Datto Contract Job Trends in England

Datto
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Datto products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Datto over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Datto.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 503 569
Rank change year-on-year -33 +66 +179
Contract jobs citing Datto 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.026% 0.013% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.054% 0.029% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £300 -
25th Percentile £725 £338 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £400 £195
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +105.13% -38.58%
75th Percentile £775 - £203
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £750 £400 £195
% change year-on-year +87.50% +105.13% -38.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.00 - -

All Vendors
England

Datto falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,722 13,832 17,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.54% 45.62% 44.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,552 8,396 11,261
10th Percentile £288 £300 £252
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 418 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.08 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

Datto
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Datto relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Datto job vacancy trend in England

Datto
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Datto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Datto

Datto
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Datto.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Datto

Datto
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 Datto within the England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 - 7 - - 5
London -5 1 £750 +87.50% 4
Datto
UK

Datto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) IT Support
2 6 (75.00%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (37.50%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Hardware Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Hardware Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam