Data Centre Contracts in Birmingham

Data Center
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 35 75
Rank change year-on-year -22 +40 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 5 43 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.67% 4.83% 1.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 13.87% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 21 16
10th Percentile - £363 £168
25th Percentile £525 £425 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +60.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £731 £539
90th Percentile - - £679
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £20.71 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +33.58% -38.00%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 213 310 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.71% 34.79% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 186 266
10th Percentile £263 £350 £263
25th Percentile £356 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £492
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.27% +3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £642 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £513 £488
% change year-on-year +2.44% +5.13% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 7
10th Percentile £18.88 £15.65 £12.40
25th Percentile £22.33 £20.22 £13.83
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +61.76% -9.26%
75th Percentile £40.81 £30.00 £17.70
90th Percentile £54.80 £88.75 £18.42
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -14.27% +66.67% -0.84%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Ethereal
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) HSRP
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Support
1 1 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow