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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 142 27
Rank change year-on-year -109 -115 +143
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 92 325 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.69% 1.73% 8.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 5.89% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66 250 202
10th Percentile £43,274 £27,350 £31,275
25th Percentile £51,000 £35,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £67,393
90th Percentile £86,250 £62,500 £84,755
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +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 4,106 5,522 5,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.90% 29.45% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 3,587 2,970
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,085 £66,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -117 43 £55,000 +24.23% 89
Yorkshire -16 29 £55,000 +29.41% 62
North East +37 20 £62,500 +41.17% 14
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 (2.17%) OpenStack
1 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) IIS
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.09%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) Azure
2 21 (22.83%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) SaaS
4 8 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.61%) OCI
6 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.35%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.35%) IaaS
7 4 (4.35%) PaaS
7 4 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.26%) GitHub
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.57%) Firewall
2 16 (17.39%) WAN
3 14 (15.22%) VPN
4 10 (10.87%) DNS
4 10 (10.87%) SD-WAN
5 9 (9.78%) LAN
6 7 (7.61%) BGP
6 7 (7.61%) Network Security
7 6 (6.52%) DHCP
7 6 (6.52%) VLAN
8 5 (5.43%) OSPF
8 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
8 5 (5.43%) WLAN
9 4 (4.35%) VoIP
10 3 (3.26%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (2.17%) MPLS
11 2 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (2.17%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 4 (4.35%) MySQL
1 4 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (1.09%) Big Data
2 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Git
1 4 (4.35%) JIRA
2 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Finance
3 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.52%) Local Government
5 4 (4.35%) Back Office
5 4 (4.35%) Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Electronics
7 2 (2.17%) Law
7 2 (2.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.17%) Police
7 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Architect
2 19 (20.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support
3 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 10 (10.87%) Support Engineer
4 9 (9.78%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (9.78%) Lead
4 9 (9.78%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (6.52%) Design Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (5.43%) IT Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Civil Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) Flash
2 2 (2.17%) YAML
3 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.09%) LAMP
3 1 (1.09%) LDAP
3 1 (1.09%) Middleware
3 1 (1.09%) OpenCL
3 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) SCADA
2 12 (13.04%) Operational Technology
3 7 (7.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.43%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.35%) NHS
6 4 (4.35%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.26%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.17%) Handset
8 2 (2.17%) PKI
8 2 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.09%) Clustering
9 1 (1.09%) CUDA
9 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.09%) Learning Management System
9 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.48%) Windows
2 12 (13.04%) Linux
3 6 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.26%) Unix
5 2 (2.17%) Debian
5 2 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.17%) zOS
6 1 (1.09%) CentOS
6 1 (1.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (22.83%) DevOps
3 19 (20.65%) Agile
3 19 (20.65%) ITIL
4 16 (17.39%) Project Management
4 16 (17.39%) TOGAF
5 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.13%) Roadmaps
7 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (10.87%) Project Delivery
9 9 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (8.70%) Business Strategy
10 8 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.70%) Migration
10 8 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (7.61%) Analytics
11 7 (7.61%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (7.61%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.43%) SQL
3 4 (4.35%) Bicep
4 3 (3.26%) Python
5 2 (2.17%) JCL
5 2 (2.17%) REXX
6 1 (1.09%) Bash
6 1 (1.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) Degree
2 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.96%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (9.78%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (6.52%) Azure Certification
7 6 (6.52%) DBS Check
8 5 (5.43%) CCNA
8 5 (5.43%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.35%) CISSP
10 3 (3.26%) CCIE
11 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.17%) CCNP
12 1 (1.09%) CISM
12 1 (1.09%) GIAC
12 1 (1.09%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.09%) GDPR
1 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.09%) NIST
1 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.09%) PMO
1 1 (1.09%) QA
1 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.17%) NFS
3 2 (2.17%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.09%) Docker
4 1 (1.09%) KVM
4 1 (1.09%) SRDF
4 1 (1.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.09%) vSphere
4 1 (1.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) Terraform
2 4 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.26%) Ansible
4 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.09%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.09%) Puppet
5 1 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) VMware
3 8 (8.70%) Oracle
4 7 (7.61%) Cisco
5 6 (6.52%) Meraki
6 5 (5.43%) DIgSILENT
7 4 (4.35%) Adobe
7 4 (4.35%) Apple
7 4 (4.35%) Databricks
7 4 (4.35%) Dell
7 4 (4.35%) IBM
7 4 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.35%) Veeam
8 3 (3.26%) Aruba
8 3 (3.26%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.26%) NetApp
9 2 (2.17%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.17%) F5
9 2 (2.17%) Facebook
9 2 (2.17%) Polycom