Data Centre Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Centre Architect
England > London

The median Data Centre Architect daily rate in London is £761, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 391 420
Rank change year-on-year +30 +29 +163
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 12 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.090% 0.006% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.007% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £637 - £569
25th Percentile £656 £650 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £761 £700 £663
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £838 £750 £795
90th Percentile £850 - £845
England median daily rate £699 £638 £663
% change year-on-year +9.61% -3.77% +6.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,283 15,045 19,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.07% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,206 9,805 14,257
10th Percentile £333 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.14% -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 172 212
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.28 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -12.86% +23.58%
75th Percentile £49.50 £59.06 £61.59
90th Percentile £68.00 £78.75 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +68.69%

Data Centre Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Centre Architect job vacancy trend in London

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in London

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Architect in London over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Architect in London

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, 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 London region featuring Data Centre Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (66.67%) Windows
3 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (50.00%) AWS
4 5 (41.67%) Open Source
4 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (41.67%) Unix
5 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
5 4 (33.33%) Use Case
5 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (25.00%) High Availability
6 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (25.00%) VMware
6 3 (25.00%) WAN
6 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 2 (16.67%) Linux
7 2 (16.67%) LAN
7 2 (16.67%) Oracle

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
2 2 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Open Source
3 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 4 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) Use Case
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) High Availability
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) ITSM
5 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CCIE
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Brocade
3 1 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft