Data Centre Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Center
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 87 92
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 60 42 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.54% 2.25% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.37% 6.02% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 22
10th Percentile £458 £456 £433
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.50% -1.58%
75th Percentile £701 £638 £671
90th Percentile £738 £675 £698
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 £547
% change year-on-year +8.70% +5.12% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £21.27 - -
25th Percentile £24.17 £19.79 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.19 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.59% -25.22% -67.27%
75th Percentile £48.00 £20.60 -
90th Percentile £58.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.19 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.59% -25.22% -67.27%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 814 698 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.52% 37.33% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 471 420
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.69% -3.12%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £560 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.00% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 5
10th Percentile £19.36 £17.02 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £20.34 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £29.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +8.33% -32.21%
75th Percentile £41.69 £58.18 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £89.88 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year +27.27% +6.63% -26.31%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
2 6 (10.00%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.67%) GCP
5 3 (5.00%) IaaS
5 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.00%) PaaS
6 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) GitHub
6 2 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.67%) Anthos
7 1 (1.67%) dbt
7 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.67%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) VPN
3 7 (11.67%) DNS
4 5 (8.33%) LAN
4 5 (8.33%) Multicast
5 4 (6.67%) WAN
5 4 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.67%) Wireless
6 3 (5.00%) BGP
6 3 (5.00%) DHCP
6 3 (5.00%) SMTP
7 2 (3.33%) Cisco Wireless
7 2 (3.33%) Internet
7 2 (3.33%) Network Security
7 2 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (3.33%) VLAN
8 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.67%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.00%) Big Data
2 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (23.33%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Banking
4 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.00%) Law
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Military
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 6 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Data Centre Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Lead
5 4 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) Middleware
2 2 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Clustering
2 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.00%) PKI
3 3 (5.00%) Replication
4 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.33%) Digital Signage
4 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) CCTV
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 6 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.00%) Unix
5 2 (3.33%) VMS
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Migration
2 9 (15.00%) Project Management
3 8 (13.33%) Operational Stability
3 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (11.67%) AI
5 6 (10.00%) DevOps
5 6 (10.00%) High Availability
5 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (10.00%) Validation
6 5 (8.33%) Agile
6 5 (8.33%) Electronic Trading
6 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (8.33%) Waterfall
7 4 (6.67%) Architecture Governance
7 4 (6.67%) Change Management
7 4 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 4 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (6.67%) TOGAF
8 3 (5.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.00%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) CCNP
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.33%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) BICSI Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CCIE
6 1 (1.67%) CCNA
6 1 (1.67%) City & Guilds
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.33%) Docker
4 4 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (5.00%) Terminal Services
6 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (5.00%) Nagios
3 3 (5.00%) Puppet
3 3 (5.00%) SCOM
3 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (5.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.00%) vMotion
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.67%) Istio
5 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) VMware
2 9 (15.00%) Cisco
3 4 (6.67%) Dell
3 4 (6.67%) Google
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) Remedy
4 3 (5.00%) BMC
4 3 (5.00%) Citrix
4 3 (5.00%) Commvault
4 3 (5.00%) HP
4 3 (5.00%) Solace
4 3 (5.00%) Symantec
5 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.33%) Juniper
5 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) Alias
6 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce