Data Centre Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 149 34
Rank change year-on-year -131 -115 +124
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 67 312 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.57% 1.70% 7.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 5.69% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 48 246 211
10th Percentile £43,799 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £42,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% -17.48% +3.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,200 £64,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% +1.95%

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 3,878 5,487 6,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.24% 29.89% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,476 3,994 3,024
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,222 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the North of England

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
North West -136 31 £53,000 +26.87% 223
Yorkshire -7 21 £62,500 +47.06% 209
North East +31 15 £65,000 +46.81% 59
Data Centre
England

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
1 2 (2.99%) OpenStack
1 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.99%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.49%) IIS
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) AWS
3 9 (13.43%) SaaS
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (10.45%) OCI
6 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.97%) Azure AI
7 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (5.97%) IaaS
7 4 (5.97%) PaaS
7 4 (5.97%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub
9 2 (2.99%) GCP
10 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.49%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.91%) Firewall
2 11 (16.42%) WAN
3 10 (14.93%) VPN
4 7 (10.45%) DNS
5 5 (7.46%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.97%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (5.97%) LAN
7 3 (4.48%) DHCP
7 3 (4.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (4.48%) SAN
7 3 (4.48%) VLAN
8 2 (2.99%) BGP
8 2 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (2.99%) FCoE
8 2 (2.99%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.99%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.99%) Multicast
8 2 (2.99%) NAS
8 2 (2.99%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) MySQL
2 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.97%) Power BI
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (17.91%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Local Government
4 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Back Office
4 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Electronics
5 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.99%) Law
5 2 (2.99%) Marketing
5 2 (2.99%) Police
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Architect
2 18 (26.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Support
3 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Support Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Lead
5 5 (7.46%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.48%) Civil Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Design Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Development Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) Flash
1 2 (2.99%) LDAP
1 2 (2.99%) Middleware
2 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.49%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.49%) OpenCL
2 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Operational Technology
2 11 (16.42%) SCADA
3 7 (10.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.46%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.97%) NHS
5 4 (5.97%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.48%) PKI
6 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.48%) Replication
7 2 (2.99%) Clustering
7 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.49%) CUDA
8 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.49%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.37%) Windows
2 14 (20.90%) Linux
3 7 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.48%) Unix
5 2 (2.99%) Debian
5 2 (2.99%) Solaris
5 2 (2.99%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.49%) CentOS
6 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (25.37%) DevOps
3 16 (23.88%) Agile
3 16 (23.88%) ITIL
4 13 (19.40%) TOGAF
5 11 (16.42%) Project Management
6 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.93%) Roadmaps
7 8 (11.94%) Business Strategy
7 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
8 7 (10.45%) Analytics
8 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (10.45%) Migration
8 7 (10.45%) Service Management
8 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (5.97%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.45%) SQL
3 4 (5.97%) Bicep
4 2 (2.99%) Java
4 2 (2.99%) Python
5 1 (1.49%) Bash
5 1 (1.49%) JCL
5 1 (1.49%) REXX
Qualifications
1 15 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.93%) Degree
4 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.94%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (8.96%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.97%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CCNA
7 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.49%) CISM
8 1 (1.49%) CISSP
8 1 (1.49%) GIAC
8 1 (1.49%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.99%) NIST
1 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) NCSC
2 1 (1.49%) PMO
2 1 (1.49%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.97%) NFS
2 4 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.99%) KVM
4 2 (2.99%) SRDF
4 2 (2.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (2.99%) Xen
5 1 (1.49%) Docker
5 1 (1.49%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) Ansible
2 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.99%) Puppet
5 1 (1.49%) cPanel
5 1 (1.49%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.49%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) VMware
2 9 (13.43%) Oracle
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.46%) Cisco
5 4 (5.97%) Databricks
5 4 (5.97%) Meraki
5 4 (5.97%) NetApp
5 4 (5.97%) Veeam
6 3 (4.48%) Google
7 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.99%) EMC
7 2 (2.99%) F5
7 2 (2.99%) Facebook
7 2 (2.99%) Intel
7 2 (2.99%) YouTube
8 1 (1.49%) Dell
8 1 (1.49%) IBM
8 1 (1.49%) McAfee
8 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.49%) Tripwire