Data Centre Engineer Contracts in England

Data Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in England is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 618 693
Rank change year-on-year +141 +75 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 54 28 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.058% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.061% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 14 58
10th Percentile £213 £138 £185
25th Percentile £280 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £308 £320
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -3.91% +14.01%
75th Percentile £550 £334 £401
90th Percentile £600 £394 £553
UK median daily rate £396 £375 £320
% change year-on-year +5.60% +17.19% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile - - £15.63
25th Percentile - £20.22 £17.19
Median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -3.70% -10.42%
75th Percentile - £21.19 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £21.50
% change year-on-year +15.91% -3.70% -12.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +39 19 £285 -12.31% 10
London +97 13 £463 +46.83% 11
North of England +40 11 £563 - 4
Yorkshire - 11 £563 -
South West +7 5 £413 +65.00%
West Midlands +23 3 - -
Midlands +19 3 - -
East of England - 3 £442 - 3
Data Centre Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Data Centre 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 across the England region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 19 (35.19%) SAN
4 16 (29.63%) Migration
5 11 (20.37%) Finance
5 11 (20.37%) VMware
5 11 (20.37%) Dell
5 11 (20.37%) Degree
6 10 (18.52%) Cisco
7 9 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 9 (16.67%) HP
7 9 (16.67%) Windows
7 9 (16.67%) Linux
7 9 (16.67%) SLA
7 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (16.67%) KVM
8 8 (14.81%) Big Data
8 8 (14.81%) vSphere
8 8 (14.81%) Incident Management
8 8 (14.81%) Unix
8 8 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (14.81%) VMS
8 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
9 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
9 7 (12.96%) Hyper-V
10 6 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (11.11%) Break/Fix
11 5 (9.26%) vCenter Server

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.41%) IIS
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.70%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) Nutanix
2 1 (1.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) SAN
2 6 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (9.26%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (5.56%) DHCP
4 3 (5.56%) DNS
4 3 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.70%) LAN
5 2 (3.70%) MPLS
5 2 (3.70%) NAS
5 2 (3.70%) SNMP
5 2 (3.70%) VSAN
5 2 (3.70%) WAN
6 1 (1.85%) DMZ
6 1 (1.85%) DWDM
6 1 (1.85%) PBX
6 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.85%) VoIP
6 1 (1.85%) VPN
6 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.41%) Clustering
4 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (3.70%) CCTV
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Linux
1 9 (16.67%) Windows
2 8 (14.81%) Unix
2 8 (14.81%) VMS
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) Migration
2 8 (14.81%) Incident Management
2 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
4 6 (11.11%) Break/Fix
5 5 (9.26%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.56%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (5.56%) Runbook
7 2 (3.70%) CI/CD
7 2 (3.70%) Data Security
7 2 (3.70%) Inventory Management
7 2 (3.70%) Network Design
7 2 (3.70%) Server Management
7 2 (3.70%) Strategic Planning
7 2 (3.70%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) Bash
1 4 (7.41%) Python
1 4 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Degree
2 8 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.26%) CCNP
3 5 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 3 (5.56%) CCNA
4 3 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.85%) CCIE
5 1 (1.85%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) SLA
2 3 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 9 (16.67%) KVM
1 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.81%) vSphere
3 7 (12.96%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.26%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (3.70%) Docker
6 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) vCenter Server
2 2 (3.70%) Ansible
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Dell
1 11 (20.37%) VMware
2 10 (18.52%) Cisco
3 9 (16.67%) HP
4 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.56%) IBM
6 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) Arista
7 1 (1.85%) Meraki
7 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.85%) Zscaler