Data Centre Contracts 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 advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 111 86
Rank change year-on-year +18 -25 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 37 62 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.70% 1.75% 2.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.43% 4.95% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 46 99
10th Percentile £166 £422 £265
25th Percentile £385 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +8.54%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £600
90th Percentile £690 £780 £675
Central London median daily rate £484 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -15.87% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £26.33 -
25th Percentile - £35.48 £66.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £51.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.68% -28.82% -
75th Percentile - £68.11 £78.75
90th Percentile - £77.49 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.40 £51.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year -50.78% -28.82% -

All Generic Skills
City of London

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,253 1,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.28% 35.34% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 850 1,082
10th Percentile £263 £350 £411
25th Percentile £420 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £579
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.94% +5.27%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £858 £808
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £37.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +196.41%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £36.60 - £64.45
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +164.26%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the City of London

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 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the City of London

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.11%) IBM Domino
2 3 (8.11%) IBM Notes
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
2 5 (13.51%) Mimecast
2 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.81%) IaaS
3 4 (10.81%) PaaS
4 3 (8.11%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) Firewall
2 7 (18.92%) DNS
3 4 (10.81%) DHCP
3 4 (10.81%) IPv4
4 3 (8.11%) LAN
4 3 (8.11%) SMTP
4 3 (8.11%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.11%) Unified Communications
4 3 (8.11%) WAN
5 2 (5.41%) SAN
5 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.70%) NAS
6 1 (2.70%) VPN
6 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Big Data
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Architect
2 5 (13.51%) Data Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Market Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Market Data Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Project Manager
2 5 (13.51%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Integration Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Data Manager
4 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.41%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Market Data Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Market Data Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Middleware
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) CMDB
1 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
1 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.70%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Migration
2 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (24.32%) Change Management
4 7 (18.92%) B2B
4 7 (18.92%) Data Migration
5 6 (16.22%) Application Packaging
5 6 (16.22%) ITIL
6 5 (13.51%) Capacity Management
6 5 (13.51%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (10.81%) Application Security
7 4 (10.81%) Application Virtualisation
7 4 (10.81%) Batch Scripting
7 4 (10.81%) Load Balancing
7 4 (10.81%) TOGAF
8 3 (8.11%) Change Control
8 3 (8.11%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (8.11%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.11%) Project Management
9 2 (5.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
2 6 (16.22%) VBScript
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Azure Certification
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) CCNA
2 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.81%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.41%) SCCM
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) Citrix
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco
3 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.81%) Bloomberg
4 4 (10.81%) Refinitiv
5 3 (8.11%) BT
5 3 (8.11%) IBM
5 3 (8.11%) Lotus
5 3 (8.11%) Proofpoint
5 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.41%) Arista
6 2 (5.41%) Iron Mountain
6 2 (5.41%) Radianz
6 2 (5.41%) Reuters
6 2 (5.41%) VMware
7 1 (2.70%) Dell
7 1 (2.70%) HP
7 1 (2.70%) NetApp
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle