Data Centre Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Center
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 118 146
Rank change year-on-year -41 +28 -116
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 18 25 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.29% 1.08% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 2.38% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 24
10th Percentile £38,438 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +20.93% +2.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 -
England median annual salary £65,674 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.46% +9.09% -5.98%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,329 1,050 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.28% 45.47% 24.80%
Number of salaries quoted 838 436 494
10th Percentile £27,969 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £73,600
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Nottinghamshire -20 9 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Northamptonshire -2 6 £52,500 -30.00% 4
Derbyshire -12 2 - - 2
Leicestershire -34 1 £48,500 - 3
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) DHCP
2 5 (27.78%) DNS
3 3 (16.67%) NX-OS
3 3 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (5.56%) BGP
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (5.56%) MPLS
5 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Server Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Commissioning Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Head of Managed Services
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Commissioning Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Design Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Electrical Design Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Electrical Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Availability Management
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Culture Change
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Digital Forensics
3 3 (16.67%) Information Security
3 3 (16.67%) Open Source
3 3 (16.67%) Product Management
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) Server Management
3 3 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
4 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 2 (11.11%) Runbook
4 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CCNA
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) MCSE
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (16.67%) vSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) FIS
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Imperva