Data Centre Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 23 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Operations Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.34% 0.60% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £258 £258 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £265 -
75th Percentile £273 £273 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £265 £265 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 272 163 220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 97.02% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 125 181
10th Percentile £298 £188 £143
25th Percentile £366 £300 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -17.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £561 £483 £538
90th Percentile £735 £625 £600
South Wales median daily rate £450 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 8
10th Percentile - £12.21 £11.53
25th Percentile £12.21 £12.65 £12.13
Median hourly rate £15.36 £13.08 £18.57
Median % change year-on-year +17.43% -29.56% -2.42%
75th Percentile £19.75 £21.13 £21.67
90th Percentile £21.08 £23.75 -
South Wales median hourly rate £21.13 £20.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year +3.05% +1.31% +11.55%

Data Centre Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 23 June 2026, Data Centre Operations Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Focus
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Unix

Data Centre Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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
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