Data Centre Operations Job Trends in the South West

Data Center Operations
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 199 219
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.020% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.027% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
England median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,638 3,658 3,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.60% 84.34% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 1,879 3,024
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +7.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,781
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Centre Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Devon +3 1 £37,500 - 3
Data Centre Operations
England

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) VMware