Data Centre Operations Contracts

Data Center Operations
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 676 805
Rank change year-on-year +130 +129 -99
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 38 21 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.038% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.042% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 21
10th Percentile £263 £513 £363
25th Percentile £280 £516 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +7.32% +16.48%
75th Percentile £475 £689 £588
90th Percentile £600 £770 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £550 £481
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.29% +6.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.75
25th Percentile - £22.09 £29.38
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.56% +122.22%
75th Percentile - £26.26 £51.88
90th Percentile - - £58.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +20.88% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Top 11 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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
England +100 30 £425 -22.73% 24
UK excluding London +35 22 £325 -40.91% 13
South East - 12 £290 - 7
Work from Home +117 8 £488 -11.32% 11
London +84 6 £479 -29.11% 11
West Midlands +22 5 £450 -43.75%
Midlands +20 5 £450 -43.75% 1
North of England +12 3 £425 -20.93% 3
East of England +5 2 £380 - 4
North East - 2 £425 -
North West +8 1 £450 -16.28% 3

Data Centre Operations
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 4 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) SaaS
2 5 (13.16%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) PaaS
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.63%) Azure
4 1 (2.63%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) SAN
2 4 (10.53%) DHCP
2 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) MPLS
2 4 (10.53%) VLAN
2 4 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (7.89%) BGP
3 3 (7.89%) BIG-IP
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (7.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (7.89%) Junos
3 3 (7.89%) VoIP
4 2 (5.26%) Broadband
4 2 (5.26%) EIGRP
4 2 (5.26%) GPON
4 2 (5.26%) IGMP
4 2 (5.26%) OSPF
5 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Hudson
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 5 (13.16%) Break Fix Engineer
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre Technician
1 5 (13.16%) Data Technician
2 4 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Operations Director
4 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (2.63%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Senior
5 1 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Middleware
2 4 (10.53%) LDAP
2 4 (10.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (13.16%) SCADA
4 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.53%) Client/Server
4 4 (10.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.89%) Clustering
5 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (7.89%) Virtual Team
6 2 (5.26%) IPTV
6 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.63%) Replication
7 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.63%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Unix
2 9 (23.68%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Android
3 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Solaris
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.95%) Migration
3 10 (26.32%) Decision-Making
4 9 (23.68%) Incident Management
4 9 (23.68%) Release Management
5 7 (18.42%) ITIL
5 7 (18.42%) Project Management
6 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (15.79%) Service Management
7 5 (13.16%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (13.16%) Break/Fix
7 5 (13.16%) Risk Management
8 4 (10.53%) Change Management
8 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Software Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) Bash
2 4 (10.53%) C
2 4 (10.53%) Go
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (2.63%) Perl
3 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) CCNP
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.26%) CCNA
3 2 (5.26%) JNCIA
3 2 (5.26%) JNCIS
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Cisco
2 5 (13.16%) BMC
2 5 (13.16%) Juniper
3 3 (7.89%) Dell
3 3 (7.89%) F5
3 3 (7.89%) HP
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat