Data Centre Operations Engineer Contracts

Data Centre Operations Engineer
UK

The median Data Centre Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £364 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 - 829
Rank change year-on-year - - -139
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Operations Engineer 10 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% - 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £280 - £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 - £190
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile £451 - £251
90th Percentile £536 - £439
UK excluding London median daily rate £285 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +157.58%

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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Top 6 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 Operations Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
England - 9 £285 - 2
UK excluding London - 9 £285 - 2
South East - 5 £285 - 2
East of England - 3 £442 -
London - 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 £750 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Data Centre Operations 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Unix
2 5 (50.00%) SLA
2 5 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) Dell
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared

Data Centre Operations 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Security
3 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Dell
1 3 (30.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft