Data Centre Operations Contracts in London

Data Center Operations
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Centre Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 478 586
Rank change year-on-year +89 +108 -120
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 6 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.008% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.009% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £177 - £237
25th Percentile £353 £525 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £550 £454
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +21.15% +2.02%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £580
90th Percentile £677 - £599
England median daily rate £375 £550 £454
% change year-on-year -31.82% +21.15% +2.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Centre Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in London

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (66.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Director
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) LDAP
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 4 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 4 (66.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (50.00%) Clustering
4 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) Release Management
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) User Stories
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Case
3 2 (33.33%) Epics
3 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C
1 4 (66.67%) Go
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes