Data Centre Operations Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Data Center Operations
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 41 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.30% 0.80% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.99% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £258 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 - -
75th Percentile £273 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £265 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 303 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 84.78% 81.23% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 162 272
10th Percentile £195 £160 £175
25th Percentile £276 £211 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -6.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £588
90th Percentile £630 £686 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 43 25
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £17.40
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £17.99 £25.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -3.15% +30.29%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £29.82 £49.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.25 £25.09 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.29% -3.50% +44.44%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in South Wales

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 11 November 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
Cardiff 0 1 £265 - 7
Data Centre Operations
Wales

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Focus
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle