Data Centre Architect Contract Job Trends in Eastleigh

Data Centre Architect
Hampshire > Eastleigh

The median Data Centre Architect daily rate in Eastleigh is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Eastleigh 4.55% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Eastleigh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Eastleigh. 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 Eastleigh with a recognized job title 20 12 14
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.31% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 8
10th Percentile £450 - £384
25th Percentile - £281 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £294 £450
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% -34.72% -16.28%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £481
90th Percentile £560 £534 £500
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.71%
75th Percentile - - £13.00
90th Percentile - - £13.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £35.00 £54.94 £54.88
% change year-on-year -36.29% +0.11% +10.86%

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Eastleigh

For the 6 months to 27 March 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 Eastleigh region featuring Data Centre Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Eastleigh 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto