Data Centre Business Analyst Contract Job Trends

Data Centre Business Analyst
UK

The median Data Centre Business Analyst daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 590 542 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Business Analyst 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.006% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £417 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 33,289 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,068 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

Data Centre Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Centre Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Centre Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Data Centre Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Business Analyst over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Business Analyst in the UK

Data Centre Business Analyst
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Work from Home - 3 £600 -
England -38 2 £438 -
Yorkshire -40 2 £438 -
UK excluding London -48 2 £438 -
North of England -50 2 £438 -

Data Centre Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Data Centre Business Analyst 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 featuring Data Centre Business Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) Project Governance
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Zerto
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Application Discovery
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Intel
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (20.00%) Post-Merger Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Presales
3 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Analysis

Data Centre Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) MPLS
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Application Discovery
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Post-Merger Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Presales
3 1 (20.00%) Quantitative Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Veeam
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) Zerto
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Intel