Data Centre Contracts in the North East

Data Center
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the North East. 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 30 34 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 8 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.48% 3.71% 1.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.99% 15.66% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile - £400 £438
25th Percentile £363 £531 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -43.30% +36.27% +29.41%
75th Percentile £544 £849 -
90th Percentile £660 £850 £569
England median daily rate £538 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -2.27% +5.06% +10.21%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 89 83 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 27.55% 23.71% 36.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 63 142
10th Percentile £178 £148 £131
25th Percentile £313 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £565
90th Percentile £704 £836 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £31.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £11.44 £31.44 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.29% +84.29% +38.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £33.31 £31.25
90th Percentile - £33.58 £38.75
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North East

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the North East

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the North East

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the North East

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +9 8 £425 -43.30% 1
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Miro
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (25.00%) MPLS
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) SMTP
4 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Network Operations Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCNA
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (25.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 1 (12.50%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) VMware