Data Centre Contracts in England

Data Center
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 95 115
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 796 1,232 1,713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.16% 2.51% 2.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.05% 7.47% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 875 1,232
10th Percentile £300 £333 £305
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 24
10th Percentile £21.25 - £15.25
25th Percentile £22.13 £20.22 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -18.99% -32.70%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.63 £69.05
90th Percentile £41.25 £73.00 £69.54
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £21.67 £27.88
% change year-on-year +10.75% -22.26% -41.32%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,287 16,502 23,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.68% 33.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,398 11,457 16,868
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 584 625
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.75 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +45.65% -16.66% +2.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
London -5 331 £525 -12.50% 211
South East +15 154 £475 -5.00% 99
South West +5 115 £600 +9.09% 35
North of England -14 94 £433 -17.62% 66
Midlands -10 72 £600 +14.29% 42
West Midlands -7 61 £600 +20.00% 24
Yorkshire +16 51 £451 -18.00% 18
North West -29 36 £433 -11.28% 33
East of England -33 20 £325 -25.29% 42
East Midlands +16 11 £550 +1.15% 18
North East +5 7 £400 -40.74% 15
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.26%) Confluence
3 14 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.01%) IIS
5 7 (0.88%) IBM Domino
6 6 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.63%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.38%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.25%) Apache
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 32 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.63%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.50%) Revit
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
1 3 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.25%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.25%) RMDS
3 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 133 (16.71%) Azure
2 66 (8.29%) AWS
3 50 (6.28%) SaaS
4 44 (5.53%) IaaS
5 41 (5.15%) PaaS
6 38 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (2.64%) Entra ID
9 19 (2.39%) GitHub
10 14 (1.76%) GCP
10 14 (1.76%) OCI
11 11 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.26%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.26%) Power Platform
13 9 (1.13%) Nutanix
14 8 (1.01%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
17 5 (0.63%) Serverless
18 4 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 173 (21.73%) Firewall
2 122 (15.33%) WAN
3 115 (14.45%) LAN
4 94 (11.81%) DNS
5 75 (9.42%) SAN
6 74 (9.30%) DHCP
7 59 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 57 (7.16%) Wireless
9 54 (6.78%) Network Security
10 51 (6.41%) MPLS
11 50 (6.28%) SD-WAN
11 50 (6.28%) VPN
12 48 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
13 42 (5.28%) BGP
14 37 (4.65%) OSPF
15 34 (4.27%) IPsec
16 31 (3.89%) Internet
17 28 (3.52%) Cisco ASA
18 25 (3.14%) Cisco IOS
18 25 (3.14%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.63%) Big Data
3 9 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.38%) Metadata
8 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Power BI
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.13%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (4.15%) Jenkins
1 33 (4.15%) JIRA
2 6 (0.75%) GitLab
3 4 (0.50%) Git
4 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.38%) Hudson
5 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 186 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 127 (15.95%) Finance
3 84 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 48 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.90%) Banking
5 39 (4.90%) Telecoms
6 26 (3.27%) Law
7 17 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.01%) Marketing
9 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.13%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.88%) Billing
13 7 (0.88%) Legal
14 6 (0.75%) Electronics
14 6 (0.75%) Local Government
14 6 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 176 (22.11%) Network Engineer
2 135 (16.96%) Architect
3 66 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (8.17%) Senior
5 61 (7.66%) Data Centre Engineer
6 57 (7.16%) Project Manager
7 51 (6.41%) Network Architect
8 32 (4.02%) Analyst
8 32 (4.02%) Consultant
9 29 (3.64%) Lead
9 29 (3.64%) Support Engineer
10 28 (3.52%) Server Engineer
11 27 (3.39%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (3.27%) VMware Engineer
13 25 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.76%) Infrastructure Manager
15 21 (2.64%) Infrastructure Architect
16 20 (2.51%) Data Centre Technician
16 20 (2.51%) Security Engineer
16 20 (2.51%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.51%) YAML
2 14 (1.76%) LDAP
3 13 (1.63%) Web Services
4 9 (1.13%) Middleware
5 7 (0.88%) Node.js
6 6 (0.75%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.75%) JSON
7 5 (0.63%) .NET
7 5 (0.63%) REST
8 4 (0.50%) SAML
9 3 (0.38%) EDI
9 3 (0.38%) VML
10 2 (0.25%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.25%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.25%) Redfish
10 2 (0.25%) Software Packaging
11 1 (0.13%) Kafka
11 1 (0.13%) OpenID
11 1 (0.13%) PostGIS
11 1 (0.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.65%) Private Cloud
2 26 (3.27%) PKI
3 21 (2.64%) Clustering
3 21 (2.64%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 14 (1.76%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.51%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.01%) SCADA
11 6 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.75%) NHS
11 6 (0.75%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.63%) Social Media
12 5 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 127 (15.95%) Linux
1 127 (15.95%) Windows
2 48 (6.03%) Windows Server
3 41 (5.15%) Unix
4 31 (3.89%) Windows 10
5 23 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (2.14%) Windows XP
8 16 (2.01%) zOS
9 11 (1.38%) VMS
9 11 (1.38%) Windows 7
10 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.50%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.38%) CentOS
12 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.38%) Windows 2000
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (22.24%) Migration
2 107 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 82 (10.30%) Agile
5 79 (9.92%) ITIL
6 72 (9.05%) Project Management
7 60 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (6.53%) Network Management
9 50 (6.28%) Computer Science
10 49 (6.16%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (5.90%) Disaster Recovery
12 44 (5.53%) Change Management
13 41 (5.15%) Server Management
13 41 (5.15%) Storage Management
14 40 (5.03%) Project Delivery
15 38 (4.77%) Business Strategy
15 38 (4.77%) CI/CD
16 37 (4.65%) Capacity Management
17 36 (4.52%) Mentoring
18 35 (4.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (7.79%) PowerShell
2 59 (7.41%) Python
3 26 (3.27%) SQL
4 18 (2.26%) Bash
5 15 (1.88%) JCL
5 15 (1.88%) REXX
6 13 (1.63%) Java
7 7 (0.88%) C
7 7 (0.88%) VBScript
8 6 (0.75%) Go
9 5 (0.63%) Ruby
10 4 (0.50%) ActionScript
10 4 (0.50%) C++
11 3 (0.38%) Perl
11 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.25%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) Bicep
13 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 203 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 115 (14.45%) Cisco Certification
3 109 (13.69%) DV Cleared
4 102 (12.81%) Degree
5 100 (12.56%) SC Cleared
6 67 (8.42%) CCNP
7 60 (7.54%) CCNA
8 33 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.14%) CCIE
10 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
11 10 (1.26%) A+ Certification
11 10 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (1.13%) CCIE Data Center
12 9 (1.13%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.88%) ISACA
13 7 (0.88%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.14%) SLA
2 12 (1.51%) NIST
3 11 (1.38%) GDPR
4 10 (1.26%) QA
5 9 (1.13%) COBIT
6 6 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) IASME
8 1 (0.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (14.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 87 (10.93%) Active Directory
3 54 (6.78%) vSphere
4 48 (6.03%) Hyper-V
5 45 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (5.03%) VMware NSX
7 19 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (2.26%) KVM
9 17 (2.14%) Docker
10 16 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.88%) NFS
11 15 (1.88%) Time Sharing Option
11 15 (1.88%) VMware Workstation
12 12 (1.51%) Firmware
13 4 (0.50%) vCloud
14 3 (0.38%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.25%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 50 (6.28%) vCenter Server
2 40 (5.03%) SCCM
3 39 (4.90%) Ansible
4 33 (4.15%) Kubernetes
5 31 (3.89%) Terraform
6 26 (3.27%) NetBackup
7 23 (2.89%) SCOM
8 16 (2.01%) Puppet
8 16 (2.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 15 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.76%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.76%) WSUS
11 13 (1.63%) Nagios
12 10 (1.26%) FortiGate
12 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (1.01%) VxRail
14 7 (0.88%) SCVMM
15 5 (0.63%) OpenView
15 5 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 200 (25.13%) Cisco
2 167 (20.98%) VMware
3 112 (14.07%) Microsoft
4 97 (12.19%) Palo Alto
5 78 (9.80%) Dell
6 56 (7.04%) Juniper
7 51 (6.41%) F5
8 46 (5.78%) HP
9 33 (4.15%) IBM
10 31 (3.89%) CheckPoint
10 31 (3.89%) Oracle
11 22 (2.76%) Fortinet
12 21 (2.64%) Arista
13 20 (2.51%) Brocade
13 20 (2.51%) SolarWinds
13 20 (2.51%) Symantec
14 19 (2.39%) EMC
15 18 (2.26%) Citrix
15 18 (2.26%) Red Hat
16 17 (2.14%) ServiceNow