Data Centre Contracts in the North of England

Data Center
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 79 85
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 90 143 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.90% 2.58% 2.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.23% 8.49% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 117 133
10th Percentile £354 £288 £250
25th Percentile £403 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £550
90th Percentile £619 £745 £623
England median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £21.25 £24.73 -
25th Percentile £21.92 £31.48 -
Median hourly rate £24.87 £43.10 £9.90
Median % change year-on-year -42.30% +335.38% -78.24%
75th Percentile £25.83 £54.61 -
90th Percentile - £61.29 -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £25.25
% change year-on-year +14.77% -14.18% -41.79%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,245 1,684 2,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.23% 30.37% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 751 1,128 1,872
10th Percentile £263 £281 £205
25th Percentile £400 £401 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £503 £483
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +4.15% +10.48%
75th Percentile £585 £606 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £657
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 82 96
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.43
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.05 £16.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -11.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £32.32 £40.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.62 £44.03
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +15 43 £474 -9.81% 13
North West -23 39 £433 -10.13% 31
North East +5 8 £425 -37.04% 7
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.44%) IIS
3 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.56%) GitHub
2 10 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.22%) GCP
4 2 (2.22%) IaaS
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.22%) PaaS
4 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (1.11%) AWS
5 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.11%) Miro
5 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.78%) Cisco Nexus
1 16 (17.78%) DMZ
1 16 (17.78%) SD-WAN
2 14 (15.56%) Wireless
3 13 (14.44%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (12.22%) SAN
5 10 (11.11%) Firewall
6 7 (7.78%) LAN
7 6 (6.67%) WAN
8 5 (5.56%) DHCP
8 5 (5.56%) DNS
8 5 (5.56%) WLAN
9 3 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (2.22%) BGP
10 2 (2.22%) EIGRP
10 2 (2.22%) MPLS
10 2 (2.22%) Network Security
10 2 (2.22%) OSPF
10 2 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.22%) Metadata
2 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.22%) Power BI
2 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 29 (32.22%) Finance
2 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.67%) Banking
4 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.11%) Aviation
6 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Marketing
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Storage Manager
3 11 (12.22%) Migration Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Data Migration Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) VMware Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Senior
6 7 (7.78%) Storage Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Network Operations Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) SAN Storage Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Architect
8 5 (5.56%) Wireless Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) YAML
2 1 (1.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.11%) JSON
2 1 (1.11%) LDAP
2 1 (1.11%) Middleware
2 1 (1.11%) REST
2 1 (1.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.56%) Clustering
2 4 (4.44%) NHS
3 2 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.11%) CCTV
4 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.11%) PKI
4 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.22%) Linux
2 14 (15.56%) zOS
3 11 (12.22%) Windows
4 8 (8.89%) VMS
5 7 (7.78%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.22%) CentOS
8 2 (2.22%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.22%) Agile
2 18 (20.00%) Migration
3 14 (15.56%) Problem Management
3 14 (15.56%) Storage Management
4 13 (14.44%) ITSM
5 12 (13.33%) Project Management
5 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (10.00%) Cost Management
6 9 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 7 (7.78%) Project Delivery
8 6 (6.67%) Change Management
8 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (4.44%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (4.44%) High Availability
9 4 (4.44%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (4.44%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (3.33%) Data Architecture
10 3 (3.33%) Data Centre Operations
10 3 (3.33%) Scrum
10 3 (3.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.56%) JCL
1 14 (15.56%) Python
1 14 (15.56%) REXX
2 8 (8.89%) SQL
3 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) CCNA
1 9 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
3 5 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) CCNP
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.22%) JNCIA
5 2 (2.22%) JNCIS
5 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
6 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 14 (15.56%) NFS
1 14 (15.56%) Time Sharing Option
2 9 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (6.67%) Firmware
4 4 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.22%) KVM
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.22%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (1.11%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.11%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (15.56%) Ansible
1 14 (15.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 11 (12.22%) vCenter Server
3 4 (4.44%) Dell DRAC
3 4 (4.44%) Nagios
3 4 (4.44%) SCOM
4 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.11%) vMotion
4 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) Cisco
2 19 (21.11%) Dell
3 18 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 17 (18.89%) F5
5 14 (15.56%) Broadcom
5 14 (15.56%) Brocade
5 14 (15.56%) CA
5 14 (15.56%) IBM
6 13 (14.44%) VMware
7 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
8 5 (5.56%) Juniper
9 1 (1.11%) Citrix
9 1 (1.11%) Databricks
9 1 (1.11%) Google
9 1 (1.11%) HP
9 1 (1.11%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) Symantec