Data Centre Operations Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Center Operations
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 236 260
Rank change year-on-year +57 +24 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 4 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.075% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.088% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £56,625 - -
25th Percentile £62,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £71,250 £60,000 £34,580
% change year-on-year +18.75% +73.51% +6.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,096 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.39% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,375 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Centre Operations in the Thames Valley

Data Centre Operations
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Operations within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Berkshire +36 4 £67,500 +12.50% 5
Data Centre Operations
South East

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Facilities Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (25.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Conflict Management
1 3 (75.00%) Culture Change
1 3 (75.00%) Facilities Management
1 3 (75.00%) Internal Audit
1 3 (75.00%) Scorecard
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco