Data Centre Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Center
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 162 202
Rank change year-on-year +17 +40 -39
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 762 919 1,406
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.26% 2.22% 2.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.33% 5.75% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 515 668 815
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,121 £46,350 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,556 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.71% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,900 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £58,850
% change year-on-year -5.17% -1.44% +2.35%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,041 15,972 31,942
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.66% 38.51% 46.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,258 11,612 16,786
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre.

Data Centre salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Centre salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 59 (7.74%) Apache
2 52 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (4.07%) SharePoint
4 27 (3.54%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.18%) WordPress
6 7 (0.92%) IIS
7 5 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.39%) SAS
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) SPSS
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 154 (20.21%) Azure
2 140 (18.37%) AWS
3 132 (17.32%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (11.15%) Amazon S3
5 44 (5.77%) IaaS
6 41 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 34 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (3.15%) SaaS
9 20 (2.62%) GCP
9 20 (2.62%) PaaS
10 17 (2.23%) CloudFront
11 16 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.84%) Nutanix
13 11 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.18%) Route 53
15 9 (1.18%) Serverless
15 9 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 205 (26.90%) Firewall
2 151 (19.82%) WAN
3 146 (19.16%) VPN
4 118 (15.49%) LAN
5 92 (12.07%) DNS
6 76 (9.97%) IPsec
7 74 (9.71%) SD-WAN
8 72 (9.45%) Internet
9 70 (9.19%) DHCP
10 65 (8.53%) SNMP
11 62 (8.14%) Network Security
12 57 (7.48%) SAN
13 54 (7.09%) TCP/IP
14 53 (6.96%) Wireless
15 50 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (5.12%) MPLS
17 38 (4.99%) VLAN
18 37 (4.86%) BGP
19 35 (4.59%) Unified Communications
20 31 (4.07%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (7.09%) MongoDB
3 20 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (1.31%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.79%) Big Data
7 6 (0.79%) Power BI
8 5 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.66%) DB2
8 5 (0.66%) Redis
9 3 (0.39%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Pinot
10 2 (0.26%) Flink
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.26%) Presto
10 2 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (1.44%) Git
2 9 (1.18%) JIRA
3 8 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.79%) JBehave
4 6 (0.79%) Selenium
4 6 (0.79%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.79%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.13%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 205 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 140 (18.37%) Finance
3 37 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (4.33%) Retail
5 32 (4.20%) Banking
6 28 (3.67%) Legal
7 27 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (3.54%) Law
8 15 (1.97%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.05%) Marketing
12 8 (1.05%) Publishing
13 7 (0.92%) Advertising
14 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.52%) Games
14 4 (0.52%) Military
15 3 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 108 (14.17%) Consultant
3 107 (14.04%) Senior
4 95 (12.47%) Architect
5 60 (7.87%) Network Engineer
6 54 (7.09%) NetApp Consultant
7 46 (6.04%) Lead
8 43 (5.64%) Senior Architect
9 36 (4.72%) Cisco Architect
9 36 (4.72%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 35 (4.59%) Administrator
11 31 (4.07%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.07%) Security Architect
12 29 (3.81%) Infrastructure Manager
12 29 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (3.54%) IT Manager
13 27 (3.54%) Technical Consultant
14 25 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.28%) IT Administrator
15 24 (3.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.40%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (7.09%) YAML
3 10 (1.31%) LDAP
4 8 (1.05%) HTML
4 8 (1.05%) Kafka
4 8 (1.05%) Middleware
5 6 (0.79%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.79%) Gherkin
5 6 (0.79%) Web Services
6 5 (0.66%) .NET
6 5 (0.66%) XMPP
7 4 (0.52%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.26%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.26%) JSON
8 2 (0.26%) REST
8 2 (0.26%) RESTful
8 2 (0.26%) XML
8 2 (0.26%) XSD
8 2 (0.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.45%) Public Cloud
2 63 (8.27%) Management Information System
3 58 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (4.33%) Private Cloud
5 26 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.36%) Replication
7 11 (1.44%) PKI
7 11 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.31%) IBM Mainframe
8 10 (1.31%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.18%) IoT
10 8 (1.05%) Blog
10 8 (1.05%) EFT
11 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.92%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.79%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.66%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 261 (34.25%) Windows
2 175 (22.97%) Linux
3 88 (11.55%) Windows Server
4 54 (7.09%) Data ONTAP
5 35 (4.59%) Unix
5 35 (4.59%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.44%) zOS
7 10 (1.31%) Android
7 10 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.18%) AIX
9 8 (1.05%) Solaris
9 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.26%) CentOS
11 2 (0.26%) VMS
12 1 (0.13%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (21.13%) Cybersecurity
2 159 (20.87%) Presales
3 148 (19.42%) Project Management
4 146 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (18.64%) ITIL
6 132 (17.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 118 (15.49%) Software Licensing
8 104 (13.65%) Mentoring
9 101 (13.25%) DevOps
10 81 (10.63%) Agile
11 79 (10.37%) Infrastructure Management
12 76 (9.97%) Storage Management
13 75 (9.84%) Migration
14 63 (8.27%) Information Security
15 62 (8.14%) Actionable Insight
16 61 (8.01%) Release Management
16 61 (8.01%) Roadmaps
17 58 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
18 55 (7.22%) Project Planning
19 53 (6.96%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (14.44%) Python
2 63 (8.27%) PowerShell
3 31 (4.07%) SQL
4 18 (2.36%) Java
5 15 (1.97%) C#
6 10 (1.31%) Bash
7 7 (0.92%) Go
8 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.39%) PHP
9 3 (0.39%) Swift
9 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.26%) Korn
10 2 (0.26%) XPath
11 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 213 (27.95%) Degree
2 89 (11.68%) Cisco Certification
3 78 (10.24%) Security Cleared
4 71 (9.32%) CCNP
5 62 (8.14%) CCNA
6 52 (6.82%) SC Cleared
7 48 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (3.94%) AWS Certification
10 26 (3.41%) MCP
11 19 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (2.10%) APMP
13 15 (1.97%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.71%) Azure Certification
14 13 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 11 (1.44%) CISSP
16 10 (1.31%) CCIE
17 9 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 8 (1.05%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (2.10%) GDPR
2 16 (2.10%) SLA
3 13 (1.71%) QA
4 11 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.05%) NIST
5 8 (1.05%) PMO
6 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.52%) COBIT
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 167 (21.92%) Active Directory
2 165 (21.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (12.60%) Docker
4 55 (7.22%) Hyper-V
5 30 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (3.28%) vSphere
7 23 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (2.23%) Firmware
9 14 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.52%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.26%) XenApp
12 2 (0.26%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.13%) Postfix
13 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (16.01%) Kubernetes
2 117 (15.35%) Ansible
3 63 (8.27%) vCenter Server
4 59 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.86%) WSUS
6 25 (3.28%) Terraform
7 22 (2.89%) SCCM
8 21 (2.76%) Stealthwatch
9 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (1.97%) CASB
11 13 (1.71%) Puppet
12 12 (1.57%) FortiGate
13 11 (1.44%) ZABBIX
14 9 (1.18%) SCOM
15 8 (1.05%) Grafana
16 6 (0.79%) Nagios
17 5 (0.66%) Pingdom
18 4 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
18 4 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
19 3 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 282 (37.01%) Microsoft
2 218 (28.61%) VMware
3 169 (22.18%) Cisco
4 118 (15.49%) Adobe
4 118 (15.49%) Apple
5 87 (11.42%) Palo Alto
6 85 (11.15%) NetApp
7 66 (8.66%) Red Hat
8 55 (7.22%) Meraki
9 54 (7.09%) SolidFire
10 52 (6.82%) Citrix
11 50 (6.56%) Dell
12 49 (6.43%) HP
13 36 (4.72%) Veeam
14 32 (4.20%) Samsung
15 29 (3.81%) IBM
15 29 (3.81%) Juniper
16 24 (3.15%) Oracle
17 22 (2.89%) Dynatrace
17 22 (2.89%) SolarWinds