Data Centre Jobs 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 95 28
Rank change year-on-year -43 -67 +92
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 20 113 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.74% 2.33% 7.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 7.88% 19.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10 91 26
10th Percentile £37,000 £22,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,313 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £59,535 £53,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £76,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +3.68%

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 932 1,434 1,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.47% 29.52% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 336 936 470
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,807 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,375 £31,750 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £56,000 £61,162
90th Percentile £69,375 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the East Midlands

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Nottinghamshire -1 9 £47,194 +30.69% 11
Leicestershire +28 3 £59,500 +75.18% 3
Derbyshire -3 3 £37,500 -34.78% 9
Northamptonshire -12 3 £50,000 +25.00% 13
Lincolnshire -16 2 £57,500 +39.39% 1
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) SaaS
3 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) IaaS
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AI
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 2 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (10.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (10.00%) VPN
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) Modbus
5 1 (5.00%) MQTT
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security
5 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Electrical Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Systems Support
2 6 (30.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Junior
5 2 (10.00%) Junior Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (5.00%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (10.00%) Agile
2 2 (10.00%) Analytics
2 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (10.00%) B2B
2 2 (10.00%) Business Development
2 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (10.00%) DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (10.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (10.00%) Migration
2 2 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (10.00%) Service Management
2 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) HNC
2 1 (5.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
1 2 (10.00%) SCOM
1 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Imperva
3 2 (10.00%) Meraki
4 1 (5.00%) AVEVA
4 1 (5.00%) Rockwell
4 1 (5.00%) Siemens