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 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 80 92
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 57 41 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.38% 2.18% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.30% 5.98% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 21
10th Percentile £411 £456 £388
25th Percentile £463 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £734 £675 £875
Central London median daily rate £544 £575 £547
% change year-on-year -5.43% +5.12% -7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £21.27 - -
25th Percentile £24.17 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £27.00
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile £58.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 - £27.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 781 686 666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.54% 36.41% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 450 430
10th Percentile £350 £349 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.81%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £709
90th Percentile £775 £801 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £14.38
25th Percentile £21.75 £22.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +24.00% -56.71%
75th Percentile £47.18 £65.57 £27.00
90th Percentile £64.47 £91.00 £59.75
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £28.29 £23.80
% change year-on-year +32.58% +18.84% -40.25%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 3 (5.26%) Confluence
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) GCP
3 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (5.26%) IaaS
3 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 3 (5.26%) PaaS
3 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.51%) Anthos
4 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
5 1 (1.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.54%) Firewall
2 9 (15.79%) VPN
3 7 (12.28%) DNS
4 5 (8.77%) LAN
4 5 (8.77%) Multicast
5 4 (7.02%) WAN
5 4 (7.02%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (7.02%) Wireless
6 3 (5.26%) BGP
6 3 (5.26%) DHCP
6 3 (5.26%) Network Security
6 3 (5.26%) SMTP
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco Wireless
7 2 (3.51%) Internet
7 2 (3.51%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (3.51%) VLAN
8 1 (1.75%) IPsec
8 1 (1.75%) OSPF
8 1 (1.75%) SSL
8 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.26%) Big Data
1 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.75%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Banking
3 3 (5.26%) Law
3 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Architect
2 12 (21.05%) Senior
3 6 (10.53%) Data Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Data Centre Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Data Centre Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Network Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) Middleware
2 2 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.02%) Clustering
3 3 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.26%) PKI
3 3 (5.26%) Replication
4 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.75%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (1.75%) CCTV
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Windows
3 3 (5.26%) Unix
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) VMS
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.54%) Migration
2 9 (15.79%) Project Management
3 8 (14.04%) AI
4 7 (12.28%) High Availability
4 7 (12.28%) Operational Stability
4 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.53%) DevOps
6 5 (8.77%) Agile
6 5 (8.77%) Electronic Trading
6 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (8.77%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (8.77%) Waterfall
7 4 (7.02%) Change Management
7 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (7.02%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.02%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (7.02%) Validation
8 3 (5.26%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 6 (10.53%) Python
2 4 (7.02%) SQL
3 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) Degree
5 4 (7.02%) CCNP
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) BICSI Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CCIE
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) CISSP
6 1 (1.75%) City & Guilds
6 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.02%) Docker
3 3 (5.26%) BitLocker
3 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (5.26%) Terminal Services
3 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Ansible
3 4 (7.02%) Terraform
4 3 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (5.26%) Nagios
4 3 (5.26%) Puppet
4 3 (5.26%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.26%) vMotion
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.75%) Istio
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.75%) QRadar
6 1 (1.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Cisco
2 6 (10.53%) VMware
3 5 (8.77%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.26%) Citrix
5 3 (5.26%) HP
5 3 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.26%) Solace
5 3 (5.26%) Symantec
6 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.51%) Juniper
6 2 (3.51%) Remedy
7 1 (1.75%) Alias
7 1 (1.75%) BMC
7 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.75%) Commvault
7 1 (1.75%) Dell
7 1 (1.75%) EMC
7 1 (1.75%) IBM
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce