Data Centre Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Center
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 45 170
Rank change year-on-year -113 +125 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,307 3,812 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.84% 6.33% 2.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.44% 15.41% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 961 788 1,000
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,625 £40,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,985 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +1.97% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,375 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £58,850
% change year-on-year -5.17% -1.44% +2.35%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,007 24,742 31,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.84% 41.06% 43.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15,226 11,258 15,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -77 343 £51,000 -2.58% 100
North of England -107 303 £42,500 -15.00% 67
Midlands -80 237 £50,000 -9.09% 40
North West -89 179 £44,274 -14.03% 34
South West -115 140 £55,000 -25.42% 37
West Midlands -83 123 £54,000 -1.82% 24
East Midlands -49 112 £42,500 -22.73% 16
East of England -105 104 £50,000 -9.09% 42
Yorkshire -79 94 £42,500 -5.56% 19
Wales -10 83 £36,476 -47.89% 10
Scotland -148 80 £55,000 +29.41% 27
North East -72 30 £44,274 +6.05% 14
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -22 7 £46,750 -6.50% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
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 64 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.13%) Apache
4 25 (1.91%) OpenStack
5 20 (1.53%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.69%) WordPress
7 8 (0.61%) Confluence
7 8 (0.61%) IIS
8 4 (0.31%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.31%) nginx
9 1 (0.077%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.077%) WebLogic
Applications
1 50 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.077%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 262 (20.05%) Azure
2 258 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
3 181 (13.85%) AWS
4 77 (5.89%) Amazon S3
5 69 (5.28%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.90%) IaaS
7 40 (3.06%) GCP
8 32 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (2.45%) SaaS
9 30 (2.30%) Power Platform
10 29 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (1.91%) PaaS
12 24 (1.84%) OCI
13 20 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (1.53%) Nutanix
13 20 (1.53%) OneDrive
14 17 (1.30%) Mimecast
15 16 (1.22%) CloudFront
16 15 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 334 (25.55%) Firewall
2 189 (14.46%) WAN
3 165 (12.62%) VPN
4 151 (11.55%) LAN
5 122 (9.33%) DNS
6 89 (6.81%) Internet
7 88 (6.73%) SD-WAN
7 88 (6.73%) Wi-Fi
8 82 (6.27%) DHCP
9 80 (6.12%) SAN
9 80 (6.12%) Wireless
10 77 (5.89%) IPsec
11 76 (5.81%) Network Security
12 64 (4.90%) TCP/IP
13 62 (4.74%) SNMP
14 43 (3.29%) Unified Communications
15 38 (2.91%) BGP
15 38 (2.91%) OSPF
16 33 (2.52%) VLAN
17 26 (1.99%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.74%) MongoDB
2 55 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
3 35 (2.68%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.68%) Power BI
5 20 (1.53%) MySQL
6 18 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.15%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.46%) GIS
10 6 (0.46%) Redis
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.15%) Big Data
12 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.077%) DB2
13 1 (0.077%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (0.077%) Oracle Database 12c
13 1 (0.077%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 17 (1.30%) JIRA
2 12 (0.92%) Git
3 9 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.46%) JBehave
4 6 (0.46%) RStudio
4 6 (0.46%) Selenium
4 6 (0.46%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.077%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.077%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 320 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 157 (12.01%) Finance
3 93 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (3.90%) Manufacturing
5 48 (3.67%) Retail
6 46 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.45%) Legal
9 29 (2.22%) Banking
10 23 (1.76%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.68%) Law
12 21 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.30%) Public Sector
15 16 (1.22%) Local Government
16 13 (0.99%) Marketing
17 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.77%) Automotive
18 10 (0.77%) Police
19 6 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 235 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 212 (16.22%) Senior
3 136 (10.41%) Consultant
4 124 (9.49%) Architect
5 107 (8.19%) Network Engineer
6 74 (5.66%) Data Centre Engineer
6 74 (5.66%) Lead
7 61 (4.67%) Administrator
8 49 (3.75%) IT Engineer
8 49 (3.75%) NetApp Consultant
9 48 (3.67%) Senior Architect
10 47 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 45 (3.44%) Support Engineer
11 45 (3.44%) Team Leader
12 44 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (3.37%) IT Support
13 41 (3.14%) Analyst
14 40 (3.06%) IT Manager
14 40 (3.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 38 (2.91%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (3.83%) YAML
3 10 (0.77%) 802.1X
3 10 (0.77%) LDAP
4 9 (0.69%) Web Services
5 8 (0.61%) .NET
6 7 (0.54%) Middleware
7 6 (0.46%) Gherkin
8 5 (0.38%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.31%) HTML
9 4 (0.31%) LAMP
10 3 (0.23%) JSON
10 3 (0.23%) REST
10 3 (0.23%) SAML
11 2 (0.15%) CakePHP
11 2 (0.15%) CSS
11 2 (0.15%) Laravel
11 2 (0.15%) React
11 2 (0.15%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (0.15%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.12%) Management Information System
2 86 (6.58%) Public Cloud
3 85 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
4 65 (4.97%) Driving Licence
5 37 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 36 (2.75%) Replication
7 28 (2.14%) PKI
8 26 (1.99%) Mainframe
9 25 (1.91%) CCTV
10 17 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 13 (0.99%) SCADA
12 12 (0.92%) PMI
13 11 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
13 11 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (0.77%) CMDB
15 9 (0.69%) Clustering
15 9 (0.69%) IBM Mainframe
16 8 (0.61%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 465 (35.58%) Windows
2 283 (21.65%) Linux
3 213 (16.30%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.83%) Data ONTAP
4 50 (3.83%) Windows 10
5 40 (3.06%) Unix
6 26 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (1.22%) Android
10 14 (1.07%) Apple iOS
10 14 (1.07%) CentOS
11 12 (0.92%) Windows XP
12 11 (0.84%) zOS
13 10 (0.77%) Solaris
13 10 (0.77%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.69%) VMS
15 8 (0.61%) AIX
16 5 (0.38%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (20.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 257 (19.66%) Cybersecurity
3 255 (19.51%) ITIL
4 228 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (14.77%) Project Management
6 166 (12.70%) Presales
7 150 (11.48%) Mentoring
8 125 (9.56%) DevOps
9 123 (9.41%) Customer Service
10 108 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 108 (8.26%) Project Delivery
11 105 (8.03%) Software Licensing
12 92 (7.04%) Actionable Insight
12 92 (7.04%) Agile
13 84 (6.43%) Roadmaps
14 82 (6.27%) Change Management
14 82 (6.27%) Migration
14 82 (6.27%) Storage Management
15 78 (5.97%) Infrastructure Management
15 78 (5.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 105 (8.03%) Python
2 92 (7.04%) PowerShell
3 82 (6.27%) SQL
4 25 (1.91%) C#
5 15 (1.15%) Bash
6 14 (1.07%) Java
7 6 (0.46%) C
7 6 (0.46%) R
8 5 (0.38%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.31%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.31%) PHP
10 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.23%) Swift
11 2 (0.15%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.15%) Ruby
11 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.077%) Bicep
12 1 (0.077%) Korn
12 1 (0.077%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.077%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 270 (20.66%) Degree
2 162 (12.39%) Security Cleared
3 157 (12.01%) Cisco Certification
4 127 (9.72%) CCNA
5 120 (9.18%) SC Cleared
6 95 (7.27%) CCNP
7 73 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 55 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (3.14%) AWS Certification
9 41 (3.14%) MCP
10 34 (2.60%) DV Cleared
11 31 (2.37%) CISSP
12 28 (2.14%) MCSE
13 27 (2.07%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 20 (1.53%) DBS Check
16 17 (1.30%) CCIE
17 16 (1.22%) MCSA
17 16 (1.22%) PMI Certification
18 14 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (3.67%) SLA
3 35 (2.68%) GDPR
4 21 (1.61%) NIST
5 16 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (1.07%) QA
7 13 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.99%) PMO
8 12 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.46%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.38%) COBIT
11 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.38%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 14000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 259 (19.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 249 (19.05%) Active Directory
3 101 (7.73%) Docker
4 97 (7.42%) Hyper-V
5 54 (4.13%) vSphere
6 51 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
7 46 (3.52%) Firmware
8 34 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (1.84%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.54%) KVM
11 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.31%) pfSense
14 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.15%) QEMU
14 2 (0.15%) Xen
14 2 (0.15%) XenApp
14 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.077%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 118 (9.03%) Ansible
1 118 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 89 (6.81%) vCenter Server
3 56 (4.28%) Terraform
4 54 (4.13%) Prometheus
4 54 (4.13%) SCCM
5 40 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (2.52%) WSUS
7 30 (2.30%) FortiGate
8 25 (1.91%) SCOM
9 18 (1.38%) Stealthwatch
10 15 (1.15%) CASB
11 14 (1.07%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (1.07%) Nagios
11 14 (1.07%) Puppet
12 13 (0.99%) NetBackup
13 11 (0.84%) ZABBIX
14 8 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.61%) Grafana
15 6 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 416 (31.83%) Microsoft
2 368 (28.16%) VMware
3 290 (22.19%) Cisco
4 111 (8.49%) NetApp
4 111 (8.49%) Palo Alto
5 109 (8.34%) Apple
6 105 (8.03%) Adobe
7 91 (6.96%) Dell
8 87 (6.66%) HP
9 74 (5.66%) Red Hat
10 68 (5.20%) Veeam
11 66 (5.05%) Meraki
12 58 (4.44%) Citrix
13 56 (4.28%) Juniper
13 56 (4.28%) Oracle
14 49 (3.75%) SolidFire
15 45 (3.44%) Fortinet
15 45 (3.44%) ServiceNow
16 34 (2.60%) CheckPoint
17 23 (1.76%) Dynatrace