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 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 55 105
Rank change year-on-year -43 +50 -36
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 29 40 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.24% 3.43% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.95% 9.09% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26 31 19
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £49,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £75,500 - -
South East median annual salary £60,781 £53,065 £62,500
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.10% +8.70%

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 586 440 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 25.06% 37.74% 39.96%
Number of salaries quoted 443 252 339
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £24,900
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £78,625 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.57% -12.38% -7.79%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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
Addlestone - 6 £35,000 -
Dorking +6 3 £60,000 - 2
Leatherhead - 2 £92,500 - 3
Guildford -25 1 £55,000 +66.67% 15
Epsom - 1 - - 4
Woking - 1 £81,000 - 3
Redhill - 1 - - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (44.83%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) LAN
2 2 (6.90%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) BGP
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) Internet
3 1 (3.45%) IPsec
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) NGN
3 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.45%) SNMP
3 1 (3.45%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) VLAN
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.45%) Wireless
General
1 2 (6.90%) Marketing
1 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
1 2 (6.90%) Retail
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Fibre Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Junior
3 5 (17.24%) IT Manager
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Data Centre Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Data Centre Operations Manager
5 3 (10.34%) IT Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) IT Operations Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Operations Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Account Manager
6 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Security Officer
7 1 (3.45%) Security Risk Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) iSeries
2 11 (37.93%) Enterprise Storage
2 11 (37.93%) Replication
3 6 (20.69%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.45%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (41.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
3 4 (13.79%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.34%) Project Management
4 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery
5 2 (6.90%) Business Development
5 2 (6.90%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.90%) CRM
5 2 (6.90%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (6.90%) Information Security
5 2 (6.90%) Roadmaps
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Map
5 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (3.45%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.45%) High Availability
6 1 (3.45%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) CCNP
2 1 (3.45%) CISA
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.45%) CISM
2 1 (3.45%) CISMP
2 1 (3.45%) CISSP
2 1 (3.45%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) CRISC
2 1 (3.45%) IISP
2 1 (3.45%) PCI QSA
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) SSCP
2 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) GRC
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 31000
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (37.93%) Firmware
2 11 (37.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) IBM
2 13 (44.83%) VMware
3 11 (37.93%) Commvault
3 11 (37.93%) EMC
3 11 (37.93%) HP
3 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
3 11 (37.93%) Veeam
4 2 (6.90%) Broadcom
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto