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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 115 72
Rank change year-on-year +60 -43 +53
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 38 17 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 3.26% 0.91% 2.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.92% 2.28% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 29 17 16
10th Percentile £45,200 £44,600 £34,580
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £143,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £69,375
South East median annual salary £53,065 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.10% +13.64% -

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 426 747 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 36.60% 39.99% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 247 330 243
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,063 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,750 £75,000 £86,250
South East median annual salary £47,250 £52,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.12% +2.51%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Chertsey - 5 £55,000 - 3
Guildford - 3 £33,000 - 5
Camberley - 2 - - 2
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) SaaS
2 2 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) BGP
1 2 (5.26%) LAN
1 2 (5.26%) OSPF
1 2 (5.26%) WAN
General
1 7 (18.42%) Finance
1 7 (18.42%) Marketing
2 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Vulnerability Manager
2 7 (18.42%) Category Manager
2 7 (18.42%) IT Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Electrical Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Mechanical Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (44.74%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (44.74%) Incident Response
2 17 (44.74%) Vulnerability Management
3 8 (21.05%) Facilities Management
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) Coaching
4 7 (18.42%) Contract Management
4 7 (18.42%) Contract Negotiation
4 7 (18.42%) Creative Thinking
4 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.16%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (5.26%) High Availability
7 2 (5.26%) Presales
7 2 (5.26%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.26%) Project Roadmap
7 2 (5.26%) Roadmaps
7 2 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) CCNA
1 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (5.26%) City & Guilds
1 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.63%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 17 (44.74%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (44.74%) Qualys
2 17 (44.74%) Tenable
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco
3 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.26%) Juniper
3 2 (5.26%) VMware