Data Centre Jobs in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 131 56 159
Rank change year-on-year -75 +103 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 329 753 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.98% 4.99% 2.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.75% 11.75% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 253 249 273
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,400
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -4.82% -
75th Percentile £66,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £83,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,724 6,407 8,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.48% 42.49% 41.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 3,315 4,629
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,250 £85,000
England 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 the South East

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the South East 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
Thames Valley -50 149 £47,625 -9.03% 47
Berkshire -38 75 £59,000 +12.54% 38
Surrey +9 66 £54,250 -8.44% 10
Buckinghamshire -27 59 £40,000 -36.00% 4
Hampshire -97 40 £60,000 +33.33% 21
West Sussex 0 26 £64,500 +7.50% 4
Kent -40 18 £65,000 +85.71% 9
Oxfordshire -4 15 £50,000 +75.44% 5
Sussex - 11 £35,000 -
East Sussex -44 9 £65,000 +52.94% 1
Middlesex - 9 £40,000 - 1
Home Counties +14 1 £48,000 -49.47%
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (5.17%) OpenStack
2 15 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (23.10%) AWS
2 61 (18.54%) Azure
3 58 (17.63%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (7.60%) Amazon S3
5 20 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (4.86%) CloudFront
7 15 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (3.95%) OCI
9 11 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (3.04%) OneDrive
11 9 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.74%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.74%) Route 53
11 9 (2.74%) Serverless
12 7 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.82%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.52%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.50%) Firewall
2 43 (13.07%) WAN
3 36 (10.94%) LAN
4 27 (8.21%) VPN
5 26 (7.90%) SAN
6 25 (7.60%) DNS
7 22 (6.69%) DHCP
8 21 (6.38%) OSPF
8 21 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (6.08%) BGP
10 16 (4.86%) Network Security
10 16 (4.86%) Unified Communications
10 16 (4.86%) Wireless
11 13 (3.95%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (3.65%) Internet
12 12 (3.65%) IPsec
12 12 (3.65%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (2.43%) TCP/IP
14 7 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (1.82%) Power BI
3 6 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.61%) MySQL
6 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.13%) JIRA
3 6 (1.82%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.82%) JBehave
3 6 (1.82%) Selenium
3 6 (1.82%) SpecFlow
3 6 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (4.86%) Finance
3 13 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.65%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.04%) Legal
6 6 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (1.82%) Retail
6 6 (1.82%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.52%) Advertising
7 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.22%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.61%) Electronics
11 1 (0.30%) Automotive
11 1 (0.30%) Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (23.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 47 (14.29%) Architect
3 42 (12.77%) Senior
4 32 (9.73%) Consultant
5 26 (7.90%) Network Engineer
6 25 (7.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.60%) Data Centre Engineer
7 22 (6.69%) Senior Architect
7 22 (6.69%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (5.78%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) Infrastructure Architect
9 17 (5.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
10 16 (4.86%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 16 (4.86%) Lead
10 16 (4.86%) Server Engineer
11 15 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.26%) Administrator
12 14 (4.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (2.13%) LDAP
3 6 (1.82%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.82%) Gherkin
4 5 (1.52%) YAML
5 3 (0.91%) Web Services
6 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.64%) Driving Licence
2 21 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 20 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.17%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.86%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.04%) Replication
7 9 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.13%) PKI
9 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.52%) PMI
10 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.91%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (0.61%) CCTV
12 2 (0.61%) EMC VNX
12 2 (0.61%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.61%) Molecular Biology
12 2 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 120 (36.47%) Windows
2 69 (20.97%) Linux
3 58 (17.63%) Windows Server
4 21 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.65%) Windows XP
7 7 (2.13%) Android
7 7 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.82%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.91%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.61%) CentOS
10 2 (0.61%) OS/2
10 2 (0.61%) Rocky
10 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (24.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 56 (17.02%) DevOps
4 54 (16.41%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (14.59%) Presales
5 48 (14.59%) Project Management
6 39 (11.85%) ITIL
7 37 (11.25%) Computer Science
7 37 (11.25%) Software Licensing
8 31 (9.42%) Customer Service
8 31 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 30 (9.12%) Mentoring
10 29 (8.81%) Agile
11 27 (8.21%) Storage Management
12 24 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (6.99%) Project Delivery
14 20 (6.08%) Data Protection
15 19 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence
16 18 (5.47%) Server Management
17 17 (5.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.99%) Python
2 18 (5.47%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.95%) SQL
4 1 (0.30%) Bash
4 1 (0.30%) C#
4 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.30%) Korn
4 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 99 (30.09%) Degree
2 47 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 40 (12.16%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (10.94%) SC Cleared
5 31 (9.42%) CCNA
5 31 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (8.81%) CCNP
7 27 (8.21%) AWS Certification
8 21 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (5.47%) DV Cleared
10 13 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Azure Certification
12 9 (2.74%) CCIE
12 9 (2.74%) MCP
13 8 (2.43%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (2.13%) A+ Certification
14 7 (2.13%) MCSE
14 7 (2.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.34%) SLA
2 10 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.74%) GDPR
4 8 (2.43%) NIST
5 4 (1.22%) COBIT
6 3 (0.91%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.91%) QA
7 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 64 (19.45%) Active Directory
2 42 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (10.03%) Docker
4 24 (7.29%) Hyper-V
5 20 (6.08%) Firmware
6 19 (5.78%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.34%) vSphere
8 4 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.91%) KVM
9 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.61%) QEMU
10 2 (0.61%) Xen
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.12%) vCenter Server
3 26 (7.90%) Ansible
4 22 (6.69%) Terraform
5 16 (4.86%) SCCM
6 14 (4.26%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (4.26%) WSUS
7 13 (3.95%) SCOM
8 12 (3.65%) NetBackup
9 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (3.04%) Puppet
9 10 (3.04%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.82%) VxRail
11 5 (1.52%) CASB
11 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.52%) Stealthwatch
12 3 (0.91%) Grafana
12 3 (0.91%) Suricata
13 2 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (0.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 92 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 80 (24.32%) VMware
3 51 (15.50%) Cisco
4 40 (12.16%) Dell
5 37 (11.25%) Adobe
5 37 (11.25%) Apple
6 35 (10.64%) HP
7 26 (7.90%) Juniper
8 25 (7.60%) Palo Alto
9 24 (7.29%) Veeam
10 16 (4.86%) Extreme Networks
11 15 (4.56%) Oracle
12 14 (4.26%) 3PAR
12 14 (4.26%) Aruba
12 14 (4.26%) EMC
12 14 (4.26%) Fortinet
12 14 (4.26%) Meraki
13 12 (3.65%) Red Hat
13 12 (3.65%) Symantec
14 10 (3.04%) Samsung