Hybrid/Remote Data Centre Manager Contract Job Trends

Data Centre Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Centre Manager daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 314 384
Rank change year-on-year +2 +70 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Manager 5 6 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.049% 0.050% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.053% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £473 £522 £378
25th Percentile £525 £539 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +23.68% -10.38%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £609
90th Percentile £623 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +13.75% -9.09%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,600 11,276 17,244
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.58% 93.15% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,299 7,061 12,021
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 201 389
10th Percentile £15.18 £19.30 £17.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -20.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +55.71%

Data Centre Manager
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Manager' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre Manager job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Data Centre Manager job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Data Centre Manager job vacancies

Data Centre Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Centre Manager over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Data Centre Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Centre Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 19 November 2025, Data Centre Manager 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Data Centre Manager in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Server+ Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management

Data Centre Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA