Data Centre Job Trends in the City of London

Data Center
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 77 124
Rank change year-on-year -27 +47 +8
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 30 95 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.30% 3.58% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.84% 8.39% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 26 56 41
10th Percentile £44,813 £46,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,750 £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £83,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.77% +11.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £102,250 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £83,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.78% +11.33% +3.45%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 782 1,132 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.90% 42.64% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 604 678 841
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,375 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the City of London

Data Centre
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £102,000 -
Data Centre
Central London

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
2 1 (3.33%) H2O.ai
2 1 (3.33%) IaaS
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
2 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) VPN
3 4 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 3 (10.00%) Network Security
4 3 (10.00%) WAN
4 3 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (6.67%) BGP
5 2 (6.67%) DHCP
5 2 (6.67%) DNS
5 2 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (6.67%) LAN
5 2 (6.67%) MPLS
5 2 (6.67%) OSPF
6 1 (3.33%) NAS
6 1 (3.33%) SAN
6 1 (3.33%) VLAN
6 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Metadata
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Senior
2 3 (10.00%) Business Development Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Business Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Development Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Linux Support
2 3 (10.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Operations Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Project Director
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) LAMP
2 1 (3.33%) Keras
2 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Private Cloud
1 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.67%) Bitcoin
3 2 (6.67%) Blockchain
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Linux
4 3 (10.00%) CentOS
4 3 (10.00%) Rocky
4 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.33%) Unix
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (13.33%) Business Development
2 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (10.00%) Information Security
3 3 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (10.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (10.00%) SIEM
4 2 (6.67%) Data Security
4 2 (6.67%) Information Security Management
4 2 (6.67%) Migration
4 2 (6.67%) Security Management
4 2 (6.67%) Service Management
4 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) CCNP
1 5 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) CCNA
3 3 (10.00%) CISA
3 3 (10.00%) CISM
3 3 (10.00%) CISSP
3 3 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (6.67%) CCSP
4 2 (6.67%) MCITP
4 2 (6.67%) MCSA
4 2 (6.67%) MCSE
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) CRISC
5 1 (3.33%) GIAC
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 5 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 4 (13.33%) Juniper
5 3 (10.00%) EMC
5 3 (10.00%) F5
5 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.67%) Citrix
6 2 (6.67%) Forcepoint
6 2 (6.67%) ForeScout
6 2 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (6.67%) Meraki
7 1 (3.33%) Databricks
7 1 (3.33%) Dell
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) NVIDIA