Data Centre Contracts in Wales

Data Center
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 19 45 46
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 23 15 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.28% 2.46% 3.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.56% 5.91% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 17
10th Percentile - £106 -
25th Percentile - £169 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £91 £444 £295
Median % change year-on-year -79.49% +50.42% -29.76%
75th Percentile £214 £575 £525
90th Percentile £288 £600 £531
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £21.67 £28.75
% change year-on-year +10.75% -24.63% -39.47%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 131 254 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.79% 41.71% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 181 240
10th Percentile £160 £163 £162
25th Percentile £400 £273 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +3.75%
75th Percentile £543 £549 £538
90th Percentile £579 £613 £627
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 15
10th Percentile - £12.61 -
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.25 £11.15
Median hourly rate £16.25 £17.03 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +13.53% -6.25%
75th Percentile £27.69 £19.81 £17.25
90th Percentile £63.43 £27.64 £22.96
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales +26 23 £91 -78.59% 9
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
1 1 (4.35%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
General
1 22 (95.65%) Social Skills
2 18 (78.26%) Telecoms
3 17 (73.91%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Network Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Network Project Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Graduate
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) AIX
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 21 (91.30%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (8.70%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
3 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.35%) Agile
4 1 (4.35%) Budget Management
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) ITIL
4 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.35%) Project Governance
4 1 (4.35%) Project Management
4 1 (4.35%) Project Planning
4 1 (4.35%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (91.30%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) NEBOSH
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco
1 2 (8.70%) Huawei
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Citrix
2 1 (4.35%) Meraki