Data Centre Contracts in Central London

Data Center
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 109 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 46 67 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.92% 1.82% 2.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.19% 5.09% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 47 104
10th Percentile £277 £423 £295
25th Percentile £388 £514 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £620 £688 £600
90th Percentile £858 £797 £675
London median daily rate £525 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £24.12 £26.33 -
25th Percentile £24.60 £35.48 £66.25
Median hourly rate £25.40 £51.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.78% -28.82% -
75th Percentile £26.20 £68.11 £78.75
90th Percentile £26.68 £77.49 -
London median hourly rate £23.80 £22.59 £43.80
% change year-on-year +5.38% -48.44% -7.79%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 743 1,317 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.05% 35.69% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 895 1,147
10th Percentile £265 £315 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £845 £803
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £29.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -23.08% +139.63%
75th Percentile £25.50 £83.75 £57.25
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.62 £42.02
% change year-on-year -22.01% -17.61% +22.90%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London +9 35 £531 -9.57% 19
City of Westminster +2 4 £450 -43.75%
Southwark - 1 - -
Camden - 1 £850 -
Data Centre
London

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.70%) Mimecast
7 3 (6.52%) IaaS
7 3 (6.52%) PaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.17%) GCP
8 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) Firewall
2 8 (17.39%) SD-WAN
3 7 (15.22%) WAN
4 6 (13.04%) LAN
5 4 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (8.70%) DNS
6 3 (6.52%) DHCP
6 3 (6.52%) Internet
6 3 (6.52%) IPv4
6 3 (6.52%) SAN
6 3 (6.52%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (4.35%) VPN
7 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.17%) 5G
8 1 (2.17%) Broadband
8 1 (2.17%) NAS
8 1 (2.17%) Network Security
8 1 (2.17%) NX-OS
8 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Big Data
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Front Office
6 1 (2.17%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Architect
1 7 (15.22%) Network Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Project Manager
3 4 (8.70%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Data Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Market Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Market Data Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Migration Manager
4 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Market Data Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Market Data Project Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.17%) Middleware
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Virtual Team
2 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.35%) CMDB
3 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Handset
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.52%) Linux
4 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Migration
2 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (17.39%) Change Management
4 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.04%) B2B
5 6 (13.04%) Data Migration
6 5 (10.87%) ITIL
6 5 (10.87%) Project Management
6 5 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (8.70%) Agile
7 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.70%) Load Balancing
7 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.52%) Application Packaging
8 3 (6.52%) Application Security
8 3 (6.52%) Application Virtualisation
8 3 (6.52%) Batch Scripting
8 3 (6.52%) Low Latency
8 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.52%) SQL
2 3 (6.52%) VBScript
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.70%) CCNA
2 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) COBIT
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) NCSC
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.17%) Docker
5 1 (2.17%) KVM
5 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) SCCM
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 2 (4.35%) CASB
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) SCOrch
3 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.17%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Cisco
3 6 (13.04%) Citrix
3 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.87%) Palo Alto
4 5 (10.87%) VMware
5 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.52%) BT
6 3 (6.52%) F5
7 2 (4.35%) Arista
7 2 (4.35%) Bloomberg
7 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (4.35%) Imperva
7 2 (4.35%) Juniper
7 2 (4.35%) Netskope
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle
7 2 (4.35%) Radianz
7 2 (4.35%) Refinitiv
7 2 (4.35%) Reuters
8 1 (2.17%) Kenna