Data Centre Operations Contracts in England

Data Center Operations
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Centre Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 637 741
Rank change year-on-year +121 +104 -144
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 27 11 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.073% 0.022% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.024% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 24
10th Percentile £224 - £185
25th Percentile £280 £513 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +29.41% -6.85%
75th Percentile £475 - £534
90th Percentile £591 £560 £605
UK median daily rate £300 £550 £452
% change year-on-year -45.45% +21.68% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Centre Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
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 Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East - 12 £285 - 9
London +112 7 £479 -13.00% 13
Midlands +32 5 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £450 - 1
East of England - 2 £380 - 1
North of England +22 1 £450 -16.28% 1
North West +17 1 £450 -16.28% 1
Data Centre Operations
UK

Data Centre Operations
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 (14.81%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) SaaS
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) PaaS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) SAN
2 4 (14.81%) DHCP
2 4 (14.81%) DNS
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (11.11%) Junos
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Hudson
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Break Fix Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Data Centre Technician
1 5 (18.52%) Data Technician
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
3 2 (7.41%) Programme Director
3 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (3.70%) Senior
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Middleware
2 4 (14.81%) LDAP
2 4 (14.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (18.52%) SCADA
4 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
4 4 (14.81%) Client/Server
4 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
5 3 (11.11%) Clustering
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
6 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.70%) Replication
7 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Unix
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
4 1 (3.70%) Android
4 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 9 (33.33%) Release Management
3 7 (25.93%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 5 (18.52%) Analytical Thinking
5 5 (18.52%) Break/Fix
5 5 (18.52%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (18.52%) Risk Management
5 5 (18.52%) Service Management
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) Microservices
6 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.81%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) C
2 4 (14.81%) Go
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMP
2 1 (3.70%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) BMC
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco
3 3 (11.11%) Dell
3 3 (11.11%) HP
3 3 (11.11%) Juniper
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) VMware