Data Centre Jobs in Manchester

Data Center
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 92 54
Rank change year-on-year -54 -38 +77
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 11 142 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.51% 2.64% 6.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 7.96% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9 105 62
10th Percentile £50,550 £24,000 £40,974
25th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -27.62% -4.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £72,425
North West median annual salary £54,000 £41,235 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.96% -21.46% -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,785 2,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 46.41% 33.23% 43.65%
Number of salaries quoted 516 1,273 1,000
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £37,150
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,169 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -5.79% +5.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £70,063
90th Percentile £89,375 £82,538 £84,100
North West median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Manchester

Data Centre
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bury - 1 £60,000 - 1
Oldham - 1 £43,500 - 3
Data Centre
North West

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) CUDA
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Debian
3 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Project Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) API Management
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) RBAC
6 1 (9.09%) Service Management
6 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Veeam
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Aruba
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat