Data Centre Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Center
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 58 59
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 17 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.96% 1.92% 2.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.00% 6.64% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 24
10th Percentile £245 £284 £319
25th Percentile £425 £396 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £544 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £550
90th Percentile £625 £763 -
England median daily rate £538 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -2.27% +5.06% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.77% -4.75% -51.34%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 243 286 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.96% 28.83% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 206 315
10th Percentile £181 £210 £179
25th Percentile £255 £350 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% - +13.92%
75th Percentile £530 £568 £525
90th Percentile £600 £688 £620
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 29
10th Percentile £11.75 £17.41 £14.36
25th Percentile £12.28 £19.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £23.96 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.57% +29.51% +25.85%
75th Percentile £18.32 £65.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £24.59 - £24.22
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Northamptonshire +2 6 £445 -20.89% 3
Nottinghamshire +7 5 £275 -64.52% 6
Leicestershire - 4 £600 - 3
Derbyshire -2 2 - - 1
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) Wireless
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) Ethereal
3 2 (11.76%) Ethernet
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
General
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Network Support
3 3 (17.65%) Network Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Technician
5 1 (5.88%) ETL Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Network Technician
5 1 (5.88%) Payments Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Strategy
1 6 (35.29%) Collaborative Culture
1 6 (35.29%) Data Transformation
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Architecture
1 6 (35.29%) ETL
1 6 (35.29%) High Availability
1 6 (35.29%) IT Strategy
1 6 (35.29%) Microservices
1 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
1 6 (35.29%) Strategic Roadmap
1 6 (35.29%) Technical Debt
1 6 (35.29%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (17.65%) Network Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Budget Management
3 2 (11.76%) Change Control
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) CCNA
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) OpenView
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) F5
2 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
2 3 (17.65%) Juniper
2 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
3 2 (11.76%) Broadcom
3 2 (11.76%) Brocade
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) VMware