Data Centre Contracts in Wales

Data Center
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Wales. 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 18 43 39
Rank change year-on-year +25 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 23 19 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.61% 3.26% 3.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.65% 7.82% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 19
10th Percentile - £118 -
25th Percentile - £190 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £91 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -78.59% -5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £214 £588 £528
90th Percentile £288 £600 £553
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -2.27% +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £20.13
25th Percentile - - £20.31
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -
75th Percentile - - £22.81
90th Percentile - - £23.38
UK median hourly rate £23.90 £21.26 £24.00
% change year-on-year +12.42% -11.42% -48.66%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 147 243 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.85% 41.68% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 168 228
10th Percentile £133 £163 £166
25th Percentile £327 £235 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £576 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 15
10th Percentile - £12.61 £11.15
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.95 £18.10 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% +9.70% +10.00%
75th Percentile £45.06 £21.50 £21.88
90th Percentile £74.98 £27.64 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Wales

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales +25 23 £91 -75.73% 3
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
1 1 (4.35%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
General
1 22 (95.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (82.61%) Telecoms
3 17 (73.91%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Network Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Network Project Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) AIX
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 21 (91.30%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
4 2 (8.70%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
4 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.35%) Agile
5 1 (4.35%) Budget Management
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) ITIL
5 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.35%) Project Governance
5 1 (4.35%) Project Management
5 1 (4.35%) Project Planning
5 1 (4.35%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (91.30%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) NEBOSH
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco
1 2 (8.70%) Huawei
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Citrix
2 1 (4.35%) Meraki