Data Centre Architect Contracts in England

Data Centre Architect
UK > England

The median Data Centre Architect daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 648 766
Rank change year-on-year +120 +118 -184
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 14 15 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.029% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.031% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 20
10th Percentile £530 £455 £525
25th Percentile £550 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £619 £633
Median % change year-on-year +13.13% -2.17% +5.42%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £713
90th Percentile £825 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £688 £613 £645
% change year-on-year +12.24% -5.04% +7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,601 49,033 68,659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.53% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,060 34,723 48,793
10th Percentile £275 £308 £311
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,484 1,927
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.58 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.42 £75.75 £61.56
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Data Centre Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Centre Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Architect in England

Data Centre Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Architect in England

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Architect in England

Data Centre Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Architect in England

Data Centre Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
London +110 9 £700 +16.67% 4
Midlands - 2 £800 -
North of England +36 1 £550 -
South East +23 1 £688 +12.24%
Yorkshire +23 1 £550 -
East Midlands - 1 £800 -
West Midlands - 1 £800 -
Data Centre Architect
UK

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Data Centre Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Centre Architect in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) LAN
2 4 (28.57%) WAN
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
4 2 (14.29%) Docker
4 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) RMDS
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) Bloomberg
4 2 (14.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (14.29%) VxRail
5 1 (7.14%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Business Impact Analysis

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (14.29%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) LAN
1 4 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
3 1 (7.14%) BCP
3 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (7.14%) Data Management
3 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.14%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.14%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Scorecard
3 1 (7.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Bloomberg
2 2 (14.29%) Dell
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper
3 1 (7.14%) Skytap