Hybrid/Remote Data Centre Operations Contract Job Trends

Data Center Operations
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 - 361
Rank change year-on-year - - +158
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.049% - 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% - 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £308 - £479
25th Percentile £327 - £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £506
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.96%
75th Percentile £442 - £536
90th Percentile £492 - £548
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £295
% change year-on-year +25.00% +35.59% -43.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,155 9,844 14,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.58% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,014 6,207 9,574
10th Percentile £330 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 184 378
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.65 £15.95
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.14 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% -29.72% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Centre Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Data Centre Operations daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) InfiniBand
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (40.00%) AI
1 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (40.00%) Runbook
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
1 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Facilities Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Ceph
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
1 2 (40.00%) Lustre
1 2 (40.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) Mellanox
1 2 (40.00%) NVIDIA
1 2 (40.00%) Supermicro