Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 - 757
Rank change year-on-year - - -137
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer 3 0 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% - 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% - 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 19
10th Percentile £347 - £285
25th Percentile £388 - £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.57%
75th Percentile £469 - £388
90th Percentile - - £418
UK median daily rate £463 - £320
% change year-on-year - - -8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 2 £463 -
North of England - 1 £340 -
Yorkshire - 1 £340 -
Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Data Centre Infrastructure 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 England region featuring Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) KVM
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware