Data Centre Engineer Contracts in London

Data Centre Engineer
England > London

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in London is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 486 576
Rank change year-on-year +116 +90 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 18 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.056% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.059% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 18
10th Percentile £171 £299 -
25th Percentile £222 - £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £315 £230
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +36.96% -25.20%
75th Percentile £531 £399 £447
90th Percentile £546 £501 £588
England median daily rate £350 £315 £320
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.56% +7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £20.71 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -27.27%
England median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £21.50
% change year-on-year +15.91% -3.70% -6.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in London

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in London

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Engineer in London

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in London

Data Centre Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
West London +23 4 £225 -28.57% 2
Central London +40 1 £40 -86.67% 2
Data Centre Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 London region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) DMZ
3 4 (22.22%) Firewall
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) MPLS
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) vSphere
3 4 (22.22%) Arista
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 3 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
4 3 (16.67%) NX-OS
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (16.67%) HSRP
4 3 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (16.67%) OSPF
4 3 (16.67%) BGP
4 3 (16.67%) CCNP
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) IPsec
5 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Data Security
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (11.11%) IBM

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DMZ
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) MPLS
2 3 (16.67%) BGP
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 3 (16.67%) HSRP
2 3 (16.67%) IPsec
2 3 (16.67%) NX-OS
2 3 (16.67%) OSPF
2 3 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
2 3 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) SAN
3 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.56%) DWDM
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
1 2 (11.11%) Data Security
1 2 (11.11%) Migration
1 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (11.11%) Value Proposition
2 1 (5.56%) Agile
2 1 (5.56%) Capacity Management
2 1 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (5.56%) Change Management
2 1 (5.56%) Coaching
2 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (5.56%) Logistics
2 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (5.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CCNP
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (22.22%) vSphere
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) KVM
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
1 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) Arista
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.11%) Dell
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler