Data Centre Manager Contracts in London

Data Centre Manager
England > London

The median Data Centre Manager daily rate in London is £675, 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 347 389 476
Rank change year-on-year +42 +87 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Manager 6 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.011% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.012% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £481 £565 £434
25th Percentile £525 £588 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +12.68%
75th Percentile £750 £663 £650
90th Percentile £763 £685 £665
England median daily rate £525 £713 £575
% change year-on-year -26.32% +23.91% +9.52%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Centre Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Manager in London

Data Centre Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Manager in London

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Manager in London

Data Centre Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Manager in London

Data Centre Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London - 2 £625 - 1
Data Centre Manager
England

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

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 London region featuring Data Centre Manager in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) NAS
5 1 (16.67%) Replication
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) ISO 14001
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (16.67%) Fintech
5 1 (16.67%) Big Data
5 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
5 1 (16.67%) KVM
5 1 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management

Data Centre Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 14001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) KVM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft