Data Centre Engineer Contracts in England

Data Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in England is £345 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 639 696
Rank change year-on-year +163 +57 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 59 24 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.047% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.050% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 13 57
10th Percentile £213 £138 £185
25th Percentile £280 £250 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £315 £320
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -1.56% +5.79%
75th Percentile £531 £394 £388
90th Percentile £569 £431 £535
UK median daily rate £350 £388 £320
% change year-on-year -9.68% +21.09% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - - £15.48
25th Percentile - £20.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +10.43% -14.77%
75th Percentile - £21.19 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £18.75
% change year-on-year +15.91% +10.43% -50.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Centre Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +105 18 £400 +13.88% 14
South East +43 18 £285 -32.94% 12
North of England +46 14 £563 - 4
Yorkshire - 14 £563 - 1
West Midlands +32 3 - -
Midlands +24 3 - -
South West +19 3 £225 +15.38%
East of England - 3 £442 - 2
Data Centre Engineer
UK

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Data Centre Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
3 18 (30.51%) Migration
4 16 (27.12%) SAN
5 14 (23.73%) Finance
5 14 (23.73%) VMware
6 13 (22.03%) Cisco
7 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
7 12 (20.34%) Windows
7 12 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (18.64%) Dell
9 10 (16.95%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (16.95%) HP
9 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
9 10 (16.95%) Degree
9 10 (16.95%) KVM
9 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.25%) Banking
10 9 (15.25%) SLA
10 9 (15.25%) Linux
11 8 (13.56%) Unix
11 8 (13.56%) VMS
11 8 (13.56%) Computer Science
11 8 (13.56%) Hyper-V
11 8 (13.56%) Incident Management
11 8 (13.56%) vSphere
11 8 (13.56%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (13.56%) Big Data
11 8 (13.56%) vCenter Server
11 8 (13.56%) Distributed Systems

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.78%) IIS
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.39%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.78%) Nutanix
2 1 (1.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.12%) SAN
2 6 (10.17%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (10.17%) DHCP
2 6 (10.17%) DNS
2 6 (10.17%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (10.17%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (8.47%) MPLS
3 5 (8.47%) Structured Cabling
4 4 (6.78%) DMZ
4 4 (6.78%) Firewall
4 4 (6.78%) VPN
5 3 (5.08%) BGP
5 3 (5.08%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (5.08%) Ethernet
5 3 (5.08%) HSRP
5 3 (5.08%) IPsec
5 3 (5.08%) NX-OS
5 3 (5.08%) OSPF
5 3 (5.08%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (3.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Finance
3 9 (15.25%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Clustering
3 4 (6.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) CCTV
6 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Windows
2 9 (15.25%) Linux
3 8 (13.56%) Unix
3 8 (13.56%) VMS
4 6 (10.17%) Windows 10
4 6 (10.17%) Windows 7
5 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Migration
2 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.56%) Computer Science
3 8 (13.56%) Incident Management
4 6 (10.17%) Break/Fix
4 6 (10.17%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (10.17%) Runbook
5 5 (8.47%) Data Centre Operations
6 3 (5.08%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.08%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (5.08%) Project Management
7 2 (3.39%) Data Security
7 2 (3.39%) Product Management
7 2 (3.39%) Server Management
7 2 (3.39%) Strategic Planning
7 2 (3.39%) Test Automation
7 2 (3.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.78%) Bash
1 4 (6.78%) Python
1 4 (6.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (16.95%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) CCNP
2 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (10.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (6.78%) A+ Certification
3 4 (6.78%) CCNA
3 4 (6.78%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) CCIE
5 1 (1.69%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) SLA
2 4 (6.78%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
1 12 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (16.95%) KVM
3 8 (13.56%) Hyper-V
3 8 (13.56%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (13.56%) vSphere
4 6 (10.17%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (10.17%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (3.39%) Docker
5 2 (3.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.69%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) vCenter Server
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) VMware
2 13 (22.03%) Cisco
3 11 (18.64%) Dell
4 10 (16.95%) HP
4 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.78%) Arista
6 3 (5.08%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.39%) IBM
7 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.69%) Meraki
8 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.69%) Zscaler