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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 62 222
Rank change year-on-year -95 +160 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,595 4,238 2,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.83% 4.84% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.33% 11.20% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 1,233 1,646
10th Percentile £31,850 £34,580 £32,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.95% +3.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,200 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,556 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -9.07% +0.87% +3.45%

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 29,903 37,840 64,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.22% 43.20% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 20,873 20,765 30,398
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,749 £46,226
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 £100,000 £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 23 May 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -14 439 £65,000 -13.33% 220
South East -70 359 £55,000 +1.85% 109
North of England -102 309 £42,500 -16.64% 62
Midlands -90 234 £50,000 -9.09% 53
North West -85 185 £41,235 -21.46% 35
South West -107 146 £55,000 -15.38% 24
West Midlands -83 120 £54,000 +2.86% 34
East Midlands -47 112 £42,500 -22.73% 19
East of England -101 103 £50,000 -9.09% 46
Yorkshire -81 93 £42,500 -16.64% 19
North East -73 31 £44,274 +10.69% 9
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 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (2.57%) Apache
4 19 (1.19%) OpenStack
5 14 (0.88%) Skype for Business
6 12 (0.75%) Confluence
7 11 (0.69%) IIS
8 9 (0.56%) WordPress
9 7 (0.44%) nginx
10 5 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.25%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.19%) SAS
13 1 (0.063%) Site Server
13 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 66 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.19%) SPSS
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Primavera
2 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.13%) Shopify
3 1 (0.063%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.063%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.063%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.063%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.063%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 353 (22.13%) Azure
2 318 (19.94%) Microsoft 365
3 245 (15.36%) AWS
4 71 (4.45%) Entra ID
5 66 (4.14%) Amazon S3
6 56 (3.51%) SaaS
7 52 (3.26%) IaaS
8 42 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
9 39 (2.45%) GCP
10 35 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (2.19%) Power Platform
11 28 (1.76%) PaaS
12 26 (1.63%) OCI
13 20 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.07%) CloudFront
15 16 (1.00%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (0.94%) Nutanix
16 15 (0.94%) Rubrik
17 14 (0.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 381 (23.89%) Firewall
2 250 (15.67%) WAN
3 218 (13.67%) LAN
4 195 (12.23%) VPN
5 152 (9.53%) DNS
6 126 (7.90%) Network Security
7 123 (7.71%) Wi-Fi
8 120 (7.52%) SD-WAN
9 116 (7.27%) DHCP
10 107 (6.71%) Wireless
11 100 (6.27%) Internet
12 98 (6.14%) SAN
13 90 (5.64%) MPLS
14 83 (5.20%) BGP
15 77 (4.83%) OSPF
16 73 (4.58%) TCP/IP
17 70 (4.39%) VLAN
18 68 (4.26%) IPsec
19 58 (3.64%) SNMP
20 54 (3.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.07%) MongoDB
2 40 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 39 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (1.63%) Power BI
6 22 (1.38%) MySQL
7 20 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.38%) DB2
14 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 5 (0.31%) Redis
14 5 (0.31%) Tableau
15 3 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.19%) EDRMS
15 3 (0.19%) GIS
15 3 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (2.07%) JIRA
2 16 (1.00%) Git
3 12 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.38%) JBehave
4 6 (0.38%) RStudio
4 6 (0.38%) Selenium
4 6 (0.38%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.38%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.25%) 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 (0.063%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.063%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.063%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 376 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 227 (14.23%) Finance
3 123 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (4.26%) Banking
5 61 (3.82%) Retail
6 57 (3.57%) Legal
7 55 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.95%) Law
10 46 (2.88%) Telecoms
11 35 (2.19%) Public Sector
12 27 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.50%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.32%) Billing
15 15 (0.94%) Marketing
15 15 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.82%) Automotive
18 11 (0.69%) Investment Banking
19 9 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 261 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 235 (14.73%) Senior
3 177 (11.10%) Architect
4 161 (10.09%) Network Engineer
5 119 (7.46%) Consultant
6 108 (6.77%) Data Centre Engineer
7 99 (6.21%) Lead
8 72 (4.51%) Senior Architect
9 68 (4.26%) Administrator
10 64 (4.01%) Analyst
11 63 (3.95%) Project Manager
12 59 (3.70%) IT Engineer
13 58 (3.64%) IT Manager
14 53 (3.32%) Infrastructure Architect
15 52 (3.26%) Data Centre Manager
15 52 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
16 50 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
17 45 (2.82%) Support Engineer
17 45 (2.82%) Team Leader
18 42 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
2 38 (2.38%) 802.1X
3 35 (2.19%) YAML
4 11 (0.69%) .NET
4 11 (0.69%) HTML
4 11 (0.69%) LDAP
4 11 (0.69%) SAML
4 11 (0.69%) Web Services
5 9 (0.56%) XML
6 8 (0.50%) Middleware
7 6 (0.38%) ARM Templates
7 6 (0.38%) Gherkin
7 6 (0.38%) JSON
7 6 (0.38%) Kafka
8 5 (0.31%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (0.31%) XMPP
9 4 (0.25%) LAMP
10 3 (0.19%) React
11 2 (0.13%) Laravel
11 2 (0.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.83%) Management Information System
2 98 (6.14%) Public Cloud
3 80 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (4.01%) Driving Licence
5 47 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 44 (2.76%) Private Cloud
7 38 (2.38%) Replication
8 29 (1.82%) PKI
9 27 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.63%) CCTV
11 25 (1.57%) Mainframe
12 20 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
13 14 (0.88%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.82%) SCADA
15 12 (0.75%) Clustering
16 11 (0.69%) CMDB
16 11 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
17 10 (0.63%) PMI
18 9 (0.56%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 505 (31.66%) Windows
2 304 (19.06%) Linux
3 214 (13.42%) Windows Server
4 61 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 41 (2.57%) Unix
6 38 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 34 (2.13%) Data ONTAP
8 31 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.07%) Ubuntu
12 16 (1.00%) Android
13 14 (0.88%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.75%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.69%) SUSE
15 11 (0.69%) zOS
16 8 (0.50%) CentOS
16 8 (0.50%) VMS
17 5 (0.31%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 313 (19.62%) Cybersecurity
3 267 (16.74%) ITIL
4 225 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (12.41%) Project Management
6 195 (12.23%) Presales
7 174 (10.91%) Mentoring
8 147 (9.22%) DevOps
9 132 (8.28%) Roadmaps
10 124 (7.77%) Project Delivery
11 121 (7.59%) Agile
11 121 (7.59%) Software Licensing
12 105 (6.58%) Migration
13 104 (6.52%) Customer Service
14 102 (6.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 95 (5.96%) Information Security
16 89 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 87 (5.45%) Infrastructure Management
18 86 (5.39%) Infrastructure as Code
18 86 (5.39%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (8.78%) PowerShell
2 134 (8.40%) Python
3 104 (6.52%) SQL
4 30 (1.88%) C#
5 24 (1.50%) Bash
6 21 (1.32%) Java
7 10 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.63%) RPG
8 9 (0.56%) PHP
9 7 (0.44%) Go
10 6 (0.38%) R
11 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.25%) C
12 4 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.25%) Ruby
13 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.19%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.19%) Swift
14 2 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 323 (20.25%) Degree
2 176 (11.03%) Cisco Certification
3 146 (9.15%) Security Cleared
4 137 (8.59%) CCNP
5 132 (8.28%) CCNA
6 102 (6.39%) SC Cleared
7 84 (5.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.95%) AWS Certification
10 40 (2.51%) MCP
11 36 (2.26%) DV Cleared
12 33 (2.07%) Azure Certification
12 33 (2.07%) MCSE
13 32 (2.01%) CISSP
14 29 (1.82%) MCSA
15 25 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 24 (1.50%) CCIE
17 23 (1.44%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 17 (1.07%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.57%) SLA
2 43 (2.70%) GDPR
3 42 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.38%) NIST
5 18 (1.13%) QA
6 17 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.75%) PMO
9 11 (0.69%) NCSC
10 7 (0.44%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.31%) COBIT
12 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 295 (18.50%) Active Directory
2 280 (17.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 91 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 86 (5.39%) Docker
6 82 (5.14%) vSphere
7 46 (2.88%) Firmware
8 25 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.88%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.63%) vCloud
11 9 (0.56%) KVM
12 4 (0.25%) pfSense
12 4 (0.25%) Xen
13 3 (0.19%) QEMU
13 3 (0.19%) XenApp
14 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.13%) NFS
14 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 114 (7.15%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.83%) Ansible
2 77 (4.83%) vCenter Server
3 60 (3.76%) Terraform
4 50 (3.13%) WSUS
5 40 (2.51%) SCCM
6 39 (2.45%) Prometheus
7 38 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 30 (1.88%) SCOM
9 24 (1.50%) Puppet
9 24 (1.50%) Stealthwatch
10 17 (1.07%) FortiGate
11 16 (1.00%) CASB
11 16 (1.00%) Nagios
12 14 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (0.88%) ZABBIX
13 13 (0.82%) NetBackup
14 11 (0.69%) Grafana
15 10 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 491 (30.78%) Microsoft
2 399 (25.02%) VMware
3 339 (21.25%) Cisco
4 126 (7.90%) Dell
5 125 (7.84%) Apple
6 121 (7.59%) Adobe
7 112 (7.02%) HP
8 107 (6.71%) Palo Alto
9 101 (6.33%) Veeam
10 95 (5.96%) NetApp
11 86 (5.39%) Juniper
12 82 (5.14%) Citrix
13 70 (4.39%) Meraki
14 60 (3.76%) Red Hat
15 59 (3.70%) Fortinet
16 49 (3.07%) CheckPoint
16 49 (3.07%) Oracle
16 49 (3.07%) ServiceNow
17 42 (2.63%) SolarWinds
18 40 (2.51%) IBM