Data Centre Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Center
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 138 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 -59 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 195 239 703
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.97% 1.57% 2.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.94% 5.47% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 156 505
10th Percentile £374 £391 £403
25th Percentile £454 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £598 £608 £633
90th Percentile £645 £697 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £51.70 -
25th Percentile - £54.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% +126.09%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £75.50 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £21.67
% change year-on-year +14.58% +10.75% -22.26%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,281 4,366 8,071
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.15% 28.62% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,235 2,959 5,676
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.14%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 197 153
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.47 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £50.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -13.04% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.03 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

Data Centre
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Data Centre
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.

Data Centre daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Data Centre daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Centre hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.56%) Confluence
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.03%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.54%) Azure
2 23 (11.79%) AWS
3 11 (5.64%) Entra ID
4 10 (5.13%) SaaS
5 6 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.56%) GCP
7 4 (2.05%) IaaS
7 4 (2.05%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.05%) PaaS
7 4 (2.05%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.54%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.54%) GitHub
9 2 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.03%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.03%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.03%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.51%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 59 (30.26%) Firewall
2 24 (12.31%) DNS
2 24 (12.31%) Network Security
3 23 (11.79%) WAN
4 22 (11.28%) BGP
5 20 (10.26%) LAN
5 20 (10.26%) VPN
6 19 (9.74%) DHCP
7 18 (9.23%) OSPF
7 18 (9.23%) TCP/IP
8 15 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
9 13 (6.67%) Wireless
10 11 (5.64%) VXLAN
11 7 (3.59%) EIGRP
11 7 (3.59%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (3.08%) Internet
12 6 (3.08%) MPLS
12 6 (3.08%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.56%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.62%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (2.05%) Power BI
4 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.56%) JIRA
1 5 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.54%) Git
2 3 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.51%) Gatling
4 1 (0.51%) GitLab
4 1 (0.51%) JMeter
4 1 (0.51%) Maven
4 1 (0.51%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.51%) TestDirector
General
1 61 (31.28%) Finance
2 44 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.18%) Banking
5 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.05%) Retail
9 3 (1.54%) Military
9 3 (1.54%) Police
10 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.03%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Law
10 2 (1.03%) Local Government
10 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (21.03%) Architect
2 32 (16.41%) Network Engineer
3 21 (10.77%) Lead
3 21 (10.77%) Senior
4 17 (8.72%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.18%) Analyst
5 14 (7.18%) Project Manager
6 11 (5.64%) Consultant
6 11 (5.64%) Network Architect
7 10 (5.13%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (4.62%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.10%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Data Centre Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Test Manager
11 6 (3.08%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.08%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 6 (3.08%) Security Architect
12 5 (2.56%) Cisco Engineer
12 5 (2.56%) Server Engineer
12 5 (2.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.56%) LDAP
1 5 (2.56%) RFC 2544
2 3 (1.54%) .NET
2 3 (1.54%) Kafka
2 3 (1.54%) YAML
3 2 (1.03%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.03%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.03%) REST
4 1 (0.51%) ADO
4 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.51%) HTML
4 1 (0.51%) OAuth
4 1 (0.51%) PySpark
4 1 (0.51%) RESTful
4 1 (0.51%) SAML
4 1 (0.51%) SOAP
4 1 (0.51%) Spring
4 1 (0.51%) Web Services
4 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (3.08%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
4 5 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.56%) PKI
4 5 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.05%) Replication
5 4 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.54%) SCADA
6 3 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.41%) Linux
2 30 (15.38%) Windows
3 15 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.54%) Unix
7 2 (1.03%) zOS
8 1 (0.51%) VyOS
8 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.26%) Migration
2 32 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (12.31%) Agile
4 15 (7.69%) Change Management
4 15 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (7.69%) Project Management
4 15 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (7.18%) High Availability
5 14 (7.18%) ITIL
5 14 (7.18%) Network Design
5 14 (7.18%) Roadmaps
6 13 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (5.64%) Cloud Security
7 11 (5.64%) Data Protection
7 11 (5.64%) DevOps
7 11 (5.64%) Risk Management
8 9 (4.62%) CI/CD
8 9 (4.62%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.26%) Python
2 14 (7.18%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.67%) SQL
4 6 (3.08%) Bash
5 3 (1.54%) Java
6 2 (1.03%) Groovy
6 2 (1.03%) JCL
6 2 (1.03%) REXX
7 1 (0.51%) Go
7 1 (0.51%) Perl
7 1 (0.51%) Ruby
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.85%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (10.77%) CCNP
5 12 (6.15%) Degree
6 9 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.59%) CCIE
8 4 (2.05%) ACCA
8 4 (2.05%) CIMA
8 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.54%) CCIE Data Center
9 3 (1.54%) CCNA
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.03%) PMP
11 1 (0.51%) CCSA
11 1 (0.51%) CCSP
11 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) QA
2 4 (2.05%) GDPR
2 4 (2.05%) SLA
3 3 (1.54%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.03%) PMO
5 1 (0.51%) COBIT
5 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (4.62%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.59%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.56%) vSphere
7 4 (2.05%) Docker
8 2 (1.03%) NFS
8 2 (1.03%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.51%) Firmware
9 1 (0.51%) Microcode
9 1 (0.51%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (7.69%) Ansible
2 11 (5.64%) FortiGate
3 9 (4.62%) vCenter Server
4 7 (3.59%) Terraform
5 6 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.05%) NetBackup
6 4 (2.05%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.03%) Grafana
8 2 (1.03%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.03%) SCCM
8 2 (1.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco LMS
9 1 (0.51%) Kibana
9 1 (0.51%) OfficeScan
9 1 (0.51%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.51%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.51%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 52 (26.67%) Cisco
2 43 (22.05%) VMware
3 27 (13.85%) Microsoft
4 18 (9.23%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.72%) Fortinet
6 13 (6.67%) Oracle
7 12 (6.15%) Dell
7 12 (6.15%) HP
7 12 (6.15%) Juniper
8 10 (5.13%) Red Hat
8 10 (5.13%) ServiceNow
9 8 (4.10%) F5
9 8 (4.10%) IBM
10 7 (3.59%) Commvault
10 7 (3.59%) Meraki
11 6 (3.08%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.08%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.56%) Arista
12 5 (2.56%) Broadcom
12 5 (2.56%) SolarWinds