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 in Scotland. 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 57 81 92
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 61 87 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.85% 3.26% 2.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.98% 9.02% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 59 69
10th Percentile £243 £441 £350
25th Percentile £313 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £738 £545 £513
90th Percentile £750 £665 £560
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -2.27% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 0
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.15 -
25th Percentile £13.38 £16.42 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -
75th Percentile £18.51 £20.38 -
90th Percentile £18.75 £21.47 -
UK median hourly rate £23.90 £21.26 £24.00
% change year-on-year +12.42% -11.42% -48.66%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 964 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.68% 36.08% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 650 856
10th Percentile £205 £209 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £564
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 26
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.56
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £14.50 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -65.86% +1.13%
75th Percentile £29.59 £21.67 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.45 £48.93 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 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
Edinburgh +13 24 £444 -11.25% 6
Glasgow +8 22 £440 -12.00% 9
South Lanarkshire - 10 £750 -
Renfrewshire -4 1 - -
Fife - 1 £310 -
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 13 (21.31%) Confluence
2 6 (9.84%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.56%) AWS
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (4.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.28%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Firewall
1 8 (13.11%) SAN
2 5 (8.20%) IPv6
2 5 (8.20%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (6.56%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (6.56%) MPLS
3 4 (6.56%) VSAN
4 3 (4.92%) BGP
4 3 (4.92%) IPv4
4 3 (4.92%) LAN
4 3 (4.92%) VPN
4 3 (4.92%) WAN
5 2 (3.28%) DNS
5 2 (3.28%) Network Security
5 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.28%) SSL
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.64%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (29.51%) JIRA
General
1 14 (22.95%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Finance
3 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.64%) Back Office
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.64%) Military
5 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Support Engineer
2 14 (22.95%) Applications Engineer
2 14 (22.95%) JIRA Engineer
3 10 (16.39%) Applications Support
3 10 (16.39%) Applications Support Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) IT Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Field Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Field Service Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Architect
9 3 (4.92%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Desktop Support
9 3 (4.92%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.28%) IT Project Manager
10 2 (3.28%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) REST
1 9 (14.75%) Web Services
2 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (13.11%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (6.56%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (1.64%) BYOD
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.64%) IoT
3 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.51%) Linux
2 15 (24.59%) Windows
3 6 (9.84%) CentOS
3 6 (9.84%) Debian
3 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (8.20%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.59%) Data Migration
2 15 (24.59%) Migration
3 12 (19.67%) Customer Service
3 12 (19.67%) Service Management
3 12 (19.67%) Workflow
4 11 (18.03%) Analytics
4 11 (18.03%) Kalman Filter
5 10 (16.39%) Performance Metrics
6 7 (11.48%) Agile
6 7 (11.48%) Break/Fix
7 6 (9.84%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (9.84%) Project Management
8 5 (8.20%) Data Protection
8 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (6.56%) Capacity Management
9 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (6.56%) Kanban
9 4 (6.56%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (6.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (22.95%) MCSE
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) CCNA
4 8 (13.11%) A+ Certification
4 8 (13.11%) Network+ Certification
4 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.84%) Degree
5 6 (9.84%) MCSA
5 6 (9.84%) RHCT
6 5 (8.20%) CCNP
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.92%) HND
8 2 (3.28%) CCIE
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 12 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (14.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.84%) Hyper-V
3 6 (9.84%) KVM
4 4 (6.56%) vSphere
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) vCenter Server
1 4 (6.56%) VxRail
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Nagios
2 1 (1.64%) OpenView
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Atlassian
2 12 (19.67%) Dell
2 12 (19.67%) VMware
3 8 (13.11%) Cisco
3 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.48%) Citrix
4 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.20%) Apple
5 5 (8.20%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle
6 3 (4.92%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.28%) AppNeta
7 2 (3.28%) Arista
7 2 (3.28%) Tufin
8 1 (1.64%) AlienVault
8 1 (1.64%) F5
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds