Data Centre Engineer Contracts in Wakefield

Data Centre Engineer
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in Wakefield is £338 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wakefield 7.04% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £312 - -
25th Percentile £314 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £358 - -
90th Percentile £359 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £563 - £230

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wakefield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wakefield. 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 Wakefield with a recognized job title 67 74 67
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 94.87% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 20
10th Percentile £127 £183 £173
25th Percentile £163 £213 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £230 £375
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -38.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £380 £385 £472
90th Percentile £466 £438 £658
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -5.71% +6.60% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile - - £9.54
25th Percentile £12.75 - £9.98
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £10.85
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.43%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £12.00
90th Percentile £21.05 - £14.70
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £16.85
% change year-on-year -53.32% +92.88% -22.49%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in Wakefield

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wakefield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in Wakefield

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Wakefield region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 5 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (100.00%) KVM
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 5 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 5 (100.00%) Runbook
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) QA

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield 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 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (60.00%) A+ Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) KVM
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware