Data Centre Contracts in the Midlands

Data Center
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 54 96
Rank change year-on-year -7 +42 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 74 131 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.75% 3.99% 2.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.02% 12.29% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 80 77
10th Percentile £425 £350 £185
25th Percentile £525 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £759 £600 £550
90th Percentile £825 £713 £606
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £20.07 -
25th Percentile - £20.17 £15.25
Median hourly rate - £20.71 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.58% -38.00%
75th Percentile - £21.31 £15.75
90th Percentile - £21.53 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £26.50
% change year-on-year +14.77% -18.23% -33.75%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 820 1,066 1,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.45% 32.47% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 706 1,055
10th Percentile £220 £243 £213
25th Percentile £358 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +14.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 45 54
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.07 £12.68
25th Percentile £13.68 £18.25 £14.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +58.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £28.88 £52.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £24.28
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands +2 60 £600 +20.00% 23
East Midlands +10 14 £550 +1.15% 20
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (9.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.70%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (2.70%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.16%) Azure
2 3 (4.05%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (29.73%) WAN
2 17 (22.97%) LAN
3 14 (18.92%) MPLS
4 13 (17.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 13 (17.57%) Firewall
5 12 (16.22%) VPN
6 10 (13.51%) DHCP
6 10 (13.51%) DNS
7 9 (12.16%) PBX
7 9 (12.16%) SD-WAN
7 9 (12.16%) VoIP
7 9 (12.16%) WLAN
8 8 (10.81%) Wireless
9 6 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (8.11%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (8.11%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (8.11%) Internet
10 5 (6.76%) Ethereal
10 5 (6.76%) Ethernet
10 5 (6.76%) Wireshark
General
1 23 (31.08%) Law
2 17 (22.97%) Telecoms
3 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Finance
5 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Billing
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Architect
2 14 (18.92%) Network Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) Data Centre Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Commercial Manager
4 8 (10.81%) IT Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Programme Manager
5 7 (9.46%) Project Manager
5 7 (9.46%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Vendor Manager
6 6 (8.11%) Consultant
6 6 (8.11%) Network Support
6 6 (8.11%) Network Support Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Buyer
7 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (6.76%) IT Buyer
7 5 (6.76%) IT Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) Procurement Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (5.41%) Network Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Web Services
2 5 (6.76%) Middleware
3 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (6.76%) SCADA
2 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.70%) CCTV
4 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Unix
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.92%) Cost Reduction
2 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
3 12 (16.22%) Network Architecture
3 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (14.86%) Analytics
4 11 (14.86%) ITIL
4 11 (14.86%) Programme Management
5 10 (13.51%) Architectural Design
5 10 (13.51%) Migration
6 9 (12.16%) Data Analytics
6 9 (12.16%) Performance Management
6 9 (12.16%) Project Delivery
6 9 (12.16%) SOA
6 9 (12.16%) Storage Management
7 8 (10.81%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (9.46%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.46%) Resource Management
9 6 (8.11%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (8.11%) Decision-Making
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (18.92%) Degree
3 9 (12.16%) CCIE
3 9 (12.16%) CCIE Data Center
4 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) CCNA
5 5 (6.76%) CCNP
6 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.81%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.05%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.70%) Docker
4 2 (2.70%) Firmware
5 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.76%) OpenView
Vendors
1 26 (35.14%) Cisco
2 11 (14.86%) VMware
3 5 (6.76%) BMC
3 5 (6.76%) CheckPoint
3 5 (6.76%) Infoblox
3 5 (6.76%) Juniper
3 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
3 5 (6.76%) Symantec
3 5 (6.76%) Zscaler
4 4 (5.41%) F5
5 3 (4.05%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.05%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.70%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.70%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.70%) Brocade
6 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.35%) Citrix
7 1 (1.35%) IBM
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle