Data Centre Contracts in Manchester

Data Center
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 59 101
Rank change year-on-year -11 +42 -32
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 25 53 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.77% 2.95% 1.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.79% 9.12% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 45 32
10th Percentile £378 £333 £275
25th Percentile £404 £425 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £454 £626 £523
90th Percentile £655 £710 £618
North West median daily rate £433 £481 £438
% change year-on-year -10.13% +10.00% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
North West median hourly rate - £43.10 £9.90
% change year-on-year - +335.38% -73.24%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 368 581 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.99% 32.35% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 397 776
10th Percentile £300 £317 £228
25th Percentile £413 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £720 £675 £674
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 30
10th Percentile £13.10 £16.74 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.92 £17.69 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.60 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +84.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £19.63
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £27.18
North West median hourly rate £25.25 £27.84 £19.00
% change year-on-year -9.30% +46.53% +6.15%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) DMZ
1 16 (64.00%) SD-WAN
2 14 (56.00%) Wireless
3 13 (52.00%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (52.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) LAN
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security
4 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 16 (64.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Aviation
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) DBA
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (4.00%) Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) ITSM
2 2 (8.00%) Agile
2 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (8.00%) Migration
2 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (4.00%) Change Management
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (4.00%) DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Fintech
3 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (4.00%) ITIL
3 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (4.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (4.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (4.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.00%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Palo Alto
2 16 (64.00%) F5
3 14 (56.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) VMware