Data Centre Engineer Jobs in London

Data Centre Engineer
England > London

The median Data Centre Engineer salary in London is £62,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 484 605
Rank change year-on-year +97 +121 +267
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 13 27 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 14
10th Percentile £38,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £36,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.53% +25.00% -46.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £51,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £55,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +49.33% -21.05% +8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,605 22,296 31,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,225 16,647 23,618
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,444
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in London

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Centre Engineer in London

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre Engineer in London

Data Centre Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 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
East London - 3 £39,000 - 2
Central London +32 1 £62,000 +12.73% 2
West London +16 1 £56,000 +17.89% 4
Data Centre Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 London region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) Firewall
4 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
4 3 (23.08%) VXLAN
4 3 (23.08%) NX-OS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
4 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
4 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (23.08%) Runbook
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) CCSA
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
4 3 (23.08%) IPsec
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
4 3 (23.08%) MPLS
4 3 (23.08%) OSPF
4 3 (23.08%) BGP
4 3 (23.08%) CCIE
4 3 (23.08%) CCNP

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) BGP
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (23.08%) IPsec
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
2 3 (23.08%) MPLS
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) NX-OS
2 3 (23.08%) OSPF
2 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
2 3 (23.08%) VXLAN
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) WLAN
3 1 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Electronics
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) CCTV
4 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (23.08%) Runbook
4 2 (15.38%) Fintech
5 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) CCIE
2 3 (23.08%) CCNA
2 3 (23.08%) CCNP
2 3 (23.08%) CCSA
2 3 (23.08%) CCSE
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Argo
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Packer
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
2 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
2 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
2 3 (23.08%) Meraki
2 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Snow
3 2 (15.38%) Sun
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft