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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -31 +13 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 302 517 839
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.72% 2.06% 2.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.18% 5.72% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 350 619
10th Percentile £342 £405 £350
25th Percentile £440 £500 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £624 £738 £625
90th Percentile £700 £800 £714
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 8
10th Percentile £22.12 £20.22 £20.20
25th Percentile - £20.58 £22.94
Median hourly rate £23.80 £22.59 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -37.74% -22.30%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.56 £61.19
90th Percentile - £76.88 £68.50
England median hourly rate £24.87 £21.67 £22.75
% change year-on-year +14.77% -4.75% -47.55%

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 5,827 9,044 14,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.19% 35.96% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 6,564 10,318
10th Percentile £315 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 105 202
10th Percentile £15.46 £18.37 £17.17
25th Percentile £19.40 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.42 £34.62 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% -18.08% +20.95%
75th Percentile £50.63 £60.00 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +21 46 £533 -11.25% 18
West London +26 17 £459 +13.27% 23
East London -1 6 £500 +41.84% 17
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 (5.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.97%) Confluence
2 15 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.32%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.32%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.99%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.66%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.32%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.99%) 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 4 (1.32%) Primavera
2 3 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 69 (22.85%) Azure
2 45 (14.90%) AWS
3 26 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.96%) SaaS
6 10 (3.31%) GCP
7 9 (2.98%) PaaS
8 8 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.65%) IaaS
8 8 (2.65%) Mimecast
9 7 (2.32%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.32%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.32%) GitHub
12 3 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.99%) Rubrik
12 3 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (20.20%) Firewall
2 27 (8.94%) DNS
3 25 (8.28%) WAN
4 24 (7.95%) Network Security
5 23 (7.62%) LAN
6 20 (6.62%) SD-WAN
7 19 (6.29%) Internet
8 18 (5.96%) Cisco Nexus
8 18 (5.96%) HTTP
8 18 (5.96%) TCP/IP
8 18 (5.96%) Wireless
9 16 (5.30%) BGP
9 16 (5.30%) SSL
10 15 (4.97%) DHCP
10 15 (4.97%) OSPF
10 15 (4.97%) VPN
10 15 (4.97%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (4.30%) SAN
12 12 (3.97%) IPsec
12 12 (3.97%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.98%) Oracle Database
2 8 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.66%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.66%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.66%) Big Data
6 2 (0.66%) MySQL
6 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) GIS
7 1 (0.33%) Metadata
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (7.28%) JIRA
2 14 (4.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.99%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) Git
5 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.87%) Finance
3 21 (6.95%) Banking
3 21 (6.95%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.31%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.98%) Manufacturing
6 9 (2.98%) Marketing
7 7 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.99%) Police
9 5 (1.66%) Billing
9 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Electronics
11 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.99%) Military
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 56 (18.54%) Architect
1 56 (18.54%) Network Engineer
2 31 (10.26%) Project Manager
3 26 (8.61%) Senior
4 19 (6.29%) Consultant
5 17 (5.63%) Support Engineer
6 14 (4.64%) Linux Engineer
6 14 (4.64%) Server Engineer
6 14 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.30%) Analyst
7 13 (4.30%) Data Centre Engineer
8 12 (3.97%) Linux Server Engineer
9 11 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (3.64%) Technical Architect
10 10 (3.31%) Applications Support
10 10 (3.31%) Applications Support Engineer
10 10 (3.31%) JIRA Engineer
10 10 (3.31%) Senior Network Engineer
11 9 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.98%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.98%) LDAP
2 7 (2.32%) REST
2 7 (2.32%) Web Services
3 6 (1.99%) Node.js
4 5 (1.66%) SAML
5 4 (1.32%) .NET
6 3 (0.99%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.66%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.66%) OpenID
7 2 (0.66%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.33%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.33%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.33%) Kafka
8 1 (0.33%) Middleware
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.33%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.33%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (4.30%) Public Cloud
3 9 (2.98%) Clustering
3 9 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (2.65%) PKI
5 7 (2.32%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.66%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.66%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.66%) Social Media
7 5 (1.66%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.99%) Tandem
9 3 (0.99%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.87%) Linux
2 52 (17.22%) Windows
3 19 (6.29%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.64%) Unix
5 7 (2.32%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.66%) 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 99 (32.78%) Migration
2 43 (14.24%) Agile
3 39 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (10.60%) CI/CD
5 26 (8.61%) Change Management
6 24 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (7.95%) Roadmaps
7 23 (7.62%) Computer Science
8 21 (6.95%) Data Migration
8 21 (6.95%) Project Management
9 20 (6.62%) DevOps
10 19 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (6.29%) ITIL
10 19 (6.29%) Project Delivery
11 18 (5.96%) Capacity Management
12 17 (5.63%) Mentoring
13 15 (4.97%) High Availability
13 15 (4.97%) Workflow
14 14 (4.64%) Service Management
14 14 (4.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.95%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.95%) Python
3 14 (4.64%) SQL
4 9 (2.98%) Java
5 8 (2.65%) Bash
6 6 (1.99%) Go
7 4 (1.32%) C
8 2 (0.66%) C#
8 2 (0.66%) Ruby
8 2 (0.66%) VBScript
9 1 (0.33%) C++
9 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.58%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (11.26%) Degree
5 26 (8.61%) DV Cleared
6 23 (7.62%) CCNP
6 23 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.97%) CCIE
8 8 (2.65%) CCNA
9 6 (1.99%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.66%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.66%) CCDP
13 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.97%) 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 38 (12.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (11.59%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.63%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.97%) vSphere
5 11 (3.64%) VMware NSX
6 10 (3.31%) Docker
7 7 (2.32%) KVM
7 7 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.32%) Firmware
8 4 (1.32%) vCloud
9 3 (0.99%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.66%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (6.62%) Terraform
2 19 (6.29%) SCCM
3 14 (4.64%) Puppet
4 13 (4.30%) Ansible
4 13 (4.30%) Progress Chef
5 12 (3.97%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.98%) SCOM
8 8 (2.65%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.32%) SCVMM
10 6 (1.99%) VxRail
11 5 (1.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (1.32%) Grafana
12 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.32%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.99%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.66%) CASB
14 2 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.66%) Nmap
Vendors
1 64 (21.19%) Cisco
2 59 (19.54%) Microsoft
3 50 (16.56%) VMware
4 33 (10.93%) Palo Alto
5 21 (6.95%) Oracle
6 17 (5.63%) Juniper
7 16 (5.30%) Dell
8 15 (4.97%) F5
9 14 (4.64%) Arista
10 11 (3.64%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.31%) Atlassian
11 10 (3.31%) Citrix
12 9 (2.98%) HP
13 8 (2.65%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.65%) IBM
13 8 (2.65%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.32%) Red Hat
15 6 (1.99%) Aruba
15 6 (1.99%) Fortinet
15 6 (1.99%) SAP