Data Centre Contracts in London

Data Center
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre 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 162 122 130
Rank change year-on-year -40 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 211 343 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.68% 1.92% 1.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.67% 5.80% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 247 361
10th Percentile £385 £325 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £738
90th Percentile £725 £725 £820
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 7
10th Percentile - £22.08 £20.22
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.68 £20.95
Median hourly rate £33.58 £25.40 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.20% +8.09% -35.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £41.25 £68.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
England median hourly rate £24.66 £24.87 £22.09
% change year-on-year -0.84% +12.61% -17.44%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
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 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 41 £550 +5.77% 30
East London +12 6 £585 +12.50% 8
West London -5 3 £400 - 28
South London - 1 £525 - 11
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
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 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.32%) Confluence
3 4 (1.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.90%) Revit
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 68 (32.23%) Azure
2 38 (18.01%) AWS
3 20 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.69%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.74%) SaaS
6 9 (4.27%) Azure AKS
7 8 (3.79%) OneDrive
8 5 (2.37%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.90%) GCP
9 4 (1.90%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.42%) IaaS
11 2 (0.95%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (0.95%) AWS KMS
11 2 (0.95%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.95%) PaaS
11 2 (0.95%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 51 (24.17%) Firewall
2 28 (13.27%) Wireless
3 26 (12.32%) Network Security
4 25 (11.85%) WAN
5 23 (10.90%) BGP
6 21 (9.95%) OSPF
7 19 (9.00%) VPN
8 18 (8.53%) Cisco Nexus
9 16 (7.58%) LAN
9 16 (7.58%) VLAN
10 15 (7.11%) SD-WAN
11 13 (6.16%) DNS
11 13 (6.16%) VXLAN
12 10 (4.74%) TCP/IP
12 10 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (4.27%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (4.27%) Multicast
14 8 (3.79%) DHCP
14 8 (3.79%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (3.32%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.42%) Big Data
4 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.95%) MySQL
6 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.47%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.27%) GitLab
1 9 (4.27%) JIRA
2 8 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.47%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.47%) ERwin
4 1 (0.47%) Gatling
4 1 (0.47%) Git
4 1 (0.47%) JMeter
4 1 (0.47%) Maven
4 1 (0.47%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.47%) TestDirector
General
1 68 (32.23%) Finance
2 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.90%) Banking
4 15 (7.11%) Telecoms
5 14 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.27%) Legal
6 9 (4.27%) Retail
7 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.42%) Local Government
10 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (19.91%) Network Engineer
2 27 (12.80%) Architect
3 25 (11.85%) Project Manager
4 22 (10.43%) Senior
5 15 (7.11%) Data Centre Engineer
5 15 (7.11%) Lead
6 14 (6.64%) Consultant
7 13 (6.16%) Infrastructure Manager
8 11 (5.21%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (4.27%) Analyst
9 9 (4.27%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 9 (4.27%) Network Architect
10 8 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) IT Manager
10 8 (3.79%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.84%) Data Centre Manager
11 6 (2.84%) Design Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) IT Project Manager
11 6 (2.84%) Network Manager
11 6 (2.84%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.79%) Kafka
2 3 (1.42%) JSON
3 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.47%) OAuth
4 1 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.47%) REST
4 1 (0.47%) RESTful
4 1 (0.47%) SOAP
4 1 (0.47%) Spring
4 1 (0.47%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.47%) Web Services
4 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.32%) PKI
2 7 (3.32%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.84%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.90%) FPGA
4 4 (1.90%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (1.90%) PCIe
4 4 (1.90%) SCADA
4 4 (1.90%) Verilog
4 4 (1.90%) VHDL
5 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.42%) Replication
5 3 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.43%) Windows
2 27 (12.80%) Linux
3 15 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.84%) Android
4 6 (2.84%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.37%) Unix
5 5 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.95%) CentOS
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.07%) Migration
2 28 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (11.37%) Project Management
5 21 (9.95%) Roadmaps
6 20 (9.48%) DevOps
7 19 (9.00%) ITIL
8 18 (8.53%) CI/CD
8 18 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (8.06%) Agile
9 17 (8.06%) Network Design
10 16 (7.58%) Project Delivery
11 13 (6.16%) Configuration Management
11 13 (6.16%) Infrastructure Management
11 13 (6.16%) Network Virtualisation
12 12 (5.69%) Break/Fix
12 12 (5.69%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (5.69%) Low Latency
13 11 (5.21%) Change Management
13 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.27%) Python
2 14 (6.64%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.69%) SQL
4 5 (2.37%) Go
4 5 (2.37%) Tcl
5 4 (1.90%) Bash
5 4 (1.90%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (1.42%) Java
6 3 (1.42%) Perl
7 2 (0.95%) Groovy
8 1 (0.47%) Ruby
8 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (11.85%) Cisco Certification
1 25 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.48%) Degree
2 20 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.53%) CCNP
4 9 (4.27%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.79%) CCIE
6 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.90%) PMP
8 3 (1.42%) CISA
8 3 (1.42%) CISM
8 3 (1.42%) CISSP
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.95%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (0.95%) CCNA
9 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.32%) NIST
2 5 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.37%) QA
2 5 (2.37%) SLA
3 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.42%) GDPR
4 3 (1.42%) PMO
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 24 (11.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (8.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.11%) Docker
4 6 (2.84%) vSphere
5 4 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.90%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.47%) Firmware
8 1 (0.47%) KVM
8 1 (0.47%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (10.90%) Ansible
2 22 (10.43%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.48%) Terraform
4 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.32%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.84%) Puppet
6 6 (2.84%) SCCM
7 3 (1.42%) Grafana
7 3 (1.42%) Podman
7 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.95%) Cisco LMS
8 2 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.95%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.95%) Nagios
8 2 (0.95%) OPNET
8 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.47%) CA Spectrum
9 1 (0.47%) Kibana
9 1 (0.47%) Netcool
Vendors
1 58 (27.49%) Cisco
2 30 (14.22%) Microsoft
3 27 (12.80%) VMware
4 26 (12.32%) Palo Alto
5 22 (10.43%) Arista
6 20 (9.48%) Dell
7 19 (9.00%) CheckPoint
7 19 (9.00%) HP
8 17 (8.06%) Fortinet
9 16 (7.58%) F5
10 10 (4.74%) Juniper
11 9 (4.27%) Meraki
12 8 (3.79%) Red Hat
13 7 (3.32%) Citrix
13 7 (3.32%) Oracle
14 6 (2.84%) Apple
14 6 (2.84%) Ericsson
14 6 (2.84%) IBM
14 6 (2.84%) SolarWinds
15 5 (2.37%) ServiceNow