Data Centre Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Center
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 67 56
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 15 38 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.55% 2.51% 3.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.15% 8.72% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 42
10th Percentile £438 £339 £301
25th Percentile £509 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £579
90th Percentile - £665 £656
Yorkshire median daily rate £474 £538 £478
% change year-on-year -11.91% +12.57% +0.53%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 244 436 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 25.18% 28.78% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 318 459
10th Percentile £263 £363 £248
25th Percentile £400 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 24
10th Percentile - - £15.28
25th Percentile £12.15 £20.75 £17.29
Median hourly rate £12.90 £21.50 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +8.31% +13.43%
75th Percentile £15.19 £22.25 £23.43
90th Percentile £15.23 - £27.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £10.63 £18.85
% change year-on-year +37.58% -43.61% +7.71%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in West Yorkshire

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leeds +11 12 £563 +7.14% 6
Bradford +3 1 £475 +40.74%
Wakefield - 1 £320 -
Data Centre
Yorkshire

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (26.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Big Data
2 2 (13.33%) Power BI
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 9 (60.00%) Migration Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Data Migration Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Security Solutions Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Technician
6 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
6 1 (6.67%) Online Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Procurement Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Server Migration Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) VMS
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (6.67%) Change Management
4 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (6.67%) Information Assurance
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Runbook
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Service Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CCNA
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) KVM
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) VMware