Data Centre Contracts in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 70 65
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 98 156 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.98% 2.75% 3.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.31% 9.52% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 102 121
10th Percentile £274 £301 £308
25th Percentile £338 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +8.05% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 0
10th Percentile - £11.96 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £24.66 £12.08 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.14% - -
75th Percentile £104.19 £21.47 -
90th Percentile £151.90 £24.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £21.67
% change year-on-year +1.13% +14.77% -14.18%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,053 1,638 1,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.03% 28.84% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 954 1,352
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £350 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £623 £631
90th Percentile £661 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 171 100
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.64 £20.88
Median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.39% +7.32% +138.98%
75th Percentile £61.12 £61.30 £66.34
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Thames Valley -3 47 £471 -14.32% 230
Berkshire -3 38 £400 -30.13% 168
Hampshire +20 30 £513 -13.50% 78
Surrey +13 12 £300 -40.00% 70
Buckinghamshire +7 9 £535 +25.88% 40
West Sussex 0 5 £725 +81.25% 14
Kent +2 3 £425 -24.44% 30
East Sussex -3 1 - - 7
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.04%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) ThingWorx
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) IIS
3 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.24%) AWS
2 11 (11.22%) IaaS
3 10 (10.20%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) GCP
3 10 (10.20%) PaaS
4 9 (9.18%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.10%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.06%) SaaS
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.02%) GitHub
7 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.57%) Firewall
2 14 (14.29%) DNS
3 13 (13.27%) DHCP
3 13 (13.27%) VPN
4 9 (9.18%) Network Security
4 9 (9.18%) WAN
5 8 (8.16%) SMTP
6 7 (7.14%) BGP
6 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.12%) OSPF
7 6 (6.12%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (5.10%) LAN
9 4 (4.08%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (4.08%) SAN
10 3 (3.06%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (3.06%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (3.06%) VXLAN
11 2 (2.04%) 4G
11 2 (2.04%) EIGRP
11 2 (2.04%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (8.16%) Big Data
1 8 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.02%) MySQL
2 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.04%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (17.35%) Public Sector
2 16 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Finance
4 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Retail
6 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.04%) Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Korean Language
8 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (15.31%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) Architect
2 12 (12.24%) Support Engineer
3 11 (11.22%) Lead
4 9 (9.18%) Data Centre Manager
5 8 (8.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (8.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Test Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.14%) Analyst
6 7 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Data Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.08%) Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) RFC 2544
2 3 (3.06%) Middleware
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) ADO
3 1 (1.02%) LAMP
3 1 (1.02%) LDAP
3 1 (1.02%) PySpark
3 1 (1.02%) React
3 1 (1.02%) SAML
3 1 (1.02%) Web Services
3 1 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Fibre Optics
2 9 (9.18%) PKI
3 8 (8.16%) Clustering
4 5 (5.10%) CMDB
5 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.06%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.04%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 2 (2.04%) IoT
7 2 (2.04%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) SCADA
8 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) PMI
8 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.45%) Linux
2 18 (18.37%) Windows
3 12 (12.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.02%) Android
6 1 (1.02%) CentOS
6 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.43%) Migration
2 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (14.29%) DevOps
4 13 (13.27%) Capacity Management
4 13 (13.27%) Project Management
5 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (11.22%) Test Scripting
7 10 (10.20%) Change Management
7 10 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (10.20%) Service Management
8 9 (9.18%) Agile
8 9 (9.18%) Defect Management
9 8 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (8.16%) ITIL
9 8 (8.16%) Machine Learning
9 8 (8.16%) Software Deployment
10 7 (7.14%) Case Management
10 7 (7.14%) Risk Management
11 6 (6.12%) Break/Fix
11 6 (6.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.24%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.10%) Python
3 2 (2.04%) Java
3 2 (2.04%) SQL
4 1 (1.02%) Bash
4 1 (1.02%) C#
4 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (63.27%) Security Cleared
2 39 (39.80%) SC Cleared
3 25 (25.51%) DV Cleared
4 16 (16.33%) Degree
5 10 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.16%) CCNP
7 5 (5.10%) ACCA
7 5 (5.10%) CIMA
8 4 (4.08%) CCNA
9 3 (3.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.04%) VCAP
11 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.02%) CCIE
11 1 (1.02%) CCSP
11 1 (1.02%) CEH
11 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) SLA
2 4 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) COBIT
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
3 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.22%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (9.18%) Docker
4 9 (9.18%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.16%) BitLocker
5 8 (8.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (8.16%) Terminal Services
6 6 (6.12%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.08%) vSphere
8 2 (2.04%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (14.29%) Ansible
2 10 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.20%) vCenter Server
3 8 (8.16%) Nagios
3 8 (8.16%) Puppet
3 8 (8.16%) vMotion
4 4 (4.08%) NetBackup
4 4 (4.08%) Terraform
5 2 (2.04%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.04%) vRealize
5 2 (2.04%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) QRadar
6 1 (1.02%) SCCM
6 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (24.49%) VMware
2 22 (22.45%) Cisco
3 20 (20.41%) HP
4 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
5 11 (11.22%) Dell
6 9 (9.18%) ServiceNow
7 8 (8.16%) Citrix
7 8 (8.16%) Google
7 8 (8.16%) Symantec
8 6 (6.12%) IBM
9 5 (5.10%) Red Hat
10 4 (4.08%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.08%) Veritas
11 3 (3.06%) Mellanox
11 3 (3.06%) NVIDIA
11 3 (3.06%) Palo Alto
11 3 (3.06%) Splunk
12 2 (2.04%) Aruba
13 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds
13 1 (1.02%) Veeam