Data Centre Operations Contracts in the North of England

Data Center Operations
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 201 247
Rank change year-on-year +24 +46 -50
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 3 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.062% 0.15% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.16% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £513 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £220
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +144.32% -29.88%
75th Percentile £456 £550 £230
90th Percentile £468 - -
England median daily rate £425 £550 £454
% change year-on-year -22.73% +21.15% +3.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,065 4,914 6,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.85% 90.05% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,424 3,382 4,592
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 205 251
10th Percentile £11.10 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.72 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.48 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.39 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the North of England

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the North of England

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the North of England

Data Centre Operations
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
North East - 2 £425 -
North West +6 1 £450 -16.28% 3
Data Centre Operations
England

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Network Operations Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) JNCIA
1 2 (66.67%) JNCIS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto