Data Centre Engineer Jobs in England

Data Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Centre Engineer salary in England is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 734 877
Rank change year-on-year +75 +143 +273
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 24 108 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.12% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.13% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 15 101 40
10th Percentile £38,500 £23,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £28,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £36,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +53.42% -16.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £64,000 £48,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £55,000 £67,550
UK median annual salary £56,000 £36,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year +53.42% -32.09% +30.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Centre Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
London +108 15 £60,000 +26.32% 31
South East +60 3 £51,750 +72.50% 20
South West - 3 - - 8
Midlands +59 2 £43,750 +143.06% 4
East Midlands - 2 £43,750 - 3
North of England +9 1 £65,000 +85.71% 3
North West -29 1 £65,000 +85.71% 2
Data Centre Engineer
UK

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Data Centre Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (29.17%) Linux
4 6 (25.00%) Cisco
4 6 (25.00%) Change Management
4 6 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 5 (20.83%) Firewall
5 5 (20.83%) Degree
5 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
5 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (16.67%) OSPF
6 4 (16.67%) BGP
6 4 (16.67%) VPN
6 4 (16.67%) SLA
6 4 (16.67%) VXLAN
6 4 (16.67%) NX-OS
6 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
7 3 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (12.50%) Meraki
7 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
7 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
7 3 (12.50%) Case Management
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (12.50%) Runbook

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) BGP
2 4 (16.67%) NX-OS
2 4 (16.67%) OSPF
2 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 4 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (12.50%) IPsec
3 3 (12.50%) LAN
3 3 (12.50%) MPLS
3 3 (12.50%) Network Security
3 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 3 (12.50%) WAN
3 3 (12.50%) WLAN
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) CCTV
4 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.17%) Debian
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (4.17%) VMS
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 3 (12.50%) Case Management
4 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 3 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
4 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Runbook
5 2 (8.33%) Break/Fix
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Fintech
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 1 (4.17%) Agile
6 1 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.17%) Data Migration
6 1 (4.17%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.17%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Bash
1 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CCIE
2 3 (12.50%) CCNA
2 3 (12.50%) CCNP
2 3 (12.50%) CCSA
2 3 (12.50%) CCSE
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Argo
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Packer
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Cisco
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 3 (12.50%) Meraki
3 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.33%) Dell
4 2 (8.33%) IBM
4 2 (8.33%) Snow
4 2 (8.33%) Sun
4 2 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Imperva
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat