Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Leatherhead

Data Center
Surrey > Leatherhead

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Leatherhead. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leatherhead 4.88% - 5.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £405
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £525 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
Leatherhead

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Leatherhead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 28 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead 34.15% 19.23% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 5 8
10th Percentile £425 £166 £336
25th Percentile £463 £190 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £453
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.02% +132.05%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £621 £650 £575
Surrey median daily rate £475 £413 £481
% change year-on-year +15.15% -14.29% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £39.00
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +72.73%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £56.00
Surrey median hourly rate £53.75 £52.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% +4.86%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Leatherhead

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Leatherhead

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Leatherhead

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leatherhead citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leatherhead citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leatherhead 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Control
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) BT
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Commvault
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Xerox