Data Centre Contracts 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 89 110
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 38 36 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.10% 1.69% 1.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.95% 5.33% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 43
10th Percentile £453 £388 £480
25th Percentile £502 £450 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £681 £975 £764
Central London median daily rate £563 £555 £609
% change year-on-year +1.40% -8.83% +12.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £26.33
25th Percentile - - £35.48
Median hourly rate - £27.00 £51.60
Median % change year-on-year - -47.68% -
75th Percentile - - £68.11
90th Percentile - - £77.49
Central London median hourly rate - £27.00 £51.60
% change year-on-year - -47.68% -

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 639 675 1,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.26% 31.60% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 444 788
10th Percentile £354 £290 £348
25th Percentile £475 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £846 £863
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £615
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.50% +6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £20.77 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -55.98% +12.37%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £87.16
90th Percentile £92.13 £36.30 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
% change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the City of London

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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (13.16%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) SaaS
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) Mimecast
3 2 (5.26%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (7.89%) BGP
3 3 (7.89%) Network Security
3 3 (7.89%) VPN
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (5.26%) DNS
4 2 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (5.26%) IGMP
4 2 (5.26%) LAN
4 2 (5.26%) Multicast
4 2 (5.26%) OSPF
4 2 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (5.26%) VXLAN
4 2 (5.26%) WAN
5 1 (2.63%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.63%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) Gradle
3 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) Maven
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Retail
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Law
4 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Front Office
5 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Police
5 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Project Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Applications Support
4 3 (7.89%) Data Centre Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) CRM Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Database Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) DBA
5 2 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Kafka
1 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (2.63%) RESTful
1 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.26%) Clustering
1 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (5.26%) Replication
1 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.63%) CUDA
2 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 7 (18.42%) Linux
3 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Migration
2 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
3 7 (18.42%) Project Management
4 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.53%) ITIL
6 4 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.89%) Agile
7 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
7 3 (7.89%) CRM
7 3 (7.89%) High Availability
7 3 (7.89%) Low Latency
7 3 (7.89%) Network Design
7 3 (7.89%) PRINCE2
7 3 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Go
3 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.26%) AWK
4 2 (5.26%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) sed
5 1 (2.63%) C
5 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) CCNP
1 6 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.26%) PMP
5 1 (2.63%) CCIE
5 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.26%) GPFS
3 2 (5.26%) NFS
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 3 (7.89%) Grafana
3 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Podman
4 2 (5.26%) SCCM
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Cisco
2 6 (15.79%) Arista
3 5 (13.16%) Dell
3 5 (13.16%) Fortinet
3 5 (13.16%) HP
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.89%) F5
4 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.26%) Juniper
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) Pure Storage
5 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.63%) Avaya
6 1 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) NetScout
6 1 (2.63%) Planview
6 1 (2.63%) VMware