Data Centre Contracts in Kent

Data Center
South East > Kent

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 23 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.86% 4.81% 4.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.41% 9.80% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 14
10th Percentile £440 £406 £337
25th Percentile £482 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £733 £538
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +36.28% +20.79%
75th Percentile £574 £778 £613
90th Percentile - £788 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £458
% change year-on-year - +9.15% -3.56%

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 74 102 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 34.42% 49.04% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 84 83
10th Percentile - £174 £140
25th Percentile £205 £205 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £346 £433
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -19.94% +24.91%
75th Percentile £394 £396 £588
90th Percentile £475 £623 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 7
10th Percentile £18.59 £48.53 £16.98
25th Percentile £38.16 £54.37 £19.83
Median hourly rate £70.32 £57.76 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +140.67% -33.53%
75th Percentile £75.16 £66.74 £33.68
90th Percentile - £74.21 £41.02
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +144.19% -41.58%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Kent

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Kent

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Kent over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Kent

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Kent

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
West Malling +2 2 £563 +36.36%
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Budget Responsibility
1 2 (50.00%) Business Case
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (50.00%) Line Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto