Data Centre Operations Contracts

Data Center Operations
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 684 814
Rank change year-on-year +142 +130 -140
Contract jobs citing Data Centre Operations 31 16 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.028% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.031% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 23
10th Percentile £241 - £218
25th Percentile £280 £513 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +10.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £475 £652 £588
90th Percentile £554 £696 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -43.18% +7.32% +13.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +112 27 £375 -31.82% 23
UK excluding London +58 21 £313 -43.18% 12
South East - 11 £285 - 7
London +106 6 £479 -13.00% 11
Midlands +36 5 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £450 - 1
Work from Home +123 4 £438 -20.45% 4
North of England +16 3 £425 -20.93% 4
North East - 2 £425 -
East of England - 2 £380 -
North West +12 1 £450 -16.28% 4

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.90%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.23%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) SaaS
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) PaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) SAN
2 4 (12.90%) DHCP
2 4 (12.90%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) MPLS
2 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (9.68%) BGP
3 3 (9.68%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (9.68%) Junos
3 3 (9.68%) VoIP
4 2 (6.45%) Broadband
4 2 (6.45%) EIGRP
4 2 (6.45%) GPON
4 2 (6.45%) IGMP
4 2 (6.45%) OSPF
4 2 (6.45%) VLAN
5 1 (3.23%) BIG-IP
5 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Hudson
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Break Fix Engineer
1 5 (16.13%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (16.13%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 5 (16.13%) Data Centre Technician
1 5 (16.13%) Data Technician
2 4 (12.90%) Network Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Product Owner
4 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (3.23%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) IP Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
5 1 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Middleware
2 4 (12.90%) LDAP
2 4 (12.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (16.13%) SCADA
4 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
4 4 (12.90%) Client/Server
4 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (9.68%) Clustering
5 3 (9.68%) Virtual Team
6 2 (6.45%) IPTV
6 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.23%) Replication
7 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (3.23%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Unix
2 7 (22.58%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (32.26%) Decision-Making
3 9 (29.03%) Release Management
4 7 (22.58%) Incident Management
4 7 (22.58%) ITIL
5 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
5 6 (19.35%) Service Management
6 5 (16.13%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (16.13%) Break/Fix
6 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Proactive Monitoring
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) DevOps
7 4 (12.90%) Project Management
7 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
7 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) C
2 4 (12.90%) Go
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) CCNP
2 4 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.45%) CCNA
3 2 (6.45%) JNCIA
3 2 (6.45%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.23%) CCIE
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMP
4 1 (3.23%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Cisco
2 5 (16.13%) BMC
2 5 (16.13%) Juniper
3 3 (9.68%) Dell
3 3 (9.68%) HP
4 1 (3.23%) Citrix
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto