Data Centre Operations Jobs in the South East

Data Center Operations
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 389 394
Rank change year-on-year +99 +5 +84
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 11 11 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.063% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.076% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 3
10th Percentile £45,000 £29,000 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £50,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £34,580
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +73.51% +6.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +27.78% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,777 14,553 13,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.07% 83.59% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,223 10,031 7,752
10th Percentile £29,300 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,928 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the South East

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Centre Operations in the South East

Data Centre Operations
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the South East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre Operations in the South East

Data Centre Operations
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Operations within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Surrey +53 5 £75,000 +87.50%
Thames Valley +59 4 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Berkshire +38 4 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Hampshire - 2 £43,750 - 2
Data Centre Operations
England

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
1 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
1 6 (54.55%) VLAN
1 6 (54.55%) VPN
2 5 (45.45%) BGP
2 5 (45.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (45.45%) LAN
2 5 (45.45%) MPLS
2 5 (45.45%) OSPF
2 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
2 5 (45.45%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Facilities Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Network Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Data Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Technician
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) BCP
1 5 (45.45%) Business Continuity
1 5 (45.45%) Business Continuity Planning
1 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (45.45%) Network Architecture
1 5 (45.45%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (45.45%) Network Segmentation
1 5 (45.45%) Server Management
1 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (27.27%) Conflict Management
2 3 (27.27%) Culture Change
2 3 (27.27%) Facilities Management
2 3 (27.27%) Internal Audit
2 3 (27.27%) Scorecard
2 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Change Control
3 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.09%) Power Management
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCNA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Hyper-V
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper