Data Centre Operations Contracts in London

Data Center Operations
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 384 491
Rank change year-on-year +39 +107 +82
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 8 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.039% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.044% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £258 £177 -
25th Percentile £350 £353 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -13.00% +41.94%
75th Percentile £418 £568 £575
90th Percentile £497 £677 -
England median daily rate £350 £313 £550
% change year-on-year +12.00% -43.18% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
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 Operations 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 - 1 - - 1
Data Centre Operations
England

Data Centre Operations
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cabling Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Data Technician
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Director
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Tech Ops
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dell
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Aruba
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) Ruckus Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Avaya
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow