Data Centre Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Data Center
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 74 18
Rank change year-on-year +30 -56 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 14 24 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.81% 1.77% 10.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.59% 5.71% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 17
10th Percentile £61,000 £40,988 £33,494
25th Percentile £62,500 £42,196 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £44,274 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.81% -19.50% -7.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,500 - £81,250
North East median annual salary £65,000 £44,274 £37,500
% change year-on-year +46.81% +18.06% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 163 420 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 32.73% 31.00% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 95 345 116
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,968 £67,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
North East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -2.06% +9.60%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Tyne and Wear

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Data Centre in Tyne and Wear

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Tyne and Wear

Data Centre
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +25 14 £65,000 +46.81% 12
Data Centre
North East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) OCI
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (21.43%) Local Government
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Civil Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Development Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Director
6 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Flash
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) SCADA
2 6 (42.86%) Operational Technology
3 2 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
4 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
1 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Business Development
3 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) GIAC
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Facebook
2 2 (14.29%) YouTube
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper