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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 140 153
Rank change year-on-year -49 +13 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 85 130 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 1.64% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 4.84% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 59 67 164
10th Percentile £30,750 £39,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,500 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £83,600 £72,500
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 4,374 2,687 4,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.60% 33.79% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 1,228 3,221
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,988 £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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,759
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.61% -14.62%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -22 45 £48,445 +1.99% 39
Yorkshire -22 28 £38,750 -29.55% 15
North East -7 12 £50,000 -20.00% 11
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 13 (15.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.18%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 44 (51.76%) Azure
2 26 (30.59%) AWS
3 12 (14.12%) OCI
4 9 (10.59%) GCP
4 9 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.53%) PaaS
7 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.35%) IaaS
7 2 (2.35%) SaaS
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub
8 1 (1.18%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.18%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (35.29%) Firewall
2 22 (25.88%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (21.18%) WAN
4 15 (17.65%) LAN
4 15 (17.65%) VPN
5 13 (15.29%) TCP/IP
6 12 (14.12%) NGFW
6 12 (14.12%) VXLAN
6 12 (14.12%) Wireshark
7 11 (12.94%) Network Security
8 9 (10.59%) DNS
9 8 (9.41%) VLAN
10 7 (8.24%) BGP
11 6 (7.06%) DHCP
11 6 (7.06%) SNMP
12 5 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (5.88%) EIGRP
12 5 (5.88%) OSPF
12 5 (5.88%) Wireless
12 5 (5.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 21 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 12 (14.12%) Finance
5 6 (7.06%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Military
7 4 (4.71%) Local Government
7 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.53%) French Language
8 3 (3.53%) Italian Language
8 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.53%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (3.53%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.18%) Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (20.00%) Network Manager
1 17 (20.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 17 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 15 (17.65%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) IT Support
3 11 (12.94%) IT Support Technician
3 11 (12.94%) IT Technician
3 11 (12.94%) Support Technician
4 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Manager
4 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 8 (9.41%) Network Engineer
4 8 (9.41%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.24%) Senior IT Support
5 7 (8.24%) Senior IT Technician
5 7 (8.24%) Senior Support Technician
5 7 (8.24%) Senior Technician
6 6 (7.06%) Document Controller
6 6 (7.06%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.88%) IT Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) .NET
1 3 (3.53%) CSS
1 3 (3.53%) HTML
2 1 (1.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Driving Licence
1 12 (14.12%) PKI
2 7 (8.24%) Replication
3 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.71%) NHS
5 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.35%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Handset
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.53%) Windows
2 11 (12.94%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.76%) Android
4 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.35%) Linux
6 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 19 (22.35%) Project Delivery
4 17 (20.00%) Business Development
4 17 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 14 (16.47%) ITIL
6 13 (15.29%) Network Monitoring
7 12 (14.12%) Coaching
7 12 (14.12%) Creative Thinking
7 12 (14.12%) ITSM
7 12 (14.12%) Service Delivery
8 10 (11.76%) Project Management
9 9 (10.59%) Customer Service
10 8 (9.41%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (9.41%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.41%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (8.24%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.24%) Knowledge Transfer
12 6 (7.06%) Agile
12 6 (7.06%) AI
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.88%) Python
2 4 (4.71%) Bicep
2 4 (4.71%) SQL
3 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) Degree
2 11 (12.94%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (10.59%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.24%) CCNP
5 5 (5.88%) CCIE
5 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.71%) CCNA
6 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.53%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) ISO 9001
1 6 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.88%) GDPR
2 5 (5.88%) PMO
3 4 (4.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) Active Directory
1 15 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.29%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.88%) ProxySG
4 1 (1.18%) KVM
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (20.00%) Terraform
2 13 (15.29%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.18%) VxRail
3 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) VMware
2 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.29%) Aruba
4 12 (14.12%) Arista
4 12 (14.12%) NetScout
5 10 (11.76%) Cisco
6 8 (9.41%) Google
6 8 (9.41%) Veeam
7 5 (5.88%) Blue Coat
7 5 (5.88%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.88%) F5
7 5 (5.88%) Infoblox
7 5 (5.88%) Motorola
7 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.88%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.71%) Adobe
9 3 (3.53%) Meraki
10 2 (2.35%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.35%) Huawei
10 2 (2.35%) Polycom