Data Centre Jobs in South Yorkshire

Data Center
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 91 42
Rank change year-on-year +46 -49 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 5 5 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.27% 0.36% 8.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.40% 1.21% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £34,750 £16,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £27,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £47,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -12.44% -11.43%
75th Percentile £44,000 £51,250 £61,000
90th Percentile - - £62,775
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 147 413 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 37.22% 30.15% 45.46%
Number of salaries quoted 95 301 209
10th Percentile £24,334 £26,250 £28,450
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,935 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% +5.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in South Yorkshire

Data Centre
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in South Yorkshire

Data Centre
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Sheffield +41 5 £42,000 -11.58% 12
Data Centre
Yorkshire

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) FCoE
2 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) Multicast
2 2 (40.00%) NAS
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) JCL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) NFS
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) KVM
2 2 (40.00%) SRDF
2 2 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Xen
3 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (20.00%) Brocade
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki