Data Centre Jobs in Northern Ireland

Data Center
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 58 36
Rank change year-on-year +25 -22 +52
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Data Centre 4 5 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.25% 0.75% 7.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.08% 2.66% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 14
10th Percentile £53,250 - £37,688
25th Percentile £54,375 - £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £53,063
90th Percentile - - £61,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% -2.08%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 98 188 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 30.63% 28.02% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 23 72 93
10th Percentile £47,500 £28,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,309 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -4.17% +10.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £93,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.73% +0.80%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Northern Ireland

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim +29 3 £57,500 - 1
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) SNA
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (50.00%) WLAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Logistics
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (25.00%) VMware