The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Centre Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Centre Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Centre Engineer
Rank 313 315 327
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 8 8 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.069% 0.061% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.066% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 4
Average salary £27,750 £35,000 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.71% -20.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £28,150
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £50,000 £54,050
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £31,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -27.90%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Data Centre Engineer
London

Data Centre Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Data Centre Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Data Centre Engineer Salary Trend

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Data Centre Engineer Salary Histogram

Data Centre Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Data Centre Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Data Centre Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (23.53%) Banking
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
4 4 (23.53%) CCNA
4 4 (23.53%) HP
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (17.65%) Linux
5 3 (17.65%) MCSE
5 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (17.65%) XenApp
5 3 (17.65%) XenDesktop
5 3 (17.65%) Change Control
5 3 (17.65%) NetScaler
5 3 (17.65%) Citrix
6 2 (11.76%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) vSphere
6 2 (11.76%) Bash shell
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) UNIX
6 2 (11.76%) Windows
6 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003

Data Centre Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Data Centre Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Data Centre Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) NetScaler
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.882%) OSPF
3 1 (5.882%) BGP
3 1 (5.882%) Firewall
3 1 (5.882%) VPN
3 1 (5.882%) LDAP
3 1 (5.882%) VoIP
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) MySQL
General
1 4 (23.53%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Open Source
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) CMDB
2 1 (5.882%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.882%) Solaris
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) CentOS
3 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.882%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Change Control
2 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
3 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.882%) Project Management
3 1 (5.882%) Change Management
3 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.882%) Validation
3 1 (5.882%) Workflow
3 1 (5.882%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.882%) Information Security
3 1 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.882%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash shell
2 1 (5.882%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCNA
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (17.65%) MCSE
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.882%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
1 1 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) XenApp
2 3 (17.65%) XenDesktop
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
4 1 (5.882%) Xen
4 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.882%) OpenSIPS
4 1 (5.882%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (5.882%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) VMware
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) HP
4 3 (17.65%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.76%) Juniper
5 2 (11.76%) Dell
6 1 (5.882%) EMC
6 1 (5.882%) Veritas
6 1 (5.882%) Avaya
6 1 (5.882%) Sun
6 1 (5.882%) Blue Coat
6 1 (5.882%) Computacenter
6 1 (5.882%) F5