Data Centre Jobs in Sheffield

Data Center
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 80 54
Rank change year-on-year +42 -26 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 4 6 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.39% 0.50% 5.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% 1.76% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £37,000 £50,650
25th Percentile - £43,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £47,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - -22.13% -
75th Percentile - £57,500 -
90th Percentile - £59,750 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary - £47,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year - -22.13% -0.41%

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 120 341 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.81% 28.68% 46.51%
Number of salaries quoted 86 261 134
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £29,675
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,920 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,968 £65,938
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £70,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% - -5.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Sheffield

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Sheffield

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (50.00%) Confluence
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) FCoE
2 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) Multicast
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) JCL
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) NFS
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) KVM
2 2 (50.00%) SRDF
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Xen
3 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) EMC
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) NetApp
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki