Data Centre Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Center
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre 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 258 155 41
Rank change year-on-year -103 -114 +136
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 434 1,351 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 1.80% 6.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.21% 5.51% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 309 985 755
10th Percentile £24,750 £30,300 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £58,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.91% -8.33% +1.41%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,541 24,499 24,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.12% 32.71% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,957 15,292 10,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
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 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 -28 182 £52,500 -4.55% 213
North of England -134 68 £57,500 +35.29% 116
East of England +6 61 £64,000 +28.00% 58
South West +21 46 £28,250 -48.64% 70
Midlands -89 44 £53,094 +6.19% 70
North West -140 31 £53,000 +26.87% 54
West Midlands -34 24 £53,688 -0.58% 32
Scotland +65 22 £47,500 -13.64% 40
Yorkshire -11 22 £58,750 +38.24% 51
East Midlands -43 20 £50,000 +17.65% 36
North East +34 15 £65,000 +46.81% 14
Wales -28 5 £56,750 +55.58% 12
Northern Ireland +39 3 - - 11
Isle of Man +9 3 £91,000 +145.95%
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
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 16 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.07%) Apache
3 7 (1.61%) IIS
3 7 (1.61%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.92%) nginx
4 4 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.46%) Confluence
5 2 (0.46%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.46%) JOnAS
5 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.23%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 26 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.84%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Primavera
2 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 80 (18.43%) Azure
2 66 (15.21%) AWS
3 35 (8.06%) SaaS
4 29 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (5.30%) Entra ID
6 16 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.69%) IaaS
6 16 (3.69%) PaaS
6 16 (3.69%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.23%) Azure AI
7 14 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 14 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (3.23%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.61%) GCP
8 7 (1.61%) OCI
9 5 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.15%) Cloudflare
10 4 (0.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 103 (23.73%) Firewall
2 61 (14.06%) VPN
3 54 (12.44%) WAN
4 43 (9.91%) DNS
5 39 (8.99%) BGP
5 39 (8.99%) TCP/IP
6 37 (8.53%) OSPF
7 36 (8.29%) LAN
8 30 (6.91%) SD-WAN
8 30 (6.91%) VLAN
9 26 (5.99%) DHCP
10 17 (3.92%) IPsec
11 16 (3.69%) Network Security
12 15 (3.46%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (3.23%) MPLS
14 12 (2.76%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (2.53%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (2.53%) SAN
15 11 (2.53%) VXLAN
15 11 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.15%) MySQL
3 16 (3.69%) Power BI
4 14 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.46%) Big Data
6 2 (0.46%) Metadata
6 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Git
2 7 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.61%) JIRA
3 5 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 2 (0.46%) JMeter
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Moq
6 1 (0.23%) MSTest
6 1 (0.23%) NUnit
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.23%) xUnit.net
General
1 165 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 33 (7.60%) Finance
3 26 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.53%) Marketing
6 11 (2.53%) Retail
7 10 (2.30%) Back Office
7 10 (2.30%) Local Government
8 9 (2.07%) Electronics
8 9 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.61%) Legal
9 7 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.92%) Banking
12 4 (0.92%) Law
13 2 (0.46%) Police
14 1 (0.23%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 47 (10.83%) Network Engineer
2 46 (10.60%) Graduate
2 46 (10.60%) Graduate Sales Executive
2 46 (10.60%) Sales Executive
3 37 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (8.29%) Architect
5 29 (6.68%) Senior
6 28 (6.45%) Lead
7 27 (6.22%) Support Engineer
8 22 (5.07%) Systems Engineer
9 19 (4.38%) Cloud Architect
10 17 (3.92%) Vulnerability Manager
11 16 (3.69%) Analyst
11 16 (3.69%) Business Development Manager
11 16 (3.69%) Business Manager
11 16 (3.69%) Development Manager
12 15 (3.46%) Infrastructure Manager
13 13 (3.00%) Data Centre Manager
13 13 (3.00%) Electrical Engineer
14 12 (2.76%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.38%) LDAP
2 5 (1.15%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.15%) JSON
2 5 (1.15%) Middleware
2 5 (1.15%) YAML
3 4 (0.92%) OpenCL
4 3 (0.69%) .NET
5 2 (0.46%) CSS
5 2 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.46%) Flash
6 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.23%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.23%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.23%) NHibernate
6 1 (0.23%) Ninject
6 1 (0.23%) Node.js
6 1 (0.23%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.37%) Driving Licence
2 23 (5.30%) SCADA
3 19 (4.38%) Operational Technology
4 15 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.23%) NHS
5 14 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.61%) PMI
9 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.38%) Replication
11 5 (1.15%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
11 5 (1.15%) IoT
12 4 (0.92%) CUDA
12 4 (0.92%) PCIe
12 4 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 87 (20.05%) Windows
2 57 (13.13%) Linux
3 32 (7.37%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.07%) CentOS
4 9 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.15%) Unix
6 5 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.69%) Debian
8 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.46%) AIX
9 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.46%) Solaris
9 2 (0.46%) VMS
9 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.23%) SUSE
10 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (24.42%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (16.36%) Artificial Intelligence
3 69 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (14.75%) Customer Service
5 56 (12.90%) Project Management
6 53 (12.21%) Customer Experience
7 51 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 49 (11.29%) Project Delivery
9 46 (10.60%) Agile
10 43 (9.91%) ITIL
11 39 (8.99%) DevOps
12 38 (8.76%) Roadmaps
13 32 (7.37%) Mentoring
14 31 (7.14%) Business Development
15 28 (6.45%) Migration
16 27 (6.22%) Business Strategy
17 25 (5.76%) CI/CD
17 25 (5.76%) Service Management
18 24 (5.53%) Business Enablement
Programming Languages
1 45 (10.37%) PowerShell
2 36 (8.29%) SQL
3 25 (5.76%) Python
4 15 (3.46%) Bash
5 14 (3.23%) Bicep
6 6 (1.38%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.15%) C
7 5 (1.15%) C++
8 3 (0.69%) C#
8 3 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.46%) Fortran
9 2 (0.46%) Java
10 1 (0.23%) JCL
10 1 (0.23%) Perl
10 1 (0.23%) REXX
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.23%) Tcl
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (18.20%) Degree
2 51 (11.75%) Security Cleared
3 47 (10.83%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (8.06%) SC Cleared
5 34 (7.83%) CCNA
6 28 (6.45%) CCNP
7 17 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.69%) DBS Check
9 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (2.53%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.84%) MCSE
11 8 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.38%) Chartered Engineer
13 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.38%) MCSA
14 5 (1.15%) PMP
15 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.61%) SLA
2 8 (1.84%) PCI DSS
2 8 (1.84%) QA
3 7 (1.61%) GDPR
3 7 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.15%) NIST
5 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.46%) PMO
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (12.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 34 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (5.30%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.84%) Firmware
6 7 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.15%) Docker
7 5 (1.15%) NFS
8 4 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.69%) KVM
10 2 (0.46%) SRDF
10 2 (0.46%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.46%) vSphere
10 2 (0.46%) Xen
11 1 (0.23%) Squid
11 1 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (3.23%) Ansible
1 14 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (2.53%) Terraform
3 10 (2.30%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.61%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.38%) Puppet
6 5 (1.15%) WSUS
6 5 (1.15%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.92%) Nagios
8 3 (0.69%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.69%) Graylog
8 3 (0.69%) Rundeck
8 3 (0.69%) SCCM
9 2 (0.46%) Grafana
9 2 (0.46%) Iperf
9 2 (0.46%) Podman
9 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.46%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 92 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 71 (16.36%) VMware
3 70 (16.13%) Cisco
4 33 (7.60%) Juniper
5 23 (5.30%) YouTube
6 19 (4.38%) Citrix
6 19 (4.38%) Dell
7 18 (4.15%) Meraki
7 18 (4.15%) Oracle
8 17 (3.92%) Qualys
8 17 (3.92%) Tenable
9 14 (3.23%) Databricks
9 14 (3.23%) Fortinet
10 13 (3.00%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.07%) F5
11 9 (2.07%) Intel
12 8 (1.84%) Facebook
12 8 (1.84%) McAfee
12 8 (1.84%) NetApp
12 8 (1.84%) Red Hat