Data Centre Architect Contracts in Bristol

Data Centre Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Data Centre Architect daily rate in Bristol is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £675 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 645 887 1,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 94.76% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 494 708
10th Percentile £246 £257 £317
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £494 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -4.13% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £656 £700 £719
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 195 119
10th Percentile £12.82 £28.00 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.51 £48.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.43 £80.00 £84.72
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £66.26 £61.50
% change year-on-year -62.04% +7.74% +22.06%

Data Centre Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Architect in Bristol

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 2025, 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 across the Bristol region featuring Data Centre Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (100.00%) VMware