Data Centre Jobs in England

Data Center
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 45 217
Rank change year-on-year -99 +172 -14
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,435 4,066 2,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.83% 5.72% 1.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.56% 13.75% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,219 1,725
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,580 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +7.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £91,700
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,806 29,571 69,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.93% 41.60% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,283 18,664 32,310
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,408 £34,506
25th Percentile £40,523 £46,570 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -42 385 £65,000 -10.03% 107
South East -61 355 £55,000 +4.76% 91
North of England -120 273 £42,500 -22.73% 47
Midlands -113 194 £54,000 +8.00% 22
North West -86 182 £43,072 -25.09% 24
South West -87 153 £53,750 -2.27% 23
West Midlands -96 118 £57,500 +16.01% 15
Yorkshire -88 77 £42,500 -22.73% 17
East Midlands -95 74 £42,500 -19.05% 7
East of England -104 73 £50,000 -9.09% 37
North East -72 14 £42,500 -19.05% 7
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
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 74 (5.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.65%) Apache
4 19 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 14 (0.98%) IIS
5 14 (0.98%) Skype for Business
6 11 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.49%) Confluence
8 6 (0.42%) nginx
9 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.14%) CloudStack
12 1 (0.070%) CMS
12 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) HiPortfolio
2 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.070%) MetaTrader
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 287 (20.00%) Azure
2 226 (15.75%) Microsoft 365
3 189 (13.17%) AWS
4 71 (4.95%) SaaS
5 61 (4.25%) Entra ID
6 49 (3.41%) Amazon S3
7 37 (2.58%) Power Platform
8 35 (2.44%) GCP
9 34 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
10 30 (2.09%) IaaS
11 29 (2.02%) PaaS
12 26 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (1.18%) OneDrive
14 16 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (0.98%) Mimecast
16 13 (0.91%) Nutanix
17 12 (0.84%) CloudFront
17 12 (0.84%) Kong
18 10 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 331 (23.07%) Firewall
2 247 (17.21%) WAN
3 178 (12.40%) VPN
4 175 (12.20%) LAN
5 127 (8.85%) DNS
6 126 (8.78%) Network Security
7 122 (8.50%) SD-WAN
8 106 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
9 98 (6.83%) DHCP
10 87 (6.06%) Internet
11 86 (5.99%) Wireless
12 77 (5.37%) MPLS
13 76 (5.30%) OSPF
14 74 (5.16%) BGP
15 67 (4.67%) IPsec
16 63 (4.39%) TCP/IP
17 62 (4.32%) Cisco Firepower
18 59 (4.11%) SNMP
18 59 (4.11%) VLAN
19 45 (3.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.14%) MongoDB
2 43 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
3 41 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (1.74%) Power BI
6 22 (1.53%) MySQL
7 14 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 13 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.70%) Big Data
9 10 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.42%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.42%) DB2
11 6 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.35%) Redis
13 3 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.21%) GIS
13 3 (0.21%) Metadata
13 3 (0.21%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (1.32%) JIRA
2 13 (0.91%) Git
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (0.42%) GitLab
3 6 (0.42%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.42%) RStudio
4 1 (0.070%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.070%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.070%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.070%) Visual Studio
General
1 306 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 203 (14.15%) Finance
3 94 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (5.16%) Banking
5 58 (4.04%) Retail
6 57 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.28%) Law
8 45 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 42 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.58%) Legal
11 34 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (2.37%) Public Sector
12 30 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.05%) Marketing
14 14 (0.98%) Automotive
14 14 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.70%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.56%) German Language
17 7 (0.49%) French Language
Job Titles
1 226 (15.75%) Senior
2 223 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 164 (11.43%) Architect
4 146 (10.17%) Network Engineer
5 118 (8.22%) Data Centre Engineer
6 111 (7.74%) Consultant
7 84 (5.85%) Lead
8 69 (4.81%) Senior Architect
9 63 (4.39%) Project Manager
10 58 (4.04%) Data Centre Manager
11 56 (3.90%) IT Engineer
12 54 (3.76%) Security Architect
13 51 (3.55%) Analyst
13 51 (3.55%) Cisco Architect
13 51 (3.55%) Senior Cisco Architect
13 51 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
14 49 (3.41%) Support Engineer
15 48 (3.34%) IT Manager
16 43 (3.00%) Infrastructure Manager
17 42 (2.93%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
2 40 (2.79%) 802.1X
3 34 (2.37%) YAML
4 13 (0.91%) LDAP
5 11 (0.77%) SAML
6 10 (0.70%) Kafka
7 9 (0.63%) HTML
8 8 (0.56%) EDI
8 8 (0.56%) Middleware
8 8 (0.56%) Web Services
9 7 (0.49%) XML
10 6 (0.42%) .NET
11 5 (0.35%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (0.21%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.21%) JSON
12 3 (0.21%) REST
12 3 (0.21%) RESTful
12 3 (0.21%) XMPP
13 2 (0.14%) Azure Blueprints
13 2 (0.14%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.39%) Management Information System
2 68 (4.74%) Public Cloud
3 58 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 56 (3.90%) Driving Licence
5 39 (2.72%) Private Cloud
6 29 (2.02%) PKI
7 27 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.60%) Mainframe
9 21 (1.46%) Replication
10 17 (1.18%) SCADA
11 16 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
12 15 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
14 13 (0.91%) Client/Server
15 11 (0.77%) Blog
15 11 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
15 11 (0.77%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.70%) CCTV
16 10 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 367 (25.57%) Windows
2 274 (19.09%) Linux
3 146 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 45 (3.14%) Windows 10
5 38 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (2.37%) Data ONTAP
7 31 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (1.32%) Unix
10 16 (1.11%) Android
10 16 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.98%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.84%) CentOS
13 10 (0.70%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.70%) zOS
14 8 (0.56%) VMS
15 7 (0.49%) Rocky
15 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.35%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.35%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (21.46%) Cybersecurity
2 294 (20.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 203 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
4 188 (13.10%) ITIL
5 186 (12.96%) Project Management
6 180 (12.54%) Presales
7 136 (9.48%) Software Licensing
8 123 (8.57%) Mentoring
9 119 (8.29%) Agile
9 119 (8.29%) DevOps
10 102 (7.11%) Information Security
11 101 (7.04%) Roadmaps
12 88 (6.13%) Time Management
13 87 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
14 86 (5.99%) Service Delivery
15 85 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 85 (5.92%) Project Delivery
16 84 (5.85%) Analytics
17 82 (5.71%) Migration
18 77 (5.37%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (9.97%) Python
2 94 (6.55%) PowerShell
3 73 (5.09%) SQL
4 34 (2.37%) Bash
5 25 (1.74%) Java
6 19 (1.32%) C#
7 11 (0.77%) Go
8 10 (0.70%) MATLAB
9 7 (0.49%) PHP
10 6 (0.42%) R
11 5 (0.35%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.28%) Perl
13 3 (0.21%) C
13 3 (0.21%) RPG
13 3 (0.21%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.070%) Bicep
15 1 (0.070%) ProC
15 1 (0.070%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 281 (19.58%) Degree
2 185 (12.89%) Cisco Certification
3 147 (10.24%) CCNP
4 130 (9.06%) CCNA
5 122 (8.50%) Security Cleared
6 77 (5.37%) SC Cleared
7 74 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (2.37%) CCIE
9 34 (2.37%) CISSP
10 31 (2.16%) Azure Certification
11 29 (2.02%) DV Cleared
12 28 (1.95%) MCP
13 20 (1.39%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 17 (1.18%) APMP
15 17 (1.18%) MCSE
16 16 (1.11%) MCSA
17 13 (0.91%) PMI Certification
18 12 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.60%) SLA
2 64 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.86%) GDPR
4 26 (1.81%) NIST
5 22 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.05%) QA
7 13 (0.91%) NCSC
8 11 (0.77%) PMO
9 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.56%) COBIT
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.42%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.42%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 222 (15.47%) Active Directory
2 217 (15.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 85 (5.92%) Hyper-V
4 78 (5.44%) Docker
5 75 (5.23%) VMware ESXi
6 62 (4.32%) vSphere
7 36 (2.51%) Firmware
8 22 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (1.25%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.49%) KVM
12 7 (0.49%) NFS
13 5 (0.35%) pfSense
13 5 (0.35%) XenApp
14 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.28%) Xen
14 4 (0.28%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.21%) QEMU
16 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 113 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 74 (5.16%) Ansible
3 70 (4.88%) vCenter Server
4 52 (3.62%) Terraform
5 39 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.72%) WSUS
6 36 (2.51%) Stealthwatch
7 33 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (2.23%) Puppet
9 31 (2.16%) SCCM
10 16 (1.11%) CASB
10 16 (1.11%) Nagios
10 16 (1.11%) SCOM
10 16 (1.11%) ZABBIX
11 15 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.98%) Grafana
13 13 (0.91%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.70%) Pingdom
15 9 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 438 (30.52%) Microsoft
2 331 (23.07%) Cisco
3 293 (20.42%) VMware
4 142 (9.90%) Apple
5 136 (9.48%) Adobe
6 129 (8.99%) Dell
7 106 (7.39%) Palo Alto
8 95 (6.62%) HP
9 85 (5.92%) NetApp
10 82 (5.71%) Meraki
11 72 (5.02%) Red Hat
12 65 (4.53%) Juniper
13 60 (4.18%) Fortinet
14 58 (4.04%) Veeam
15 47 (3.28%) Citrix
16 43 (3.00%) SolarWinds
17 42 (2.93%) CheckPoint
18 38 (2.65%) F5
19 34 (2.37%) Oracle
19 34 (2.37%) SolidFire