Data Centre Operations Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Data Centre Operations Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Data Centre Operations Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £265, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Operations Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.59% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £258 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 - -
75th Percentile £273 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £265 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 165 209 262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.06% 92.89% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 173 201
10th Percentile £186 £143 £183
25th Percentile £300 £256 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £483 £538 £586
90th Percentile £625 £598 £648
South Wales median daily rate £375 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.53 £13.00
25th Percentile £12.65 £12.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% +2.82% -15.01%
75th Percentile £21.13 £21.67 £23.75
90th Percentile £23.75 - £25.20
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
% change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -8.89%

Data Centre Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, Data Centre Operations 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 Cardiff region featuring Data Centre Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Focus
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling

Data Centre Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Focus
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle