Data Centre Jobs in Scotland

Data Center
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 46 171
Rank change year-on-year -122 +125 -46
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 84 220 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.47% 5.80% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.38% 15.79% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 68 44 45
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% -
75th Percentile £71,563 £75,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £103,652 £63,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,487 1,393 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.65% 36.72% 46.54%
Number of salaries quoted 702 729 1,249
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,562 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,200 £42,874 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Scotland

Data Centre
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Edinburgh +4 50 £57,500 -0.86% 6
Glasgow -118 32 £50,000 -2.44% 6
West Lothian - 1 £47,500 -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £33,000 -
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (11.90%) Apache
2 3 (3.57%) IIS
3 1 (1.19%) JOnAS
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.19%) IaaS
2 21 (25.00%) AWS
3 19 (22.62%) Azure
4 18 (21.43%) PaaS
5 16 (19.05%) GCP
6 10 (11.90%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.33%) SaaS
8 4 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (47.62%) Firewall
2 32 (38.10%) VPN
3 28 (33.33%) WAN
4 17 (20.24%) IPsec
5 16 (19.05%) LAN
6 12 (14.29%) SD-WAN
7 11 (13.10%) Internet
8 10 (11.90%) SNMP
8 10 (11.90%) TCP/IP
9 8 (9.52%) DHCP
9 8 (9.52%) DNS
10 7 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (8.33%) Wireless
11 2 (2.38%) Ethernet
11 2 (2.38%) NGFW
11 2 (2.38%) OSPF
11 2 (2.38%) VLAN
12 1 (1.19%) NAS
12 1 (1.19%) SAN
12 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (11.90%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.62%) Finance
3 7 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Retail
5 2 (2.38%) Banking
5 2 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (13.10%) Data Centre Manager
1 11 (13.10%) Data Manager
2 10 (11.90%) Consultant
2 10 (11.90%) NetApp Consultant
3 7 (8.33%) Architect
3 7 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 7 (8.33%) Network Technician
4 6 (7.14%) Head of Infrastructure
5 5 (5.95%) Analyst
5 5 (5.95%) Data Centre Operations Manager
5 5 (5.95%) Operations Manager
5 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Presales Specialist
6 4 (4.76%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (11.90%) YAML
2 2 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Replication
2 12 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) IoT
4 2 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.38%) PMI
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (42.86%) Windows
2 34 (40.48%) Linux
3 16 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 10 (11.90%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.57%) CentOS
6 3 (3.57%) Debian
6 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.19%) MVS
7 1 (1.19%) Solaris
7 1 (1.19%) VMS
7 1 (1.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (20.24%) DevOps
2 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure Management
3 16 (19.05%) Project Delivery
4 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 12 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
6 11 (13.10%) Project Management
7 10 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.90%) Project Planning
7 10 (11.90%) Release Management
7 10 (11.90%) Storage Management
8 9 (10.71%) Fintech
9 8 (9.52%) Service Management
10 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (8.33%) ITIL
10 7 (8.33%) ITSM
10 7 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
11 6 (7.14%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (15.48%) CCNA
3 9 (10.71%) Degree
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.57%) MCSA
5 3 (3.57%) MCSE
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.57%) RHCT
6 2 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.38%) CISA
6 2 (2.38%) CISSP
6 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.19%) CCNP
7 1 (1.19%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.57%) ISO 14000
2 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (34.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.48%) VMware NSX
3 11 (13.10%) Docker
4 7 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.57%) KVM
7 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (32.14%) Ansible
2 16 (19.05%) Terraform
3 14 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 12 (14.29%) FortiGate
5 10 (11.90%) Prometheus
5 10 (11.90%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (41.67%) VMware
2 26 (30.95%) Cisco
3 22 (26.19%) NetApp
4 20 (23.81%) Palo Alto
5 13 (15.48%) Red Hat
6 11 (13.10%) Meraki
7 10 (11.90%) Juniper
7 10 (11.90%) SolidFire
8 4 (4.76%) Google
9 3 (3.57%) Citrix
10 2 (2.38%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (2.38%) ConnectWise
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.38%) Oracle
10 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.19%) arcserve
11 1 (1.19%) Dell
11 1 (1.19%) EMC
11 1 (1.19%) Sage
11 1 (1.19%) Sun