Data Centre Operations Job Trends in Bristol

Data Center Operations
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 81 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.035% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.24% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £76,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £72,500 £42,500 £60,918
% change year-on-year +70.59% -30.23% +63.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,812 823 2,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 63.42% 92.06% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,372 550 2,069
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,925 £33,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -2.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,976
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.99% -3.82%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in Bristol

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Centre Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) VCAP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware