Data Centre Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Center
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 102 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 -40 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 76 164 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.27% 2.37% 4.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.52% 7.18% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 64 103 82
10th Percentile £24,000 £30,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £24,750 £37,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,350
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.49% -8.96%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,377 2,283 2,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 41.14% 32.96% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 547 1,494 1,114
10th Percentile £26,400 £28,821 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -16.30% -1.30%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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 -4 38 £55,565 -5.82% 78
Buckinghamshire -1 26 £24,750 -38.13% 19
Oxfordshire +42 12 £60,000 +17.65% 22
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
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 7 (9.21%) IIS
2 6 (7.89%) Apache
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.32%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.58%) Azure
2 4 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (2.63%) Azure AI
3 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.63%) IaaS
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.63%) PaaS
3 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
3 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.68%) Firewall
2 14 (18.42%) DNS
3 11 (14.47%) VPN
4 9 (11.84%) SNMP
5 7 (9.21%) TCP/IP
6 6 (7.89%) DHCP
7 4 (5.26%) BGP
7 4 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (5.26%) HSRP
7 4 (5.26%) IPsec
7 4 (5.26%) OSPF
7 4 (5.26%) SD-WAN
7 4 (5.26%) SMTP
7 4 (5.26%) Spanning Tree
7 4 (5.26%) VLAN
7 4 (5.26%) WAN
8 3 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.63%) Metadata
3 2 (2.63%) MySQL
3 2 (2.63%) Power BI
3 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Git
General
1 50 (65.79%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.58%) Back Office
2 5 (6.58%) Finance
2 5 (6.58%) Local Government
2 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.95%) Retail
4 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) Graduate
1 24 (31.58%) Graduate Sales Executive
1 24 (31.58%) Sales Executive
2 9 (11.84%) Field Engineer
2 9 (11.84%) Field Service Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
4 7 (9.21%) Analyst
5 6 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Lead
6 4 (5.26%) Senior
6 4 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Facilities Manager
8 2 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.63%) Data Centre Manager
8 2 (2.63%) Data Manager
8 2 (2.63%) Scientific Software Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.32%) RFC 2544
2 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Driving Licence
2 8 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.58%) Client/Server
4 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.95%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.63%) Acoustics
6 2 (2.63%) Clustering
6 2 (2.63%) NHS
6 2 (2.63%) Replication
7 1 (1.32%) ASIC
7 1 (1.32%) ASIC Verification
7 1 (1.32%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.32%) NVMe
7 1 (1.32%) PCIe
7 1 (1.32%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Windows
2 8 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.21%) Linux
4 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) AIX
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.32%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (34.21%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (31.58%) Customer Experience
4 15 (19.74%) Customer Service
4 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (14.47%) Project Delivery
5 11 (14.47%) Project Management
6 9 (11.84%) Preventative Maintenance
6 9 (11.84%) Service Management
7 8 (10.53%) ITIL
8 7 (9.21%) Analytics
9 5 (6.58%) Change Management
9 5 (6.58%) Client Onboarding
9 5 (6.58%) Incident Management
9 5 (6.58%) Information Security
9 5 (6.58%) IT Strategy
9 5 (6.58%) ITSM
9 5 (6.58%) Mentoring
9 5 (6.58%) Server Management
9 5 (6.58%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.84%) SQL
3 7 (9.21%) Python
4 2 (2.63%) Bash
4 2 (2.63%) Bicep
4 2 (2.63%) C
4 2 (2.63%) C++
4 2 (2.63%) Fortran
5 1 (1.32%) Perl
5 1 (1.32%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (1.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (6.58%) CCNP
3 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) CCNA
5 2 (2.63%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.63%) PhD
6 1 (1.32%) APMP
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.21%) Hyper-V
2 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.32%) Docker
4 1 (1.32%) Squid
4 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) ZABBIX
2 4 (5.26%) WSUS
3 2 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (1.32%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.32%) Netcool
4 1 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.79%) Cisco
3 10 (13.16%) VMware
4 6 (7.89%) Oracle
5 4 (5.26%) Citrix
5 4 (5.26%) F5
5 4 (5.26%) Juniper
6 2 (2.63%) Arista
6 2 (2.63%) Databricks
6 2 (2.63%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (2.63%) Meraki
6 2 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.32%) Cadence
7 1 (1.32%) Cramer
7 1 (1.32%) IBM
7 1 (1.32%) Okta
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Siemens
7 1 (1.32%) Veeam
7 1 (1.32%) Zscaler