Data Centre Operations Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Center Operations
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.051% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +20.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,757 2,211 2,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 83.62% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 1,333 1,971
10th Percentile £220 £276 £312
25th Percentile £372 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £701 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 216 259
10th Percentile £14.90 £16.56 £20.20
25th Percentile £18.51 £49.50 £44.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £68.75 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -63.42% +7.18% +11.56%
75th Percentile £61.88 £72.50 £75.25
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the South West

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Centre Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Gloucestershire - 1 £550 - 1
Data Centre Operations
England

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) npm
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle