Data Centre Job Trends in Surrey

Data Center
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 60 90
Rank change year-on-year -19 +30 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 30 32 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.50% 3.21% 2.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.20% 8.02% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25 32 58
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £32,050
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £88,625
South East median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +5.06%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 484 399 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 24.21% 40.02% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 335 221 653
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,800 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66,461 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Surrey

Data Centre
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. 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
Guildford -31 6 £55,000 +66.67% 1
Addlestone - 6 £35,000 -
Leatherhead - 2 £92,500 - 4
Dorking +5 1 £60,000 - 1
Woking -16 1 £81,000 +8.00% 1
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) Firewall
2 6 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.33%) BGP
4 1 (3.33%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) IPsec
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.33%) SNMP
4 1 (3.33%) SSL
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
General
1 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.67%) Marketing
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Fibre Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) IT Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Junior
3 5 (16.67%) Cabling Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Presales Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Account Manager
6 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Architect
7 1 (3.33%) IT Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) iSeries
2 11 (36.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 11 (36.67%) Fibre Optics
2 11 (36.67%) Replication
3 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
2 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (10.00%) Agile
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (10.00%) Presales
3 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.00%) Sales Enablement
4 2 (6.67%) Business Development
4 2 (6.67%) CRM
4 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Map
5 1 (3.33%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.33%) Network Architecture
5 1 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CCNP
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) City & Guilds
2 1 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (36.67%) Firmware
2 11 (36.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (43.33%) VMware
3 12 (40.00%) IBM
4 11 (36.67%) Commvault
4 11 (36.67%) EMC
4 11 (36.67%) HP
4 11 (36.67%) Veeam
5 2 (6.67%) Broadcom
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco