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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 53 37
Rank change year-on-year +32 -16 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 15 27 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 4.90% 2.93% 5.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.96% 10.19% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 8
10th Percentile £24,400 £25,000 £51,825
25th Percentile £27,625 £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 £50,625 £65,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £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 94 265 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 30.72% 28.74% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 57 194 221
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,300 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -17.90% +1.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £92,500
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 28 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 5 (33.33%) SaaS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Wireshark
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
3 4 (26.67%) BGP
3 4 (26.67%) IPsec
3 4 (26.67%) OSPF
3 4 (26.67%) SSL
3 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (26.67%) VoIP
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) NOC Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Graduate
3 3 (20.00%) Graduate Sales Executive
3 3 (20.00%) Sales Executive
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Field Service Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JSON
1 4 (26.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
1 1 (6.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) CentOS
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Information Security
1 6 (40.00%) Information Security Management
1 6 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
1 6 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 6 (40.00%) Security Management
1 6 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 1 (6.67%) API Management
5 1 (6.67%) B2B
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bicep
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (53.33%) CCNP
3 7 (46.67%) CCNA
3 7 (46.67%) MCSE
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (46.67%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (40.00%) MCSA
4 6 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Meraki