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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 124 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -105 +92
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 59 107 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.72% 1.55% 10.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.38% 5.00% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 30 74 98
10th Percentile £52,400 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £74,688 £63,088 £66,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +3.00%

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 1,348 2,139 2,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 39.32% 30.94% 52.59%
Number of salaries quoted 460 1,564 813
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,131 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,533 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £82,500
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 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 16 June 2025.

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 16 June 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
Suffolk +8 32 £55,000 - 34
Hertfordshire +12 10 £71,250 +18.75% 138
Cambridgeshire +16 7 £110,000 +193.33% 85
Bedfordshire -6 7 £64,000 +31.73% 71
Essex -18 3 - - 105
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 1 (1.69%) Apache
1 1 (1.69%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) AWS
2 8 (13.56%) Azure
2 8 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (11.86%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.69%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.69%) IaaS
5 1 (1.69%) PaaS
5 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.69%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (32.20%) Firewall
2 8 (13.56%) SD-WAN
3 7 (11.86%) DNS
3 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (10.17%) DHCP
5 3 (5.08%) VPN
6 2 (3.39%) BGP
6 2 (3.39%) VLAN
6 2 (3.39%) WAN
7 1 (1.69%) 802.11
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.69%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.69%) HSRP
7 1 (1.69%) LTE
7 1 (1.69%) Multicast
7 1 (1.69%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.69%) SS7
7 1 (1.69%) TACACS
7 1 (1.69%) VRRP
7 1 (1.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) MySQL
1 2 (3.39%) Power BI
2 1 (1.69%) Big Data
2 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.69%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Electronics
2 7 (11.86%) Marketing
3 4 (6.78%) Retail
4 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Business Development Manager
1 14 (23.73%) Business Manager
1 14 (23.73%) Development Manager
2 7 (11.86%) Administrator
2 7 (11.86%) Data Centre Manager
2 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (11.86%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (10.17%) IT Support
3 6 (10.17%) IT Support Specialist
3 6 (10.17%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (10.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 6 (10.17%) Support Specialist
4 5 (8.47%) Senior
4 5 (8.47%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.08%) AWS Administrator
6 3 (5.08%) IT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) LDAP
2 1 (1.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
1 1 (1.69%) Life Science
1 1 (1.69%) NHS
1 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
1 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
1 1 (1.69%) PKI
1 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (1.69%) SCADA
1 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (1.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.29%) Windows
2 9 (15.25%) Linux
3 8 (13.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.69%) CentOS
4 1 (1.69%) Debian
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) Customer Service
2 24 (40.68%) Business Enablement
3 17 (28.81%) Technology Enablement
4 14 (23.73%) Business Development
5 11 (18.64%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (13.56%) DevOps
7 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (11.86%) Business Strategy
7 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.17%) Change Control
8 6 (10.17%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.47%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (8.47%) Roadmaps
10 4 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.78%) Data Protection
10 4 (6.78%) Mentoring
11 3 (5.08%) Network Design
11 3 (5.08%) Performance Management
11 3 (5.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.56%) Bash
1 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.17%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) SQL
4 1 (1.69%) Bicep
4 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) CCNA
3 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.39%) Docker
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (5.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Graylog
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.69%) Nagios
3 1 (1.69%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.69%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
3 1 (1.69%) Rundeck
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) YouTube
2 7 (11.86%) Citrix
2 7 (11.86%) Intel
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) Cisco
5 3 (5.08%) Juniper
5 3 (5.08%) VMware
6 2 (3.39%) Arista
7 1 (1.69%) Avaya
7 1 (1.69%) Commvault
7 1 (1.69%) Databricks
7 1 (1.69%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.69%) F5
7 1 (1.69%) Instagram
7 1 (1.69%) Meraki
7 1 (1.69%) NetApp
7 1 (1.69%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.69%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.69%) Twitter
7 1 (1.69%) Zerto