Data Centre Contracts in West London

Data Center
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in West London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 45 55
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 20 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 5.63% 2.82% 1.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.93% 6.58% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 6
10th Percentile £181 £315 £220
25th Percentile £213 £379 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £478 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% -8.17% +131.11%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £540
90th Percentile £563 £671 -
London median daily rate £525 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.45 - -
25th Percentile £22.68 - -
Median hourly rate £23.05 - £16.00
75th Percentile £23.43 - -
90th Percentile £23.65 - -
London median hourly rate £25.40 £23.50 £36.28
% change year-on-year +8.09% -35.22% -23.63%

All Generic Skills
West London

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 West London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 134 243 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 37.75% 42.86% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 180 149
10th Percentile £213 £350 £200
25th Percentile £250 £429 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £603
90th Percentile £627 £700 £678
London median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 15
10th Percentile - £29.63 £15.30
25th Percentile £16.25 £52.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.98 £63.75 £37.06
Median % change year-on-year -57.68% +72.02% -18.10%
75th Percentile £35.17 £75.00 £41.89
90th Percentile £51.58 £85.50 £45.07
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.71% -21.35% +36.92%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in West London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Hillingdon +28 12 £518 +28.57% 3
Wembley - 3 £400 -
Hammersmith +4 2 £159 -47.17%
Data Centre
London

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) SaaS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 6 (30.00%) DNS
3 5 (25.00%) HTTP
3 5 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 5 (25.00%) IPsec
4 2 (10.00%) LAN
4 2 (10.00%) SSL
4 2 (10.00%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.00%) DKIM
5 1 (5.00%) DMARC
5 1 (5.00%) Extranet
5 1 (5.00%) Internet
5 1 (5.00%) NAS
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security
5 1 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Support
5 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Officer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SAML
2 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) PKI
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (10.00%) Clustering
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.00%) Fat Client
5 1 (5.00%) Thin Client
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (15.00%) Capacity Management
4 3 (15.00%) RBAC
4 3 (15.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (15.00%) Server Management
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
4 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) CCNP
1 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) IAG
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) FortiGate
2 5 (25.00%) SCCM
2 5 (25.00%) SCOM
3 3 (15.00%) SCVMM
3 3 (15.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (10.00%) VxRail
5 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Cisco
2 7 (35.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (15.00%) HP
4 3 (15.00%) New Relic
4 3 (15.00%) VMware
5 2 (10.00%) Dell
5 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (10.00%) Huawei
5 2 (10.00%) Trend Micro
6 1 (5.00%) Avaya
6 1 (5.00%) Commvault
6 1 (5.00%) EMC
6 1 (5.00%) F5
6 1 (5.00%) Juniper
6 1 (5.00%) Mitel
6 1 (5.00%) MobileIron
6 1 (5.00%) Proofpoint