Data Centre Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Data Center
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 65 38
Rank change year-on-year +17 -27 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 12 40 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.37% 2.52% 7.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.08% 6.02% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 33
10th Percentile £25,500 - £41,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £37,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% -37.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £105,000 £38,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £110,000 - £67,500
East of England median annual salary £64,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 236 665 715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 46.55% 41.96% 51.33%
Number of salaries quoted 137 478 225
10th Percentile £32,796 £27,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,438 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,001 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Cambridgeshire

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Cambridgeshire

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Cambridgeshire

Data Centre
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +21 7 £100,000 +2.56% 19
Huntingdon +4 3 £26,000 -25.71%
Data Centre
East of England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (25.00%) HTTP
2 3 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) DNS
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (8.33%) Retail
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) 1st Line Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) IT Director
1 3 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Planner
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 3 (25.00%) CAD
3 3 (25.00%) Change Control
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) Hardware Maintenance
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (8.33%) API Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) VCAP
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Graylog
1 3 (25.00%) Nagios
1 3 (25.00%) Puppet
1 3 (25.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) NetApp
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) Juniper
3 3 (25.00%) PagerDuty
3 3 (25.00%) Pure Storage
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) Instagram
4 1 (8.33%) Meraki
4 1 (8.33%) Twitter