Data Centre Jobs in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the South East. 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 108 47 164
Rank change year-on-year -61 +117 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 355 652 504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.35% 5.63% 2.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.08% 14.71% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 261 153 283
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,000 £30,650
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,875 £72,088
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £83,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +7.23%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,014 4,432 9,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.22% 38.25% 43.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,005 2,762 4,582
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,690 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +1.25% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,844 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
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 within the South East 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
Thames Valley -13 173 £50,000 -4.76% 28
Berkshire -12 96 £59,000 +9.77% 20
Buckinghamshire -4 58 £38,000 -39.20% 3
West Sussex +11 54 £65,000 +52.94% 8
Hampshire -90 49 £62,500 +25.63% 15
Surrey -32 44 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Oxfordshire -26 19 £50,000 +75.44% 5
Kent -39 19 £65,000 +52.94% 5
East Sussex -32 12 £62,500 - 1
Middlesex - 4 - -
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
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 16 (4.51%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.69%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (14.37%) AWS
2 44 (12.39%) Azure
3 37 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (4.23%) Amazon S3
6 10 (2.82%) CloudFront
6 10 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.97%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.41%) SaaS
11 4 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.13%) IaaS
11 4 (1.13%) PaaS
11 4 (1.13%) Route 53
11 4 (1.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.62%) Firewall
1 59 (16.62%) WAN
2 35 (9.86%) LAN
2 35 (9.86%) OSPF
3 32 (9.01%) VPN
4 27 (7.61%) Network Security
5 21 (5.92%) BGP
6 20 (5.63%) SD-WAN
7 17 (4.79%) Cisco Firepower
8 14 (3.94%) DNS
8 14 (3.94%) Internet
8 14 (3.94%) IPsec
8 14 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.66%) DHCP
9 13 (3.66%) SAN
9 13 (3.66%) TCP/IP
10 12 (3.38%) Wireless
11 10 (2.82%) HTTP
11 10 (2.82%) SNMP
11 10 (2.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.13%) Big Data
6 4 (1.13%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.13%) Power BI
7 3 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.13%) GitLab
2 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 73 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (5.07%) Finance
3 14 (3.94%) Legal
4 11 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.54%) Automotive
6 9 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.54%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.54%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.85%) Advertising
8 3 (0.85%) Marketing
8 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.56%) Electronics
9 2 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.28%) Banking
10 1 (0.28%) Billing
10 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (14.65%) Senior
2 51 (14.37%) Architect
3 43 (12.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (10.99%) Data Centre Engineer
5 35 (9.86%) Network Engineer
6 32 (9.01%) Consultant
7 31 (8.73%) Lead
8 27 (7.61%) Team Leader
9 26 (7.32%) Security Architect
10 21 (5.92%) Senior Architect
11 19 (5.35%) Data Centre Manager
12 17 (4.79%) Cisco Architect
12 17 (4.79%) Senior Cisco Architect
13 15 (4.23%) Data Centre Team Leader
14 14 (3.94%) Infrastructure Manager
15 13 (3.66%) Data Manager
15 13 (3.66%) Linux Engineer
15 13 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.66%) Support Engineer
16 12 (3.38%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.35%) 802.1X
2 11 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (1.69%) LDAP
4 5 (1.41%) Web Services
4 5 (1.41%) YAML
5 4 (1.13%) EDI
6 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.28%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.17%) Driving Licence
2 25 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (6.48%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.38%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.82%) Replication
6 10 (2.82%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.97%) Raspberry Pi
9 6 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.41%) SCADA
11 4 (1.13%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.85%) CCTV
12 3 (0.85%) EMC VNX
12 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 87 (24.51%) Linux
2 81 (22.82%) Windows
3 20 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.94%) Windows 10
5 13 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.97%) CentOS
7 6 (1.69%) Android
7 6 (1.69%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.41%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.13%) Windows XP
10 3 (0.85%) Rocky
11 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (21.97%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (14.93%) Presales
4 46 (12.96%) Software Licensing
5 45 (12.68%) Project Management
6 40 (11.27%) DevOps
7 38 (10.70%) ITIL
8 35 (9.86%) Mentoring
9 28 (7.89%) Security Management
10 27 (7.61%) Analytics
10 27 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (7.61%) Information Security
11 26 (7.32%) Agile
11 26 (7.32%) Computer Science
12 24 (6.76%) Decision-Making
13 22 (6.20%) Time Management
14 21 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (5.63%) Service Delivery
15 20 (5.63%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.30%) Python
2 14 (3.94%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.82%) MATLAB
4 8 (2.25%) SQL
5 5 (1.41%) Bash
5 5 (1.41%) PHP
6 4 (1.13%) Perl
6 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.28%) Java
7 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 98 (27.61%) Degree
2 48 (13.52%) Security Cleared
3 44 (12.39%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (9.86%) CCNA
4 35 (9.86%) CCNP
5 29 (8.17%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.51%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.10%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 9 (2.54%) MCP
12 8 (2.25%) CISSP
13 7 (1.97%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (1.69%) A+ Certification
14 6 (1.69%) CCIE
14 6 (1.69%) MCSE
15 5 (1.41%) MCSA
15 5 (1.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.23%) SLA
2 13 (3.66%) NIST
3 12 (3.38%) GDPR
4 11 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.97%) COBIT
6 5 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.56%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 48 (13.52%) Active Directory
2 28 (7.89%) Docker
2 28 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.04%) Firmware
4 20 (5.63%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.54%) vSphere
7 6 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.13%) KVM
8 4 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.56%) QEMU
9 2 (0.56%) Xen
10 1 (0.28%) pfSense
10 1 (0.28%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (11.55%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.20%) Ansible
2 22 (6.20%) vCenter Server
3 20 (5.63%) Puppet
4 18 (5.07%) Terraform
5 12 (3.38%) Stealthwatch
6 11 (3.10%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.25%) SCCM
8 7 (1.97%) EMC NetWorker
8 7 (1.97%) Nagios
9 6 (1.69%) VxRail
10 5 (1.41%) CASB
10 5 (1.41%) Prometheus
10 5 (1.41%) Suricata
11 4 (1.13%) Cacti
11 4 (1.13%) Grafana
11 4 (1.13%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.13%) SCOM
11 4 (1.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 55 (15.49%) Cisco
3 47 (13.24%) Apple
4 46 (12.96%) Adobe
4 46 (12.96%) VMware
5 35 (9.86%) Dell
6 25 (7.04%) HP
6 25 (7.04%) Juniper
7 21 (5.92%) Meraki
7 21 (5.92%) Palo Alto
8 14 (3.94%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (3.94%) Fortinet
8 14 (3.94%) Veeam
9 11 (3.10%) Samsung
10 10 (2.82%) Aruba
10 10 (2.82%) F5
10 10 (2.82%) NetApp
10 10 (2.82%) Red Hat
11 8 (2.25%) EMC
12 7 (1.97%) Oracle