Data Centre Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Centre Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 359 419
Rank change year-on-year -20 +60 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.017% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.019% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £563 £477 £604
25th Percentile £576 £498 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £556 £638
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -12.75% -1.92%
75th Percentile £673 £623 £694
90th Percentile £697 £651 £728
UK median daily rate £699 £644 £656
% change year-on-year +8.54% -1.90% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 14,151 15,920 19,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 92.28% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,699 9,039 13,246
10th Percentile £206 £220 £220
25th Percentile £363 £369 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,338 1,207 1,247
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

Data Centre Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Centre Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Centre Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
South East +13 1 - - 2
North West -11 1 £555 -12.94% 2
North of England -25 1 £555 -12.94% 2
South West - 1 £675 - 2
Data Centre Architect
UK

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Data Centre Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Centre Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Capita
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching

Data Centre Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Capita
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Extreme Networks