Data Centre Jobs in Hampshire

Data Center
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 145 44
Rank change year-on-year +65 -101 +129
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 47 46 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.30% 1.14% 5.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.18% 3.68% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 41 36 68
10th Percentile £24,750 £27,625 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,188 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +25.63% -26.30%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £61,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.47% -3.18%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 512 1,251 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 25.02% 30.93% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 260 894 765
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £29,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,100 £77,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +12.24% -13.27% +2.73%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Hampshire

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Hampshire

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Hampshire

Data Centre
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Southampton +27 15 £40,000 -36.00% 9
Farnborough +11 8 £62,500 +108.33% 19
Portsmouth - 7 £47,500 - 11
Fareham - 3 £25,500 - 3
Alton - 2 - -
Basingstoke -3 1 - - 5
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) AWS
2 6 (12.77%) SaaS
3 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Azure
4 3 (6.38%) IaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Asana
5 2 (4.26%) Azure AI
5 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) PaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (38.30%) VPN
2 12 (25.53%) Firewall
3 11 (23.40%) BGP
3 11 (23.40%) OSPF
4 10 (21.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 10 (21.28%) IPsec
5 9 (19.15%) SSL
5 9 (19.15%) TCP/IP
5 9 (19.15%) Wireshark
6 8 (17.02%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (17.02%) VXLAN
7 6 (12.77%) DHCP
7 6 (12.77%) DNS
8 5 (10.64%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (10.64%) EIGRP
8 5 (10.64%) RIP
8 5 (10.64%) WAN
9 4 (8.51%) VoIP
10 3 (6.38%) Broadband
10 3 (6.38%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
1 2 (4.26%) MySQL
1 2 (4.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Finance
4 1 (2.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Graduate
3 6 (12.77%) Graduate Sales Executive
3 6 (12.77%) NOC Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Sales Executive
4 5 (10.64%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Architect
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Electrical Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) JSON
1 4 (8.51%) YAML
2 1 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.26%) NHS
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) CentOS
3 6 (12.77%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.28%) Agile
2 8 (17.02%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
4 6 (12.77%) Customer Experience
4 6 (12.77%) Information Security
4 6 (12.77%) Information Security Management
4 6 (12.77%) Penetration Testing
4 6 (12.77%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (12.77%) Security Management
5 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
6 4 (8.51%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.51%) Change Control
6 4 (8.51%) Change Management
6 4 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.51%) Migration
6 4 (8.51%) Project Management
6 4 (8.51%) Waterfall
7 3 (6.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.38%) SQL
2 2 (4.26%) Bicep
3 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.13%) Python
3 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (38.30%) CCNA
3 17 (36.17%) Security Cleared
4 16 (34.04%) CCNP
5 9 (19.15%) DV Cleared
6 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (17.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (14.89%) MCSE
7 7 (14.89%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (12.77%) MCSA
9 5 (10.64%) Degree
9 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
10 3 (6.38%) JNCIS
11 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
11 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
11 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
11 2 (4.26%) PMP
12 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (2.13%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) SLA
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.51%) Firmware
2 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) vSphere
4 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.13%) KVM
4 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) vRealize
3 1 (2.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) Cisco
2 13 (27.66%) VMware
3 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
4 10 (21.28%) Juniper
5 6 (12.77%) Palo Alto
5 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
6 4 (8.51%) Dell
7 3 (6.38%) Aruba
7 3 (6.38%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.26%) Databricks
8 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.26%) Mellanox
8 2 (4.26%) Meraki
8 2 (4.26%) NVIDIA
8 2 (4.26%) Oracle
9 1 (2.13%) Broadcom