Data Centre Operations Contracts in England

Data Center Operations
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 515 642
Rank change year-on-year +50 +127 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 20 27 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.073% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.084% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 7
10th Percentile £306 £224 -
25th Percentile £313 £280 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £313 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -43.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £417 £475 -
90th Percentile £513 £591 £560
UK median daily rate £350 £300 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% -45.45% +21.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £21.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in England

Data Centre Operations
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 Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +39 8 £380 -20.59% 64
South East +41 7 £325 +14.04% 18
North of England +20 2 £335 -25.56% 5
Midlands +19 2 £400 -11.11% 5
West Midlands +11 2 £400 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £335 - 2
East of England +29 1 - - 8
Data Centre Operations
UK

Data Centre Operations
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
1 3 (15.00%) VLAN
2 2 (10.00%) NAS
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 2 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (5.00%) BGP
3 1 (5.00%) Internet
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Technician
2 2 (10.00%) Data Technician
2 2 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Lead
2 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Runbook
5 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Tech Ops
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.00%) vSphere
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Dell
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) HP
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Aruba
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (5.00%) Arista
5 1 (5.00%) Avaya
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Intel
5 1 (5.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) SAP