%) SnapVault
7 2 (1.48%) Argo
7 2 (1.48%) Grafana
8 1 (0.74%) Cilium
8 1 (0.74%) Control-M
8 1 (0.74%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.74%) Packer
8 1 (0.74%) SCCM
8 1 (0.74%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 28 (20.74%) VMware
2 23 (17.04%) Cisco
3 17 (12.59%) F5
4 14 (10.37%) Juniper
5 12 (8.89%) Dell
6 10 (7.41%) Microsoft
7 9 (6.67%) CheckPoint
8 7 (5.19%) Brocade
8 7 (5.19%) Palo Alto
8 7 (5.19%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.44%) Google
10 5 (3.70%) IBM
11 4 (2.96%) 3PAR
11 4 (2.96%) Arista
11 4 (2.96%) EMC
11 4 (2.96%) NetApp
12 3 (2.22%) Atlassian
12 3 (2.22%) ForeScout
12 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
12 3 (2.22%) Veeam