Data Centre Jobs 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 63 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 13 47 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.49% 3.11% 4.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.28% 10.59% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 38 13
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% -4.31% +10.48%
75th Percentile £48,750 £64,063 -
90th Percentile £52,050 £71,375 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 304 444 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.78% 29.42% 39.28%
Number of salaries quoted 127 335 424
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £35,908
25th Percentile £46,244 £44,408 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,886 £77,715
90th Percentile £113,979 £87,500 £97,328
Scotland median annual salary £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Edinburgh

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Data Centre in Edinburgh

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) SaaS
4 4 (30.77%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) BGP
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (15.38%) NX-OS
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (15.38%) VXLAN
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Billing
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DBA
1 5 (38.46%) SQL DBA
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server DBA
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Support
4 1 (7.69%) Network Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Web Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Web Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Web Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Design Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
4 2 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
1 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) CCNP
1 1 (7.69%) CISA
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Symantec