Data Centre Operations Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Center Operations
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - -25
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% - 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £280 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - £350
75th Percentile £293 - £375
90th Percentile £295 - -
South East median daily rate £285 - £375
% change year-on-year - - +21.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,342 2,689 3,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.13% 91.56% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,867 2,095
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £366 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 62 87
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.48 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £64.57 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire - 7 £285 - 6
Data Centre Operations
South East

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Break Fix Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre Technician
2 2 (28.57%) Data Technician
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (85.71%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Incident Management
2 5 (71.43%) Break/Fix
3 2 (28.57%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Dell
1 3 (42.86%) HP