Data Centre Jobs in Southampton

Data Center
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Southampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 51 35
Rank change year-on-year +33 -16 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 16 27 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 5.25% 2.89% 5.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.67% 10.07% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 8
10th Percentile £24,450 £25,000 £51,825
25th Percentile £30,500 £45,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -20.63% +75.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £60,500 £66,250 £95,750
Hampshire median annual salary £46,250 £62,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year -26.00% +25.63% -9.55%

All Generic Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 268 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 31.48% 28.72% 38.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59 196 223
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £68,250 £70,000 £91,750
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Southampton

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Southampton

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Southampton over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Southampton

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Wireshark
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 4 (25.00%) BGP
3 4 (25.00%) IPsec
3 4 (25.00%) OSPF
3 4 (25.00%) SSL
3 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (25.00%) VoIP
4 1 (6.25%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) NOC Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Graduate
3 3 (18.75%) Graduate Sales Executive
3 3 (18.75%) Sales Executive
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Field Service Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Technical Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) JSON
1 4 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.25%) NHS
1 1 (6.25%) Smart Meter
1 1 (6.25%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) CentOS
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
1 6 (37.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Information Security
1 7 (43.75%) Information Security Management
1 7 (43.75%) Security Management
1 7 (43.75%) Service Delivery
2 6 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 1 (6.25%) API Management
6 1 (6.25%) B2B
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
6 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2
6 1 (6.25%) Project Management
6 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
6 1 (6.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bicep
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (50.00%) CCNP
3 7 (43.75%) CCNA
3 7 (43.75%) MCSE
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (43.75%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (37.50%) MCSA
4 6 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Palo Alto
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Meraki