Data Centre Job Trends 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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 11 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 2.05% 2.00% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.36% 5.24% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 2
10th Percentile - £36,250 £51,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -33.33% +60.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £55,000 £68,750
90th Percentile - £61,000 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £30,000 £52,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year -42.86% -23.64% +36.61%

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 89 210 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 16.60% 38.18% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 58 152 116
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,688 £38,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,350 £82,500
Hampshire median annual salary £48,924 £53,050 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.78% -3.55% -

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Southampton

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Southampton over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Southampton

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) BGP
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
1 6 (54.55%) MPLS
1 6 (54.55%) OSPF
1 6 (54.55%) SD-WAN
1 6 (54.55%) VPN
1 6 (54.55%) VXLAN
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
1 6 (54.55%) Wireless
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Network Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) Network Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) WAN Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Telesales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Network Management
1 6 (54.55%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) Telesales
3 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
3 1 (9.09%) Business Transformation
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Six Sigma
3 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CCNP
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
1 6 (54.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
1 6 (54.55%) Fortinet
1 6 (54.55%) Meraki