Data Centre Contracts in Central London

Data Center
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 108 85
Rank change year-on-year +19 -23 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 47 66 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.92% 1.71% 2.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.23% 4.70% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 112
10th Percentile £297 £423 £265
25th Percentile £385 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -1.87%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £600
90th Percentile £693 £797 £675
London median daily rate £525 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% +8.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £24.12 £26.33 -
25th Percentile £24.60 £35.48 £66.25
Median hourly rate £25.40 £51.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.78% -28.82% -
75th Percentile £26.20 £68.11 £78.75
90th Percentile £26.68 £77.49 -
London median hourly rate £25.40 £23.50 £36.28
% change year-on-year +8.09% -35.22% -23.63%

All Generic Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 755 1,404 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.83% 36.42% 35.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 966 1,208
10th Percentile £275 £316 £396
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 24
10th Percentile £13.08 £18.42 £20.53
25th Percentile £18.20 £24.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.13 £84.89 £61.75
90th Percentile £47.98 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
% change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 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
City of London +20 36 £450 -20.35% 16
Camden - 2 £725 -
City of Westminster -2 1 £518 -35.31%
Southwark - 1 - -
Data Centre
London

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.38%) IBM Domino
2 3 (6.38%) IBM Notes
2 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.64%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.64%) Mimecast
5 4 (8.51%) IaaS
5 4 (8.51%) PaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) Firewall
2 7 (14.89%) DNS
3 5 (10.64%) LAN
4 4 (8.51%) DHCP
4 4 (8.51%) IPv4
5 3 (6.38%) SMTP
5 3 (6.38%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.38%) Unified Communications
5 3 (6.38%) WAN
6 2 (4.26%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.13%) 5G
7 1 (2.13%) Broadband
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.13%) Internet
7 1 (2.13%) NAS
7 1 (2.13%) Network Security
7 1 (2.13%) SAN
7 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) Big Data
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
6 1 (2.13%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.13%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Police
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.77%) Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Data Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Market Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Market Data Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Integration Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Migration Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Unified Communications Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.26%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Market Data Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Market Data Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) Middleware
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.26%) CMDB
2 2 (4.26%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Handset
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Migration
2 9 (19.15%) Change Management
2 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (14.89%) B2B
3 7 (14.89%) Data Migration
4 6 (12.77%) Application Packaging
4 6 (12.77%) ITIL
5 5 (10.64%) Capacity Management
5 5 (10.64%) Project Management
5 5 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (8.51%) Agile
6 4 (8.51%) Application Security
6 4 (8.51%) Application Virtualisation
6 4 (8.51%) Batch Scripting
6 4 (8.51%) Load Balancing
6 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.51%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.51%) TOGAF
7 3 (6.38%) Business Continuity
7 3 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.77%) VBScript
3 3 (6.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Azure Certification
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) CCNA
2 4 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.13%) KVM
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) Citrix
3 6 (12.77%) Cisco
4 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.51%) Bloomberg
5 4 (8.51%) Refinitiv
6 3 (6.38%) BT
6 3 (6.38%) IBM
6 3 (6.38%) Lotus
6 3 (6.38%) Palo Alto
6 3 (6.38%) Proofpoint
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.26%) Arista
7 2 (4.26%) Iron Mountain
7 2 (4.26%) Juniper
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle
7 2 (4.26%) Radianz
7 2 (4.26%) Reuters
8 1 (2.13%) NetApp
8 1 (2.13%) SAP