Data Centre Job Trends 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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 112 119
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -89
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 137 63 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.53% 1.80% 1.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.56% 4.99% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 86 45 91
10th Percentile - £24,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £24,750 £44,195
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,188 £72,950 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -5.17%

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 2,087 1,262 2,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.33% 36.00% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 728 1,431
10th Percentile £28,470 £26,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,591 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.35% -11.54%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South West over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 2026. 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 -28 40 £38,500 +50.98% 28
Wiltshire +14 37 £28,000 -37.78% 8
Gloucestershire -22 27 £47,000 -41.25% 14
Somerset -24 15 £54,498 +11.22% 7
Dorset - 13 £37,500 - 2
Devon -16 5 £26,150 -44.77% 5
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
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 7 (5.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.92%) Apache
2 4 (2.92%) JBoss
3 3 (2.19%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.73%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.79%) Azure
2 14 (10.22%) AWS
3 8 (5.84%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (2.92%) Miro
5 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.19%) Datadog
5 3 (2.19%) Serverless
6 2 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.46%) GCP
6 2 (1.46%) GitHub
6 2 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.46%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.22%) Firewall
2 11 (8.03%) DNS
3 9 (6.57%) SAN
4 8 (5.84%) VPN
5 7 (5.11%) BGP
6 6 (4.38%) DHCP
6 6 (4.38%) LAN
6 6 (4.38%) WAN
7 4 (2.92%) OSPF
7 4 (2.92%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.92%) Wireless
8 3 (2.19%) Internet
8 3 (2.19%) Network Security
8 3 (2.19%) SSL
8 3 (2.19%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (2.19%) VLAN
8 3 (2.19%) VXLAN
8 3 (2.19%) WLAN
9 2 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.92%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (2.19%) Metadata
3 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.73%) MySQL
4 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) JIRA
2 6 (4.38%) Git
3 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.46%) MSI
4 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.46%) Subversion
5 1 (0.73%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.73%) GitLab
5 1 (0.73%) Maven
5 1 (0.73%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.73%) Selenium
5 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Finance
3 19 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.03%) Marketing
7 9 (6.57%) Legal
8 8 (5.84%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.73%) Law
12 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (13.87%) IT Engineer
2 13 (9.49%) IT Manager
3 12 (8.76%) Architect
4 8 (5.84%) Coordinator
4 8 (5.84%) Field Engineer
4 8 (5.84%) Field Service Engineer
4 8 (5.84%) Network Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Analyst
5 7 (5.11%) Data Analyst
5 7 (5.11%) Data Centre Analyst
5 7 (5.11%) Data Centre Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Manager
5 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Services Manager
5 7 (5.11%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 7 (5.11%) IT Services Manager
5 7 (5.11%) Service Manager
6 6 (4.38%) Data Centre Technician
6 6 (4.38%) Data Technician
6 6 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (3.65%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.65%) CSS
1 5 (3.65%) CSS3
1 5 (3.65%) HTML
1 5 (3.65%) HTML5
2 4 (2.92%) GeoJSON
2 4 (2.92%) RESTful
3 3 (2.19%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.19%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.19%) Middleware
3 3 (2.19%) OAuth
3 3 (2.19%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.19%) OpenID
3 3 (2.19%) React
4 2 (1.46%) .NET
4 2 (1.46%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.46%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.46%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.46%) REST
4 2 (1.46%) Swagger
4 2 (1.46%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Replication
4 6 (4.38%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (2.92%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.92%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Smartphone
5 4 (2.92%) Social Media
6 2 (1.46%) CMDB
6 2 (1.46%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.73%) Life Science
7 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.68%) Linux
2 12 (8.76%) Windows
3 7 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.73%) CentOS
5 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (9.49%) Agile
4 13 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (8.76%) High Availability
5 12 (8.76%) Migration
5 12 (8.76%) Project Management
6 11 (8.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (8.03%) Risk Management
7 10 (7.30%) ITIL
8 9 (6.57%) Containerisation
8 9 (6.57%) DevOps
8 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
9 8 (5.84%) Coaching
9 8 (5.84%) Customer Service
9 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (5.11%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (4.38%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.03%) Python
2 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.92%) Bicep
4 3 (2.19%) C#
4 3 (2.19%) SQL
5 2 (1.46%) Bash
5 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.73%) C++
6 1 (0.73%) Java
6 1 (0.73%) PHP
6 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.76%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (8.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.84%) A+ Certification
5 8 (5.84%) CCNA
5 8 (5.84%) MCSE
5 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.84%) Network+ Certification
6 7 (5.11%) Degree
7 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.92%) CCNP
8 4 (2.92%) HNC
8 4 (2.92%) HND
9 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.73%) CCIE
11 1 (0.73%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.73%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) QA
2 10 (7.30%) ISO 9001
3 9 (6.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (2.92%) NCSC
6 3 (2.19%) GRC
7 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.46%) WCAG
8 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.73%) GDPR
8 1 (0.73%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.30%) Hyper-V
2 9 (6.57%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.65%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.92%) Docker
6 2 (1.46%) Firmware
6 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.73%) KVM
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (9.49%) Terraform
2 9 (6.57%) Ansible
3 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (2.92%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.19%) Nagios
6 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.46%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.73%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.73%) Puppet
8 1 (0.73%) SCCM
8 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.73%) vRealize
8 1 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.49%) Cisco
3 11 (8.03%) Dell
4 8 (5.84%) VMware
5 5 (3.65%) F5
5 5 (3.65%) Infoblox
5 5 (3.65%) NetApp
6 4 (2.92%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.92%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.19%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.19%) New Relic
7 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.19%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.19%) Splunk
8 2 (1.46%) Apple
8 2 (1.46%) Avaya
8 2 (1.46%) Meraki
8 2 (1.46%) Netskope
8 2 (1.46%) Oracle