Data Centre Contracts in West London

Data Center
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in West London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 48 50
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 17 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 4.61% 2.77% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.50% 6.84% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 7
10th Percentile £204 - £226
25th Percentile £250 £315 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £405 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% -19.00% -16.32%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £540
90th Percentile £564 £668 -
London median daily rate £525 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £22.60 - -
25th Percentile £23.05 - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £16.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £23.80 £22.59 £43.80
% change year-on-year +5.38% -48.44% -6.18%

All Generic Skills
West 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 West London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 136 234 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 36.86% 40.55% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 188 150
10th Percentile £215 £300 £191
25th Percentile £300 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £600
90th Percentile £631 £720 £689
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 21
10th Percentile - £27.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £33.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £62.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.92% +228.95% -70.02%
75th Percentile £30.16 £82.50 £41.52
90th Percentile £54.10 £90.00 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
% change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in West London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in West London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Hillingdon +34 10 £525 +31.25% 7
Wembley - 4 £400 -
Hammersmith +3 2 £159 -47.17%
Data Centre
London

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (11.76%) IIS
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Mimecast
4 2 (11.76%) Nutanix
4 2 (11.76%) Rubrik
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) HTTP
3 5 (29.41%) HTTPS
3 5 (29.41%) IPsec
4 4 (23.53%) LAN
5 3 (17.65%) WAN
5 3 (17.65%) Wireless
6 2 (11.76%) DKIM
6 2 (11.76%) DMARC
6 2 (11.76%) Extranet
6 2 (11.76%) Internet
6 2 (11.76%) NAS
6 2 (11.76%) SAN
6 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
6 2 (11.76%) SSL
6 2 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (11.76%) VPN
6 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) IT Support
2 4 (23.53%) Network Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Support Officer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) SAML
2 2 (11.76%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (29.41%) PKI
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (11.76%) Clustering
4 2 (11.76%) Fat Client
4 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
3 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
3 4 (23.53%) Server Management
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
4 3 (17.65%) RBAC
4 3 (17.65%) SIEM
4 3 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (11.76%) Application Packaging
5 2 (11.76%) Converged Infrastructure
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.76%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCIE
1 4 (23.53%) CCNP
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) JNCIE
2 1 (5.88%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) BitLocker
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) FortiGate
2 6 (35.29%) SCCM
2 6 (35.29%) SCOM
3 4 (23.53%) SCVMM
3 4 (23.53%) Terraform
4 3 (17.65%) VxRail
5 2 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
6 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Palo Alto
3 5 (29.41%) SolarWinds
4 4 (23.53%) HP
4 4 (23.53%) VMware
5 3 (17.65%) Dell
5 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
5 3 (17.65%) Juniper
5 3 (17.65%) New Relic
6 2 (11.76%) Brocade
6 2 (11.76%) Commvault
6 2 (11.76%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (11.76%) Equitrac
6 2 (11.76%) F5
6 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
6 2 (11.76%) Huawei
6 2 (11.76%) MobileIron
6 2 (11.76%) Proofpoint
6 2 (11.76%) Trend Micro