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 24 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 84 90
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 36 31 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.54% 1.85% 1.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.95% 5.34% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 25
10th Percentile £410 £459 £313
25th Percentile £463 £504 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +22.22% -23.40%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £608
90th Percentile £728 £670 £690
Central London median daily rate £475 £550 £484
% change year-on-year -13.64% +13.70% -19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £27.00
Central London median hourly rate £19.34 - £25.40
% change year-on-year - - -50.78%

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 727 581 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.12% 34.58% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 370 457
10th Percentile £381 £350 £264
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +3.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £695
90th Percentile £800 £815 £838
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -1.74% +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £18.85 £23.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.34 £26.50 £14.38
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +34.78% -38.53%
75th Percentile £41.25 £65.50 £27.25
90th Percentile £63.13 £86.20 £36.60
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £27.76 £23.00
% change year-on-year -5.94% +20.70% -34.29%

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 24 May 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
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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) GCP
1 5 (13.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (8.33%) Anthos
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) VPN
3 2 (5.56%) BGP
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 2 (5.56%) Internet
3 2 (5.56%) LAN
3 2 (5.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.78%) IPsec
4 1 (2.78%) Multicast
4 1 (2.78%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.78%) OSPF
4 1 (2.78%) SSL
4 1 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.78%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Data Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Data Centre Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Data Centre Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Rollout Manager
5 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Data Centre Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (19.44%) AI
2 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.89%) Migration
3 5 (13.89%) Operational Stability
3 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (11.11%) High Availability
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (11.11%) Project Management
4 4 (11.11%) Validation
5 3 (8.33%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (5.56%) Agile
6 2 (5.56%) Change Management
6 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (5.56%) ITIL
6 2 (5.56%) Network Design
6 2 (5.56%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) CCNP
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CCIE
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) City & Guilds
5 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Istio
4 1 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Cisco
2 4 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Alias
3 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.78%) IBM
3 1 (2.78%) Juniper
3 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.78%) Remedy
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) Solace
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk