Data Centre Operations Contract Job Trends in Wales

Data Center Operations
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 44 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% 0.66% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.85% -
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 £463 £475 £675
% change year-on-year -2.68% -29.59% +31.71%

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 374 352 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 83.11% 77.88% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 199 319
10th Percentile £183 £140 £175
25th Percentile £265 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 48 26
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.48 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.89 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £20.25 £25.09 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% -3.50% +44.44%
75th Percentile £25.14 £40.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.46 £49.13 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -18.13% +22.14%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Centre Operations

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 11 November 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 0 1 £265 - 8
Data Centre Operations
UK

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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