Data Centre Architect Contracts

Data Centre Architect
UK

The median Data Centre Architect daily rate in the UK is £688 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 695 833
Rank change year-on-year +134 +138 -163
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 17 21 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.036% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.038% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 22
10th Percentile £535 £460 -
25th Percentile £550 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £613 £645
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -5.04% +7.50%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £721
90th Percentile £825 - £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £667 £613 £725
% change year-on-year +8.86% -15.52% +20.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Data Centre Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Architect in the UK

Data Centre Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Architect in the UK

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Architect over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Architect in the UK

Data Centre Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Architect in the UK

Data Centre Architect
Top 11 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 Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +109 14 £700 +13.13% 4
Work from Home +135 10 £550 -10.20% 1
London +111 9 £700 +16.67% 4
UK excluding London +62 6 £667 +8.86%
Scotland +40 2 £646 -
Midlands - 2 £800 -
North of England +27 1 £550 -
South East +21 1 £688 +12.24%
Yorkshire +21 1 £550 -
East Midlands - 1 £800 -
West Midlands - 1 £800 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Data Centre Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (35.29%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) LAN
3 5 (29.41%) WAN
3 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (23.53%) VxRail
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 4 (23.53%) vSphere
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco
4 4 (23.53%) Dell
4 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (17.65%) Linux
5 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (11.76%) Docker
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes

Data Centre Architect 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (11.76%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) IaaS
2 1 (5.88%) PaaS
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) LAN
1 5 (29.41%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) VSAN
3 1 (5.88%) Multicast
3 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (5.88%) FMCG
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Migration
1 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
2 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
2 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
2 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) Capacity Management
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Kanban
3 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Time Management
4 1 (5.88%) BCP
4 1 (5.88%) Data Management
4 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) vSphere
3 2 (11.76%) Docker
4 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) VxRail
2 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco
2 4 (23.53%) Dell
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) Bloomberg
4 2 (11.76%) Juniper
4 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.88%) Citrix
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) Skytap