Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 715 834
Rank change year-on-year +134 +119 -172
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.002% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.002% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 18
10th Percentile £361 - £273
25th Percentile £422 £413 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £320
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +32.81% -8.57%
75th Percentile £539 £438 £373
90th Percentile £666 - £388
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £320
% change year-on-year +8.82% +32.81% -18.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
UK excluding London +73 4 £463 +8.82% 1
England +117 3 £463 +8.82% 1
South East +15 2 £463 +8.82% 1
Work from Home +125 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £750 -
Yorkshire - 1 £340 -
North of England - 1 £340 -

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer 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 featuring Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) NAS
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
5 1 (20.00%) Confluence
5 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) KVM
5 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (20.00%) Server Building
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Runbook
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Rocky
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (20.00%) Social Skills

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Rocky
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Server Building
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix