Data Centre Contracts

Data Center
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 91 108
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 935 1,523 2,143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.17% 2.63% 2.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.18% 7.92% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 1,091 1,539
10th Percentile £300 £350 £311
25th Percentile £405 £442 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 25
10th Percentile £14.60 £20.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.22 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.67 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -24.63% -39.47%
75th Percentile £40.00 £25.00 £69.05
90th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £69.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.25 £21.26 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.36% -1.12% -41.89%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,238 28,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.28% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,389 13,217 20,227
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 636 716
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.02
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.66% -12.42%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England -7 793 £525 -4.55% 523
UK excluding London +4 526 £531 +6.25% 312
London -2 327 £525 -12.50% 229
Work from Home -66 233 £550 - 220
South East +12 154 £469 -6.25% 108
South West +4 115 £600 +9.09% 34
North of England -12 94 £433 -17.62% 64
Midlands -11 73 £600 +14.29% 48
West Midlands -9 61 £600 +20.00% 25
Scotland +19 54 £555 +11.00% 23
Yorkshire +16 51 £451 -18.00% 17
North West -30 36 £433 -11.28% 32
Wales +27 22 £91 -79.49% 10
East of England -27 20 £325 -25.29% 48
East Midlands +14 12 £550 -2.22% 23
North East +8 7 £400 -40.74% 15

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 34 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.32%) Confluence
3 17 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.60%) IIS
5 7 (0.75%) IBM Domino
5 7 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.53%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.32%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.32%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.21%) Apache
9 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 38 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.53%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.43%) Revit
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (1.28%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.32%) Shopify
2 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.21%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.21%) RMDS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 167 (17.86%) Azure
2 80 (8.56%) AWS
3 53 (5.67%) SaaS
4 46 (4.92%) IaaS
5 45 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (4.49%) PaaS
7 38 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
8 30 (3.21%) Entra ID
9 23 (2.46%) GitHub
10 18 (1.93%) GCP
11 14 (1.50%) OCI
12 12 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (1.18%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.96%) Nutanix
16 8 (0.86%) AWS Direct Connect
16 8 (0.86%) Mimecast
17 6 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 179 (19.14%) Firewall
2 129 (13.80%) WAN
3 120 (12.83%) LAN
4 99 (10.59%) DNS
5 85 (9.09%) SAN
6 75 (8.02%) DHCP
7 62 (6.63%) Wireless
8 59 (6.31%) Cisco Nexus
9 58 (6.20%) Network Security
10 52 (5.56%) SD-WAN
11 51 (5.45%) MPLS
12 49 (5.24%) VPN
12 49 (5.24%) Wi-Fi
13 42 (4.49%) BGP
14 35 (3.74%) OSPF
15 32 (3.42%) Internet
16 30 (3.21%) IPsec
17 29 (3.10%) Cisco ASA
18 25 (2.67%) VSAN
19 22 (2.35%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.50%) Big Data
3 11 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.64%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.32%) Metadata
9 3 (0.32%) MySQL
9 3 (0.32%) Power BI
9 3 (0.32%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.32%) Redis
9 3 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.21%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (5.45%) JIRA
2 42 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.64%) GitLab
4 4 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.43%) Git
5 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.32%) Hudson
6 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 223 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 132 (14.12%) Finance
3 99 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 62 (6.63%) Telecoms
5 57 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (4.28%) Banking
7 26 (2.78%) Law
8 18 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.82%) Mandarin Language
9 17 (1.82%) Marketing
10 16 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.07%) Legal
13 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.75%) Billing
14 7 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.64%) Local Government
15 6 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 177 (18.93%) Network Engineer
2 147 (15.72%) Architect
3 88 (9.41%) Senior
4 74 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 72 (7.70%) Data Centre Engineer
6 64 (6.84%) Project Manager
7 55 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 52 (5.56%) Network Architect
9 37 (3.96%) Consultant
10 34 (3.64%) Analyst
11 33 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
12 29 (3.10%) Lead
12 29 (3.10%) Server Engineer
13 28 (2.99%) Applications Support
13 28 (2.99%) Applications Support Engineer
14 27 (2.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (2.78%) VMware Engineer
16 25 (2.67%) Infrastructure Manager
17 23 (2.46%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.46%) YAML
2 21 (2.25%) Web Services
3 14 (1.50%) LDAP
4 13 (1.39%) REST
5 10 (1.07%) Middleware
6 8 (0.86%) Node.js
7 7 (0.75%) 802.1X
8 6 (0.64%) JSON
9 5 (0.53%) .NET
10 4 (0.43%) Loki
10 4 (0.43%) SAML
11 3 (0.32%) EDI
11 3 (0.32%) Kafka
11 3 (0.32%) VML
12 2 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.21%) NETCONF
12 2 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.21%) Redfish
12 2 (0.21%) Software Packaging
13 1 (0.11%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.28%) Private Cloud
2 27 (2.89%) PKI
3 25 (2.67%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.35%) Clustering
5 20 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (2.14%) Replication
6 18 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.28%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.96%) CCTV
12 9 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 9 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.86%) SCADA
14 7 (0.75%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.64%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 170 (18.18%) Windows
2 155 (16.58%) Linux
3 57 (6.10%) Windows Server
4 48 (5.13%) Unix
5 32 (3.42%) Windows 10
6 29 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (2.03%) zOS
10 17 (1.82%) Windows XP
11 12 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (1.28%) VMS
11 12 (1.28%) Windows 7
12 10 (1.07%) CentOS
13 9 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.64%) Debian
15 5 (0.53%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.53%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (22.89%) Migration
2 126 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 96 (10.27%) Agile
5 83 (8.88%) Project Management
6 81 (8.66%) ITIL
7 68 (7.27%) Project Delivery
8 64 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (5.99%) Computer Science
10 55 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
11 53 (5.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 53 (5.67%) Network Management
12 46 (4.92%) Change Management
13 45 (4.81%) Data Migration
14 44 (4.71%) Storage Management
15 43 (4.60%) DevOps
16 42 (4.49%) High Availability
17 41 (4.39%) Capacity Management
17 41 (4.39%) Server Management
18 39 (4.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 75 (8.02%) PowerShell
2 71 (7.59%) Python
3 43 (4.60%) SQL
4 23 (2.46%) Bash
5 18 (1.93%) JCL
5 18 (1.93%) REXX
6 13 (1.39%) Java
7 7 (0.75%) C
7 7 (0.75%) Go
7 7 (0.75%) VBScript
8 5 (0.53%) Ruby
9 4 (0.43%) ActionScript
9 4 (0.43%) C++
10 3 (0.32%) Perl
10 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.21%) C#
12 1 (0.11%) Bicep
12 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.69%) Cisco Certification
3 114 (12.19%) Degree
4 113 (12.09%) DV Cleared
5 109 (11.66%) SC Cleared
6 73 (7.81%) CCNP
7 69 (7.38%) CCNA
8 38 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.99%) CCIE
9 28 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
11 18 (1.93%) A+ Certification
12 17 (1.82%) MCSE
13 12 (1.28%) MCSA
14 10 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 9 (0.96%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.96%) CCIE Data Center
15 9 (0.96%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.75%) ISACA
16 7 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.67%) SLA
2 12 (1.28%) NIST
3 11 (1.18%) GDPR
3 11 (1.18%) QA
4 9 (0.96%) COBIT
5 8 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.11%) IASME
8 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 133 (14.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 100 (10.70%) Active Directory
3 61 (6.52%) vSphere
4 56 (5.99%) Hyper-V
5 47 (5.03%) VMware ESXi
6 42 (4.49%) VMware NSX
7 24 (2.57%) KVM
8 23 (2.46%) Docker
9 19 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
10 18 (1.93%) NFS
10 18 (1.93%) Time Sharing Option
11 17 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (1.60%) VMware Workstation
13 13 (1.39%) Firmware
14 5 (0.53%) vCloud
15 3 (0.32%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.21%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.21%) VMware Server
17 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 49 (5.24%) Ansible
3 41 (4.39%) Kubernetes
4 40 (4.28%) SCCM
5 37 (3.96%) Terraform
6 26 (2.78%) NetBackup
7 24 (2.57%) SCOM
8 22 (2.35%) Puppet
9 19 (2.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 18 (1.93%) Nagios
11 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.60%) Progress Chef
12 14 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (1.50%) WSUS
13 12 (1.28%) VxRail
14 11 (1.18%) FortiGate
14 11 (1.18%) Grafana
14 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
15 7 (0.75%) SCVMM
16 6 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 207 (22.14%) Cisco
2 188 (20.11%) VMware
3 129 (13.80%) Microsoft
4 101 (10.80%) Palo Alto
5 93 (9.95%) Dell
6 59 (6.31%) Juniper
7 53 (5.67%) F5
8 47 (5.03%) HP
9 38 (4.06%) Oracle
10 36 (3.85%) IBM
11 31 (3.32%) CheckPoint
12 30 (3.21%) Citrix
13 26 (2.78%) Brocade
13 26 (2.78%) Red Hat
14 25 (2.67%) Atlassian
15 23 (2.46%) Fortinet
16 21 (2.25%) SolarWinds
16 21 (2.25%) Symantec
17 20 (2.14%) Broadcom
18 19 (2.03%) EMC