Data Centre Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Centre Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 364 411
Rank change year-on-year +10 +47 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Manager 16 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.056% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.060% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 12
10th Percentile £438 £521 £380
25th Percentile £468 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +17.11% -10.59%
75th Percentile £581 £597 £547
90th Percentile £600 £625 £665
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.94%

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 13,882 16,547 20,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 92.27% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,532 9,572 13,610
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 1,426 1,206
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +2.68% +99.20%
75th Percentile £51.85 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Data Centre Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Centre Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Manager in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Centre Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +21 10 £495 -11.01% 11
Yorkshire -10 3 £500 -
North of England -28 3 £500 - 4
South West - 2 £563 - 3
East of England +2 1 - - 2
North West -12 1 £600 - 4
Data Centre Manager
UK

Data Centre Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Data Centre Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Centre Manager in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (18.75%) PRINCE
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team Management
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
4 3 (18.75%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (18.75%) Matrix Management
4 3 (18.75%) Degree
4 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) PMO
4 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Line Management
4 3 (18.75%) Business Case
4 3 (18.75%) Budget Management
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
5 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
5 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Validation

Data Centre Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Project Management
2 3 (18.75%) Budget Management
2 3 (18.75%) Business Case
2 3 (18.75%) Change Management
2 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (18.75%) Line Management
2 3 (18.75%) Matrix Management
2 3 (18.75%) Matrix Organization
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) PRINCE
2 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
2 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team Management
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Fault Management
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.25%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) RIBA
2 1 (6.25%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) PMO
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow