Data Centre Jobs in England

Data Center
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 69 215
Rank change year-on-year -90 +146 -28
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,554 4,249 2,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.83% 4.56% 1.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.28% 10.52% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,254 1,646
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,720 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,588 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +0.15% -

All Generic Skills
England

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,443 40,387 60,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.72% 43.32% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20,757 21,802 30,475
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,422 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,650 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in England.

Salary trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -5 445 £65,000 -7.14% 234
South East -75 329 £50,000 -4.49% 113
North of England -101 299 £43,887 -7.61% 61
Midlands -78 233 £47,100 -14.36% 38
North West -85 177 £44,274 -14.03% 34
South West -104 136 £55,000 -24.14% 46
West Midlands -79 121 £54,000 -1.82% 25
East Midlands -48 110 £42,500 +6.25% 13
East of England -107 105 £50,000 -9.09% 43
Yorkshire -75 94 £42,500 -5.56% 19
North East -72 28 £44,274 +7.99% 8
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 78 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 75 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.64%) Apache
4 22 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 14 (0.90%) Confluence
5 14 (0.90%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.58%) IIS
6 9 (0.58%) WordPress
7 7 (0.45%) nginx
8 5 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.26%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.19%) SAS
11 1 (0.064%) Site Server
11 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 64 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.19%) SPSS
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.064%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Primavera
1 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.13%) Shopify
3 1 (0.064%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.064%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.064%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.064%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.064%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 363 (23.36%) Azure
2 330 (21.24%) Microsoft 365
3 244 (15.70%) AWS
4 77 (4.95%) Entra ID
5 68 (4.38%) Amazon S3
6 52 (3.35%) IaaS
7 49 (3.15%) SaaS
8 42 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (2.64%) GCP
10 32 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
11 31 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 26 (1.67%) OCI
12 26 (1.67%) PaaS
13 22 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (1.22%) CloudFront
15 15 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (0.97%) Nutanix
16 14 (0.90%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 13 (0.84%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 391 (25.16%) Firewall
2 250 (16.09%) WAN
3 228 (14.67%) LAN
4 205 (13.19%) VPN
5 155 (9.97%) DNS
6 127 (8.17%) Wi-Fi
7 122 (7.85%) Network Security
8 116 (7.46%) DHCP
9 110 (7.08%) SD-WAN
10 107 (6.89%) SAN
11 106 (6.82%) Wireless
12 98 (6.31%) Internet
13 89 (5.73%) MPLS
14 87 (5.60%) BGP
15 76 (4.89%) OSPF
16 74 (4.76%) TCP/IP
17 72 (4.63%) VLAN
18 67 (4.31%) IPsec
19 62 (3.99%) SNMP
20 53 (3.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.15%) MongoDB
2 44 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 39 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.54%) MySQL
5 24 (1.54%) Power BI
6 21 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (0.58%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.39%) DB2
13 5 (0.32%) Big Data
13 5 (0.32%) Redis
14 3 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.19%) EDRMS
14 3 (0.19%) GIS
14 3 (0.19%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (1.99%) JIRA
2 14 (0.90%) Git
3 12 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.39%) JBehave
4 6 (0.39%) RStudio
4 6 (0.39%) Selenium
4 6 (0.39%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.39%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.19%) Subversion
7 2 (0.13%) GitLab
7 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.064%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.064%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.064%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.064%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 381 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 226 (14.54%) Finance
3 124 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.99%) Banking
5 58 (3.73%) Retail
6 57 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 52 (3.35%) Legal
9 47 (3.02%) Law
9 47 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.87%) Public Sector
11 25 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.54%) Billing
13 21 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.90%) Marketing
15 13 (0.84%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.71%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.64%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 260 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 223 (14.35%) Senior
3 173 (11.13%) Architect
4 164 (10.55%) Network Engineer
5 113 (7.27%) Consultant
6 100 (6.44%) Lead
7 90 (5.79%) Data Centre Engineer
8 66 (4.25%) Administrator
8 66 (4.25%) IT Manager
9 64 (4.12%) Analyst
10 63 (4.05%) Senior Architect
11 60 (3.86%) IT Engineer
11 60 (3.86%) Project Manager
12 59 (3.80%) Infrastructure Architect
12 59 (3.80%) Infrastructure Manager
13 49 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
14 44 (2.83%) Data Centre Manager
15 43 (2.77%) Support Engineer
16 42 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
2 38 (2.45%) 802.1X
3 35 (2.25%) YAML
4 15 (0.97%) LDAP
5 12 (0.77%) .NET
6 11 (0.71%) HTML
6 11 (0.71%) SAML
7 9 (0.58%) Web Services
7 9 (0.58%) XML
8 7 (0.45%) ARM Templates
8 7 (0.45%) JSON
9 6 (0.39%) Gherkin
9 6 (0.39%) Kafka
9 6 (0.39%) Middleware
10 5 (0.32%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (0.32%) XMPP
11 4 (0.26%) LAMP
12 3 (0.19%) React
13 2 (0.13%) Sass
13 2 (0.13%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 107 (6.89%) Management Information System
1 107 (6.89%) Public Cloud
2 81 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
3 67 (4.31%) Driving Licence
4 48 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 46 (2.96%) Private Cloud
6 42 (2.70%) Replication
7 30 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.87%) PKI
9 25 (1.61%) CCTV
10 24 (1.54%) Mainframe
11 22 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
13 14 (0.90%) Client/Server
13 14 (0.90%) Clustering
14 12 (0.77%) SCADA
15 10 (0.64%) CMDB
15 10 (0.64%) PMI
16 9 (0.58%) Hedge funds
16 9 (0.58%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 515 (33.14%) Windows
2 311 (20.01%) Linux
3 223 (14.35%) Windows Server
4 63 (4.05%) Windows 10
5 44 (2.83%) Unix
6 41 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 35 (2.25%) Data ONTAP
8 29 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 26 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (1.29%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.90%) Android
12 14 (0.90%) SUSE
13 13 (0.84%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.77%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.71%) zOS
16 9 (0.58%) VMS
17 8 (0.51%) CentOS
18 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
19 4 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (20.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 300 (19.31%) Cybersecurity
3 281 (18.08%) ITIL
4 224 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
5 194 (12.48%) Project Management
6 186 (11.97%) Presales
7 178 (11.45%) Mentoring
8 144 (9.27%) DevOps
9 135 (8.69%) Roadmaps
10 125 (8.04%) Project Delivery
11 120 (7.72%) Agile
12 110 (7.08%) Software Licensing
13 107 (6.89%) Disaster Recovery
14 103 (6.63%) Customer Service
15 102 (6.56%) Migration
16 95 (6.11%) Information Security
17 87 (5.60%) Service Delivery
18 85 (5.47%) Infrastructure Management
19 84 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 82 (5.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 147 (9.46%) PowerShell
2 135 (8.69%) Python
3 116 (7.46%) SQL
4 32 (2.06%) Bash
4 32 (2.06%) C#
5 21 (1.35%) Java
6 11 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.64%) RPG
8 9 (0.58%) PHP
9 7 (0.45%) C
9 7 (0.45%) Go
10 6 (0.39%) R
11 5 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.26%) Ruby
13 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.19%) Swift
14 2 (0.13%) Korn
14 2 (0.13%) Scala
14 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 307 (19.76%) Degree
2 162 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
3 144 (9.27%) Security Cleared
4 125 (8.04%) CCNP
5 122 (7.85%) CCNA
6 99 (6.37%) SC Cleared
7 86 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.90%) AWS Certification
10 41 (2.64%) MCP
11 40 (2.57%) MCSE
12 38 (2.45%) DV Cleared
13 34 (2.19%) MCSA
14 31 (1.99%) Azure Certification
15 30 (1.93%) CISSP
16 29 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 27 (1.74%) CCIE
18 22 (1.42%) DBS Check
19 21 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 16 (1.03%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.60%) SLA
2 43 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.64%) GDPR
4 19 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (1.22%) NIST
5 17 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 15 (0.97%) QA
7 13 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.71%) PMO
9 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.51%) NCSC
10 7 (0.45%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.32%) COBIT
12 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 26262
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 308 (19.82%) Active Directory
2 294 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 88 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
5 86 (5.53%) Docker
6 80 (5.15%) vSphere
7 44 (2.83%) Firmware
8 25 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (0.90%) vCloud
9 14 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (0.84%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.45%) KVM
12 4 (0.26%) pfSense
13 3 (0.19%) Xen
14 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.13%) NFS
14 2 (0.13%) QEMU
15 1 (0.064%) LXC
15 1 (0.064%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 111 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 86 (5.53%) Ansible
3 76 (4.89%) vCenter Server
4 62 (3.99%) Terraform
5 51 (3.28%) WSUS
6 42 (2.70%) SCCM
7 39 (2.51%) Prometheus
8 38 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (2.06%) SCOM
10 20 (1.29%) Puppet
11 18 (1.16%) FortiGate
12 16 (1.03%) CASB
13 15 (0.97%) Nagios
13 15 (0.97%) Stealthwatch
14 14 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (0.90%) ZABBIX
15 13 (0.84%) Grafana
15 13 (0.84%) NetBackup
16 12 (0.77%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 491 (31.60%) Microsoft
2 417 (26.83%) VMware
3 324 (20.85%) Cisco
4 120 (7.72%) Dell
5 114 (7.34%) Apple
6 111 (7.14%) HP
7 110 (7.08%) Adobe
8 105 (6.76%) Veeam
9 104 (6.69%) Palo Alto
10 94 (6.05%) NetApp
11 86 (5.53%) Juniper
12 84 (5.41%) Citrix
13 65 (4.18%) Red Hat
14 61 (3.93%) Meraki
15 54 (3.47%) Fortinet
16 52 (3.35%) Oracle
17 48 (3.09%) ServiceNow
18 46 (2.96%) CheckPoint
19 42 (2.70%) SolarWinds
20 38 (2.45%) IBM