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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 38 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Centre 5 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.47% 3.33% 2.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.95% 11.52% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 8
10th Percentile £299 £405 £355
25th Percentile £372 £434 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £488 £596 £538
90th Percentile £578 £658 £550
South East median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £181.24 - -
Median hourly rate £182.48 - -
75th Percentile £183.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £182.48 £12.08 -
% change year-on-year +1410.55% - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 84 165 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 24.63% 28.95% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 117 212
10th Percentile £204 £228 £225
25th Percentile £233 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £509 £575 £620
90th Percentile £611 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 8
10th Percentile - - £21.22
25th Percentile £28.00 £11.71 £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.35 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.10% -49.03% +95.23%
75th Percentile £70.16 £73.45 £53.13
90th Percentile £92.87 £76.00 £85.83
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -40.92% +14.70% +122.22%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Surrey over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Surrey

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Centre

Data Centre
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Camberley -4 2 £425 -18.07% 5
Staines - 1 £425 -
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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Server Support
1 1 (20.00%) Server Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (20.00%) Change Management
1 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Arista
1 1 (20.00%) Aruba
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft