Data Centre Jobs in the North West

Data Center
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 127 40
Rank change year-on-year -136 -87 +103
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 38 184 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% 1.84% 7.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 5.88% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 33 139 107
10th Percentile £41,550 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £51,000 £35,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,774 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.66% -18.89% -5.50%
75th Percentile £68,119 £57,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £62,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% +1.95%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,577 3,128 3,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 31.97% 31.35% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 943 2,282 1,478
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,548 £83,750
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the North West over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester -57 16 £55,000 +44.74% 55
Cumbria -59 12 £52,000 +30.00%
Lancashire -83 5 £85,000 +54.55% 33
Cheshire +2 3 £80,000 +39.13% 16
Merseyside +14 2 £42,500 +0.82% 2
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (7.89%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.63%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) AWS
3 8 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.53%) IaaS
5 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure AI
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (5.26%) Cloudflare
6 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.63%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) WAN
2 6 (15.79%) Firewall
3 5 (13.16%) DNS
4 4 (10.53%) SD-WAN
5 3 (7.89%) DHCP
5 3 (7.89%) VPN
6 2 (5.26%) LAN
6 2 (5.26%) VSAN
7 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.63%) Network Security
7 1 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (2.63%) SAN
7 1 (2.63%) SNMP
7 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.63%) VLAN
7 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) MySQL
2 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Big Data
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
4 1 (2.63%) Local Government
4 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Support
2 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Support Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.63%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) DevOps Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.63%) ModSecurity
1 1 (2.63%) OpenCL
1 1 (2.63%) SAML
1 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) NHS
3 2 (5.26%) Replication
3 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) CCTV
4 1 (2.63%) CUDA
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 7 (18.42%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.53%) Linux
4 3 (7.89%) Unix
5 2 (5.26%) Debian
5 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.63%) CentOS
6 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (39.47%) ITIL
3 7 (18.42%) Project Delivery
4 6 (15.79%) Migration
4 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (13.16%) Service Management
5 5 (13.16%) TOGAF
6 4 (10.53%) Business Strategy
6 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.53%) Project Management
7 3 (7.89%) Analytics
7 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.89%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.26%) DBS Check
6 2 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.63%) NCSC
1 1 (2.63%) NIST
1 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.63%) PMO
1 1 (2.63%) QA
1 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.63%) DFS Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Docker
5 1 (2.63%) NFS
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) cPanel
3 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) VMware
3 4 (10.53%) Veeam
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) Meraki
5 1 (2.63%) Aderant
5 1 (2.63%) Aruba
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) IBM
5 1 (2.63%) McAfee
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.63%) Tripwire