Data Centre Job Trends in Bridgend

Data Center
South Wales > Bridgend

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Bridgend. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1 0 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Bridgend 1.03% - 14.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.00% - 51.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,750 - £35,195
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 - £44,886
75th Percentile £49,250 - £45,780
90th Percentile - - £52,953
South Wales median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £44,886
% change year-on-year +20.83% +33.67% -35.88%

All Generic Skills
Bridgend

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 Bridgend.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20 6 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bridgend 20.62% 31.58% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 30
10th Percentile £29,750 - £29,035
25th Percentile £33,467 £25,750 £32,861
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £26,500 £36,476
Median % change year-on-year +45.28% -27.35% +51.98%
75th Percentile £49,250 £39,875 £45,780
90th Percentile £60,000 £47,450 £48,356
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £46,604
% change year-on-year - +18.02% -4.40%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Bridgend

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Bridgend

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Bridgend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgend 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Converged Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) ICT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco