Data Centre Contracts in the North of England

Data Center
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 85 84
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 91 149 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.96% 2.66% 2.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.44% 8.73% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 122 135
10th Percentile £320 £289 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £544
90th Percentile £619 £721 £628
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - £24.73 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.48 -
Median hourly rate £23.69 £43.10 £9.90
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +335.38% -75.25%
75th Percentile £25.83 £54.61 -
90th Percentile - £61.29 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £27.63
% change year-on-year +14.77% -21.56% -30.94%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,223 1,707 2,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.39% 30.47% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 1,138 1,881
10th Percentile £265 £287 £200
25th Percentile £400 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +7.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £583 £613 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 82 105
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.11 £16.85 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -9.89% +6.86%
75th Percentile £26.66 £40.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £48.24 £66.62 £44.03
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Yorkshire +11 47 £474 -13.91% 20
North West -25 36 £433 -11.28% 34
North East +5 8 £425 -37.04% 8
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.40%) IIS
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.38%) GitHub
2 11 (12.09%) Azure
3 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.20%) GCP
4 2 (2.20%) IaaS
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.20%) PaaS
4 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.20%) SaaS
5 1 (1.10%) AWS
5 1 (1.10%) Miro
5 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.58%) Cisco Nexus
1 16 (17.58%) DMZ
1 16 (17.58%) SD-WAN
2 14 (15.38%) Wireless
3 13 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (12.09%) SAN
5 10 (10.99%) Firewall
6 6 (6.59%) DHCP
6 6 (6.59%) DNS
6 6 (6.59%) LAN
6 6 (6.59%) WAN
7 4 (4.40%) WLAN
8 3 (3.30%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.20%) BGP
9 2 (2.20%) EIGRP
9 2 (2.20%) MPLS
9 2 (2.20%) Network Security
9 2 (2.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) Big Data
2 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.20%) Metadata
2 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.20%) Power BI
2 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 30 (32.97%) Finance
2 21 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Banking
4 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Law
6 1 (1.10%) Marketing
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Network Engineer
2 12 (13.19%) Storage Manager
3 11 (12.09%) Data Centre Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Migration Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Data Migration Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Senior
4 8 (8.79%) VMware Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Network Operations Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Operations Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) SAN Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) SAN Storage Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Wireless Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Network Technician
8 4 (4.40%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.38%) YAML
2 2 (2.20%) Redfish
3 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.10%) JSON
3 1 (1.10%) LDAP
3 1 (1.10%) Middleware
3 1 (1.10%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Clustering
2 4 (4.40%) NHS
3 3 (3.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.10%) PKI
4 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.18%) Linux
2 14 (15.38%) zOS
3 12 (13.19%) Windows
4 8 (8.79%) VMS
5 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.49%) Windows 10
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.30%) CentOS
8 3 (3.30%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.08%) Agile
2 19 (20.88%) Migration
3 14 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 14 (15.38%) Storage Management
4 13 (14.29%) ITSM
5 12 (13.19%) Project Management
6 11 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.89%) Cost Management
7 9 (9.89%) Software Testing
8 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (7.69%) Project Delivery
10 6 (6.59%) Change Management
11 5 (5.49%) Network Monitoring
11 5 (5.49%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (4.40%) Computer Science
12 4 (4.40%) High Availability
12 4 (4.40%) Waterfall
13 3 (3.30%) Data Architecture
13 3 (3.30%) DevOps
13 3 (3.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.38%) JCL
1 14 (15.38%) Python
1 14 (15.38%) REXX
2 8 (8.79%) SQL
3 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.10%) Bash
4 1 (1.10%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) CCNA
1 10 (10.99%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (6.59%) Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) A+ Certification
5 3 (3.30%) CCNP
5 3 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.20%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.20%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) MCSE
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) NFS
1 14 (15.38%) Time Sharing Option
2 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.99%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (6.59%) Firmware
4 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.30%) KVM
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.30%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.10%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Ansible
1 14 (15.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 11 (12.09%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 1 (1.10%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.10%) Nagios
4 1 (1.10%) SCOM
4 1 (1.10%) vMotion
4 1 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (31.87%) Cisco
2 18 (19.78%) Palo Alto
3 17 (18.68%) F5
4 16 (17.58%) Dell
5 14 (15.38%) Broadcom
5 14 (15.38%) Brocade
5 14 (15.38%) CA
5 14 (15.38%) IBM
6 13 (14.29%) VMware
7 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
8 6 (6.59%) Juniper
9 1 (1.10%) Aruba
9 1 (1.10%) Citrix
9 1 (1.10%) Google
9 1 (1.10%) HP
9 1 (1.10%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.10%) Meraki
9 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Symantec