Data Centre Contracts in East London

Data Center
London > East London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in East London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 32 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 9 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 8.26% 1.96% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.15% 4.40% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £256 - £262
25th Percentile £465 - £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £585 - £545
90th Percentile £616 - £572
London median daily rate £537 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +0.89% -11.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £25.40 £22.59
% change year-on-year -0.98% +12.46% -37.74%

All Generic Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 47 91 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 43.12% 44.61% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 79 70
10th Percentile £328 £310 £212
25th Percentile £495 £421 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £538 £534
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +0.66% +12.42%
75th Percentile £590 £594 £750
90th Percentile £685 £650 £925
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £11.33 - £20.78
25th Percentile £16.33 - £21.24
Median hourly rate £24.66 £11.95 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +106.36% -46.85% -16.66%
75th Percentile £30.83 - £23.73
90th Percentile £34.53 £19.03 £26.18
London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.42 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.06% -21.66% -15.68%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in East London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in East London.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in East London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in East London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in East London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in East London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Tower Hamlets - 5 £585 - 1
Docklands, London +5 2 £263 -47.50% 1
Havering - 1 - -
Data Centre
London

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Mimecast
2 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) BGP
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (33.33%) VLAN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
3 2 (22.22%) Multicast
3 2 (22.22%) OSPF
3 2 (22.22%) VXLAN
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) Junos
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) SNMP
4 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Network Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 3 (33.33%) High Availability
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Threat Management
1 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
2 2 (22.22%) Robotic Process Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
3 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCIE
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) JNCIE
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Arista
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Mellanox
3 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA