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 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 83 92
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 60 41 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.58% 2.26% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.32% 6.00% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 20
10th Percentile £404 £456 £429
25th Percentile £463 £510 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £582
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -1.16% +4.35%
75th Percentile £703 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £718
Central London median daily rate £618 £578 £575
% change year-on-year +6.93% +0.43% +1.77%
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% -
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% -

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 820 683 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.28% 37.67% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 464 405
10th Percentile £381 £352 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +0.42% -0.42%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £571 £593 £591
% change year-on-year -3.75% +0.30% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile £19.34 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.13 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +1.85% -25.00%
75th Percentile £37.17 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £43.00 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £33.53 £26.98 £25.79
% change year-on-year +24.31% +4.59% -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 30 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 30 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 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) AWS
3 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.67%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) SaaS
5 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
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%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.67%) dbt
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.67%) OCI
7 1 (1.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) VPN
3 7 (11.67%) DNS
3 7 (11.67%) Multicast
4 5 (8.33%) BGP
4 5 (8.33%) LAN
4 5 (8.33%) WAN
4 5 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (8.33%) Wireless
5 4 (6.67%) Network Security
6 3 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (5.00%) DHCP
6 3 (5.00%) Internet
6 3 (5.00%) SMTP
6 3 (5.00%) VLAN
7 2 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.67%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.67%) SAN
8 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.00%) Big Data
3 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.00%) Power BI
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 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 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.00%) Law
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Military
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Network Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Data Centre Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
5 5 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Data Centre Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) Middleware
2 2 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (1.67%) OAuth
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Clustering
2 3 (5.00%) Digital Signage
2 3 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.00%) PKI
2 3 (5.00%) Replication
3 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) CCTV
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) 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 13 (21.67%) Migration
2 8 (13.33%) Operational Stability
3 7 (11.67%) AI
3 7 (11.67%) High Availability
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (11.67%) Project Management
4 6 (10.00%) DevOps
5 5 (8.33%) Load Balancing
5 5 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (6.67%) Architecture Governance
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Security
6 4 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 4 (6.67%) ITIL
6 4 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (6.67%) TOGAF
6 4 (6.67%) Validation
6 4 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.67%) Python
2 7 (11.67%) 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
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) CCNP
6 2 (3.33%) CCNA
6 2 (3.33%) CISSP
6 2 (3.33%) PMP
7 1 (1.67%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.67%) BICSI Certification
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.67%) CCIE
7 1 (1.67%) City & Guilds
7 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.67%) MCSE
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.67%) Docker
3 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.00%) BitLocker
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (5.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Ansible
2 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.67%) SCOM
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (5.00%) Nagios
4 3 (5.00%) Puppet
4 3 (5.00%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.00%) vMotion
5 2 (3.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.67%) Istio
6 1 (1.67%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) VMware
2 11 (18.33%) Cisco
3 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.33%) Dell
5 4 (6.67%) Remedy
6 3 (5.00%) BMC
6 3 (5.00%) Citrix
6 3 (5.00%) Commvault
6 3 (5.00%) F5
6 3 (5.00%) Google
6 3 (5.00%) HP
6 3 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.00%) Solace
6 3 (5.00%) Symantec
7 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.33%) SAP
8 1 (1.67%) EMC
8 1 (1.67%) IBM
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle