Data Centre Operations Contracts in the South East

Data Center Operations
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Centre Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 - 260
Rank change year-on-year - - -53
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% - 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £275 - £333
25th Percentile £280 - £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.95%
75th Percentile £310 - £506
90th Percentile £350 - £578
England median daily rate £313 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -43.18% +29.41% -6.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Centre Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,729 5,219 6,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.98% 89.43% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 3,621 4,692
10th Percentile £238 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 221 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.15
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the South East

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the South East

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in the South East

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the South East

Data Centre Operations
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 Operations within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 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 - 7 £285 - 8
Thames Valley - 7 £285 - 8
West Sussex - 3 £300 -
Hampshire - 1 - - 1
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Data Centre Operations
England

Data Centre Operations
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (25.00%) Junos
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Hudson
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Break Fix Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Data Centre Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Data Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) IT Support
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (41.67%) Break/Fix
3 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Server Management
4 2 (16.67%) Line Management
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
1 3 (25.00%) Dell
1 3 (25.00%) HP
1 3 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) VMware