Data Centre Job Trends in Stockport

Data Center
Manchester > Stockport

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Stockport. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 4.41% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
Manchester median annual salary £52,500 £73,750 £38,500
% change year-on-year -28.81% +91.56% -35.83%

All Generic Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30 25 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 44.12% 40.32% 63.92%
Number of salaries quoted 18 8 29
10th Percentile £30,125 - -
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,375 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% +41.50% -50.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £59,375 £64,000
Manchester median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -12.50%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Stockport

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CSOC
1 2 (66.67%) Fat Client
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Personalization
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) UAG
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) AirWatch
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) Thales
2 2 (66.67%) VMware