Data Centre Jobs in the North East

Data Center
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 81 15
Rank change year-on-year +21 -66 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 14 32 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.74% 1.70% 12.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.04% 5.71% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9 31 27
10th Percentile £61,000 £35,920 £33,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £41,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £44,274 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.81% +18.06% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £85,500 £72,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.90% -12.50% +1.95%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 278 560 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 34.49% 29.71% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 112 462 167
10th Percentile £29,350 £29,164 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,688 £35,299 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -2.62% +9.77%
75th Percentile £67,688 £66,459 £61,250
90th Percentile £84,325 £77,500 £74,325
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 the North East

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North East

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the North East.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the North East

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the North East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the North East

Data Centre
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the North East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Tyne and Wear +27 14 £65,000 +46.81% 17
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) OCI
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (21.43%) Local Government
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Civil Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Development Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Director
6 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Flash
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) SCADA
2 6 (42.86%) Operational Technology
3 2 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
4 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
1 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Business Development
3 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) GIAC
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Facebook
2 2 (14.29%) YouTube
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper