Data Centre Architect Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Centre Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Data Centre Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.082% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
England median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +5.66%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 1,077 692 708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.64% 89.99% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 466 460
10th Percentile £257 £200 £227
25th Percentile £405 £323 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £403 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.12% -10.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £561
90th Percentile £664 £621 £622
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 64 62
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.12 £12.71
25th Percentile £14.55 £17.87 £14.33
Median hourly rate £18.31 £21.39 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.66% +1.19%
75th Percentile £27.18 £25.15 £42.56
90th Percentile £56.25 £30.30 £51.91
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%

Data Centre Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Data Centre Architect job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands

Data Centre Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Architect within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Lincolnshire - 1 £800 -
Data Centre Architect
England

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Top 10 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 August 2026, Data Centre Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Data Centre Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Application Rationalisation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Rationalisation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement