Data Centre Jobs in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 56 166
Rank change year-on-year -73 +110 -39
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 345 744 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.05% 5.13% 2.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.98% 12.10% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 264 237 266
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% -4.82% -
75th Percentile £66,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,250 £57,588 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% -0.71% +0.87%

All Generic Skills
South East

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,773 6,151 8,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.32% 42.44% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,741 3,214 4,568
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,690 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.25% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Thames Valley -41 157 £47,750 -8.79% 42
Berkshire -26 80 £59,000 +12.70% 32
Surrey -1 66 £54,250 -7.26% 9
Buckinghamshire -25 62 £40,000 -36.00% 4
Hampshire -97 45 £62,500 +26.26% 15
West Sussex -6 28 £64,000 +6.67% 8
Kent -44 21 £65,000 +85.71% 8
Oxfordshire -5 15 £50,000 +75.44% 6
Sussex - 11 £35,000 -
Middlesex - 9 £40,000 -
East Sussex -43 7 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Home Counties +13 1 £48,000 -49.47%
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (4.93%) OpenStack
2 15 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (23.48%) AWS
2 64 (18.55%) Azure
3 57 (16.52%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (7.25%) Amazon S3
5 23 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (4.64%) CloudFront
7 15 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (3.77%) OCI
9 12 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (2.90%) OneDrive
12 9 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.61%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.61%) Route 53
12 9 (2.61%) Serverless
13 7 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.74%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.45%) Nutanix
15 5 (1.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.94%) Firewall
2 45 (13.04%) WAN
3 36 (10.43%) LAN
4 29 (8.41%) VPN
5 26 (7.54%) SAN
6 23 (6.67%) DNS
7 22 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (6.09%) DHCP
8 21 (6.09%) OSPF
9 20 (5.80%) BGP
10 18 (5.22%) Network Security
11 16 (4.64%) Unified Communications
11 16 (4.64%) Wireless
12 14 (4.06%) Internet
12 14 (4.06%) SD-WAN
12 14 (4.06%) Structured Cabling
13 12 (3.48%) IPsec
14 10 (2.90%) Intrusion Detection
15 8 (2.32%) TCP/IP
16 7 (2.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (1.74%) Power BI
4 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.03%) JIRA
3 6 (1.74%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.74%) JBehave
3 6 (1.74%) Selenium
3 6 (1.74%) SpecFlow
3 6 (1.74%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 16 (4.64%) Finance
3 13 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.48%) Manufacturing
5 10 (2.90%) Legal
6 7 (2.03%) Retail
7 6 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.45%) Advertising
8 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.16%) Marketing
9 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.58%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Automotive
12 1 (0.29%) Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (21.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (14.20%) Architect
3 45 (13.04%) Senior
4 33 (9.57%) Consultant
5 29 (8.41%) Data Centre Engineer
6 27 (7.83%) Network Engineer
7 25 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (6.96%) Senior Architect
9 22 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (5.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.93%) Lead
11 17 (4.93%) Security Architect
11 17 (4.93%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 16 (4.64%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (4.64%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 16 (4.64%) Server Engineer
13 15 (4.35%) Administrator
13 15 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
14 14 (4.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (2.03%) LDAP
3 6 (1.74%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.74%) Gherkin
4 5 (1.45%) Web Services
4 5 (1.45%) YAML
5 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.29%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.86%) Driving Licence
2 24 (6.96%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.93%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.06%) Private Cloud
7 12 (3.48%) Replication
8 9 (2.61%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.45%) PMI
11 4 (1.16%) PKI
12 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.87%) CCTV
12 3 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.87%) Raspberry Pi
13 2 (0.58%) EMC VNX
13 2 (0.58%) Molecular Biology
13 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 119 (34.49%) Windows
2 73 (21.16%) Linux
3 56 (16.23%) Windows Server
4 21 (6.09%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.48%) Windows XP
7 7 (2.03%) Android
7 7 (2.03%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.74%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (1.45%) Kali Linux
9 5 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.58%) CentOS
10 2 (0.58%) OS/2
10 2 (0.58%) Rocky
10 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (24.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 59 (17.10%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (17.10%) DevOps
4 51 (14.78%) Presales
5 48 (13.91%) Project Management
6 40 (11.59%) Computer Science
6 40 (11.59%) Software Licensing
7 36 (10.43%) ITIL
8 32 (9.28%) Customer Service
9 30 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 29 (8.41%) Mentoring
11 28 (8.12%) Agile
11 28 (8.12%) Storage Management
12 24 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (6.38%) Data Protection
13 22 (6.38%) Project Delivery
14 19 (5.51%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (5.51%) Information Security
14 19 (5.51%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.54%) Python
2 20 (5.80%) PowerShell
3 14 (4.06%) SQL
4 2 (0.58%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.29%) Bash
5 1 (0.29%) C#
5 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.29%) Korn
5 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 107 (31.01%) Degree
2 46 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 42 (12.17%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (10.72%) SC Cleared
5 33 (9.57%) CCNA
6 31 (8.99%) CCNP
6 31 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (8.41%) AWS Certification
8 21 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (4.64%) DV Cleared
10 13 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.19%) Azure Certification
12 10 (2.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 9 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.61%) CCIE
13 9 (2.61%) MCP
14 8 (2.32%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (2.03%) A+ Certification
15 7 (2.03%) MCSE
16 6 (1.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.19%) SLA
3 10 (2.90%) NIST
4 9 (2.61%) GDPR
5 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.16%) COBIT
7 3 (0.87%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.87%) QA
8 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 63 (18.26%) Active Directory
2 41 (11.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (9.57%) Docker
4 24 (6.96%) Hyper-V
5 21 (6.09%) Firmware
6 19 (5.51%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.19%) vSphere
8 4 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.87%) KVM
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.58%) QEMU
10 2 (0.58%) Xen
11 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (12.46%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.70%) vCenter Server
3 26 (7.54%) Ansible
4 22 (6.38%) Terraform
5 15 (4.35%) SCCM
6 14 (4.06%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (4.06%) WSUS
7 13 (3.77%) Puppet
8 12 (3.48%) NetBackup
8 12 (3.48%) SCOM
9 10 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (2.90%) ZABBIX
10 7 (2.03%) Stealthwatch
11 6 (1.74%) VxRail
12 5 (1.45%) CASB
12 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
12 5 (1.45%) Suricata
13 3 (0.87%) Grafana
14 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
14 2 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 96 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 78 (22.61%) VMware
3 56 (16.23%) Cisco
4 41 (11.88%) Dell
5 40 (11.59%) Adobe
5 40 (11.59%) Apple
6 37 (10.72%) HP
7 28 (8.12%) Juniper
8 27 (7.83%) Palo Alto
9 24 (6.96%) Veeam
10 16 (4.64%) Extreme Networks
10 16 (4.64%) Meraki
11 15 (4.35%) EMC
11 15 (4.35%) Fortinet
11 15 (4.35%) Oracle
12 14 (4.06%) 3PAR
12 14 (4.06%) Aruba
13 12 (3.48%) Red Hat
13 12 (3.48%) Symantec
14 11 (3.19%) Samsung