Data Centre Operations Contracts in Wales

Data Center Operations
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £258 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 - -
75th Percentile £273 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £438 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% -20.45% +7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 265 293 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 89.53% 70.10% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 183 386
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £285 £288 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £586
90th Percentile £613 £643 £650
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.43% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 39 27
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 £14.61
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -10.38%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.88 £24.38
90th Percentile £42.00 £85.20 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.05% +34.73%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in Wales

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in Wales

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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 Wales - 1 £265 - 7
Data Centre Operations
UK

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Focus
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle