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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 80 84
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 39 43 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.12% 2.09% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.62% 6.67% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 41
10th Percentile £459 £406 £385
25th Percentile £502 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £575
90th Percentile £825 £950 £663
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.39% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.79 - -
Median hourly rate £20.19 - -
75th Percentile £20.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.19 - -

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 694 645 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.66% 31.39% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 405 523
10th Percentile £350 £368 £300
25th Percentile £435 £475 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £722
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £20.41 - -
25th Percentile £23.54 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.06% +240.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £38.88 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.83 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.81 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -51.61% +130.81% -44.19%

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 December 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 & 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 8 (20.51%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) CICS
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) AWS
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) GCP
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (7.69%) Slack
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.13%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.13%) Mimecast
5 2 (5.13%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) IaaS
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Firewall
2 5 (12.82%) LAN
2 5 (12.82%) Network Security
2 5 (12.82%) WAN
3 3 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (5.13%) BGP
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (5.13%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (5.13%) MPLS
4 2 (5.13%) NX-OS
4 2 (5.13%) OSPF
4 2 (5.13%) VXLAN
5 1 (2.56%) DNS
5 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.56%) Modbus
5 1 (2.56%) NAS
5 1 (2.56%) VLAN
5 1 (2.56%) VPN
5 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) GitLab
1 3 (7.69%) Gradle
1 3 (7.69%) Maven
1 3 (7.69%) Selenium
1 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.13%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 6 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.13%) Banking
7 2 (5.13%) Electronics
7 2 (5.13%) Front Office
7 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.56%) International Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Legal
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) IT Manager
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Security Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) IT Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Network Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Network Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Jinja
2 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.56%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.56%) Life Science
4 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) SCADA
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
2 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (2.56%) AIX
4 1 (2.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Migration
2 10 (25.64%) Project Delivery
3 8 (20.51%) Agile
3 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (12.82%) Change Control
6 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps
6 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
6 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.26%) Business Continuity
7 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
7 4 (10.26%) Incident Response
7 4 (10.26%) Project Management
7 4 (10.26%) Resource Management
7 4 (10.26%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) Java
1 3 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) COBOL
2 1 (2.56%) Go
2 1 (2.56%) PromQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) CCNP
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CCIE
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) CISM
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.56%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.56%) VCAP
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.26%) PMO
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
2 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
2 3 (7.69%) Argo
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.13%) SCCM
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) Podman
4 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Cisco
2 5 (12.82%) Arista
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Ariba
5 1 (2.56%) Citrix
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.56%) NetApp
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.56%) Planview
5 1 (2.56%) Pure Storage
5 1 (2.56%) Rockwell