Data Centre Contracts in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the South 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 67 66 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 161 178 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.80% 3.14% 3.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.91% 9.24% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 113 208
10th Percentile £280 £309 £298
25th Percentile £350 £413 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.83% +8.06%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £588
90th Percentile £649 £710 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -2.27% +5.06% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £11.77 - -
25th Percentile £12.02 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £12.08 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -82.74% - -
75th Percentile £24.00 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £25.80 - -
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.77% -4.75% -51.34%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Thames Valley +3 90 £550 +16.40% 47
Berkshire -5 79 £550 +25.71% 28
Hampshire -30 35 £597 +16.44% 18
Surrey +22 18 £506 +12.50% 12
Buckinghamshire +20 11 £425 -11.56% 13
West Sussex - 11 £400 - 13
Kent +3 3 £563 -17.88% 4
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £600 - 3
East Sussex - 1 - - 1
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (1.86%) Confluence
2 2 (1.24%) IBM Domino
2 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.24%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Primavera
2 1 (0.62%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.53%) Azure
2 14 (8.70%) OCI
3 11 (6.83%) AWS
4 6 (3.73%) IaaS
5 5 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.48%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.86%) Datadog
7 3 (1.86%) dbt
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.24%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.24%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.24%) SaaS
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.62%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.62%) PaaS
9 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (29.81%) Firewall
2 36 (22.36%) SAN
3 23 (14.29%) DNS
4 22 (13.66%) DHCP
5 19 (11.80%) Network Security
6 16 (9.94%) LAN
7 13 (8.07%) Cisco Nexus
7 13 (8.07%) WAN
8 11 (6.83%) BGP
8 11 (6.83%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (6.21%) IPsec
10 8 (4.97%) NX-OS
11 7 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (4.35%) MPLS
11 7 (4.35%) OSPF
11 7 (4.35%) SD-WAN
11 7 (4.35%) VPN
12 6 (3.73%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (3.73%) HSRP
12 6 (3.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.86%) Big Data
2 3 (1.86%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) JIRA
2 3 (1.86%) Hudson
2 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.24%) Git
3 2 (1.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.70%) Finance
4 13 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.73%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.86%) Local Government
8 2 (1.24%) Back Office
8 2 (1.24%) Banking
8 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
8 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Law
9 1 (0.62%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 36 (22.36%) Network Engineer
2 26 (16.15%) Architect
3 24 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (11.80%) Data Centre Engineer
5 17 (10.56%) Senior
6 12 (7.45%) Infrastructure Architect
6 12 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 12 (7.45%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (5.59%) Data Centre Technician
7 9 (5.59%) Data Technician
7 9 (5.59%) Server Engineer
8 8 (4.97%) Network Architect
9 7 (4.35%) Consultant
9 7 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.73%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 6 (3.73%) Network Security Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Security Consultant
10 6 (3.73%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Hardware Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.48%) JSON
2 3 (1.86%) EDI
2 3 (1.86%) LDAP
2 3 (1.86%) Snowpark
3 2 (1.24%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.24%) Middleware
3 2 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.62%) Flash
4 1 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (6.21%) Private Cloud
2 6 (3.73%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.73%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.48%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.48%) Replication
5 3 (1.86%) CCTV
5 3 (1.86%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.86%) PMI
5 3 (1.86%) SCADA
6 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.24%) Tandem
7 1 (0.62%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.62%) IBM Storwize
7 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.62%) PKI
7 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.01%) Windows
2 27 (16.77%) Linux
3 17 (10.56%) Windows Server
4 15 (9.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (8.70%) Windows 10
5 14 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (8.70%) Windows XP
6 11 (6.83%) Unix
7 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.62%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.12%) ITIL
2 30 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (16.15%) Migration
5 25 (15.53%) Break/Fix
5 25 (15.53%) Project Management
6 18 (11.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (11.18%) Server Management
7 17 (10.56%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (9.32%) Storage Management
10 14 (8.70%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (8.70%) Proactive Monitoring
11 13 (8.07%) Network Virtualisation
12 12 (7.45%) Agile
12 12 (7.45%) Data Centre Operations
13 11 (6.83%) Conflict Resolution
14 10 (6.21%) High Availability
14 10 (6.21%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 19 (11.80%) Python
3 8 (4.97%) Bash
4 4 (2.48%) ActionScript
4 4 (2.48%) SQL
5 3 (1.86%) C
5 3 (1.86%) C++
5 3 (1.86%) Java
5 3 (1.86%) Perl
5 3 (1.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.50%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (18.63%) Degree
4 29 (18.01%) DV Cleared
5 26 (16.15%) CCNP
5 26 (16.15%) SC Cleared
6 23 (14.29%) CCNA
7 7 (4.35%) ISACA
8 4 (2.48%) CCIE
8 4 (2.48%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.86%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.86%) VCAP
10 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.24%) MCSE
10 2 (1.24%) PhD
10 2 (1.24%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) GDPR
1 11 (6.83%) SLA
2 9 (5.59%) COBIT
2 9 (5.59%) NIST
3 3 (1.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (20.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (13.66%) Active Directory
3 19 (11.80%) VMware NSX
4 17 (10.56%) Hyper-V
5 15 (9.32%) vSphere
6 14 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.86%) Docker
8 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.24%) KVM
10 1 (0.62%) Firmware
10 1 (0.62%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (9.32%) NetBackup
1 15 (9.32%) vCenter Server
2 14 (8.70%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (8.70%) SCCM
2 14 (8.70%) SCOM
2 14 (8.70%) WSUS
3 8 (4.97%) Terraform
4 7 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.73%) Ansible
6 5 (3.11%) CSIRT
7 4 (2.48%) vRealize
7 4 (2.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.86%) Nagios
8 3 (1.86%) Netcool
8 3 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.86%) Puppet
9 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.24%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.62%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.62%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 59 (36.65%) Cisco
2 47 (29.19%) VMware
3 34 (21.12%) Dell
4 32 (19.88%) HP
5 31 (19.25%) Palo Alto
6 29 (18.01%) Juniper
7 26 (16.15%) Microsoft
8 16 (9.94%) EMC
8 16 (9.94%) Oracle
9 14 (8.70%) 3PAR
9 14 (8.70%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (8.70%) Symantec
9 14 (8.70%) Veeam
10 10 (6.21%) F5
11 9 (5.59%) CheckPoint
12 5 (3.11%) IBM
12 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
13 4 (2.48%) Aruba
14 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.86%) New Relic