Data Centre Jobs in the South West

Data Center
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the South West. 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 125 38 190
Rank change year-on-year -87 +152 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 153 445 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.74% 7.15% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.33% 17.71% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 94 109 69
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £47,603
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +15.54% -9.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,875 £108,031 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +7.23%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,417 2,513 3,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 27.48% 40.38% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,604 1,499 1,967
10th Percentile £29,307 £28,700 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,199 £37,939 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
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 within the South West 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
Wiltshire -11 56 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Bristol -32 51 £50,000 -39.63% 10
Devon -40 22 £57,500 +21.05% 3
Somerset -33 9 £52,500 +22.09% 4
Gloucestershire -52 7 £42,500 +64.98% 2
Dorset -72 6 £41,536 -
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.92%) Skype for Business
3 4 (2.61%) Apache
4 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) HiPortfolio
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.61%) SaaS
2 24 (15.69%) Azure
3 21 (13.73%) AWS
4 10 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.61%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.61%) GCP
8 2 (1.31%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.31%) PaaS
9 1 (0.65%) GitHub
9 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (32.03%) Firewall
2 21 (13.73%) VPN
3 18 (11.76%) LAN
3 18 (11.76%) WAN
4 13 (8.50%) Network Security
4 13 (8.50%) SD-WAN
4 13 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (7.19%) TCP/IP
5 11 (7.19%) VSAN
6 9 (5.88%) Internet
7 7 (4.58%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (3.92%) Skype
8 6 (3.92%) Unified Communications
8 6 (3.92%) VXLAN
9 5 (3.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (2.61%) IPsec
10 4 (2.61%) SNMP
11 2 (1.31%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.65%) HSRP
12 1 (0.65%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.50%) Oracle Database
1 13 (8.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.92%) Data Lake
2 6 (3.92%) Power BI
3 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.65%) DB2
4 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.50%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (3.92%) RStudio
3 3 (1.96%) Git
General
1 39 (25.49%) Finance
2 26 (16.99%) Banking
3 22 (14.38%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.19%) Aerospace
5 10 (6.54%) Retail
6 9 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.27%) Marketing
10 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.96%) Law
12 2 (1.31%) Legal
12 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 64 (41.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 14 (9.15%) Administrator
4 13 (8.50%) Data Engineer
4 13 (8.50%) Network Manager
4 13 (8.50%) Systems Administrator
5 11 (7.19%) Lead
5 11 (7.19%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (7.19%) VMWare Administrator
6 10 (6.54%) Consultant
7 9 (5.88%) Senior
8 7 (4.58%) Network Operations Manager
8 7 (4.58%) NOC Manager
8 7 (4.58%) Operations Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Evangelist
10 5 (3.27%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Network Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (2.61%) YAML
2 2 (1.31%) REST
3 1 (0.65%) CakePHP
3 1 (0.65%) CSS
3 1 (0.65%) HTML
3 1 (0.65%) Laravel
3 1 (0.65%) React
3 1 (0.65%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.65%) Sass
3 1 (0.65%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (0.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.50%) Management Information System
1 13 (8.50%) PKI
2 5 (3.27%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.96%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.96%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (1.96%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.31%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.65%) CCTV
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.65%) Clustering
6 1 (0.65%) CMDB
6 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.76%) Linux
1 44 (28.76%) Windows
2 34 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.92%) Unix
4 5 (3.27%) OS/2
5 4 (2.61%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.61%) zOS
6 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (43.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (24.18%) Service Delivery
3 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (12.42%) Collaborative Working
4 19 (12.42%) Security Patching
5 18 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (11.11%) Information Security
6 17 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 15 (9.80%) Agile
7 15 (9.80%) IT Strategy
8 13 (8.50%) Office Automation
9 12 (7.84%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (7.84%) Project Management
10 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (7.19%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 10 (6.54%) ITIL
11 10 (6.54%) Network Monitoring
11 10 (6.54%) Release Management
12 9 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.11%) SQL
2 14 (9.15%) Python
3 8 (5.23%) Java
4 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.92%) R
5 5 (3.27%) C#
6 2 (1.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.65%) C
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) PHP
7 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (18.30%) Degree
2 27 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (9.15%) CCNA
5 13 (8.50%) CCNP
6 9 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.92%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.80%) SLA
2 14 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.96%) QA
5 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (25.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (15.03%) vSphere
3 18 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (7.84%) Active Directory
5 11 (7.19%) VMware NSX
6 10 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.61%) Docker
8 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (8.50%) WSUS
2 6 (3.92%) Ansible
2 6 (3.92%) vCenter Server
3 4 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.61%) SCCM
4 3 (1.96%) Nagios
5 2 (1.31%) Grafana
5 2 (1.31%) Opsview
6 1 (0.65%) Icinga
Vendors
1 45 (29.41%) VMware
2 44 (28.76%) Cisco
3 34 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 17 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 15 (9.80%) HP
6 13 (8.50%) Oracle
7 8 (5.23%) Dell
8 6 (3.92%) Alteryx
8 6 (3.92%) Databricks
9 4 (2.61%) NetApp
9 4 (2.61%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.61%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.61%) SolidFire
9 4 (2.61%) Veeam
10 3 (1.96%) Aruba
10 3 (1.96%) IBM
11 1 (0.65%) Commvault
11 1 (0.65%) EMC
11 1 (0.65%) Supermicro