Data Centre Jobs in the East of England

Data Center
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 10 110
Rank change year-on-year -104 +100 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 73 494 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.40% 13.59% 2.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% 27.72% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 60 97 150
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,552 £43,750 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,938 £63,750 £60,938
90th Percentile £71,375 £67,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +7.23%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,535 1,782 3,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.48% 49.01% 50.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,073 715 1,153
10th Percentile £25,769 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,198 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the East of England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the East of England

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the East of England

Data Centre
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Hertfordshire -68 28 £55,000 - 25
Essex -27 24 £52,000 +6.56% 6
Bedfordshire -16 10 £48,585 - 3
Cambridgeshire -61 9 £37,500 -19.35% 3
Suffolk -32 1 - -
Norfolk -47 1 £30,500 -
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (16.44%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (5.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.14%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (24.66%) Azure
3 7 (9.59%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.85%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.85%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.11%) AWS
6 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.37%) IaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.07%) Firewall
2 7 (9.59%) DNS
3 6 (8.22%) DHCP
3 6 (8.22%) WAN
3 6 (8.22%) Wireless
4 5 (6.85%) LAN
4 5 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (5.48%) Ethernet
5 4 (5.48%) Extranet
5 4 (5.48%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.11%) SAN
7 2 (2.74%) Internet
8 1 (1.37%) FTP
8 1 (1.37%) HTTP
8 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.37%) POP3
8 1 (1.37%) SMTP
8 1 (1.37%) VPN
8 1 (1.37%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) MySQL
1 2 (2.74%) Power BI
2 1 (1.37%) Big Data
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle9i Database
2 1 (1.37%) OrientDB
2 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Git
2 1 (1.37%) ScriptRunner
General
1 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Legal
3 12 (16.44%) Banking
3 12 (16.44%) Retail
4 9 (12.33%) Finance
5 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.22%) French Language
6 6 (8.22%) German Language
6 6 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.74%) Marketing
9 2 (2.74%) Publishing
10 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.37%) Electronics
10 1 (1.37%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Project Manager
3 10 (13.70%) Data Centre Manager
3 10 (13.70%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 9 (12.33%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (5.48%) Service Design Specialist
7 4 (5.48%) Service Transition Specialist
7 4 (5.48%) Support Technician
7 4 (5.48%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.11%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Support Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Sales Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Sales Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.37%) HTML
1 1 (1.37%) J2EE
1 1 (1.37%) LDAP
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (5.48%) CCTV
2 4 (5.48%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.48%) Life Science
2 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.48%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Clustering
4 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.37%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Windows
3 6 (8.22%) Android
3 6 (8.22%) Apple iOS
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.11%) Debian
5 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.11%) Rocky
5 3 (4.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.37%) Solaris
6 1 (1.37%) Unix
6 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (23.29%) ITIL
3 13 (17.81%) Project Management
4 11 (15.07%) Presales
5 10 (13.70%) Migration
6 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (9.59%) PRINCE2
6 7 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.22%) Business Analysis
7 6 (8.22%) Change Management
7 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.22%) Customer Engagement
7 6 (8.22%) Incident Management
7 6 (8.22%) IT Strategy
8 5 (6.85%) Business Continuity
8 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (6.85%) High Availability
8 5 (6.85%) Service Delivery
8 5 (6.85%) Service Management
8 5 (6.85%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.85%) Bash
3 4 (5.48%) Python
4 2 (2.74%) SQL
5 1 (1.37%) C++
5 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.37%) ProC
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Degree
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.48%) CCNP
2 4 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (5.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (4.11%) CCNA
4 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) CCIE
5 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.37%) MCSA
5 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) GDPR
2 5 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.11%) PMO
4 2 (2.74%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (15.07%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.74%) Firmware
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (9.59%) SCCM
3 6 (8.22%) Ansible
4 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.48%) Terraform
5 3 (4.11%) Puppet
5 3 (4.11%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.74%) Grafana
6 2 (2.74%) WSUS
6 2 (2.74%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (28.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.18%) VMware
3 6 (8.22%) HP
3 6 (8.22%) Veeam
4 5 (6.85%) Cisco
5 4 (5.48%) Computacenter
6 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.37%) BT
7 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.37%) Dell
7 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.37%) F5
7 1 (1.37%) Nokia
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Qualys
7 1 (1.37%) Riverbed
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds