Data Centre Jobs in South Wales

Data Center
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 37 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 +40 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 68 80 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 4.75% 6.95% 2.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.74% 17.66% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 34
10th Percentile £35,195 £61,899 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £65,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £70,000 £47,665
Median % change year-on-year -35.88% +46.86% +13.49%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,875 £67,533
90th Percentile - £87,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £36,476 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -47.89% +40.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 432 453 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 30.19% 39.36% 44.35%
Number of salaries quoted 236 248 307
10th Percentile £26,953 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,161 £37,039 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,604 £45,496 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -13.34% +18.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,588 £64,798
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,500 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £44,886 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.25% -14.29% +23.53%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in South Wales

Data Centre
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in South Wales

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in South Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in South Wales

Data Centre
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Bridgend +22 52 £44,886 - 4
Cardiff -18 15 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Newport -21 1 £65,000 +82.24% 4
Data Centre
Wales

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 14 (20.59%) Skype for Business
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) Azure
2 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
2 5 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (7.35%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.94%) AWS
3 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.47%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (51.47%) Firewall
2 25 (36.76%) DNS
3 16 (23.53%) LAN
3 16 (23.53%) WAN
4 14 (20.59%) IP Telephony
4 14 (20.59%) Wireless
5 12 (17.65%) VPN
6 11 (16.18%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (16.18%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (16.18%) TCP/IP
7 10 (14.71%) Internet
8 7 (10.29%) IPsec
8 7 (10.29%) Network Security
8 7 (10.29%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (7.35%) Extranet
9 5 (7.35%) MPLS
9 5 (7.35%) SAN
9 5 (7.35%) SNMP
9 5 (7.35%) Unified Communications
9 5 (7.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (8.82%) GIS
1 6 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.47%) Power BI
3 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Git
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Telecoms
3 10 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (14.71%) Local Government
3 10 (14.71%) Police
4 6 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 47 (69.12%) Senior
2 26 (38.24%) Consultant
3 21 (30.88%) Project Consultant
4 19 (27.94%) Network Engineer
4 19 (27.94%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (20.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 14 (20.59%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 11 (16.18%) Senior Consultant
6 11 (16.18%) Senior Network Consultant
6 11 (16.18%) Senior Project Consultant
7 10 (14.71%) ICT Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Unix Consultant
9 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (7.35%) NetApp Consultant
11 5 (7.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (7.35%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 5 (7.35%) Technical Engineer
12 3 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (4.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (7.35%) YAML
2 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (8.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.65%) Linux
1 12 (17.65%) Windows
2 8 (11.76%) AIX
2 8 (11.76%) Solaris
2 8 (11.76%) Unix
3 5 (7.35%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) Actionable Insight
2 23 (33.82%) Business Continuity
3 21 (30.88%) Customer Service
4 19 (27.94%) Network Management
5 18 (26.47%) Project Management
6 15 (22.06%) ITIL
6 15 (22.06%) Mentoring
7 14 (20.59%) Incident Management
8 13 (19.12%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (19.12%) Network Design
9 11 (16.18%) Change Control
9 11 (16.18%) Change Management
9 11 (16.18%) Migration
10 10 (14.71%) Knowledge Transfer
10 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (8.82%) Business Development
12 6 (8.82%) Economics
12 6 (8.82%) Network Architecture
13 5 (7.35%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.82%) Python
2 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (39.71%) SC Cleared
1 27 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.47%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (19.12%) CCNA
4 8 (11.76%) Degree
5 2 (2.94%) CCNP
5 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 20 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (17.65%) Firmware
2 12 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.29%) Docker
4 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Ansible
2 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
3 5 (7.35%) SCCM
3 5 (7.35%) SCOM
3 5 (7.35%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.94%) Terraform
5 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (47.06%) Cisco
2 25 (36.76%) Microsoft
3 24 (35.29%) VMware
4 21 (30.88%) Oracle
5 18 (26.47%) Palo Alto
6 14 (20.59%) Avaya
6 14 (20.59%) Mitel
7 13 (19.12%) CheckPoint
7 13 (19.12%) McAfee
7 13 (19.12%) Red Hat
8 11 (16.18%) Fortinet
9 10 (14.71%) NetApp
10 5 (7.35%) Citrix
10 5 (7.35%) HP
10 5 (7.35%) SolidFire
11 2 (2.94%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.94%) Juniper