Data Centre Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 439 453
Rank change year-on-year +96 +14 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 48 17 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.071% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.075% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 13 42
10th Percentile - £138 £186
25th Percentile £280 £250 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £388 £320
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +21.09% +16.36%
75th Percentile £569 £440 £388
90th Percentile £619 £441 £499
UK median daily rate £350 £388 £320
% change year-on-year -9.68% +21.09% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - - £16.90
25th Percentile - £20.22 £19.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -3.70% -
75th Percentile - £21.19 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £21.50
% change year-on-year +15.91% -3.70% -43.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,146 22,670 29,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 15,894 20,753
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 1,166 1,488
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.46 £12.04
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +36 18 £285 -24.00% 12
North of England +45 14 £563 - 4
Yorkshire - 14 £563 - 1
Wales - 6 - -
West Midlands +33 3 - -
Midlands +28 3 - -
South West +12 3 £225 +15.38%
East of England - 3 £442 - 2
Scotland +29 1 £750 +70.07%
Data Centre Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
3 17 (35.42%) Migration
4 14 (29.17%) SLA
4 14 (29.17%) SAN
5 12 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 12 (25.00%) Windows
5 12 (25.00%) Finance
6 10 (20.83%) VMware
6 10 (20.83%) HP
7 9 (18.75%) Dell
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (16.67%) Big Data
8 8 (16.67%) KVM
8 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 8 (16.67%) Linux
8 8 (16.67%) VMS
8 8 (16.67%) Unix
8 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
8 8 (16.67%) Degree
8 8 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (12.50%) DNS
10 6 (12.50%) DHCP
10 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 6 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
10 6 (12.50%) Banking
10 6 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) IIS
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) IBM Domino
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.17%) SAN
2 6 (12.50%) DHCP
2 6 (12.50%) DNS
2 6 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.17%) NAS
4 2 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (4.17%) VSAN
5 1 (2.08%) LAN
5 1 (2.08%) MPLS
5 1 (2.08%) PBX
5 1 (2.08%) VoIP
5 1 (2.08%) VPN
5 1 (2.08%) WAN
5 1 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 6 (12.50%) Banking
4 6 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Web Services
2 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Clustering
3 4 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (4.17%) CCTV
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Unix
2 8 (16.67%) VMS
3 6 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 6 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Migration
2 8 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (12.50%) Break/Fix
3 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (12.50%) Runbook
4 5 (10.42%) Data Centre Operations
5 3 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (4.17%) Analytics
6 2 (4.17%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (4.17%) Product Management
6 2 (4.17%) Project Management
6 2 (4.17%) Server Management
6 2 (4.17%) Test Automation
6 2 (4.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) Bash
2 2 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (8.33%) A+ Certification
4 4 (8.33%) CCNA
4 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (6.25%) CCNP
5 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) CCIE
7 1 (2.08%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) SLA
2 4 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.67%) KVM
2 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 6 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (8.33%) vSphere
5 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) HP
1 10 (20.83%) VMware
2 9 (18.75%) Dell
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow