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 in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 55 187
Rank change year-on-year -145 +132 -73
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 83 222 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.21% 5.18% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.72% 12.99% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 68 42 48
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,350 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,303 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £73,988 £74,125
UK median annual salary £54,556 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -9.07% +0.87% +8.15%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,048 1,709 3,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 44.57% 39.91% 50.47%
Number of salaries quoted 868 733 1,140
10th Percentile £29,450 £33,061 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,587
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +5.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,813 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £85,000
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 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -4 49 £55,000 -5.17% 6
Glasgow -139 32 £50,000 +8.11% 9
West Lothian - 1 £47,500 - 3
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 (12.05%) Apache
2 4 (4.82%) IIS
3 1 (1.20%) JOnAS
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) IaaS
2 19 (22.89%) PaaS
3 18 (21.69%) AWS
4 16 (19.28%) Azure
5 14 (16.87%) GCP
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.43%) SaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (53.01%) Firewall
2 34 (40.96%) VPN
3 30 (36.14%) WAN
4 18 (21.69%) IPsec
5 17 (20.48%) LAN
6 13 (15.66%) SD-WAN
7 11 (13.25%) Internet
7 11 (13.25%) TCP/IP
8 10 (12.05%) SNMP
9 9 (10.84%) DHCP
9 9 (10.84%) DNS
10 8 (9.64%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (8.43%) Wireless
12 4 (4.82%) OSPF
12 4 (4.82%) VLAN
13 3 (3.61%) Cisco Firepower
14 2 (2.41%) BGP
14 2 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
14 2 (2.41%) HSRP
14 2 (2.41%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.05%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (12.05%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
General
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (13.25%) Data Centre Manager
1 11 (13.25%) Data Manager
2 10 (12.05%) Consultant
2 10 (12.05%) NetApp Consultant
3 8 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Network Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Network Technician
4 7 (8.43%) Architect
4 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Analyst
5 5 (6.02%) Data Centre Operations Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Operations Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (4.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Data Centre Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Presales Specialist
7 3 (3.61%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (12.05%) YAML
2 2 (2.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Replication
2 13 (15.66%) Public Cloud
3 7 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) IoT
4 2 (2.41%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.41%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 33 (39.76%) Linux
2 32 (38.55%) Windows
3 18 (21.69%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.05%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (4.82%) CentOS
5 4 (4.82%) Debian
5 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.20%) VMS
6 1 (1.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.10%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (20.48%) Infrastructure Management
2 17 (20.48%) Project Delivery
3 16 (19.28%) DevOps
4 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
4 13 (15.66%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (12.05%) Project Management
6 10 (12.05%) Project Planning
6 10 (12.05%) Release Management
6 10 (12.05%) Storage Management
7 8 (9.64%) ITIL
7 8 (9.64%) ITSM
7 8 (9.64%) Network Monitoring
7 8 (9.64%) Service Management
8 7 (8.43%) Customer Experience
8 7 (8.43%) Data Centre Operations
8 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.25%) Python
2 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (16.87%) CCNA
3 6 (7.23%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) MCSA
4 4 (4.82%) MCSE
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.82%) RHCT
5 2 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.41%) CCIE
5 2 (2.41%) CCNP
5 2 (2.41%) CISA
5 2 (2.41%) CISSP
5 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.61%) ISO 14000
2 3 (3.61%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.61%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.66%) VMware NSX
3 11 (13.25%) Docker
4 9 (10.84%) Active Directory
5 5 (6.02%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.82%) KVM
7 2 (2.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (30.12%) Ansible
2 14 (16.87%) Terraform
3 13 (15.66%) FortiGate
4 11 (13.25%) Kubernetes
5 10 (12.05%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.05%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.41%) SCCM
7 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 36 (43.37%) VMware
2 30 (36.14%) Cisco
3 23 (27.71%) NetApp
4 21 (25.30%) Palo Alto
5 14 (16.87%) Red Hat
6 12 (14.46%) Meraki
7 11 (13.25%) Juniper
8 10 (12.05%) SolidFire
9 4 (4.82%) Citrix
10 2 (2.41%) ConnectWise
10 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.20%) arcserve
11 1 (1.20%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (1.20%) EMC
11 1 (1.20%) Google
11 1 (1.20%) Nimsoft
11 1 (1.20%) Sage