Data Centre Project Manager Contracts

Project Manager - Data Centre
UK

The median Project Manager - Data Centre daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 606 740
Rank change year-on-year +72 +134 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Project Manager 15 21 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.045% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.047% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 67
10th Percentile £481 £410 £420
25th Percentile £513 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £675
90th Percentile £660 £803 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £506
% change year-on-year +4.55% +8.64% +26.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,956 44,250 77,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.82% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,486 30,168 54,199
10th Percentile £300 £300 £316
25th Percentile £411 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 1,536 1,766
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.89 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.27 £19.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%

Data Centre Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Centre Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Project Manager in the UK

Data Centre Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Project Manager in the UK

Data Centre Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Project Manager over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Project Manager in the UK

Data Centre Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Project Manager in the UK

Data Centre Project Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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
England +71 14 £563 +2.27% 4
London +45 7 £525 -16.00% 2
UK excluding London +45 6 £575 +4.55% 2
Work from Home +75 5 £575 -11.54% 2
Midlands +6 4 £588 +6.82%
West Midlands +4 4 £588 +6.82%
South East +39 1 £563 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - -

Data Centre Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Data Centre Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Centre Project Manager in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (80.00%) Project Management
3 8 (53.33%) Finance
4 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
6 3 (20.00%) QA
6 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (13.33%) Budget Management
7 2 (13.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (13.33%) VMware
7 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
7 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (6.67%) NetApp
8 1 (6.67%) Internet
8 1 (6.67%) Biometrics
8 1 (6.67%) AutoCAD
8 1 (6.67%) Windows
8 1 (6.67%) Linux
8 1 (6.67%) Cisco
8 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects

Data Centre Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (6.67%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Project Management
2 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 2 (13.33%) Budget Management
5 2 (13.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (6.67%) Budget Responsibility
6 1 (6.67%) Budgeting
6 1 (6.67%) Business Case
6 1 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) F5
2 1 (6.67%) NetApp
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle