Data Technician Contracts in the South East

Data Technician
England > South East

The median Data Technician daily rate in the South East is £295 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 190 223 266
Rank change year-on-year +33 +43 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Data Technician 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.017% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.018% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £196 - -
25th Percentile £247 - £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £200 £263
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -23.81% +72.13%
75th Percentile £320 - £269
90th Percentile £335 - -
England median daily rate £298 £205 £350
% change year-on-year +45.12% -41.43% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.46 £15.75 -
% change year-on-year -8.19% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Data Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Data Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Technician in the South East

Data Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Technician in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Technician in the South East

Data Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Technician in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Technician in the South East

Data Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Technician in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Technician in the South East

Data Technician
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Technician within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +18 6 £295 +47.50% 4
Berkshire -2 6 £295 +47.50% 3
West Sussex - 3 £300 - 1
Data Technician
England

Data Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Data Technician 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 South East region featuring Data Technician in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (55.56%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (33.33%) Junos
3 3 (33.33%) Hudson
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco
3 3 (33.33%) Juniper
3 3 (33.33%) Server Management
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (22.22%) SAN
4 2 (22.22%) Server+ Certification
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Unix
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (22.22%) SLA
4 2 (22.22%) Line Management
4 2 (22.22%) Ticket Management
5 1 (11.11%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
5 1 (11.11%) Runbook
5 1 (11.11%) Value Proposition

Data Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (33.33%) Junos
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Centre Operations
2 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Server Management
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Line Management
3 2 (22.22%) Ticket Management
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Server+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) HP