Data Centre Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Center
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 50 52 103
Rank change year-on-year +2 +51 -24
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 60 91 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.17% 4.02% 2.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.80% 12.26% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 55 48
10th Percentile £425 £350 £178
25th Percentile £525 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £772 £588 £588
90th Percentile £825 £724 £615
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.22 £15.25
Median hourly rate - £20.71 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.58% -38.00%
75th Percentile - £21.19 £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £26.50
% change year-on-year +14.77% -18.23% -33.75%

All Generic Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 612 742 1,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.38% 32.79% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 491 723
10th Percentile £300 £263 £263
25th Percentile £366 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% +14.44%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £587
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 21
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.67 £12.38
25th Percentile £14.71 £20.48 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +66.67% -0.84%
75th Percentile £40.50 £49.94 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £55.63 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Warwickshire +36 47 £600 +33.33% 7
Birmingham -18 5 £675 +17.39% 9
Solihull -13 3 - - 1
Worcestershire -1 2 £485 -7.62% 2
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 5 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (1.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (1.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.67%) WAN
2 14 (23.33%) LAN
2 14 (23.33%) MPLS
3 11 (18.33%) VPN
4 9 (15.00%) PBX
4 9 (15.00%) SD-WAN
4 9 (15.00%) VoIP
4 9 (15.00%) WLAN
5 8 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (13.33%) DHCP
5 8 (13.33%) DNS
6 7 (11.67%) Firewall
7 6 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (10.00%) Internet
8 4 (6.67%) Wireless
9 3 (5.00%) Ethereal
9 3 (5.00%) Ethernet
9 3 (5.00%) Wireshark
General
1 23 (38.33%) Law
2 13 (21.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Billing
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Architect
2 8 (13.33%) Commercial Manager
2 8 (13.33%) IT Manager
2 8 (13.33%) Programme Manager
3 7 (11.67%) Data Centre Manager
3 7 (11.67%) Network Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Vendor Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Buyer
4 5 (8.33%) Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (8.33%) IT Buyer
4 5 (8.33%) IT Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) Procurement Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Senior
5 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Network Support
6 3 (5.00%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Web Services
2 5 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (1.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (8.33%) SCADA
2 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.33%) CCTV
4 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Cost Reduction
2 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
2 11 (18.33%) ITIL
2 11 (18.33%) Programme Management
3 10 (16.67%) Analytics
3 10 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 9 (15.00%) Data Analytics
4 9 (15.00%) Migration
4 9 (15.00%) Network Architecture
4 9 (15.00%) Performance Management
4 9 (15.00%) SOA
4 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (15.00%) Storage Management
5 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
5 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.67%) Resource Management
5 7 (11.67%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (20.00%) Degree
3 9 (15.00%) CCIE
3 9 (15.00%) CCIE Data Center
4 5 (8.33%) CCNP
5 3 (5.00%) CCNA
5 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.67%) Docker
4 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Cisco
2 9 (15.00%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) BMC
3 5 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 5 (8.33%) Infoblox
3 5 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 5 (8.33%) Symantec
3 5 (8.33%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.67%) F5
4 1 (1.67%) IBM
4 1 (1.67%) Juniper
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow