Data Centre Contracts in the City of Westminster

Data Center
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 4.55% 2.27% 5.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.33% 4.00% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £454 £509 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £518 £800
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% -35.31% +68.42%
75th Percentile £544 £526 £850
90th Percentile £566 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £520 £570
% change year-on-year +5.77% -8.77% +8.57%

All Generic Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15 25 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 34.09% 56.82% 67.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 18
10th Percentile £363 £475 £389
25th Percentile £403 £507 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £579 £825 £797
90th Percentile £664 £1,031 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the City of Westminster

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the City of Westminster

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the City of Westminster

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Paddington -3 1 £425 -17.87% 1
Mayfair - 1 £580 -
Data Centre
Central London

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) HSRP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco LMS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (50.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Sun