Data Centre Contracts in Scotland

Data Center
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 70 86 99
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 54 81 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.52% 3.00% 2.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.59% 8.24% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 58
10th Percentile £211 £425 £356
25th Percentile £313 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £459
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% +8.99% +7.94%
75th Percentile £738 £538 £536
90th Percentile £750 £674 £577
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £12.00 £13.41 -
25th Percentile £13.31 £15.07 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% - -
75th Percentile £18.63 £21.36 -
90th Percentile £18.75 £21.55 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £21.67 £36.28
% change year-on-year +10.75% -40.26% -23.63%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 711 983 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.22% 36.43% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 665 800
10th Percentile £200 £231 £256
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £558
90th Percentile £654 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 22
10th Percentile £12.49 - £15.81
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £12.73 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% -70.03% -5.61%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.39 £51.56
90th Percentile £60.10 £50.74 £57.33
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +5 22 £440 -12.00% 7
Edinburgh +18 19 £531 +6.25% 8
South Lanarkshire - 9 £750 -
Fife - 1 £310 - 1
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (22.22%) Confluence
2 6 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) Azure
2 8 (14.81%) Entra ID
3 4 (7.41%) AWS
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.70%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) SAN
2 5 (9.26%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (7.41%) Firewall
3 4 (7.41%) VSAN
4 2 (3.70%) DNS
4 2 (3.70%) IPv6
4 2 (3.70%) LAN
4 2 (3.70%) SSL
4 2 (3.70%) VPN
4 2 (3.70%) WAN
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.85%) Internet
5 1 (1.85%) MPLS
5 1 (1.85%) Network Security
5 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.85%) SNMP
5 1 (1.85%) Wireless
5 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.85%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (31.48%) JIRA
General
1 14 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Military
5 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Support Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) Applications Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) JIRA Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 9 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Field Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Field Service Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Desktop Support
8 3 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.70%) Consultant
9 2 (3.70%) IT Manager
9 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) REST
1 8 (14.81%) Web Services
2 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (12.96%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.41%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 1 (1.85%) BYOD
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.63%) Linux
2 14 (25.93%) Windows
3 6 (11.11%) CentOS
3 6 (11.11%) Debian
3 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (9.26%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Data Migration
1 14 (25.93%) Migration
2 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (20.37%) Service Management
3 11 (20.37%) Workflow
4 10 (18.52%) Analytics
4 10 (18.52%) Kalman Filter
5 9 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 9 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
6 7 (12.96%) Agile
6 7 (12.96%) Break/Fix
7 5 (9.26%) Data Protection
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.41%) Capacity Management
8 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (7.41%) Kanban
8 4 (7.41%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (7.41%) Time Management
8 4 (7.41%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) MCSE
1 14 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 10 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (14.81%) A+ Certification
4 8 (14.81%) CCNA
4 8 (14.81%) Network+ Certification
4 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
5 6 (11.11%) MCSA
5 6 (11.11%) RHCT
6 5 (9.26%) Degree
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.70%) CCIE
8 2 (3.70%) CCNP
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 6 (11.11%) KVM
4 4 (7.41%) vSphere
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) vCenter Server
1 4 (7.41%) VxRail
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) Nagios
2 1 (1.85%) OpenView
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Atlassian
2 12 (22.22%) Dell
2 12 (22.22%) VMware
3 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.96%) Citrix
4 7 (12.96%) Red Hat
5 5 (9.26%) Apple
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle
8 2 (3.70%) AppNeta
8 2 (3.70%) Arista
8 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.70%) Tufin
9 1 (1.85%) AlienVault
9 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds