The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Centre Technician role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Centre Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Centre Technician
Rank 824 876 867
Rank change year-on-year
+52 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Technician 38 23 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.035% 0.019% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.020% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 30 18 13
Average salary £24,000 £24,250 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.03% +12.79%
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £24,250 £21,500
% change year-on-year
-1.03% +12.79%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Data Centre Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Data Centre Technician within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Data Centre Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Data Centre Technician
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Centre Technician within the UK.

Data Centre Technician Salary Trend

Data Centre Technician
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Centre Technician over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Data Centre Technician Salary Histogram

Data Centre Technician
Top 24 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +40 38 £24,000 -1.03%
South East +10 17 £26,250 -2.77%
London +58 10 £37,500 -
Middlesex - 8 £35,000 -
Hampshire 0 5 £23,500 -6.00%
West Midlands - 4 £24,000 -
Surrey - 4 £22,000 -
Staffordshire - 4 £24,000 -
Redhill - 4 £22,000 -
Uxbridge - 4 £37,500 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 3 £24,000 -
Portsmouth - 3 £23,500 -
Bristol - 2 - -
Tyne and Wear - 2 £17,000 -
South West - 2 - -
Nottingham - 2 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £17,000 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 £17,000 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Yorkshire -1 1 £24,000 +33.33%
West Yorkshire -7 1 £24,000 +33.33%
Fareham - 1 £26,250 -
Southampton - 1 £24,000 -

Data Centre Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Data Centre Technician in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Data Centre Technician in their job title.

1 22 (36.67%) EMC
2 21 (35.00%) Cisco
3 19 (31.67%) HP
4 16 (26.67%) ITIL
5 15 (25.00%) Sun
6 14 (23.33%) Citrix
7 13 (21.67%) Backup Exec
7 13 (21.67%) Document Management
7 13 (21.67%) WorkSite
7 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
7 13 (21.67%) TCP/IP
7 13 (21.67%) VBScript
7 13 (21.67%) VB
8 11 (18.33%) Windows
8 11 (18.33%) Linux
8 11 (18.33%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (16.67%) SAN
9 10 (16.67%) ITIL V3
10 9 (15.00%) Firewall
10 9 (15.00%) NetApp
10 9 (15.00%) IBM
11 7 (11.67%) Dell
11 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (10.00%) A+ Certification
12 6 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (10.00%) Cisco PIX
12 6 (10.00%) FreeBSD
12 6 (10.00%) MS Excel
12 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
12 6 (10.00%) VLAN

Data Centre Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Data Centre Technician in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Data Centre Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (6.667%) COM
2 1 (1.667%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 13 (21.67%) WorkSite
2 1 (1.667%) IIS
2 1 (1.667%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.67%) TCP/IP
2 10 (16.67%) SAN
3 9 (15.00%) Firewall
4 6 (10.00%) Cisco PIX
4 6 (10.00%) VLAN
5 5 (8.333%) FTP
5 5 (8.333%) SSH
6 4 (6.667%) Internet
7 2 (3.333%) LAN
8 1 (1.667%) SMTP
8 1 (1.667%) DHCP
8 1 (1.667%) HTTP
8 1 (1.667%) DNS
8 1 (1.667%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.667%) Cognos Impromptu
General
1 1 (1.667%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (3.333%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.333%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
1 11 (18.33%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) FreeBSD
3 3 (5.000%) Solaris
3 3 (5.000%) UNIX
4 2 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.667%) CentOS
5 1 (1.667%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) ITIL
2 13 (21.67%) Document Management
3 10 (16.67%) ITIL V3
4 6 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (5.000%) Incident Management
5 3 (5.000%) Service Delivery
6 2 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.333%) Time Management
6 2 (3.333%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) VBScript
1 13 (21.67%) VB
2 1 (1.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Server+ Certification
2 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (10.00%) A+ Certification
3 6 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.333%) MCP
5 1 (1.667%) MCSE
5 1 (1.667%) CCNP
5 1 (1.667%) CCNA
5 1 (1.667%) RHCT
5 1 (1.667%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.333%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.667%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.333%) Samba
2 1 (1.667%) XenServer
2 1 (1.667%) vSphere
2 1 (1.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) EMC
2 21 (35.00%) Cisco
3 19 (31.67%) HP
4 15 (25.00%) Sun
5 14 (23.33%) Citrix
6 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
7 9 (15.00%) NetApp
7 9 (15.00%) IBM
8 7 (11.67%) Dell
9 5 (8.333%) Juniper
10 4 (6.667%) Intel
11 1 (1.667%) VMware
11 1 (1.667%) Red Hat
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