Data Centre Operations Contracts in the South East

Data Center Operations
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 152 193 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 7 12 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 0
10th Percentile £307 £275 -
25th Percentile £313 £280 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £285 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% - -
75th Percentile £419 £310 -
90th Percentile £550 £350 -
England median daily rate £350 £313 £550
% change year-on-year +12.00% -43.18% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
England median hourly rate - £21.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Thames Valley +41 5 £325 +14.04% 5
Berkshire +29 5 £325 +14.04% 5
Surrey - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £625 -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Data Technician
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) QA Manager
2 1 (14.29%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Test Management
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
2 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) SAP