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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 64 106
Rank change year-on-year -37 +42 -47
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 25 40 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.10% 3.35% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.42% 8.55% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 23 31 24
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% +11.36%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £84,688
90th Percentile £78,800 - £143,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,783 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.67% -12.03% +9.09%

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 566 468 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 24.80% 39.20% 41.80%
Number of salaries quoted 432 267 429
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -6.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -11.54%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 2 £60,000 - 1
Leatherhead - 2 £92,500 -
Guildford -27 1 £55,000 +66.67% 6
Woking - 1 £81,000 - 1
Epsom - 1 - - 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 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) LAN
2 2 (8.00%) WAN
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) IPsec
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) NGN
3 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.00%) SNMP
3 1 (4.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) VLAN
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (8.00%) Marketing
1 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (8.00%) Retail
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Fibre Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Junior
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) IT Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) IT Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Account Manager
5 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Centre Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Data Centre Operations Manager
6 1 (4.00%) IT Operations Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Operations Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Security Officer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) iSeries
2 11 (44.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 11 (44.00%) Replication
3 6 (24.00%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (8.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (48.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (8.00%) Business Development
3 2 (8.00%) CRM
3 2 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Map
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (4.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (4.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (4.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (4.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (4.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (4.00%) Runbook
4 1 (4.00%) Web Filtering
4 1 (4.00%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.00%) CCNP
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (44.00%) Firmware
2 11 (44.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) IBM
1 13 (52.00%) VMware
2 11 (44.00%) Commvault
2 11 (44.00%) EMC
2 11 (44.00%) HP
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) Veeam
3 2 (8.00%) Broadcom
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto