Data Centre Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Centre Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Centre Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 343 445
Rank change year-on-year +43 +102 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Manager 4 2 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.013% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.014% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 29
10th Percentile £624 £561 £384
25th Percentile £641 £578 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £756 £653 £600
90th Percentile £768 £674 £630
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +5.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Centre Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Centre Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Centre Manager.

Data Centre Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Centre Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Centre Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Centre Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (25.00%) PMP
3 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation

Data Centre Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (25.00%) PMP
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft