Data Centre Jobs in London

Data Center
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in London. 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 178 136 260
Rank change year-on-year -42 +124 -9
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 385 671 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.86% 2.47% 1.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.53% 5.72% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 313 488 700
10th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,250 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% +6.25% +4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,563 £85,875
90th Percentile £97,700 £110,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +7.23%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,507 11,733 38,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.02% 43.26% 51.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,645 9,002 16,218
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,171 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,938
90th Percentile £136,250 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
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 within the London 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
Central London -43 46 £75,000 +3.45% 29
West London -17 14 £50,000 -4.76% 12
East London +14 5 £50,000 -52.38% 19
North London +2 1 £100,000 +233.33% 5
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.38%) IIS
4 11 (2.86%) Tomcat
5 8 (2.08%) Skype for Business
6 6 (1.56%) Apache
7 5 (1.30%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.04%) nginx
9 3 (0.78%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) MetaTrader
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 112 (29.09%) Azure
2 74 (19.22%) AWS
3 50 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.45%) GCP
5 20 (5.19%) SaaS
6 18 (4.68%) IaaS
7 17 (4.42%) PaaS
8 16 (4.16%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.60%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (2.34%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
12 7 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.56%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.30%) Azure Stack
15 4 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.04%) GitHub
15 4 (1.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 3 (0.78%) Datadog
16 3 (0.78%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 123 (31.95%) Firewall
2 91 (23.64%) WAN
3 88 (22.86%) LAN
4 75 (19.48%) VPN
5 60 (15.58%) DNS
6 58 (15.06%) MPLS
7 53 (13.77%) Wireless
8 52 (13.51%) Network Security
9 47 (12.21%) BGP
10 42 (10.91%) DHCP
11 41 (10.65%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (9.61%) VLAN
13 36 (9.35%) SD-WAN
14 35 (9.09%) OSPF
15 29 (7.53%) Internet
16 25 (6.49%) SSL
17 20 (5.19%) Cisco Nexus
17 20 (5.19%) TCP/IP
18 18 (4.68%) IPsec
19 17 (4.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.60%) BigQuery
2 8 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.30%) DB2
5 5 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.78%) GIS
6 3 (0.78%) Metadata
6 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.78%) Spatial Data
6 3 (0.78%) Tableau
7 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.52%) Bigtable
7 2 (0.52%) Looker
7 2 (0.52%) MySQL
7 2 (0.52%) Power BI
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (1.56%) JIRA
2 3 (0.78%) Git
2 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 113 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.00%) Finance
3 33 (8.57%) Banking
4 29 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (6.75%) Law
7 17 (4.42%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.16%) Retail
9 13 (3.38%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.60%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.82%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.56%) Legal
14 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.04%) Back Office
15 4 (1.04%) Billing
15 4 (1.04%) Japanese Language
16 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.78%) Publishing
17 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (18.44%) Network Engineer
2 60 (15.58%) Senior
3 41 (10.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (9.35%) Architect
5 33 (8.57%) Data Centre Engineer
5 33 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 25 (6.49%) Analyst
7 21 (5.45%) Consultant
8 18 (4.68%) IT Manager
8 18 (4.68%) Security Engineer
8 18 (4.68%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (4.68%) Systems Engineer
9 16 (4.16%) Data Centre Manager
10 15 (3.90%) Data Centre Project Manager
10 15 (3.90%) Network Security Engineer
11 14 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (3.64%) Infrastructure Architect
11 14 (3.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.38%) Linux Engineer
12 13 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.45%) 802.1X
2 10 (2.60%) Kafka
3 8 (2.08%) SAML
4 7 (1.82%) HTML
4 7 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (1.82%) XML
5 5 (1.30%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (1.30%) YAML
6 3 (0.78%) LDAP
6 3 (0.78%) Middleware
6 3 (0.78%) RESTful
6 3 (0.78%) XMPP
7 2 (0.52%) JSON
8 1 (0.26%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.26%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.26%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.26%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.23%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.45%) Public Cloud
3 18 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.12%) Client/Server
4 12 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.86%) Blog
5 11 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.08%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.56%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.56%) Replication
9 5 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.78%) Clustering
11 3 (0.78%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.52%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 72 (18.70%) Windows
2 65 (16.88%) Linux
3 28 (7.27%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (2.34%) Unix
6 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.78%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.26%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.26%) Rocky
10 1 (0.26%) Solaris
10 1 (0.26%) SUSE
10 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (20.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (11.43%) Project Management
2 44 (11.43%) Roadmaps
3 43 (11.17%) Agile
4 40 (10.39%) Migration
5 37 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (9.09%) ITIL
8 34 (8.83%) DevOps
9 33 (8.57%) Load Balancing
10 32 (8.31%) Project Delivery
11 30 (7.79%) Infrastructure Management
12 27 (7.01%) Mentoring
13 23 (5.97%) Presales
14 22 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (5.71%) Network Management
15 21 (5.45%) PRINCE2
16 20 (5.19%) Open Source
16 20 (5.19%) Technical Leadership
17 19 (4.94%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 55 (14.29%) Python
2 41 (10.65%) PowerShell
3 15 (3.90%) Bash
3 15 (3.90%) Java
4 11 (2.86%) Go
5 8 (2.08%) SQL
6 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.78%) RPG
7 2 (0.52%) C#
8 1 (0.26%) Korn
8 1 (0.26%) PHP
8 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (13.77%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (10.39%) Degree
3 38 (9.87%) CCNP
4 27 (7.01%) CCNA
5 16 (4.16%) APMP
6 14 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.64%) Security Cleared
7 13 (3.38%) CCIE
8 12 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.08%) MCSA
10 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.30%) RHCA
10 5 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.04%) JNCIP
12 3 (0.78%) CISSP
12 3 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.78%) MCSE
12 3 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.64%) SLA
2 13 (3.38%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.08%) GDPR
3 8 (2.08%) NCSC
4 7 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.04%) QA
6 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 58 (15.06%) Active Directory
2 55 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.05%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (5.45%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.90%) vSphere
6 13 (3.38%) Docker
7 6 (1.56%) NFS
8 5 (1.30%) Firmware
9 4 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.26%) IAG
12 1 (0.26%) KVM
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.26%) vCloud
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.26%) Xen
12 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.94%) Terraform
3 16 (4.16%) WSUS
4 13 (3.38%) Ansible
5 12 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (2.60%) Pingdom
7 8 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.08%) Puppet
7 8 (2.08%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.56%) Nessus
9 5 (1.30%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.04%) SCOM
11 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.78%) SCCM
12 2 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.52%) vRealize
12 2 (0.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 107 (27.79%) Cisco
2 102 (26.49%) Microsoft
3 78 (20.26%) VMware
4 42 (10.91%) Palo Alto
5 30 (7.79%) CheckPoint
6 28 (7.27%) Juniper
7 27 (7.01%) Citrix
8 24 (6.23%) SolarWinds
9 23 (5.97%) Dell
9 23 (5.97%) Google
10 22 (5.71%) Fortinet
11 19 (4.94%) F5
11 19 (4.94%) HP
12 18 (4.68%) Red Hat
13 17 (4.42%) Ruckus Wireless
14 14 (3.64%) NetApp
15 13 (3.38%) Veeam
16 12 (3.12%) Arista
17 11 (2.86%) Apple
17 11 (2.86%) Meraki