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 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 49 84
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 +8
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 27 33 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.21% 3.46% 2.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.50% 8.71% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17 33 60
10th Percentile - £31,500 £32,350
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -7.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,875
South East median annual salary £65,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +32.65% -2.00% -4.49%

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 772 379 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 34.71% 39.77% 44.89%
Number of salaries quoted 292 228 648
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £37,188 £37,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -18.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,375 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,001 £53,065 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.77% +8.30% -10.91%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -32 6 £55,000 +66.67% 2
Addlestone - 6 £35,000 -
Woking -6 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
1 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Consultant
2 6 (22.22%) Fibre Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) IT Consultant
2 6 (22.22%) Junior
3 5 (18.52%) Cabling Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Presales Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Data Centre Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Data Manager
6 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Architect
7 1 (3.70%) IT Architect
7 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Fibre Optics
2 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (25.93%) iSeries
2 7 (25.93%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (18.52%) Project Management
3 3 (11.11%) Agile
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 3 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (11.11%) Presales
3 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 3 (11.11%) Sales Enablement
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) City & Guilds
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Firmware
1 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
1 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Commvault
2 7 (25.93%) EMC
2 7 (25.93%) HP
2 7 (25.93%) IBM
2 7 (25.93%) Veeam
2 7 (25.93%) VMware