Data Centre Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Centre Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £563 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 335 463 609
Rank change year-on-year +128 +146 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 11 9 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.035% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.037% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 10
10th Percentile £347 - £365
25th Percentile £556 £315 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £619 £441 £641
90th Percentile - £461 £675
UK median daily rate £350 £388 £320
% change year-on-year -9.68% +21.09% +6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Data Centre Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Centre Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre Engineer.

Data Centre Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Centre Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Data Centre Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (90.91%) Migration
3 9 (81.82%) Finance
4 8 (72.73%) VMS
4 8 (72.73%) Big Data
5 6 (54.55%) Windows
5 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
6 5 (45.45%) Linux
6 5 (45.45%) IIS
7 4 (36.36%) SQL
7 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (36.36%) SAN
7 4 (36.36%) Clustering
7 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
7 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (18.18%) Banking
9 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (9.09%) VMware
9 1 (9.09%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (9.09%) CentOS
9 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
9 1 (9.09%) Reverse Engineering
9 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
9 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (9.09%) Citrix

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (45.45%) IIS
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Big Data
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (36.36%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) VMS
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) Linux
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (9.09%) CentOS
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.09%) Rocky
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
2 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Runbook
2 1 (9.09%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CCNA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) KVM
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Citrix
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) VMware