Data Centre Operations Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Center Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 371 447 494
Rank change year-on-year +76 +47 -75
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 20 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.058% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.065% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 8
10th Percentile £258 £513 £291
25th Percentile £280 £522 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -45.91% +25.71% -5.41%
75th Percentile £475 £655 £594
90th Percentile £513 £700 £616
UK median daily rate £300 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -45.45% +25.71% -4.11%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,650 27,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.55% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,595 15,013 19,156
10th Percentile £243 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,330 1,375
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.17 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East - 12 £285 - 11
Midlands +30 5 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £450 - 2
East of England - 2 £380 - 1
North of England +26 1 £450 -16.28% 2
North West +9 1 £450 -16.28% 2
Data Centre Operations
UK

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) SAN
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (15.00%) Junos
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Hudson
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Break Fix Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre Technician
1 5 (25.00%) Data Technician
2 2 (10.00%) Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (25.00%) SCADA
4 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) Replication
5 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Unix
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) Android
4 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 5 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (25.00%) Break/Fix
4 5 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (25.00%) Release Management
4 5 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Server Management
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.00%) Line Management
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 1 (5.00%) Resource Allocation
7 1 (5.00%) Ticket Management
7 1 (5.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Bash
1 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) BMC
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) Dell
3 3 (15.00%) HP
3 3 (15.00%) Juniper
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) VMware