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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 152 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 -105 +165
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 47 144 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.30% 1.54% 6.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.18% 4.93% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 32 97 58
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,000 £31,775
25th Percentile £24,563 £42,500 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,250 £55,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -48.64% -20.00% +38.19%
75th Percentile £60,266 £63,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £72,508 £76,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% -11.25% +2.56%

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 1,124 2,921 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.18% 31.21% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 593 2,046 1,370
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,017
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,600 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £68,525 £66,250 £71,188
90th Percentile £80,600 £82,500 £86,367
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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +66 32 £25,500 -50.36% 24
Devon -1 6 £59,419 +3.34% 11
Wiltshire -7 6 £55,513 -3.46% 31
Gloucestershire +52 2 £53,391 +23.96% 16
Somerset +4 1 £49,000 -6.67% 6
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 (10.64%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (8.51%) AWS
4 1 (2.13%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) IaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.13%) PaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
1 6 (12.77%) WAN
2 5 (10.64%) LAN
2 5 (10.64%) VPN
3 4 (8.51%) BGP
3 4 (8.51%) Network Security
3 4 (8.51%) SD-WAN
4 3 (6.38%) OSPF
4 3 (6.38%) VLAN
4 3 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.26%) DNS
5 2 (4.26%) EIGRP
5 2 (4.26%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (4.26%) MPLS
5 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.26%) Wireless
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (2.13%) SAN
6 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.13%) MySQL
1 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
General
1 32 (68.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Retail
3 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Graduate
1 16 (34.04%) Graduate Sales Executive
1 16 (34.04%) Sales Executive
2 6 (12.77%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) IT Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Data Centre Technician
6 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Data Technician
6 2 (4.26%) Development Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Network Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) OpenCL
2 1 (2.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.38%) CUDA
2 3 (6.38%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (6.38%) Device Driver
2 3 (6.38%) PCIe
2 3 (6.38%) Private Cloud
2 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) CCTV
3 2 (4.26%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (4.26%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.26%) SCADA
4 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.13%) NHS
4 1 (2.13%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Artificial Intelligence
2 19 (40.43%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (34.04%) Customer Experience
4 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
6 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
6 7 (14.89%) Project Management
7 5 (10.64%) Agile
7 5 (10.64%) Business Continuity
7 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.51%) Change Management
8 4 (8.51%) Data Centre Operations
8 4 (8.51%) High Availability
8 4 (8.51%) ITIL
8 4 (8.51%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (8.51%) Strategic Planning
9 3 (6.38%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) Python
2 3 (6.38%) C
2 3 (6.38%) C++
3 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Bicep
4 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) Degree
4 4 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.38%) CCNP
6 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CCIE
7 1 (2.13%) CCNA
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) SLA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.26%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (6.38%) Firmware
3 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.26%) Docker
3 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Podman
3 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Cisco
1 5 (10.64%) Graphcore
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Palo Alto
3 3 (6.38%) SolarWinds
3 3 (6.38%) Talend
4 2 (4.26%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.26%) F5
4 2 (4.26%) Facebook
4 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.26%) Juniper
4 2 (4.26%) Meraki
4 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 2 (4.26%) YouTube
5 1 (2.13%) Citrix
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (2.13%) Veeam
5 1 (2.13%) Zscaler