Data Centre Contracts in the Midlands

Data Center
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the 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 55 51 97
Rank change year-on-year -4 +46 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 91 130 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.09% 4.04% 2.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.35% 12.42% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 77 77
10th Percentile £425 £350 £189
25th Percentile £522 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% +2.15%
75th Percentile £675 £610 £588
90th Percentile £775 £731 £668
England median daily rate £538 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -2.27% +5.06% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £20.07 -
25th Percentile - £20.17 £15.25
Median hourly rate - £20.71 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.58% -71.82%
75th Percentile - £21.31 £15.75
90th Percentile - £21.53 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.77% -4.75% -51.34%

All Generic Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 1,047 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.82% 32.53% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 690 1,054
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £611 £606 £575
90th Percentile £702 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 38 47
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.41 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.91 £20.22 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +56.61% +9.75%
75th Percentile £28.88 £54.69 £22.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £26.37
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the 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 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
West Midlands 0 74 £600 +14.29% 32
East Midlands +5 17 £455 -16.32% 16
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 9 (9.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.68%) Azure
2 7 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.18%) WAN
2 17 (18.68%) LAN
2 17 (18.68%) SD-WAN
3 15 (16.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 14 (15.38%) MPLS
5 12 (13.19%) DHCP
5 12 (13.19%) DNS
6 11 (12.09%) Firewall
6 11 (12.09%) VPN
7 10 (10.99%) Wireless
8 9 (9.89%) PBX
8 9 (9.89%) VoIP
8 9 (9.89%) WLAN
9 8 (8.79%) NX-OS
10 7 (7.69%) Ethereal
10 7 (7.69%) Ethernet
10 7 (7.69%) Wireshark
11 6 (6.59%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (6.59%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (6.59%) Cisco ISE
General
1 27 (29.67%) Law
2 19 (20.88%) Telecoms
3 16 (17.58%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.29%) Finance
5 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Billing
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Architect
2 16 (17.58%) Network Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Network Architect
4 11 (12.09%) IT Manager
5 10 (10.99%) Data Centre Manager
6 9 (9.89%) Programme Manager
6 9 (9.89%) Support Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Commercial Manager
7 8 (8.79%) Network Support
7 8 (8.79%) Network Support Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
8 7 (7.69%) Consultant
8 7 (7.69%) Vendor Manager
9 6 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.49%) Buyer
10 5 (5.49%) Data Centre Project Manager
10 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (5.49%) IT Buyer
10 5 (5.49%) IT Consultant
10 5 (5.49%) Procurement Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Web Services
2 5 (5.49%) Middleware
3 1 (1.10%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) SCADA
3 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.20%) CCTV
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Unix
2 2 (2.20%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (16.48%) Computer Science
3 14 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
4 13 (14.29%) ITIL
4 13 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 13 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 12 (13.19%) Programme Management
6 11 (12.09%) Storage Management
7 10 (10.99%) Architectural Design
7 10 (10.99%) Migration
8 9 (9.89%) Analytics
8 9 (9.89%) Data Analytics
8 9 (9.89%) Performance Management
8 9 (9.89%) SOA
9 8 (8.79%) Computer Security
9 8 (8.79%) Incident Response
9 8 (8.79%) Network Packet Capture
9 8 (8.79%) Password Management
9 8 (8.79%) Project Delivery
10 7 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (17.58%) Degree
3 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 9 (9.89%) CCIE
5 9 (9.89%) CCIE Data Center
6 7 (7.69%) CCNA
7 5 (5.49%) CCNP
8 3 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.99%) VMware NSX
3 8 (8.79%) Hyper-V
3 8 (8.79%) vSphere
4 3 (3.30%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.20%) Firmware
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) CSIRT
2 7 (7.69%) OpenView
3 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (38.46%) Cisco
2 19 (20.88%) VMware
3 5 (5.49%) BMC
3 5 (5.49%) CheckPoint
3 5 (5.49%) Infoblox
3 5 (5.49%) Palo Alto
3 5 (5.49%) Symantec
3 5 (5.49%) Zscaler
4 4 (4.40%) F5
4 4 (4.40%) Juniper
5 3 (3.30%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.20%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.20%) Brocade
7 1 (1.10%) Citrix
7 1 (1.10%) Netskope
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow