Data Centre Jobs in Cambridge

Data Center
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 59 49
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 +53
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 7 23 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.62% 2.28% 4.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.51% 4.78% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 18
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +109.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £98,750 £59,188
90th Percentile - - £64,875
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £90,000 £37,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +140.00% -37.50% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 127 481 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 47.57% 47.77% 55.79%
Number of salaries quoted 76 349 170
10th Percentile £31,308 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £84,000 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Cambridge.

Salary trend for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Cambridge over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Cambridge

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) IT Director
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
2 3 (42.86%) Budget Management
2 3 (42.86%) Change Control
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Graylog
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
1 3 (42.86%) Puppet
1 3 (42.86%) Rundeck
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Citrix
1 3 (42.86%) Juniper
1 3 (42.86%) NetApp
1 3 (42.86%) PagerDuty
1 3 (42.86%) Pure Storage
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki