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 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 69 66 78
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 94 161 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.12% 2.90% 2.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.32% 10.17% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 116 110
10th Percentile £168 £280 £333
25th Percentile £363 £346 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £627 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile - £16.00 -
25th Percentile £24.18 £21.38 £65.00
Median hourly rate £24.42 £24.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -65.71% +191.67%
75th Percentile £25.81 £27.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.59 £48.00 -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £24.87 £22.09
% change year-on-year -0.84% +12.61% -17.44%

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 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
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 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 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
Thames Valley -13 37 £525 -4.55% 71
Berkshire -21 31 £488 -11.36% 55
Hampshire +25 26 £513 -6.82% 48
Surrey +20 20 £168 -65.54% 17
Buckinghamshire +15 6 £545 -0.91% 11
Kent +7 4 £488 +23.81% 8
West Sussex +6 4 £375 -6.25% 13
East Sussex -2 2 £625 +31.58% 10
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 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) IIS
3 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.77%) AWS
2 11 (11.70%) IaaS
3 10 (10.64%) GCP
3 10 (10.64%) PaaS
4 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.38%) Azure
6 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.19%) SaaS
7 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) Firewall
2 13 (13.83%) DHCP
2 13 (13.83%) DNS
2 13 (13.83%) VPN
3 12 (12.77%) Network Security
4 8 (8.51%) BGP
4 8 (8.51%) SMTP
5 7 (7.45%) OSPF
5 7 (7.45%) Structured Cabling
5 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.38%) WAN
7 4 (4.26%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (3.19%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (3.19%) Ethernet
8 3 (3.19%) LAN
8 3 (3.19%) SAN
8 3 (3.19%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (3.19%) VXLAN
9 2 (2.13%) EIGRP
9 2 (2.13%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (8.51%) Big Data
1 8 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Git
1 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.15%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.96%) Finance
4 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Retail
6 4 (4.26%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Legal
7 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.13%) Electronics
8 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Korean Language
9 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.09%) Support Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Architect
3 10 (10.64%) Server Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) Lead
5 8 (8.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (8.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Network Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Data Centre Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Data Centre Manager
7 6 (6.38%) Server Support
7 6 (6.38%) Server Support Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Break Fix Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) RFC 2544
2 1 (1.06%) .NET
2 1 (1.06%) ADO
2 1 (1.06%) LAMP
2 1 (1.06%) LDAP
2 1 (1.06%) PySpark
2 1 (1.06%) SAML
2 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Clustering
1 9 (9.57%) PKI
2 4 (4.26%) CMDB
2 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (4.26%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.06%) NHS
4 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.06%) PMI
4 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Replication
4 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.28%) Linux
2 16 (17.02%) Windows
3 12 (12.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.06%) Android
6 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (19.15%) Migration
3 15 (15.96%) Customer Service
4 12 (12.77%) DevOps
4 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (12.77%) Project Management
5 11 (11.70%) Break/Fix
5 11 (11.70%) ITIL
6 10 (10.64%) Capacity Management
7 9 (9.57%) Change Management
7 9 (9.57%) Risk Management
8 8 (8.51%) Agile
8 8 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (8.51%) Machine Learning
8 8 (8.51%) Software Deployment
8 8 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (7.45%) Data Centre Operations
9 7 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (7.45%) Time Management
10 6 (6.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.70%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.26%) Python
3 2 (2.13%) SQL
4 1 (1.06%) Bash
4 1 (1.06%) Java
4 1 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (56.38%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 25 (26.60%) DV Cleared
4 13 (13.83%) Degree
5 8 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (7.45%) CCNP
7 5 (5.32%) ACCA
7 5 (5.32%) CIMA
8 2 (2.13%) VCAP
8 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.06%) CCIE
9 1 (1.06%) CCNA
9 1 (1.06%) CCSP
9 1 (1.06%) CEH
9 1 (1.06%) CISM
9 1 (1.06%) CISSP
9 1 (1.06%) ISACA
9 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) SLA
2 9 (9.57%) QA
3 5 (5.32%) GDPR
4 4 (4.26%) COBIT
4 4 (4.26%) NIST
5 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 14001
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 17 (18.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (11.70%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (9.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.57%) Docker
3 9 (9.57%) Hyper-V
4 8 (8.51%) BitLocker
4 8 (8.51%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (8.51%) Terminal Services
5 5 (5.32%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.19%) KVM
6 3 (3.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (13.83%) Ansible
2 10 (10.64%) vCenter Server
3 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.51%) Nagios
4 8 (8.51%) Puppet
4 8 (8.51%) vMotion
5 4 (4.26%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.26%) Terraform
6 2 (2.13%) vRealize
6 2 (2.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.06%) HP ALM
7 1 (1.06%) QRadar
7 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) HP
2 22 (23.40%) VMware
3 21 (22.34%) Dell
4 17 (18.09%) IBM
5 14 (14.89%) Cisco
6 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
7 8 (8.51%) Citrix
7 8 (8.51%) Google
7 8 (8.51%) ServiceNow
7 8 (8.51%) Symantec
8 4 (4.26%) 3PAR
8 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.26%) Veritas
9 3 (3.19%) Mellanox
9 3 (3.19%) NVIDIA
9 3 (3.19%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.19%) Splunk
10 2 (2.13%) Aruba
10 2 (2.13%) SAP
11 1 (1.06%) Oracle