Data Centre Engineer Contracts in the South East

Data Centre Engineer
England > South East

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in the South East is £285 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 226 236
Rank change year-on-year +39 +10 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 18 1 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.017% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.018% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 25
10th Percentile - - £187
25th Percentile £280 £413 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £425 £320
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +32.81% +4.92%
75th Percentile £290 £438 £330
90th Percentile £418 - £388
England median daily rate £345 £300 £320
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.25% +4.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £16.00
% change year-on-year +15.91% +29.41% -27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,199 5,601 7,545
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.21% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,124 3,895 5,112
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £602 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 239 337
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £73.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £22.29
% change year-on-year -18.60% +92.95% -0.60%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in the South East

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the South East

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Engineer in the South East

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the South East

Data Centre Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Berkshire - 14 £285 - 6
Thames Valley - 14 £285 - 6
West Sussex +7 2 £463 +8.82%
Surrey - 2 - - 2
Data Centre Engineer
England

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 17 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 South East region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (55.56%) SAN
3 9 (50.00%) HP
3 9 (50.00%) Dell
4 8 (44.44%) Unix
4 8 (44.44%) SLA
4 8 (44.44%) Incident Management
4 8 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (33.33%) Break/Fix
6 5 (27.78%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (22.22%) vSphere
7 4 (22.22%) VMware
8 3 (16.67%) Linux
9 2 (11.11%) IBM Domino
9 2 (11.11%) Python
9 2 (11.11%) Windows
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco
9 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
9 2 (11.11%) CCNP
9 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (11.11%) Bash
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (11.11%) NAS
9 2 (11.11%) Product Management
9 2 (11.11%) Migration
9 2 (11.11%) Degree

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.11%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (11.11%) NAS
2 2 (11.11%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Unix
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 6 (33.33%) Break/Fix
3 5 (27.78%) Data Centre Operations
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Product Management
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNP
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) vSphere
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) KVM
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Dell
1 9 (50.00%) HP
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow