The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Centre Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Centre Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Centre Engineer
Rank 198 214 233
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 5 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.051% 0.122%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.056% 0.133%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
Average daily rate £320 £325 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £294 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £425 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £338 £265
% change year-on-year
-11.85% +27.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £52.50 - £11.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £10.00 £26.19
% change year-on-year
+97.50% -61.81%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Centre Engineer
London

Data Centre Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Centre Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Data Centre Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Centre Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Data Centre Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Data Centre Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Centre Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Data Centre Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Data Centre Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Data Centre Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Centre Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) CCNA
3 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
4 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
4 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) XenApp
4 1 (16.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
4 1 (16.67%) WAAS
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) FalconStor
4 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel

Data Centre Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Data Centre Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Centre Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) MTS
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) WAAS
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) FalconStor
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Sun
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) CommVault
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec