Data Centre Job Trends in Blackpool

Data Center
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Blackpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Blackpool 0.92% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,446 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - -
75th Percentile £50,443 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £54,222 £42,134 £52,000
% change year-on-year +28.69% -18.97% +112.24%

All Generic Skills
Blackpool

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Blackpool.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10 9 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackpool 9.17% 24.32% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 0
10th Percentile £43,167 £28,016 -
25th Percentile £50,619 £29,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £30,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.80% - -
75th Percentile £71,375 £38,583 -
90th Percentile £75,970 £59,690 -
Lancashire median annual salary £48,720 £52,500 £44,240
% change year-on-year -7.20% +18.67% -5.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Blackpool

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout