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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 85 116
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 35 47 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.85% 1.96% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.52% 6.15% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 35 43
10th Percentile £456 £261 £420
25th Percentile £502 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% +6.48%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £675
90th Percentile £663 £690 £799
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 £38.75 £25.40 £22.59
% change year-on-year +52.56% +12.46% -37.74%

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 634 764 1,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.51% 31.78% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 530 909
10th Percentile £350 £263 £325
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £617
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.43% +7.30%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £750
90th Percentile £816 £838 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 17
10th Percentile £23.52 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £25.39 £16.00 -
Median hourly rate £27.76 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -34.29% -24.73%
75th Percentile £30.52 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £65.50 £32.05 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -19.54%

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 23 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 23 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 +6 31 £550 +23.94% 24
City of Westminster +2 3 £580 +28.89%
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 (8.57%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
4 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) Firewall
2 5 (14.29%) WAN
3 4 (11.43%) BGP
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (11.43%) Network Security
4 3 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (8.57%) LAN
4 3 (8.57%) VPN
4 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.71%) DNS
5 2 (5.71%) HTTP
5 2 (5.71%) OSPF
5 2 (5.71%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (5.71%) SSL
5 2 (5.71%) VLAN
5 2 (5.71%) VXLAN
6 1 (2.86%) 5G
6 1 (2.86%) Multicast
6 1 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (48.57%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Retail
4 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Law
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (2.86%) Military
7 1 (2.86%) Police
7 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Network Engineer
1 6 (17.14%) Project Manager
2 5 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Applications Support
3 3 (8.57%) Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) CRM Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Support Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Data Migration Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.86%) JSON
1 1 (2.86%) Kafka
1 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Hedge funds
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.86%) CUDA
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.86%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Migration
1 10 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 8 (22.86%) Project Management
3 4 (11.43%) ITIL
3 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Agile
4 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.57%) CRM
4 3 (8.57%) Load Balancing
4 3 (8.57%) Network Design
4 3 (8.57%) PRINCE2
4 3 (8.57%) Project Delivery
4 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
4 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.57%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (5.71%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (5.71%) Identity Management
5 2 (5.71%) Logistics
5 2 (5.71%) Performance Management
5 2 (5.71%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Go
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) CCNP
1 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.71%) PMP
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Cisco LMS
2 2 (5.71%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (5.71%) Grafana
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) SCCM
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) CA Spectrum
3 1 (2.86%) Netcool
3 1 (2.86%) Podman
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Cisco
2 6 (17.14%) Arista
3 5 (14.29%) Dell
3 5 (14.29%) HP
4 4 (11.43%) Fortinet
5 3 (8.57%) CheckPoint
5 3 (8.57%) F5
5 3 (8.57%) Juniper
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.71%) Meraki
6 2 (5.71%) Pure Storage
6 2 (5.71%) SAP
6 2 (5.71%) Sun
6 2 (5.71%) VMware
7 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.86%) NetScout
7 1 (2.86%) Planview
7 1 (2.86%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds