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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 139 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 -96 +170
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 62 166 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.56% 1.63% 6.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.18% 5.76% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 42 102 97
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £24,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +15.54%
75th Percentile £72,950 £61,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £68,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.24% +3.48%

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 1,196 2,882 2,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 30.15% 28.33% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 650 1,979 1,507
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,900
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,193 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,786 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 9 July 2025.

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 9 July 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
Bristol +50 39 £25,500 -49.00% 28
Wiltshire -1 10 £45,000 -18.18% 21
Gloucestershire +53 8 £80,000 +86.98% 26
Devon +1 3 £57,194 -0.53% 6
Somerset +9 2 £49,000 -6.67% 9
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 5 (8.06%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.52%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
3 5 (8.06%) Azure Stack
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.23%) AWS
5 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.61%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.61%) GCP
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
1 5 (8.06%) VPN
2 4 (6.45%) WAN
3 3 (4.84%) BGP
3 3 (4.84%) LAN
3 3 (4.84%) OSPF
4 2 (3.23%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.23%) Network Security
4 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.23%) VLAN
4 2 (3.23%) Wireless
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.61%) Converged Networks
5 1 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.61%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 36 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Retail
5 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.61%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Graduate
1 16 (25.81%) Graduate Sales Executive
1 16 (25.81%) Sales Executive
2 12 (19.35%) Senior
3 9 (14.52%) Data Centre Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) IT Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Data Centre Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Data Centre Technician
7 3 (4.84%) Data Technician
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) OpenCL
2 1 (1.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
1 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.84%) CUDA
2 3 (4.84%) Device Driver
2 3 (4.84%) PCIe
2 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
2 3 (4.84%) Social Media
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.23%) SCADA
3 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.61%) Life Science
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.58%) Linux
2 8 (12.90%) Windows
3 5 (8.06%) Rocky
3 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (27.42%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (25.81%) Customer Experience
4 9 (14.52%) Mentoring
4 9 (14.52%) Project Delivery
4 9 (14.52%) Project Management
5 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (9.68%) Decision-Making
6 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (8.06%) Business Strategy
7 5 (8.06%) Change Management
7 5 (8.06%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (8.06%) Containerisation
7 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
8 4 (6.45%) Agile
8 4 (6.45%) Benchmarking
8 4 (6.45%) Business Development
8 4 (6.45%) Case Management
8 4 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.06%) Python
2 3 (4.84%) C
2 3 (4.84%) C++
3 1 (1.61%) Bicep
3 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Degree
4 6 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 6 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (8.06%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.23%) CCNP
7 2 (3.23%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.61%) CCIE
8 1 (1.61%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) SLA
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.84%) Firmware
4 2 (3.23%) Docker
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.23%) Podman
3 1 (1.61%) Nagios
3 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) Dell
1 5 (8.06%) Graphcore
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Cisco
3 3 (4.84%) Instagram
3 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.84%) Talend
3 3 (4.84%) Twitter
4 2 (3.23%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.23%) F5
4 2 (3.23%) Facebook
4 2 (3.23%) Meraki
4 2 (3.23%) YouTube
5 1 (1.61%) Citrix
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks
5 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) Juniper
5 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds