Data Centre Contracts in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 77 62
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 161 165 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.90% 2.84% 3.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.19% 8.39% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 110 221
10th Percentile £280 £333 £256
25th Percentile £346 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.43%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £16.00 - £19.24
25th Percentile £21.38 £65.00 £21.02
Median hourly rate £24.00 £70.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +191.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £27.38 £75.00 £25.50
90th Percentile £48.00 - £26.40
England median hourly rate £24.87 £22.09 £26.75
% change year-on-year +12.61% -17.44% -38.86%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,580 1,966 2,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.42% 33.84% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,327 1,695
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 90 121
10th Percentile £11.74 £18.23 £15.63
25th Percentile £18.35 £20.48 £17.42
Median hourly rate £47.19 £51.25 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +138.37% -33.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £30.16 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +34.04% -16.60% +2.08%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Thames Valley +15 97 £550 +15.12% 47
Berkshire +7 90 £550 +22.22% 36
Hampshire -14 27 £550 -8.33% 21
Surrey +18 17 £488 +24.20% 10
West Sussex +11 10 £400 -5.88% 7
Buckinghamshire +15 7 £550 +12.18% 4
Kent -2 5 £394 -46.25% 8
East Sussex - 2 £475 -
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (3.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.24%) IBM Domino
2 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.15%) Azure
2 13 (8.07%) OCI
3 10 (6.21%) AWS
4 4 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (1.86%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.86%) Datadog
5 3 (1.86%) IaaS
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.24%) CloudFront
6 2 (1.24%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.62%) dbt
7 1 (0.62%) GitHub
7 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.62%) Route 53
7 1 (0.62%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (32.30%) Firewall
2 32 (19.88%) SAN
3 28 (17.39%) DNS
4 27 (16.77%) DHCP
5 19 (11.80%) LAN
5 19 (11.80%) Network Security
6 17 (10.56%) WAN
7 15 (9.32%) Cisco Nexus
8 14 (8.70%) BGP
9 13 (8.07%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (7.45%) IPsec
11 11 (6.83%) VPN
11 11 (6.83%) Wireless
12 10 (6.21%) MPLS
12 10 (6.21%) OSPF
13 7 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (3.73%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (3.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (3.73%) HSRP
14 6 (3.73%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.62%) Big Data
4 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (6.21%) JIRA
2 3 (1.86%) Hudson
2 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.24%) Git
3 2 (1.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.32%) Finance
3 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.48%) Local Government
8 3 (1.86%) Legal
9 2 (1.24%) Back Office
9 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) Law
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (26.71%) Network Engineer
2 26 (16.15%) Architect
3 22 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (11.18%) Data Centre Engineer
4 18 (11.18%) Senior
5 15 (9.32%) Infrastructure Architect
6 10 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.59%) Data Centre Technician
7 9 (5.59%) Data Technician
7 9 (5.59%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Consultant
8 8 (4.97%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.97%) Server Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 7 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.35%) Security Consultant
10 6 (3.73%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (3.73%) Network Security Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.48%) JSON
2 3 (1.86%) EDI
2 3 (1.86%) LDAP
3 2 (1.24%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.24%) Middleware
3 2 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.32%) Private Cloud
2 10 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.11%) PKI
6 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.86%) CCTV
7 3 (1.86%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.86%) PMI
7 3 (1.86%) SCADA
7 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.24%) Replication
8 2 (1.24%) Tandem
9 1 (0.62%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) NHS
9 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.25%) Windows
2 30 (18.63%) Linux
3 16 (9.94%) Windows Server
4 13 (8.07%) Windows 10
4 13 (8.07%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (8.07%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (8.07%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (8.07%) Windows XP
5 12 (7.45%) Unix
6 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.22%) ITIL
2 26 (16.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (16.15%) Migration
2 26 (16.15%) Project Management
3 25 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (14.91%) Break/Fix
5 19 (11.80%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (10.56%) Server Management
7 16 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (9.32%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (8.70%) Storage Management
10 13 (8.07%) Converged Infrastructure
10 13 (8.07%) Performance Monitoring
10 13 (8.07%) Proactive Monitoring
11 12 (7.45%) Agile
11 12 (7.45%) Conflict Resolution
11 12 (7.45%) Data Centre Operations
11 12 (7.45%) Vulnerability Management
12 11 (6.83%) High Availability
12 11 (6.83%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.18%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.32%) Python
3 8 (4.97%) Bash
4 4 (2.48%) ActionScript
5 3 (1.86%) C
5 3 (1.86%) C++
5 3 (1.86%) Java
5 3 (1.86%) Perl
5 3 (1.86%) Ruby
5 3 (1.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.36%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (19.25%) DV Cleared
4 27 (16.77%) Degree
5 26 (16.15%) CCNP
6 23 (14.29%) CCNA
7 21 (13.04%) SC Cleared
8 8 (4.97%) ISACA
9 5 (3.11%) CCIE
9 5 (3.11%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.86%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.24%) PhD
11 2 (1.24%) PMP
11 2 (1.24%) Server+ Certification
11 2 (1.24%) VCAP
11 2 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.62%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) GDPR
2 11 (6.83%) SLA
3 10 (6.21%) COBIT
3 10 (6.21%) NIST
4 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 16 (9.94%) Hyper-V
4 14 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (7.45%) VMware NSX
6 8 (4.97%) vSphere
7 5 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.86%) Docker
8 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.24%) KVM
10 1 (0.62%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (8.07%) EMC NetWorker
1 13 (8.07%) NetBackup
1 13 (8.07%) SCCM
1 13 (8.07%) SCOM
1 13 (8.07%) vCenter Server
1 13 (8.07%) WSUS
2 8 (4.97%) Terraform
3 7 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.73%) Ansible
5 3 (1.86%) Nagios
5 3 (1.86%) Netcool
5 3 (1.86%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.86%) Puppet
6 2 (1.24%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (1.24%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.24%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.24%) vRealize
6 2 (1.24%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (34.78%) Cisco
2 39 (24.22%) VMware
3 35 (21.74%) Dell
4 33 (20.50%) HP
5 32 (19.88%) Palo Alto
6 30 (18.63%) Juniper
7 26 (16.15%) Microsoft
8 15 (9.32%) 3PAR
9 14 (8.70%) Oracle
10 13 (8.07%) EMC
10 13 (8.07%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (8.07%) Symantec
10 13 (8.07%) Veeam
11 12 (7.45%) F5
12 9 (5.59%) CheckPoint
13 6 (3.73%) Citrix
13 6 (3.73%) SolarWinds
14 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
15 4 (2.48%) Aruba
16 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace