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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 221 140
Rank change year-on-year +78 -81 -79
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 253 79 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 0.83% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.87% 2.07% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 132 50 118
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +41.18% -29.17%
75th Percentile £83,125 £67,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -5.17%

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 5,194 3,820 3,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.60% 40.26% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,600 1,531 1,703
10th Percentile £29,975 £26,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.58% -12.51%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £91,375 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +48 121 £47,500 -20.83% 95
North East -8 87 £80,000 +33.33% 57
Yorkshire -11 45 £47,661 -13.34% 48
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 (3.16%) IIS
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.79%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.40%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.86%) Azure
2 17 (6.72%) IaaS
3 12 (4.74%) Serverless
4 8 (3.16%) AWS
5 6 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.98%) GCP
7 4 (1.58%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.58%) GitHub
8 2 (0.79%) Cohesity
8 2 (0.79%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.79%) SaaS
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.40%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.40%) Datadog
9 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.40%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.40%) PaaS
9 1 (0.40%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.40%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.44%) Firewall
2 26 (10.28%) Network Security
3 25 (9.88%) DNS
4 21 (8.30%) WAN
5 16 (6.32%) BGP
5 16 (6.32%) SD-WAN
5 16 (6.32%) Wireless
6 15 (5.93%) LAN
7 13 (5.14%) DHCP
8 11 (4.35%) SAN
8 11 (4.35%) VPN
9 10 (3.95%) OSPF
10 9 (3.56%) MPLS
11 8 (3.16%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (3.16%) VXLAN
12 5 (1.98%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.98%) Ethernet VPN
13 4 (1.58%) IPsec
13 4 (1.58%) NAS
13 4 (1.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.58%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Snyk
2 8 (3.16%) JIRA
3 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.40%) Git
5 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 49 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (6.72%) Finance
4 13 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (2.77%) Banking
7 6 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Automotive
8 5 (1.98%) Law
9 4 (1.58%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.58%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.79%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Aviation
12 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (21.34%) Senior
2 39 (15.42%) Data Centre Manager
3 33 (13.04%) Data Manager
4 26 (10.28%) Architect
5 20 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (7.11%) Network Engineer
7 16 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
7 16 (6.32%) Cloud Security Architect
7 16 (6.32%) Security Architect
7 16 (6.32%) Senior Architect
7 16 (6.32%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 16 (6.32%) Senior Security Architect
8 13 (5.14%) Data Centre Engineer
8 13 (5.14%) IT Technician
8 13 (5.14%) Support Engineer
9 12 (4.74%) Senior IT Technician
9 12 (4.74%) Senior Technician
10 10 (3.95%) Analyst
11 9 (3.56%) Technologist
12 7 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.56%) Terraform
2 2 (0.79%) SAML
3 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.40%) CSS
3 1 (0.40%) CSS3
3 1 (0.40%) HTML
3 1 (0.40%) HTML5
3 1 (0.40%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.40%) OAuth
3 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.40%) OpenID
3 1 (0.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.04%) Driving Licence
2 7 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (2.77%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.77%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (2.37%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.58%) Clustering
4 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.19%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.79%) CSOC
6 2 (0.79%) Fat Client
6 2 (0.79%) PKI
6 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.79%) Social Media
6 2 (0.79%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.40%) CCTV
7 1 (0.40%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.44%) Windows
2 28 (11.07%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.58%) Linux
4 3 (1.19%) VMS
4 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.79%) AIX
5 2 (0.79%) Solaris
5 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.79%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (12.65%) High Availability
1 32 (12.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (11.86%) AI
3 28 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (10.67%) Project Management
4 27 (10.67%) Service Delivery
5 25 (9.88%) CI/CD
6 24 (9.49%) IT Strategy
6 24 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (8.30%) Roadmaps
7 21 (8.30%) Technology Strategy
8 19 (7.51%) Budgeting
8 19 (7.51%) Customer Service
8 19 (7.51%) ITIL
9 18 (7.11%) Commercial Awareness
9 18 (7.11%) People Management
10 17 (6.72%) Cost Control
10 17 (6.72%) Facilities Management
10 17 (6.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.53%) Python
2 12 (4.74%) SQL
3 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.19%) ActionScript
4 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (6.32%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.53%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (5.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.14%) DBS Check
3 13 (5.14%) Degree
4 12 (4.74%) CCNA
5 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.37%) CCNP
7 6 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.98%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.58%) MCSA
9 4 (1.58%) MCSE
10 2 (0.79%) CCIE
10 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (6.72%) ISO 14000
3 13 (5.14%) GRC
4 7 (2.77%) QA
5 6 (2.37%) SLA
6 5 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.19%) PMO
8 2 (0.79%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 28 (11.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (8.30%) Active Directory
3 14 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.19%) vSphere
7 2 (0.79%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.79%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.79%) UAG
8 1 (0.40%) Docker
8 1 (0.40%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.98%) Ansible
1 5 (1.98%) VxRail
2 4 (1.58%) FortiGate
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (1.58%) WSUS
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.79%) AirWatch
4 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) SCCM
4 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (0.79%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.40%) Nagios
5 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 42 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.62%) VMware
3 21 (8.30%) Cisco
4 17 (6.72%) Palo Alto
5 16 (6.32%) Tenable
6 12 (4.74%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (4.35%) F5
8 9 (3.56%) Meraki
9 8 (3.16%) HP
10 7 (2.77%) Dell
10 7 (2.77%) Veeam
11 6 (2.37%) Google
11 6 (2.37%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.98%) Aruba
13 4 (1.58%) Arista
13 4 (1.58%) Commvault
13 4 (1.58%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.58%) Huawei
13 4 (1.58%) Polycom
13 4 (1.58%) Zerto