Data Centre Operations Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Center Operations
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 121 149
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 2 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.24% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.26% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £503 - £529
25th Percentile £506 £405 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £594
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -30.95% -1.04%
75th Percentile £556 £415 £645
90th Percentile £568 - £663
Central London median daily rate £525 £410 £594
% change year-on-year +28.05% -30.95% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,586 1,938 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.89% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,190 1,791
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +3.30%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -37.06%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware