Data Centre Contracts in the North West

Data Center
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 102 77 91
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 36 85 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.35% 2.76% 2.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.25% 8.38% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 65 71
10th Percentile £378 £298 £250
25th Percentile £412 £363 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £488 £415
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +17.47% +2.15%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £523
90th Percentile £556 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £43.10 £9.90
Median % change year-on-year - +335.38% -73.24%
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £27.63
% change year-on-year +14.77% -21.56% -30.94%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 686 1,014 1,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.70% 32.93% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 661 1,091
10th Percentile £285 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £685 £675 £663
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 41 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.40
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £13.63
Median hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +77.22% +10.34%
75th Percentile £40.63 £66.00 £38.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £52.08
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -14 25 £433 -13.50% 24
Cheshire -8 10 £513 +46.43% 2
Merseyside +10 1 - - 5
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (36.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) DMZ
1 16 (44.44%) SD-WAN
2 14 (38.89%) Wireless
3 13 (36.11%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (36.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (16.67%) SAN
5 2 (5.56%) Network Security
6 1 (2.78%) DHCP
6 1 (2.78%) DNS
6 1 (2.78%) Firewall
6 1 (2.78%) LAN
6 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
1 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.56%) Metadata
1 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) SAN Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) SAN Storage Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Wireless Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.56%) DBA
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Server Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) SQL DBA
7 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) ITSM
2 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 2 (5.56%) Agile
3 2 (5.56%) Analytics
3 2 (5.56%) CI/CD
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (5.56%) Conceptual Models
3 2 (5.56%) Data Architecture
3 2 (5.56%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (5.56%) Data Science
3 2 (5.56%) Data Strategy
3 2 (5.56%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (5.56%) Information Management
3 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (5.56%) Machine Learning
3 2 (5.56%) Metadata Management
3 2 (5.56%) Migration
3 2 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) Bash
2 1 (2.78%) Bicep
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) CCNA
2 1 (2.78%) CCNP
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.78%) MCSE
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Firmware
1 6 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.78%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (2.78%) Nagios
2 1 (2.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Cisco
2 17 (47.22%) F5
2 17 (47.22%) Palo Alto
3 8 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft