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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 167 263
Rank change year-on-year -4 +96 -44
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 442 753 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.87% 2.19% 1.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.63% 4.76% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 354 515 719
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,850 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £53,250 £57,588 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% -0.71% +0.87%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,545 15,832 33,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.40% 46.14% 50.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,779 10,693 15,286
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,192 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,532 £56,219 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £129,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -41 48 £72,500 +3.57% 28
West London -11 18 £50,000 -12.28% 17
East London -1 4 £61,250 +6.52% 16
North London -5 2 £30,000 - 3
South London -7 1 £67,500 +35.00% 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 24 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.81%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.58%) Apache
5 6 (1.36%) IIS
6 5 (1.13%) Confluence
6 5 (1.13%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.13%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.68%) nginx
7 3 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.68%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.68%) SPSS
5 1 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Primavera
2 2 (0.45%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 132 (29.86%) Azure
2 87 (19.68%) AWS
3 83 (18.78%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (5.43%) SaaS
5 23 (5.20%) IaaS
6 19 (4.30%) PaaS
7 13 (2.94%) GCP
8 11 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.49%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 11 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 10 (2.26%) AWS Direct Connect
9 10 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.81%) Rubrik
11 5 (1.13%) Datadog
11 5 (1.13%) GitHub
11 5 (1.13%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.68%) CloudFront
12 3 (0.68%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 139 (31.45%) Firewall
2 107 (24.21%) WAN
3 105 (23.76%) LAN
4 86 (19.46%) VPN
5 74 (16.74%) DNS
6 70 (15.84%) MPLS
7 56 (12.67%) Network Security
8 50 (11.31%) DHCP
9 48 (10.86%) BGP
10 46 (10.41%) VLAN
10 46 (10.41%) Wireless
11 43 (9.73%) Wi-Fi
12 42 (9.50%) OSPF
13 40 (9.05%) Internet
14 38 (8.60%) SD-WAN
15 31 (7.01%) TCP/IP
16 27 (6.11%) SAN
17 20 (4.52%) Cisco Nexus
17 20 (4.52%) SSL
18 19 (4.30%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.81%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.58%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.13%) DB2
5 5 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.13%) Tableau
6 4 (0.90%) Power BI
7 3 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.68%) Big Data
7 3 (0.68%) EDRMS
7 3 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.68%) GIS
7 3 (0.68%) Metadata
7 3 (0.68%) MySQL
7 3 (0.68%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.45%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.17%) JIRA
2 5 (1.13%) Git
3 3 (0.68%) Subversion
4 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 118 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 100 (22.62%) Finance
3 48 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.37%) Banking
5 27 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.11%) Law
6 25 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 21 (4.75%) Legal
8 17 (3.85%) Billing
9 13 (2.94%) Retail
10 12 (2.71%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.71%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.90%) Publishing
16 3 (0.68%) Front Office
16 3 (0.68%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 81 (18.33%) Network Engineer
2 79 (17.87%) Senior
3 61 (13.80%) Architect
4 38 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (7.24%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.33%) Analyst
7 26 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
8 25 (5.66%) Data Centre Manager
8 25 (5.66%) Infrastructure Architect
9 24 (5.43%) IT Manager
9 24 (5.43%) Lead
10 22 (4.98%) Senior Network Engineer
11 21 (4.75%) Consultant
11 21 (4.75%) Security Engineer
12 18 (4.07%) Infrastructure Manager
12 18 (4.07%) Senior Architect
13 16 (3.62%) Data Centre Project Manager
14 15 (3.39%) Network Security Engineer
14 15 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.71%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.33%) 802.1X
2 9 (2.04%) XML
3 8 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (1.81%) SAML
4 7 (1.58%) HTML
5 6 (1.36%) Kafka
6 5 (1.13%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (1.13%) XMPP
6 5 (1.13%) YAML
7 4 (0.90%) .NET
8 3 (0.68%) JSON
8 3 (0.68%) LDAP
8 3 (0.68%) Middleware
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.45%) RESTful
9 2 (0.45%) Web Services
9 2 (0.45%) XSD
9 2 (0.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.24%) Public Cloud
2 26 (5.88%) Replication
3 23 (5.20%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.94%) Client/Server
5 13 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.04%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.81%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.58%) Clustering
9 7 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.36%) AS400
11 5 (1.13%) Blog
11 5 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.68%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 102 (23.08%) Windows
2 82 (18.55%) Linux
3 32 (7.24%) Windows Server
4 19 (4.30%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (3.39%) Windows 10
6 13 (2.94%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.71%) SUSE
7 12 (2.71%) Unix
8 11 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.23%) AIX
13 1 (0.23%) CentOS
13 1 (0.23%) Debian
13 1 (0.23%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (14.03%) ITIL
3 56 (12.67%) Mentoring
4 54 (12.22%) Roadmaps
5 50 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (10.41%) Project Management
7 42 (9.50%) Agile
8 38 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (8.37%) DevOps
9 37 (8.37%) Project Delivery
10 35 (7.92%) Infrastructure Management
10 35 (7.92%) Network Design
11 34 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
11 34 (7.69%) Migration
12 33 (7.47%) Load Balancing
13 31 (7.01%) Technology Roadmap
14 30 (6.79%) Presales
15 28 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (5.66%) Line Management
16 25 (5.66%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.67%) PowerShell
2 49 (11.09%) Python
3 32 (7.24%) SQL
4 13 (2.94%) Bash
5 10 (2.26%) RPG
6 7 (1.58%) C#
6 7 (1.58%) Go
6 7 (1.58%) Java
6 7 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.13%) PHP
8 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.45%) Perl
9 2 (0.45%) Ruby
9 2 (0.45%) Scala
9 2 (0.45%) XPath
10 1 (0.23%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (15.84%) Degree
2 54 (12.22%) Cisco Certification
3 43 (9.73%) CCNP
4 30 (6.79%) CCNA
5 23 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (4.75%) MCSA
7 16 (3.62%) APMP
7 16 (3.62%) Security Cleared
7 16 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 15 (3.39%) MCSE
9 12 (2.71%) CCIE
9 12 (2.71%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.13%) RHCA
12 5 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.90%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.90%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.90%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.39%) SLA
2 8 (1.81%) GDPR
3 7 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.13%) NCSC
5 3 (0.68%) QA
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (19.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 83 (18.78%) Active Directory
3 39 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (6.79%) vSphere
5 21 (4.75%) Hyper-V
6 14 (3.17%) Docker
7 12 (2.71%) vCloud
8 11 (2.49%) Firmware
9 9 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.68%) KVM
12 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.23%) IAG
13 1 (0.23%) LXC
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.23%) NFS
13 1 (0.23%) Postfix
13 1 (0.23%) Xen
13 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.30%) Terraform
3 17 (3.85%) WSUS
4 16 (3.62%) Ansible
5 11 (2.49%) SCOM
6 9 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.81%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.81%) Puppet
8 7 (1.58%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.13%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (1.13%) Pingdom
9 5 (1.13%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.90%) SCCM
10 4 (0.90%) vRealize
10 4 (0.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 3 (0.68%) Grafana
11 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.68%) Nessus
11 3 (0.68%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 121 (27.38%) Microsoft
2 109 (24.66%) VMware
3 103 (23.30%) Cisco
4 42 (9.50%) Juniper
5 39 (8.82%) Palo Alto
6 37 (8.37%) Veeam
7 33 (7.47%) Citrix
8 32 (7.24%) Dell
8 32 (7.24%) HP
9 26 (5.88%) CheckPoint
10 23 (5.20%) Fortinet
10 23 (5.20%) SolarWinds
11 22 (4.98%) NetApp
12 21 (4.75%) IBM
13 18 (4.07%) F5
13 18 (4.07%) Red Hat
14 17 (3.85%) Google
14 17 (3.85%) Ruckus Wireless
15 16 (3.62%) Oracle
16 12 (2.71%) Fujitsu