The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Centre Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the 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 20 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Centre Engineer
Rank 567 612 589
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 30 29 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.069% 0.054% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.057% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 30 21 24
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £27,800
10% offered a salary of more than £66,000 £57,500 £49,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £28,750 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+21.73% -33.13%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40625 50517 53034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.40% 93.86% 93.57%
Number of salaries quoted 34197 43879 44601
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Data Centre Engineer
England

Data Centre Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Data Centre Engineer Salary Histogram

Data Centre Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +9 11 £25,500 -27.14%
Docklands, London +12 3 £26,500 -3.63%
Feltham +4 2 £28,750 -3.21%
Uxbridge - 2 £40,000 -
Croydon - 1 £30,000 -
Data Centre Engineer
England

Data Centre Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 27 (48.21%) Windows
2 23 (41.07%) Cisco
2 23 (41.07%) VMware
3 18 (32.14%) HP
4 16 (28.57%) Citrix
4 16 (28.57%) Linux
5 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 14 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (25.00%) vSphere
6 13 (23.21%) NetScaler
7 11 (19.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 11 (19.64%) ITIL
7 11 (19.64%) UNIX
7 11 (19.64%) Finance
7 11 (19.64%) Firewall
8 10 (17.86%) Banking
8 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
8 10 (17.86%) Juniper
8 10 (17.86%) EMC
8 10 (17.86%) Red Hat
8 10 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (16.07%) XenDesktop
9 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (16.07%) MCSE
10 8 (14.29%) SLA
10 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
10 8 (14.29%) CCNA
10 8 (14.29%) Dell
10 8 (14.29%) Cisco Certification

Data Centre Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 Development
1 2 (3.571%) .NET
1 2 (3.571%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.357%) Apache
2 2 (3.571%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.571%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.571%) IIS
3 1 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (5.357%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.21%) NetScaler
2 11 (19.64%) Firewall
3 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 7 (12.50%) SAN
5 5 (8.929%) NetScreen
6 3 (5.357%) OSPF
6 3 (5.357%) BGP
7 2 (3.571%) Intranet
7 2 (3.571%) Extranet
7 2 (3.571%) DNS
7 2 (3.571%) LDAP
7 2 (3.571%) LAN
7 2 (3.571%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (1.786%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.786%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.786%) HSRP
8 1 (1.786%) GLBP
8 1 (1.786%) VoIP
8 1 (1.786%) HTTP
8 1 (1.786%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.71%) MySQL
3 1 (1.786%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.786%) PostgreSQL
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
2 10 (17.86%) Banking
3 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.571%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.571%) Law
4 2 (3.571%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Firmware
2 3 (5.357%) Open Source
3 2 (3.571%) HP StorageWorks
3 2 (3.571%) Clustering
4 1 (1.786%) CMDB
4 1 (1.786%) Wiki
4 1 (1.786%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.786%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (48.21%) Windows
2 16 (28.57%) Linux
3 11 (19.64%) UNIX
3 11 (19.64%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.571%) Fedora
6 2 (3.571%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.571%) Solaris
6 2 (3.571%) CentOS
7 1 (1.786%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.786%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.64%) ITIL
2 5 (8.929%) Load Balancing
2 5 (8.929%) Incident Management
3 4 (7.143%) Change Control
4 3 (5.357%) Problem Management
5 2 (3.571%) Asset Management
5 2 (3.571%) Change Management
5 2 (3.571%) Migration
5 2 (3.571%) Capacity Management
5 2 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (1.786%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (1.786%) Information Security
6 1 (1.786%) Workflow
6 1 (1.786%) Validation
6 1 (1.786%) E-Commerce
6 1 (1.786%) Configuration Management
6 1 (1.786%) Project Management
6 1 (1.786%) Service Delivery
6 1 (1.786%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (1.786%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) SQL
2 5 (8.929%) Bash shell
3 2 (3.571%) T-SQL
3 2 (3.571%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.571%) Perl
4 1 (1.786%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) MCSE
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (14.29%) CCNA
2 8 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (7.143%) CCNP
4 4 (7.143%) JNCIS
5 2 (3.571%) CCEE
5 2 (3.571%) CCAA
5 2 (3.571%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (3.571%) MCSA
5 2 (3.571%) OCP
5 2 (3.571%) OCA
5 2 (3.571%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.786%) RHCE
6 1 (1.786%) Degree
6 1 (1.786%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (3.571%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.786%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.786%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (25.00%) vSphere
2 9 (16.07%) XenDesktop
3 7 (12.50%) XenApp
3 7 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.929%) VMware ESX
4 5 (8.929%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (7.143%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (5.357%) vCloud
7 2 (3.571%) VMware Server
7 2 (3.571%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.786%) Xen
8 1 (1.786%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.571%) Backup Exec
1 2 (3.571%) Puppet
1 2 (3.571%) Cobbler
2 1 (1.786%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.786%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 23 (41.07%) Cisco
1 23 (41.07%) VMware
2 18 (32.14%) HP
3 16 (28.57%) Citrix
4 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (17.86%) EMC
5 10 (17.86%) Juniper
5 10 (17.86%) Red Hat
6 8 (14.29%) Dell
7 5 (8.929%) Foundry
8 4 (7.143%) Sun
9 3 (5.357%) Remedy
10 2 (3.571%) Open Text
10 2 (3.571%) StorageTek
10 2 (3.571%) Veritas
10 2 (3.571%) IBM
10 2 (3.571%) Oracle
10 2 (3.571%) Fujitsu
11 1 (1.786%) F5
11 1 (1.786%) Blue Coat