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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 177 153
Rank change year-on-year -27 -24 +115
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 211 444 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.66% 1.85% 2.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.74% 4.59% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 133 356 527
10th Percentile £40,400 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £58,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £100,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% +1.95%

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 5,640 9,664 15,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.44% 40.31% 46.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,014 6,778 10,288
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £44,142
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,391
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £123,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Central London +2 23 £90,000 +24.14% 21
East London -8 13 £65,000 +6.12% 8
South London +4 4 £50,000 -25.93% 19
West London +3 3 £54,675 +9.35% 73
North London -12 2 £66,250 +120.83% 2
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 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.47%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.47%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.91%) AWS
1 80 (37.91%) Azure
2 20 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.64%) GCP
4 13 (6.16%) AWS Direct Connect
5 7 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.84%) IaaS
7 5 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.37%) PaaS
7 5 (2.37%) Rubrik
7 5 (2.37%) SaaS
8 4 (1.90%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.42%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.95%) GitHub
10 2 (0.95%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 67 (31.75%) Firewall
2 44 (20.85%) WAN
3 40 (18.96%) VPN
4 32 (15.17%) SD-WAN
5 30 (14.22%) BGP
6 29 (13.74%) LAN
7 24 (11.37%) OSPF
8 21 (9.95%) Network Security
9 20 (9.48%) NX-OS
10 19 (9.00%) MPLS
11 18 (8.53%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (8.53%) WLAN
12 17 (8.06%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (7.58%) IPsec
14 15 (7.11%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (6.64%) DNS
16 13 (6.16%) Cisco ISE
17 12 (5.69%) VXLAN
18 11 (5.21%) TCP/IP
19 9 (4.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.42%) Power BI
2 2 (0.95%) MySQL
2 2 (0.95%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Git
2 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.37%) GitLab
4 2 (0.95%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.95%) JIRA
5 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 57 (27.01%) Finance
3 21 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.53%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.58%) Banking
6 8 (3.79%) Law
7 7 (3.32%) Humanities
7 7 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.84%) Games
8 6 (2.84%) Legal
8 6 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.37%) Billing
9 5 (2.37%) Front Office
9 5 (2.37%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.42%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (1.42%) German Language
11 3 (1.42%) Local Government
12 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (15.64%) Network Engineer
2 26 (12.32%) Senior
3 25 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (11.37%) Architect
5 20 (9.48%) Analyst
6 17 (8.06%) Infrastructure Manager
6 17 (8.06%) Lead
7 16 (7.58%) Data Centre Engineer
8 14 (6.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.16%) Infrastructure Architect
10 11 (5.21%) Cisco Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Administrator
11 10 (4.74%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (4.74%) Operations Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.27%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
12 9 (4.27%) Consultant
12 9 (4.27%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.84%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.42%) JSON
3 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.95%) Jinja
3 2 (0.95%) Middleware
3 2 (0.95%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.47%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.47%) Node.js
4 1 (0.47%) REST
4 1 (0.47%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.17%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (7.11%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.84%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.37%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.37%) Clustering
5 5 (2.37%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.37%) Replication
5 5 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.90%) Blackberry
6 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.90%) IoT
6 4 (1.90%) NHS
7 3 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.42%) Derivative
7 3 (1.42%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.70%) Windows
2 48 (22.75%) Linux
3 21 (9.95%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.21%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.32%) AIX
7 5 (2.37%) Unix
8 2 (0.95%) CentOS
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.47%) HPUX
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
9 1 (0.47%) Solaris
9 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (15.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (12.80%) ITIL
4 26 (12.32%) Migration
5 25 (11.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (11.37%) Change Management
7 23 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (10.90%) DevOps
8 21 (9.95%) Roadmaps
9 19 (9.00%) Agile
9 19 (9.00%) Risk Management
10 18 (8.53%) Data Centre Operations
11 17 (8.06%) Cloud Security
11 17 (8.06%) Project Management
11 17 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (7.11%) Runbook
14 14 (6.64%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.64%) Process Improvement
15 13 (6.16%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.74%) Python
2 17 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.69%) Bash
4 11 (5.21%) SQL
5 4 (1.90%) Go
5 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.47%) Bicep
7 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (20.38%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (17.06%) CCNP
3 30 (14.22%) Degree
4 25 (11.85%) AWS Certification
5 15 (7.11%) CCNA
6 14 (6.64%) Azure Certification
7 13 (6.16%) CCIE
8 12 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (5.21%) PMP
10 9 (4.27%) PMI Certification
10 9 (4.27%) SC Cleared
10 9 (4.27%) Security Cleared
11 7 (3.32%) Postgraduate
12 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (2.37%) IBM AIX Certification
13 5 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.90%) ACCA
14 4 (1.90%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.64%) SLA
2 7 (3.32%) QA
3 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) GDPR
4 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (0.95%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.47%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (16.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (12.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.21%) Docker
4 8 (3.79%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.32%) Firmware
6 5 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.90%) vSphere
8 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 20 (9.48%) Ansible
2 18 (8.53%) Terraform
3 15 (7.11%) Kubernetes
4 14 (6.64%) SCCM
5 8 (3.79%) FortiGate
6 6 (2.84%) Nagios
6 6 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.84%) VxRail
7 5 (2.37%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (2.37%) Puppet
8 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.42%) Kibana
9 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.42%) WSUS
10 2 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.47%) Grafana
11 1 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (35.07%) Cisco
2 57 (27.01%) VMware
3 46 (21.80%) Microsoft
4 28 (13.27%) CheckPoint
5 19 (9.00%) SolarWinds
6 18 (8.53%) Fortinet
7 16 (7.58%) Meraki
8 14 (6.64%) Citrix
9 13 (6.16%) Dynatrace
9 13 (6.16%) Palo Alto
10 11 (5.21%) F5
11 10 (4.74%) Infoblox
12 8 (3.79%) Arista
13 7 (3.32%) Red Hat
13 7 (3.32%) Remedy
13 7 (3.32%) Splunk
13 7 (3.32%) Zscaler
14 6 (2.84%) Dell
15 5 (2.37%) Google
15 5 (2.37%) Sophos