Data Centre Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Centre Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 686 709 833
Rank change year-on-year +23 +124 -163
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 78 23 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.039% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.043% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 76 21 14
10th Percentile £22,500 - £25,750
25th Percentile £25,125 £26,250 £25,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £60,000 £34,250
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +75.18% -52.76%
75th Percentile £40,000 £63,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £50,000 - £65,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,294 52,879 68,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.14% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,576 30,026 42,521
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Centre Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England +67 30 £35,000 +27.27% 4
South East +27 30 £30,000 -50.00% 10
North West - 28 £35,000 - 4
East of England +10 12 £50,000 -20.00% 3
West Midlands +20 3 £18,000 -68.70%
Midlands -7 3 £18,000 -34.55%
Scotland - 3 £26,000 -
North East - 2 £23,000 -
Data Centre Engineer
UK

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Data Centre Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 16 (20.51%) Structured Cabling
3 12 (15.38%) Presales
3 12 (15.38%) Windows
3 12 (15.38%) Linux
4 11 (14.10%) Legal
5 10 (12.82%) DataOps
6 9 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
7 8 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.26%) Banking
7 8 (10.26%) Retail
8 7 (8.97%) Incident Management
8 7 (8.97%) Process Improvement
8 7 (8.97%) Budget Management
8 7 (8.97%) Social Skills
9 6 (7.69%) Cisco
10 5 (6.41%) B2B
10 5 (6.41%) SLA
10 5 (6.41%) LAN
10 5 (6.41%) WAN
10 5 (6.41%) Extranet
10 5 (6.41%) Wireless
10 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (6.41%) Degree
10 5 (6.41%) VMware
10 5 (6.41%) Data Centre Operations
11 4 (5.13%) Driving Licence
11 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (5.13%) CloudStack
11 4 (5.13%) cPanel

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.13%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.28%) Azure
1 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
1 1 (1.28%) IaaS
1 1 (1.28%) PaaS
1 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.51%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (6.41%) Extranet
2 5 (6.41%) LAN
2 5 (6.41%) WAN
2 5 (6.41%) Wireless
3 4 (5.13%) Firewall
3 4 (5.13%) NAS
3 4 (5.13%) SAN
4 1 (1.28%) VLAN
General
1 11 (14.10%) Legal
2 8 (10.26%) Banking
2 8 (10.26%) Retail
3 7 (8.97%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Automotive
5 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) LAMP
2 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.28%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.13%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.13%) Life Science
3 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.38%) Linux
1 12 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (2.56%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.38%) Presales
2 10 (12.82%) DataOps
3 9 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (8.97%) Budget Management
5 7 (8.97%) Incident Management
5 7 (8.97%) Process Improvement
6 5 (6.41%) B2B
6 5 (6.41%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (5.13%) Cloud Security
7 4 (5.13%) Customer Service
7 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (5.13%) Data Analysis
7 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (5.13%) ITIL
8 2 (2.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (2.56%) Migration
8 2 (2.56%) Project Management
8 2 (2.56%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (2.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.85%) MATLAB
1 3 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (1.28%) Bicep
2 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (6.41%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) SLA
2 3 (3.85%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) cPanel
1 4 (5.13%) Plesk
2 1 (1.28%) Nagios
2 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.69%) Cisco
2 5 (6.41%) VMware
3 1 (1.28%) NetApp