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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 94 98
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 33 36 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.87% 1.72% 2.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.98% 5.66% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 42
10th Percentile £378 £405 £480
25th Percentile £464 £456 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £547 £565
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -3.19% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £658
90th Percentile £701 £846 £727
Central London median daily rate £580 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +10.48% -7.08% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.79 - -
Median hourly rate £20.19 £27.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £20.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.19 £27.00 -
% change year-on-year -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 663 636 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.61% 30.31% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 392 636
10th Percentile £350 £356 £313
25th Percentile £456 £475 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £694 £720 £738
90th Percentile £813 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £578 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -1.70% -2.08% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 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 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) CICS
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 4 (12.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (12.12%) Slack
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) BGP
2 4 (12.12%) Ethernet VPN
2 4 (12.12%) VXLAN
3 3 (9.09%) OSPF
3 3 (9.09%) WAN
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (6.06%) IGMP
4 2 (6.06%) LAN
4 2 (6.06%) MPLS
4 2 (6.06%) Multicast
4 2 (6.06%) Network Security
4 2 (6.06%) NX-OS
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.03%) DNS
5 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.03%) Modbus
5 1 (3.03%) NAS
5 1 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) GitLab
1 4 (12.12%) Gradle
1 4 (12.12%) Maven
1 4 (12.12%) Selenium
1 4 (12.12%) SonarQube
2 3 (9.09%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Front Office
4 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Law
5 2 (6.06%) Legal
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Electronics
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) International Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Architect
2 4 (12.12%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Database Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) DBA
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) IT Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Junior
4 2 (6.06%) Network Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Jinja
2 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Replication
3 2 (6.06%) Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.03%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Life Science
4 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.03%) SCADA
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.03%) VSAM
4 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 7 (21.21%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) AIX
4 1 (3.03%) Solaris
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) DevOps
2 8 (24.24%) Migration
2 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
3 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 6 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Agile
5 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.12%) Application Packaging
6 4 (12.12%) Incident Management
6 4 (12.12%) ITIL
6 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.12%) Project Management
6 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) AWK
4 2 (6.06%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) sed
5 1 (3.03%) C
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) COBOL
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) CCNP
2 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) CCIE
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.06%) PMP
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) CCNA
5 1 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) GPFS
3 2 (6.06%) NFS
3 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Argo
3 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.06%) Grafana
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Podman
5 1 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Arista
1 4 (12.12%) Cisco
1 4 (12.12%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Citrix
3 2 (6.06%) Dell
3 2 (6.06%) HP
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.06%) Pure Storage
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) VMware
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.03%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.03%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.03%) Rockwell
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds