Data Centre Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Center
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 77 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 4 12 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% 1.31% 3.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 3.48% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 38
10th Percentile - £44,825 £31,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £46,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -14.41% +4.73%
75th Percentile £84,375 £48,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £87,750 £51,225 £71,375
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +29.41%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 277 345 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.88% 37.62% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 145 169 343
10th Percentile £29,300 £36,250 £31,350
25th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,840 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £98,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.86%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (25.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Debian
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Proofpoint
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow