Data Centre Technician Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Technician
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Centre Technician daily rate in the UK excluding London is £295 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 427 514
Rank change year-on-year +46 +87 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Technician 11 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.035% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.037% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £162 £166 -
25th Percentile £219 £172 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £188 £263
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% -28.57% +31.25%
75th Percentile £325 £197 £269
90th Percentile £334 £199 -
UK median daily rate £295 £188 £263
% change year-on-year +57.33% -28.57% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £21.63 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £22.19 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% - -
75th Percentile £28.50 £24.69 -
90th Percentile - £24.88 -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.75 -
% change year-on-year +17.89% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,497 21,400 29,228
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,649 14,865 20,542
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £684 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,477 1,094 1,390
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.42
90th Percentile £74.15 £75.50 £61.71
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Centre Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Centre Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

Data Centre Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

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

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

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

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

Data Centre Technician
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 Technician within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +23 9 £295 +47.50% 2
North of England - 1 £320 -
Yorkshire - 1 £320 -
East Midlands - 1 £165 -
Midlands - 1 £165 -
Data Centre Technician
UK

Data Centre Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Data Centre Technician contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Centre Technician in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (45.45%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (27.27%) Junos
3 3 (27.27%) Hudson
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Server Management
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Server+ Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Unix
4 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (18.18%) Runbook
4 2 (18.18%) SLA
4 2 (18.18%) Line Management
4 2 (18.18%) Ticket Management
5 1 (9.09%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring

Data Centre Technician Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (27.27%) Junos
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Hudson
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Centre Operations
2 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Server Management
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Line Management
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) Ticket Management
4 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Data Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (9.09%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Server+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) KVM
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Juniper
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) VMware