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 in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 89 109
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 40 46 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.00% 1.88% 1.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.90% 6.17% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 48
10th Percentile £456 £284 £423
25th Percentile £488 £385 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £570
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -8.77% +8.57%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £675
90th Percentile £650 £695 £797
London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £24.12 £26.33
25th Percentile - £24.60 £35.48
Median hourly rate - £25.40 £51.60
Median % change year-on-year - -50.78% -28.82%
75th Percentile - £26.20 £68.11
90th Percentile - £26.68 £77.49
London median hourly rate £33.58 £25.40 £23.50
% change year-on-year +32.20% +8.09% -35.22%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 678 746 1,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.93% 30.56% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 522 954
10th Percentile £361 £264 £313
25th Percentile £474 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £696 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 2025. 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 +8 37 £549 +22.06% 27
City of Westminster +2 2 £503 -2.90% 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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) SaaS
4 2 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 2 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 6 (15.00%) WAN
3 5 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (12.50%) LAN
3 5 (12.50%) VLAN
3 5 (12.50%) VPN
4 4 (10.00%) DNS
4 4 (10.00%) Network Security
4 4 (10.00%) Wireless
5 3 (7.50%) BGP
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (7.50%) DHCP
5 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.00%) BIG-IP
6 2 (5.00%) Internet
6 2 (5.00%) OSPF
6 2 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (5.00%) VXLAN
6 2 (5.00%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.50%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (52.50%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Retail
4 4 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Law
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Police
7 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 8 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Applications Support
3 3 (7.50%) Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) IT Manager
3 3 (7.50%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) CRM Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Lead
4 2 (5.00%) Senior
4 2 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.50%) JSON
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
1 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.50%) CUDA
2 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Migration
2 10 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 9 (22.50%) Project Management
4 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (10.00%) ITIL
5 4 (10.00%) Network Design
6 3 (7.50%) Agile
6 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (7.50%) CRM
6 3 (7.50%) High Availability
6 3 (7.50%) PRINCE2
6 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
6 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.50%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (5.00%) Backlog Management
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.00%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) CCNP
1 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.00%) PMP
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) CCSA
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Firmware
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco LMS
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (5.00%) Grafana
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.00%) SCCM
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) CA Spectrum
3 1 (2.50%) Netcool
3 1 (2.50%) OPNET
3 1 (2.50%) Podman
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Cisco
2 7 (17.50%) Arista
3 6 (15.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (12.50%) Dell
4 5 (12.50%) HP
4 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 4 (10.00%) F5
5 4 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (10.00%) Meraki
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.50%) Infoblox
6 3 (7.50%) Juniper
7 2 (5.00%) Citrix
7 2 (5.00%) Forcepoint
7 2 (5.00%) Pure Storage
7 2 (5.00%) SAP
7 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.00%) VMware
8 1 (2.50%) Aruba
8 1 (2.50%) ForeScout