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 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 92 98
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 21 8 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.03% 0.69% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.34% 2.00% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile £45,175 £49,300 £25,000
25th Percentile £61,938 £61,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +27.27% -26.67%
75th Percentile £86,438 £86,875 £106,289
90th Percentile £88,575 £112,750 -
Scotland median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +11.90% -10.64% +46.88%

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 393 401 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.90% 34.48% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 109 152 363
10th Percentile £25,000 £37,686 £40,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,813 £81,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £97,139
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £56,509 £60,000
% change year-on-year -29.21% -5.82% +2.91%

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
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Edinburgh

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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (90.48%) Firewall
1 19 (90.48%) LAN
1 19 (90.48%) WAN
1 19 (90.48%) Wireless
2 16 (76.19%) SD-WAN
2 16 (76.19%) Wireshark
3 3 (14.29%) BGP
3 3 (14.29%) MPLS
3 3 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 20 (95.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (76.19%) Finance
2 16 (76.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Network Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Network Support
2 4 (19.05%) Network Support Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Miscellaneous
1 16 (76.19%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Load Balancing
2 17 (80.95%) Customer Service
3 16 (76.19%) Asset Management
3 16 (76.19%) Capacity Planning
3 16 (76.19%) Change Management
3 16 (76.19%) Coaching
3 16 (76.19%) Network Monitoring
3 16 (76.19%) Network Planning
3 16 (76.19%) Network Virtualisation
3 16 (76.19%) Problem Management
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Kanban
4 3 (14.29%) People Management
4 3 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (14.29%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.76%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) SolarWinds
2 16 (76.19%) CheckPoint
2 16 (76.19%) Cisco
2 16 (76.19%) Meraki
2 16 (76.19%) Palo Alto
3 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
4 3 (14.29%) F5
4 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 3 (14.29%) Splunk
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.76%) Proofpoint