Data Centre Operator Contracts in Cardiff

Data Centre Operator
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Data Centre Operator daily rate in Cardiff is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Operator 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.60% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
South Wales median daily rate £300 - -

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 163 211 262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.02% 92.95% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 174 201
10th Percentile £185 £143 £183
25th Percentile £300 £258 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% -1.32% -
75th Percentile £481 £538 £586
90th Percentile £625 £596 £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% -9.70%
75th Percentile £21.13 £21.67 £23.75
90th Percentile £23.75 - £25.20
South Wales median hourly rate £20.51 £20.24 £18.14
% change year-on-year +1.33% +11.55% -8.89%

Data Centre Operator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operator in Cardiff

Data Centre Operator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operator in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operator in Cardiff

Data Centre Operator Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 18 June 2025, Data Centre Operator 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 Operator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
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%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Xerox
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling

Data Centre Operator 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
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%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
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%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Xerox