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 3 months leading up to 21 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

3 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 72 74
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 22 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.69% 1.12% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.64% 3.11% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 9
10th Percentile - £389 £398
25th Percentile £463 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £618 £547
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +12.89% -12.48%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £657
90th Percentile £720 £694 £910
Central London median daily rate £475 £600 £518
% change year-on-year -20.83% +15.94% -17.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £31.60 - -
25th Percentile £35.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £27.00
75th Percentile £56.50 - -
90th Percentile £61.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 - £27.00

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 390 322 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.05% 36.06% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 204 194
10th Percentile £350 £341 £361
25th Percentile £463 £485 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.71% -9.17%
75th Percentile £728 £720 £708
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £551
% change year-on-year -6.12% +11.26% -9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £21.60 £18.70 £17.80
25th Percentile £26.08 £22.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.07 £63.72 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.67% +154.86% -37.23%
75th Percentile £42.13 £88.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £51.80 £95.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £26.45 £23.80
% change year-on-year +50.28% +11.13% -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 3 months to 21 June 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 3 months to 21 June 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) GCP
2 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (6.67%) Anthos
4 3 (6.67%) Azure
4 3 (6.67%) IaaS
4 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.67%) PaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) DNS
2 6 (13.33%) VPN
3 3 (6.67%) DHCP
3 3 (6.67%) LAN
3 3 (6.67%) SMTP
4 2 (4.44%) BGP
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.44%) Internet
4 2 (4.44%) WAN
5 1 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.22%) Multicast
5 1 (2.22%) NGFW
5 1 (2.22%) NX-OS
5 1 (2.22%) OSPF
5 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.22%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (2.22%) VXLAN
5 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.67%) Big Data
1 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Banking
3 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Law
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Data Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Data Centre Architect
3 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.67%) Clustering
2 3 (6.67%) PKI
3 2 (4.44%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.22%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) VMS
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) AI
2 7 (15.56%) Operational Stability
3 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (13.33%) Migration
4 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.89%) DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) High Availability
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (8.89%) Project Management
5 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (8.89%) Validation
6 3 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
6 3 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (6.67%) Machine Learning
6 3 (6.67%) Network Design
6 3 (6.67%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.11%) Degree
5 4 (8.89%) CCNP
5 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.22%) BICSI Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CCIE
6 1 (2.22%) CCNA
6 1 (2.22%) CISSP
6 1 (2.22%) City & Guilds
6 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.89%) Docker
3 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.67%) BitLocker
3 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (6.67%) Terminal Services
3 3 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.33%) Terraform
3 5 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (6.67%) Nagios
4 3 (6.67%) Puppet
4 3 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 3 (6.67%) vMotion
5 1 (2.22%) Istio
5 1 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (2.22%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Cisco
1 7 (15.56%) Google
2 5 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (6.67%) Citrix
3 3 (6.67%) HP
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Symantec
4 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.22%) Alias
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Isilon
5 1 (2.22%) Juniper
5 1 (2.22%) Remedy
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Solace
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk