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 24 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 144 145
Rank change year-on-year -40 +1 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 78 135 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 1.50% 1.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.84% 4.82% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50 67 144
10th Percentile £28,850 £39,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £45,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £47,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -12.44% +14.21%
75th Percentile £54,125 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £83,600 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 4,234 2,801 3,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.22% 31.07% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 1,259 2,720
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,406 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,422 £82,180 £84,964
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,206 £59,526
% change year-on-year -10.14% +2.82% -8.42%

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 24 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 24 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 -31 40 £48,445 +1.99% 41
Yorkshire -18 27 £32,000 -41.82% 43
North East -3 11 £50,000 +11.11% 25
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 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (10.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 40 (51.28%) Azure
2 21 (26.92%) AWS
3 11 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.82%) OCI
5 8 (10.26%) GCP
6 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.85%) SaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.56%) IaaS
8 2 (2.56%) PaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (38.46%) Firewall
2 18 (23.08%) WAN
2 18 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (19.23%) LAN
3 15 (19.23%) VPN
4 13 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 10 (12.82%) Network Security
5 10 (12.82%) NGFW
5 10 (12.82%) VXLAN
5 10 (12.82%) Wireshark
6 8 (10.26%) BGP
7 7 (8.97%) DNS
7 7 (8.97%) VLAN
8 5 (6.41%) DHCP
8 5 (6.41%) SNMP
9 4 (5.13%) ADSL
9 4 (5.13%) EIGRP
9 4 (5.13%) MPLS
9 4 (5.13%) OSPF
9 4 (5.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 18 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (15.38%) Finance
3 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.82%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.13%) Local Government
6 4 (5.13%) Military
6 4 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.85%) French Language
7 3 (3.85%) Italian Language
7 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (3.85%) Spanish Language
7 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.28%) Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Law
9 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (17.95%) Senior
2 13 (16.67%) Network Manager
2 13 (16.67%) Network Operations Manager
2 13 (16.67%) Operations Manager
3 12 (15.38%) Support Technician
4 11 (14.10%) IT Support
4 11 (14.10%) IT Support Technician
4 11 (14.10%) IT Technician
5 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Manager
5 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 7 (8.97%) Network Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.97%) Senior IT Support
5 7 (8.97%) Senior IT Technician
5 7 (8.97%) Senior Support Technician
5 7 (8.97%) Senior Technician
6 5 (6.41%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.41%) Analyst
6 5 (6.41%) Sales Executive
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) .NET
1 3 (3.85%) CSS
1 3 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 10 (12.82%) PKI
3 7 (8.97%) Replication
4 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.13%) NHS
6 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.85%) Handset
6 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.28%) BYOD
8 1 (1.28%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.36%) Windows
2 10 (12.82%) Android
2 10 (12.82%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.56%) Linux
5 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.36%) Mentoring
3 16 (20.51%) Business Development
3 16 (20.51%) ITIL
4 15 (19.23%) Project Delivery
5 14 (17.95%) Load Balancing
6 13 (16.67%) ITSM
6 13 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 12 (15.38%) Customer Service
8 11 (14.10%) AI
8 11 (14.10%) Network Monitoring
9 10 (12.82%) Coaching
9 10 (12.82%) Creative Thinking
10 8 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.26%) Project Management
11 7 (8.97%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (8.97%) Computer Science
11 7 (8.97%) Knowledge Transfer
11 7 (8.97%) Requirements Gathering
12 6 (7.69%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.36%) Python
2 6 (7.69%) SQL
3 4 (5.13%) Bicep
4 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 11 (14.10%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.69%) CCNA
4 6 (7.69%) CCNP
5 5 (6.41%) DBS Check
6 4 (5.13%) CCIE
6 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) GDPR
2 4 (5.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 4 (5.13%) PMO
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (14.10%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.13%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Terraform
2 11 (14.10%) Ansible
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.67%) Aruba
2 13 (16.67%) VMware
3 10 (12.82%) Arista
3 10 (12.82%) Cisco
3 10 (12.82%) NetScout
4 8 (10.26%) Adobe
5 7 (8.97%) Google
5 7 (8.97%) Veeam
6 4 (5.13%) Blue Coat
6 4 (5.13%) Dell
6 4 (5.13%) F5
6 4 (5.13%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.13%) Huawei
6 4 (5.13%) Infoblox
6 4 (5.13%) Meraki
6 4 (5.13%) Motorola
6 4 (5.13%) Polycom
6 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.13%) SolarWinds