Data Centre Manager Contracts in England

Data Centre Manager
UK > England

The median Data Centre Manager daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 529 617
Rank change year-on-year +61 +88 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Manager 17 13 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.035% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.038% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 34
10th Percentile £467 - £454
25th Percentile £500 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +23.91% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £850 £625
90th Percentile £750 - £671
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +5.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Centre Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Manager in England

Data Centre Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Manager in England

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Manager in England

Data Centre Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Manager in England

Data Centre Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +51 6 £495 -10.00% 19
London +42 6 £675 +8.00% 30
North of England - 2 £500 - 1
South West +46 1 - - 2
Midlands +14 1 £700 -3.45% 3
East Midlands +9 1 £700 +27.27%
North West - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Data Centre Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Centre Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (52.94%) Project Management
3 8 (47.06%) Migration
4 7 (41.18%) Risk Management
5 5 (29.41%) Finance
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
6 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
6 4 (23.53%) Resource Allocation
6 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
7 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
7 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
7 3 (17.65%) Degree
7 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 2 (11.76%) PMI Certification
8 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
8 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) ISO 14001
8 2 (11.76%) Change Management
8 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
8 2 (11.76%) JIRA
8 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
8 2 (11.76%) Facilities Management
8 2 (11.76%) Resilience Testing

Data Centre Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) NAS
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) SAN
1 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) PMI
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Project Management
2 8 (47.06%) Migration
3 7 (41.18%) Risk Management
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
5 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
5 4 (23.53%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
7 2 (11.76%) Architecture Governance
7 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
7 2 (11.76%) Change Management
7 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.76%) Facilities Management
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
7 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Resilience Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) APMP
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
3 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) ISO 14001
3 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) KVM
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Fortinet