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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 89 91
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 58 32 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.61% 1.85% 1.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.20% 4.80% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 25
10th Percentile £400 £367 £406
25th Percentile £463 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £610 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% +1.77%
75th Percentile £705 £644 £730
90th Percentile £788 £711 £965
Central London median daily rate £615 £600 £536
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.94% -5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £31.60 - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £19.79 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.19 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.88% -25.22% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £20.60 -
90th Percentile £61.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £20.19 £27.00
% change year-on-year +122.88% -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 805 667 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.16% 38.53% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 465 388
10th Percentile £360 £335 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £586
% change year-on-year -4.30% -1.92% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +1.85% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.69 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.41 £26.45 £25.79
% change year-on-year +33.88% +2.56% -17.47%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 5 (8.62%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.79%) Azure
2 6 (10.34%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) SaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.17%) IaaS
4 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.17%) PaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.72%) dbt
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) OCI
6 1 (1.72%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) Firewall
2 8 (13.79%) Multicast
2 8 (13.79%) VPN
3 7 (12.07%) DNS
4 6 (10.34%) BGP
4 6 (10.34%) WAN
4 6 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (10.34%) Wireless
5 5 (8.62%) Network Security
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (6.90%) LAN
6 4 (6.90%) VLAN
7 3 (5.17%) DHCP
7 3 (5.17%) Internet
7 3 (5.17%) SMTP
8 2 (3.45%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.72%) SAN
9 1 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.72%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.17%) Big Data
3 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.17%) Power BI
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Law
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Military
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Architect
2 9 (15.52%) Network Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Data Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Data Centre Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) Middleware
2 2 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (1.72%) JSON
3 1 (1.72%) OAuth
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Clustering
2 4 (6.90%) Digital Signage
2 4 (6.90%) Replication
3 3 (5.17%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.17%) PKI
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) CCTV
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Windows
2 7 (12.07%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Unix
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.45%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.41%) Migration
2 8 (13.79%) High Availability
2 8 (13.79%) Operational Stability
3 7 (12.07%) Load Balancing
3 7 (12.07%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (12.07%) Project Management
4 6 (10.34%) AI
4 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.62%) DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (8.62%) Zero Trust
6 4 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (6.90%) Change Control
6 4 (6.90%) Incident Management
6 4 (6.90%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (6.90%) Low Latency
6 4 (6.90%) Network Architecture
6 4 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (6.90%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.79%) Python
3 7 (12.07%) SQL
4 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.72%) Korn
5 1 (1.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.17%) CCNA
5 3 (5.17%) CCNP
6 2 (3.45%) CISSP
6 2 (3.45%) PMP
7 1 (1.72%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.72%) CCIE
7 1 (1.72%) CCSP
7 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.72%) MCSE
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.90%) Docker
3 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.17%) BitLocker
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (5.17%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Ansible
2 4 (6.90%) Cisco Prime
2 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) SCOM
3 3 (5.17%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (5.17%) Nagios
3 3 (5.17%) Puppet
3 3 (5.17%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.17%) vMotion
4 2 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.45%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) Istio
5 1 (1.72%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Cisco
1 13 (22.41%) VMware
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Dell
3 5 (8.62%) F5
4 4 (6.90%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.17%) BMC
5 3 (5.17%) Citrix
5 3 (5.17%) Commvault
5 3 (5.17%) Google
5 3 (5.17%) HP
5 3 (5.17%) Remedy
5 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.17%) Solace
5 3 (5.17%) Symantec
6 2 (3.45%) Arista
6 2 (3.45%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.45%) SAP
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.72%) Isilon