Data Centre Job Trends in the North of England

Data Center
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 141 144
Rank change year-on-year -49 +3 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 80 134 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.55% 1.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 4.90% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 56 67 161
10th Percentile £29,000 £39,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £45,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -9.52% +12.90%
75th Percentile £54,250 £57,500 £64,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £83,600 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,291 2,737 3,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.65% 31.60% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 1,224 2,963
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,653 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
North West -34 40 £48,445 +1.99% 36
Yorkshire -7 28 £32,000 -41.82% 23
North East -2 12 £50,000 +11.11% 14
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 43 (53.75%) Azure
2 24 (30.00%) AWS
3 12 (15.00%) OCI
4 11 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (11.25%) GCP
6 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.75%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.50%) IaaS
8 2 (2.50%) PaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.75%) Firewall
2 20 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (22.50%) WAN
4 15 (18.75%) LAN
4 15 (18.75%) VPN
5 14 (17.50%) TCP/IP
6 12 (15.00%) NGFW
6 12 (15.00%) VXLAN
6 12 (15.00%) Wireshark
7 10 (12.50%) Network Security
8 8 (10.00%) DNS
9 7 (8.75%) BGP
9 7 (8.75%) VLAN
10 6 (7.50%) DHCP
11 5 (6.25%) SNMP
12 4 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
12 4 (5.00%) EIGRP
12 4 (5.00%) OSPF
12 4 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 20 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Local Government
4 4 (5.00%) Military
4 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.75%) French Language
5 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.75%) Italian Language
5 3 (3.75%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (3.75%) Spanish Language
5 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Network Manager
1 16 (20.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 16 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 14 (17.50%) Senior
3 12 (15.00%) Support Technician
4 11 (13.75%) IT Support
4 11 (13.75%) IT Support Technician
4 11 (13.75%) IT Technician
5 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 8 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 7 (8.75%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Senior IT Support
6 7 (8.75%) Senior IT Technician
6 7 (8.75%) Senior Support Technician
6 7 (8.75%) Senior Technician
7 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.25%) Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Sales Executive
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) .NET
1 3 (3.75%) CSS
1 3 (3.75%) HTML
2 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) PKI
2 11 (13.75%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.75%) Replication
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.00%) NHS
6 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) Handset
7 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.25%) BYOD
8 1 (1.25%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.25%) Windows
2 11 (13.75%) Windows Server
3 10 (12.50%) Android
4 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.50%) Linux
6 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.25%) Mentoring
3 17 (21.25%) Business Development
3 17 (21.25%) Project Delivery
4 16 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 15 (18.75%) ITIL
6 13 (16.25%) ITSM
6 13 (16.25%) Network Monitoring
7 12 (15.00%) Coaching
7 12 (15.00%) Creative Thinking
7 12 (15.00%) Service Delivery
8 11 (13.75%) Customer Service
9 9 (11.25%) AI
9 9 (11.25%) Project Management
10 8 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (8.75%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (8.75%) Computer Science
11 7 (8.75%) Knowledge Transfer
12 6 (7.50%) Agile
12 6 (7.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (6.25%) SQL
3 4 (5.00%) Bicep
4 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Degree
2 11 (13.75%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (11.25%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.50%) CCNP
5 5 (6.25%) CCNA
6 4 (5.00%) CCIE
6 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.75%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 4 (5.00%) PMO
3 3 (3.75%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (15.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 16 (20.00%) Terraform
2 12 (15.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) VxRail
3 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.50%) Aruba
2 14 (17.50%) VMware
3 12 (15.00%) Arista
3 12 (15.00%) NetScout
4 10 (12.50%) Cisco
5 8 (10.00%) Google
5 8 (10.00%) Veeam
6 6 (7.50%) Adobe
7 4 (5.00%) Blue Coat
7 4 (5.00%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.00%) F5
7 4 (5.00%) Infoblox
7 4 (5.00%) Meraki
7 4 (5.00%) Motorola
7 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.75%) Huawei
8 3 (3.75%) Polycom