Data Centre Jobs in Kent

Data Center
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 42 66
Rank change year-on-year -40 +24 -21
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 18 63 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.22% 5.48% 3.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.38% 11.41% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 31 45
10th Percentile - - £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% +9.38% -24.71%
75th Percentile £74,750 £44,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £60,000 £67,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% -4.82% -

All Generic Skills
Kent

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 532 552 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 35.99% 48.04% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 342 250 263
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,550
25th Percentile £30,125 £33,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - +4.76%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Kent

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Kent

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Kent over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Kent

Data Centre
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Kent region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Malling -3 6 £65,000 -
Dartford - 5 £45,000 - 1
Sandwich - 3 £65,000 - 1
Chatham +7 2 £98,000 +12.00%
Maidstone -12 2 £110,000 +144.44% 3
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Nutanix
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Consultant
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Consultant
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Project Management
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Runbook
4 4 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) Network Architecture
6 1 (5.56%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
4 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
4 3 (16.67%) New Relic
5 2 (11.11%) Cognizant
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco
6 1 (5.56%) Citrix
6 1 (5.56%) Dell
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) Veeam