Data Centre Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Data Centre Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £563 - £230

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 733 1,301 1,549
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 97.89% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 949 1,131
10th Percentile £300 £350 £275
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +7.24%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 23
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.75 £15.45
25th Percentile £11.88 £17.24 £18.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £54.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -76.80% +141.07% +3.04%
75th Percentile £15.25 £70.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £18.27 - £28.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £17.18
% change year-on-year -53.32% +89.23% -21.00%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in Leeds

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Leeds region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Migration
1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (88.89%) Big Data
2 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 8 (88.89%) VMS
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
4 4 (44.44%) SAN
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) IIS
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (44.44%) Clustering
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 1 (11.11%) Runbook
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) KVM
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 7

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (44.44%) IIS
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Big Data
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (44.44%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) VMS
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Runbook
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) KVM
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) VMware