Data Centre Jobs in Scotland

Data Center
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 204 62 176
Rank change year-on-year -142 +114 -66
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 80 214 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.19% 4.52% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 11.15% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 64 50 43
10th Percentile £31,250 £23,750 £23,000
25th Percentile £47,313 £33,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,620 £63,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,388 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,588 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +0.15% -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,244 1,919 2,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.32% 40.51% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 850 814 1,033
10th Percentile £28,795 £32,500 £28,039
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,125 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,611 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +6.57% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £89,956 £84,056
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +17 47 £55,500 +4.73% 10
Glasgow -153 30 £50,000 +33.33% 9
Fife -9 2 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £33,000 -
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (3.75%) IIS
3 1 (1.25%) JOnAS
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) IaaS
2 18 (22.50%) PaaS
3 17 (21.25%) AWS
4 15 (18.75%) Azure
5 13 (16.25%) GCP
6 10 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.75%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 45 (56.25%) Firewall
2 34 (42.50%) VPN
3 30 (37.50%) WAN
4 18 (22.50%) IPsec
5 17 (21.25%) LAN
6 13 (16.25%) SD-WAN
7 11 (13.75%) Internet
7 11 (13.75%) TCP/IP
8 10 (12.50%) SNMP
9 8 (10.00%) DHCP
9 8 (10.00%) DNS
9 8 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
10 5 (6.25%) OSPF
10 5 (6.25%) VLAN
10 5 (6.25%) Wireless
11 4 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (3.75%) BGP
12 3 (3.75%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (3.75%) HSRP
12 3 (3.75%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (13.75%) Data Centre Manager
1 11 (13.75%) Data Manager
2 10 (12.50%) Consultant
2 10 (12.50%) NetApp Consultant
3 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Network Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Network Technician
5 7 (8.75%) Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Data Centre Operations Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Operations Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Presales Specialist
9 3 (3.75%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (3.75%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Network Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (12.50%) YAML
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Replication
2 13 (16.25%) Public Cloud
3 7 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 33 (41.25%) Linux
2 29 (36.25%) Windows
3 16 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (3.75%) CentOS
5 3 (3.75%) Debian
5 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.25%) VMS
7 1 (1.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Management
2 17 (21.25%) Project Delivery
3 15 (18.75%) DevOps
4 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
4 13 (16.25%) Network Virtualisation
5 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (12.50%) Project Management
7 10 (12.50%) Project Planning
7 10 (12.50%) Release Management
7 10 (12.50%) Storage Management
8 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (11.25%) ITIL
9 8 (10.00%) ITSM
9 8 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
9 8 (10.00%) Service Management
10 7 (8.75%) Customer Experience
10 7 (8.75%) Data Centre Operations
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (2.50%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (17.50%) CCNA
3 5 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) CCIE
4 3 (3.75%) CCNP
4 3 (3.75%) MCSA
4 3 (3.75%) MCSE
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.75%) RHCT
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.50%) CISA
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.75%) ISO 14000
2 3 (3.75%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.75%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (36.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (16.25%) VMware NSX
3 11 (13.75%) Docker
4 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
5 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.75%) KVM
7 2 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Ansible
2 13 (16.25%) FortiGate
2 13 (16.25%) Terraform
3 10 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 10 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.50%) SCCM
5 1 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 34 (42.50%) VMware
2 31 (38.75%) Cisco
3 23 (28.75%) NetApp
4 21 (26.25%) Palo Alto
5 15 (18.75%) Red Hat
6 12 (15.00%) Meraki
7 11 (13.75%) Juniper
8 10 (12.50%) SolidFire
9 3 (3.75%) Citrix
10 2 (2.50%) ConnectWise
10 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.25%) arcserve
11 1 (1.25%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (1.25%) EMC
11 1 (1.25%) Nimsoft
11 1 (1.25%) Sage