Data Centre Operations Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Center Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 698 728
Rank change year-on-year +136 +30 +105
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 17 64 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.085% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.10% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 15 42 10
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,075 £34,580
25th Percentile £48,750 £39,720 £34,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £37,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +54.36% -21.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,167 £47,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £53,250
UK median annual salary £68,750 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% +27.78% -5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Operations
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Centre Operations in the UK excluding London

Data Centre Operations
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +78 11 £67,500 +12.50% 6
South West +111 3 £42,500 -30.23%
Midlands +62 1 £40,500 -29.57% 2
West Midlands +53 1 £40,500 -29.57%
East of England +30 1 £55,000 - 5
North of England +22 1 £60,000 +46.82% 5
North West -14 1 £60,000 +46.82%
Data Centre Operations
UK

Data Centre Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (11.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Firewall
2 6 (35.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (35.29%) VLAN
2 6 (35.29%) VPN
3 5 (29.41%) BGP
3 5 (29.41%) LAN
3 5 (29.41%) MPLS
3 5 (29.41%) OSPF
3 5 (29.41%) SD-WAN
3 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 5 (29.41%) WAN
4 3 (17.65%) SAN
5 2 (11.76%) DHCP
5 2 (11.76%) Ethernet
5 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (11.76%) Network Security
5 2 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (5.88%) DNS
6 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Facilities Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Operations Technician
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (11.76%) Data Technician
4 2 (11.76%) Development Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Network Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Operations Technician
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
3 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
3 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
4 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) CUDA
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (35.29%) Network Monitoring
1 6 (35.29%) Server Management
2 5 (29.41%) BCP
2 5 (29.41%) Business Continuity
2 5 (29.41%) Business Continuity Planning
2 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (29.41%) Network Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Network Segmentation
2 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (17.65%) Conflict Management
3 3 (17.65%) Culture Change
3 3 (17.65%) Facilities Management
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Internal Audit
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Scorecard
3 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CCNA
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Hyper-V
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Graphcore
3 1 (5.88%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) Juniper
3 1 (5.88%) NetApp
3 1 (5.88%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (5.88%) Sophos