Data Centre Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Centre Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £339 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 427 448
Rank change year-on-year +86 +21 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 50 17 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.073% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.078% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 46
10th Percentile - £138 £188
25th Percentile £280 £250 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £325 £320
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% +1.56% +60.00%
75th Percentile £569 £440 £419
90th Percentile £619 £441 £513
UK median daily rate £396 £375 £320
% change year-on-year +5.60% +17.19% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - - £17.45
25th Percentile - £20.22 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £20.71 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -3.70% -12.24%
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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 +40 19 £285 -12.31% 10
North of England +40 11 £563 - 4
Yorkshire - 11 £563 -
Wales - 8 - -
South West +10 5 £413 +65.00%
West Midlands +26 3 - -
Midlands +24 3 - -
East of England - 3 £442 - 3
Scotland +34 1 £750 +70.07%
Data Centre Engineer
UK

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 26 (52.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (34.00%) SAN
4 16 (32.00%) SLA
5 15 (30.00%) Migration
6 11 (22.00%) Finance
7 10 (20.00%) Telecoms
8 9 (18.00%) Degree
8 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
8 9 (18.00%) HP
8 9 (18.00%) Dell
8 9 (18.00%) Windows
9 8 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (16.00%) Big Data
9 8 (16.00%) Project Delivery
9 8 (16.00%) Linux
9 8 (16.00%) VMS
9 8 (16.00%) Unix
9 8 (16.00%) Incident Management
9 8 (16.00%) Mandarin Language
9 8 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (14.00%) VMware
10 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
10 7 (14.00%) KVM
11 6 (12.00%) Break/Fix
11 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
12 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (8.00%) IIS
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.00%) IBM Domino
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) SAN
2 3 (6.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (6.00%) DHCP
2 3 (6.00%) DNS
2 3 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.00%) NAS
3 2 (4.00%) SNMP
3 2 (4.00%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (4.00%) VSAN
4 1 (2.00%) LAN
4 1 (2.00%) MPLS
4 1 (2.00%) PBX
4 1 (2.00%) VoIP
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) WAN
4 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 26 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 8 (16.00%) Mandarin Language
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Web Services
2 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 50 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.00%) Clustering
4 3 (6.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (4.00%) CCTV
5 2 (4.00%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 8 (16.00%) Unix
2 8 (16.00%) VMS
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Migration
2 8 (16.00%) Incident Management
2 8 (16.00%) Project Delivery
2 8 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (12.00%) Break/Fix
4 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (6.00%) Runbook
7 2 (4.00%) Analytics
7 2 (4.00%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (4.00%) Inventory Management
7 2 (4.00%) Network Design
7 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (4.00%) Product Management
7 2 (4.00%) Server Management
8 1 (2.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) SQL
2 2 (4.00%) Bash
2 2 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) A+ Certification
4 3 (6.00%) CCNA
4 3 (6.00%) CCNP
4 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.00%) CCIE
5 1 (2.00%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.00%) SLA
2 3 (6.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.00%) KVM
3 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.00%) vSphere
5 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.00%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Dell
1 9 (18.00%) HP
2 7 (14.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow