Data Centre Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Center
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the West 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 44 44 94
Rank change year-on-year 0 +50 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 74 94 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.62% 4.25% 2.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.78% 12.77% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 53 53
10th Percentile £425 £353 £180
25th Percentile £525 £424 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £753 £600 £600
90th Percentile £805 £731 £741
England median daily rate £538 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -2.27% +5.06% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.22 £15.25
Median hourly rate - £20.71 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.58% -71.82%
75th Percentile - £21.19 £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.77% -4.75% -51.34%

All Generic Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Warwickshire +36 60 £600 +33.33% 15
Birmingham -21 7 £550 -9.61% 10
Solihull -9 4 - - 3
Worcestershire -5 1 £400 -23.81% 1
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 7 (9.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.16%) Azure
2 1 (1.35%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.03%) WAN
2 17 (22.97%) SD-WAN
3 15 (20.27%) LAN
4 14 (18.92%) MPLS
5 10 (13.51%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (13.51%) DHCP
5 10 (13.51%) DNS
5 10 (13.51%) VPN
6 9 (12.16%) PBX
6 9 (12.16%) VoIP
6 9 (12.16%) WLAN
7 8 (10.81%) NX-OS
8 6 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (8.11%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (8.11%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (8.11%) Firewall
8 6 (8.11%) Wireless
9 5 (6.76%) Ethereal
9 5 (6.76%) Ethernet
9 5 (6.76%) Wireshark
General
1 27 (36.49%) Law
2 15 (20.27%) Telecoms
3 10 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
5 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.35%) Billing
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Architect
2 12 (16.22%) Network Architect
3 11 (14.86%) IT Manager
4 9 (12.16%) Network Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Programme Manager
5 8 (10.81%) Commercial Manager
5 8 (10.81%) Data Centre Manager
6 7 (9.46%) Vendor Manager
7 6 (8.11%) Consultant
7 6 (8.11%) Project Manager
7 6 (8.11%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Buyer
8 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (6.76%) IT Buyer
8 5 (6.76%) IT Consultant
8 5 (6.76%) Network Support
8 5 (6.76%) Network Support Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Procurement Consultant
9 4 (5.41%) Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Web Services
2 5 (6.76%) Middleware
3 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.76%) SCADA
3 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.70%) CCTV
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Unix
2 1 (1.35%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (18.92%) Cost Reduction
3 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
3 13 (17.57%) ITIL
3 13 (17.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 12 (16.22%) Programme Management
5 11 (14.86%) Storage Management
6 10 (13.51%) Architectural Design
6 10 (13.51%) Migration
6 10 (13.51%) Network Architecture
7 9 (12.16%) Analytics
7 9 (12.16%) Data Analytics
7 9 (12.16%) Performance Management
7 9 (12.16%) SOA
8 8 (10.81%) Computer Security
8 8 (10.81%) Incident Response
8 8 (10.81%) Network Packet Capture
8 8 (10.81%) Password Management
9 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.46%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (18.92%) Degree
3 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
4 9 (12.16%) CCIE
4 9 (12.16%) CCIE Data Center
5 5 (6.76%) CCNA
5 5 (6.76%) CCNP
6 3 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (13.51%) VMware NSX
3 8 (10.81%) vSphere
4 7 (9.46%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.05%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) CSIRT
2 5 (6.76%) OpenView
3 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (37.84%) Cisco
2 18 (24.32%) VMware
3 5 (6.76%) BMC
3 5 (6.76%) CheckPoint
3 5 (6.76%) Infoblox
3 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
3 5 (6.76%) Symantec
3 5 (6.76%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.35%) F5
4 1 (1.35%) Juniper
4 1 (1.35%) Netskope
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow