Data Centre Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Data Centre Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 217 239
Rank change year-on-year +53 +22 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 14 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.017% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.018% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £319 - £187
25th Percentile £320 - £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £230
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.00%
75th Percentile £619 - £258
90th Percentile - - £265
England median daily rate £345 £300 £320
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.25% +5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £18.75
% change year-on-year +15.91% +10.43% -14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,455 5,566 6,985
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.15% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 3,937 5,141
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £590 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 174 298
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.64 £11.12
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +65.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.30 £30.44
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.93 £50.23
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in the North of England

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the North of England

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Engineer in the North of England

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the North of England

Data Centre Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Yorkshire - 14 £563 - 1
Data Centre Engineer
England

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Data Centre 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 North of England region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Migration
1 14 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (85.71%) Finance
3 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 10 (71.43%) Windows
4 8 (57.14%) VMS
4 8 (57.14%) Big Data
5 6 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
5 6 (42.86%) KVM
5 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
5 6 (42.86%) Runbook
5 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (42.86%) Windows 10
5 6 (42.86%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (42.86%) Windows 7
5 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 6 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (42.86%) VMware
5 6 (42.86%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (42.86%) Banking
5 6 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (42.86%) DHCP
5 6 (42.86%) DNS
5 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (28.57%) A+ Certification
6 4 (28.57%) SAN

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (28.57%) IIS
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DHCP
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
1 6 (42.86%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Big Data
General
1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) Clustering
2 4 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) VMS
3 6 (42.86%) Windows 10
3 6 (42.86%) Windows 7
4 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Runbook
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (28.57%) A+ Certification
2 4 (28.57%) CCNA
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) KVM
2 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 6 (42.86%) VMware