Data Centre Contracts in Surrey

Data Center
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Surrey. 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 19 39 57
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 20 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 6.71% 2.90% 1.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 21.74% 13.18% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £152 £375 -
25th Percentile £153 £405 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £488 £393
Median % change year-on-year -65.54% +24.20% -21.50%
75th Percentile £273 £638 £450
90th Percentile £425 £746 £475
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.18 £63.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.62% - -
75th Percentile £26.96 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £91.04 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.42 £24.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.75% -65.71% +191.67%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 92 129 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 30.87% 21.98% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 90 180
10th Percentile £153 £274 £200
25th Percentile £195 £379 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £284 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -43.25% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £503 £661 £638
90th Percentile £657 £739 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 4
10th Percentile £22.13 £11.59 £53.38
25th Percentile £24.18 £11.71 £58.44
Median hourly rate £26.08 £12.77 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +104.27% -79.97% +226.92%
75th Percentile £47.63 £35.94 £75.06
90th Percentile £70.98 £68.75 £93.18
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Surrey

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Surrey

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Surrey

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Surrey

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in Surrey

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Camberley +2 13 £158 -68.00% 3
Staines - 1 £425 -
Woking - 1 - - 6
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) BGP
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (5.00%) DHCP
1 1 (5.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) OSPF
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Korean Language
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Server Support
3 6 (30.00%) Server Support Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Break Fix Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) IT Support
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Hardware Support Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) ADO
1 1 (5.00%) LAMP
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Customer Service
2 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (45.00%) Break/Fix
4 7 (35.00%) Time Management
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 1 (5.00%) Agile
7 1 (5.00%) Business Analysis
7 1 (5.00%) Clean Code
7 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.00%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) ITIL
7 1 (5.00%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.00%) Scrum
7 1 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) PHP
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) SLA
2 7 (35.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Dell
1 15 (75.00%) HP
1 15 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Arista
2 1 (5.00%) Aruba
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) SAP