Data Centre Job Trends in Central London

Data Center
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 89 126
Rank change year-on-year -30 +37 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 29 97 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.23% 2.97% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.40% 7.05% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26 60 48
10th Percentile £36,688 £46,250 £53,375
25th Percentile £49,188 £75,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £83,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +11.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £104,688 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £105,250 £95,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,073
% change year-on-year - +14.17% -3.35%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 853 1,376 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 36.30% 42.16% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 654 793 920
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £122,625
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Central London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Central London

Data Centre
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
City of London -23 26 £90,000 +7.78% 72
City of Westminster +35 3 £30,000 -
Southwark - 1 £102,000 -
Data Centre
London

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) H2O.ai
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (13.79%) SD-WAN
3 4 (13.79%) VPN
4 3 (10.34%) BGP
4 3 (10.34%) Network Security
4 3 (10.34%) OSPF
4 3 (10.34%) WAN
5 2 (6.90%) DHCP
5 2 (6.90%) DNS
5 2 (6.90%) LAN
5 2 (6.90%) MPLS
6 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.45%) NAS
6 1 (3.45%) SAN
6 1 (3.45%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (3.45%) VLAN
6 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Metadata
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Support Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) IT Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Linux Support
3 3 (10.34%) Linux Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Business Development Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Business Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Development Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Project Director
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) LAMP
2 1 (3.45%) Keras
2 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Private Cloud
1 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) iPhone
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.90%) Bitcoin
3 2 (6.90%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Derivative
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) CentOS
3 3 (10.34%) Mac OS
3 3 (10.34%) Rocky
3 3 (10.34%) Ubuntu
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.45%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (10.34%) Business Development
3 3 (10.34%) Code Quality
3 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (10.34%) Information Security
3 3 (10.34%) Load Balancing
3 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.34%) SIEM
4 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.90%) ITIL
4 2 (6.90%) Migration
4 2 (6.90%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery
4 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) CCNP
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.34%) CCNA
4 2 (6.90%) CISA
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
4 2 (6.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CCSP
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
5 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.45%) MCITP
5 1 (3.45%) MCSA
5 1 (3.45%) MCSE
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
4 3 (10.34%) EMC
4 3 (10.34%) F5
4 3 (10.34%) Juniper
4 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.90%) Citrix
5 2 (6.90%) Forcepoint
5 2 (6.90%) ForeScout
5 2 (6.90%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (6.90%) Meraki
6 1 (3.45%) Databricks
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA