Data Centre Contracts in London

Data Center
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies advertised in 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 146 126 137
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 303 520 829
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.73% 2.04% 2.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.20% 5.66% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 351 617
10th Percentile £336 £405 £363
25th Percentile £431 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £623 £738 £625
90th Percentile £700 £820 £713
England median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 9
10th Percentile £22.12 £20.22 £20.80
25th Percentile - £20.58 £23.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £22.59 £43.80
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -48.44% -6.18%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.56 £69.75
90th Percentile - £76.88 £79.50
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £25.25
% change year-on-year +14.77% -14.18% -41.79%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,183 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 36.10% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,671 10,256
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £714
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 202
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.88 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%
75th Percentile £50.25 £62.81 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.14
% change year-on-year +60.11% -13.97% +2.49%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Centre in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +18 46 £525 -10.64% 13
West London +22 17 £459 +13.27% 21
East London -1 6 £500 +41.84% 13
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (5.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.96%) Confluence
4 5 (1.65%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.32%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.99%) IIS
7 2 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.66%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.64%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.66%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 71 (23.43%) Azure
2 45 (14.85%) AWS
3 26 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (6.27%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.94%) SaaS
6 11 (3.63%) GCP
7 9 (2.97%) PaaS
8 8 (2.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.64%) IaaS
8 8 (2.64%) Mimecast
9 7 (2.31%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.31%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.32%) GitHub
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.99%) Rubrik
12 3 (0.99%) Serverless
12 3 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 64 (21.12%) Firewall
2 30 (9.90%) DNS
3 27 (8.91%) WAN
4 25 (8.25%) LAN
4 25 (8.25%) Network Security
5 21 (6.93%) SD-WAN
6 19 (6.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 19 (6.27%) Internet
6 19 (6.27%) Wireless
7 18 (5.94%) HTTP
7 18 (5.94%) TCP/IP
8 17 (5.61%) DHCP
8 17 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (5.28%) BGP
9 16 (5.28%) OSPF
9 16 (5.28%) SSL
9 16 (5.28%) VPN
10 15 (4.95%) SAN
11 13 (4.29%) IPsec
11 13 (4.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.65%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.65%) Oracle Database
2 5 (1.65%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.66%) Big Data
5 2 (0.66%) MySQL
5 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.33%) GIS
6 1 (0.33%) Metadata
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.27%) JIRA
2 14 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.99%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) Git
5 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.81%) Finance
3 22 (7.26%) Banking
4 21 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.30%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.97%) Marketing
8 8 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.98%) Police
11 5 (1.65%) Billing
11 5 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Electronics
13 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.66%) Legal
14 2 (0.66%) Local Government
14 2 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (18.48%) Network Engineer
2 54 (17.82%) Architect
3 33 (10.89%) Project Manager
4 27 (8.91%) Senior
5 19 (6.27%) Consultant
6 15 (4.95%) Support Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Analyst
7 14 (4.62%) Linux Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Server Engineer
8 13 (4.29%) Data Centre Engineer
9 12 (3.96%) Linux Server Engineer
9 12 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.63%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.30%) Network Architect
11 10 (3.30%) Senior Network Engineer
12 9 (2.97%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (2.97%) Data Centre Architect
12 9 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.97%) Technical Manager
12 9 (2.97%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.30%) LDAP
2 6 (1.98%) Node.js
3 5 (1.65%) REST
3 5 (1.65%) SAML
3 5 (1.65%) Web Services
4 4 (1.32%) .NET
5 3 (0.99%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.66%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.66%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.66%) OpenID
6 2 (0.66%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.33%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (0.33%) Kafka
7 1 (0.33%) Middleware
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.33%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (4.29%) Public Cloud
3 9 (2.97%) Clustering
3 9 (2.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (2.97%) PKI
4 7 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.31%) Virtual Team
5 6 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.65%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.65%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.65%) Social Media
6 5 (1.65%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.32%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.99%) Tandem
8 3 (0.99%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.14%) Linux
2 52 (17.16%) Windows
3 19 (6.27%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.62%) Unix
5 7 (2.31%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.99%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (32.34%) Migration
2 42 (13.86%) Agile
3 39 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (10.56%) CI/CD
5 27 (8.91%) Change Management
6 25 (8.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (7.92%) Roadmaps
8 23 (7.59%) Computer Science
9 22 (7.26%) Project Management
10 20 (6.60%) Data Migration
10 20 (6.60%) ITIL
11 19 (6.27%) DevOps
11 19 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (6.27%) Project Delivery
12 18 (5.94%) Capacity Management
13 17 (5.61%) Mentoring
13 17 (5.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (4.95%) High Availability
14 15 (4.95%) Load Balancing
15 14 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.25%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.93%) Python
3 14 (4.62%) SQL
4 9 (2.97%) Java
5 8 (2.64%) Bash
6 6 (1.98%) Go
7 4 (1.32%) C
8 3 (0.99%) VBScript
9 2 (0.66%) C#
9 2 (0.66%) Ruby
10 1 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.20%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.22%) Degree
4 26 (8.58%) DV Cleared
5 25 (8.25%) CCNP
6 23 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.96%) CCIE
8 9 (2.97%) CCNA
9 6 (1.98%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.65%) BICSI RCDD
11 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.99%) CISSP
12 3 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.95%) SLA
2 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.99%) NIST
3 2 (0.66%) COBIT
3 2 (0.66%) GDPR
3 2 (0.66%) NCSC
3 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.66%) QA
4 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.33%) IASME
4 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (12.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (11.88%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.61%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.95%) vSphere
5 10 (3.30%) Docker
5 10 (3.30%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.31%) KVM
6 7 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.32%) Firmware
7 4 (1.32%) vCloud
8 3 (0.99%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.66%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (6.60%) Terraform
2 19 (6.27%) SCCM
3 14 (4.62%) Puppet
4 13 (4.29%) Ansible
4 13 (4.29%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.29%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.97%) SCOM
7 8 (2.64%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.31%) SCVMM
9 6 (1.98%) VxRail
10 5 (1.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (1.32%) Grafana
11 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.32%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.99%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.66%) Nmap
13 2 (0.66%) OpenNMS
13 2 (0.66%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 65 (21.45%) Cisco
2 60 (19.80%) Microsoft
3 49 (16.17%) VMware
4 35 (11.55%) Palo Alto
5 18 (5.94%) Dell
6 17 (5.61%) F5
6 17 (5.61%) Juniper
6 17 (5.61%) Oracle
7 14 (4.62%) Arista
8 13 (4.29%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.63%) HP
10 10 (3.30%) CheckPoint
10 10 (3.30%) Citrix
11 9 (2.97%) SolarWinds
12 8 (2.64%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.64%) IBM
13 7 (2.31%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.31%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.98%) Aruba
15 5 (1.65%) Infoblox