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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 48 176
Rank change year-on-year -111 +128 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,286 3,761 1,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.83% 6.08% 2.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.39% 14.75% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 946 795 994
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,900 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,588 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +0.15% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Data Centre is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,867 25,502 30,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.04% 41.23% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,211 11,510 15,845
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -77 329 £50,000 -4.49% 118
North of England -101 299 £43,887 -7.61% 61
Midlands -75 235 £47,100 -14.36% 38
North West -87 177 £44,274 -14.03% 35
South West -112 137 £55,000 -24.14% 44
West Midlands -79 123 £54,000 -1.82% 24
East Midlands -46 110 £42,500 +6.25% 14
East of England -98 106 £50,000 -9.09% 43
Yorkshire -71 94 £42,500 -5.56% 17
Wales -6 83 £36,476 -47.89% 16
Scotland -137 80 £55,000 +29.41% 24
North East -71 28 £44,274 +6.05% 9
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -15 7 £46,750 -6.50% 3
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
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 62 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (4.20%) Apache
3 52 (4.04%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.94%) OpenStack
5 20 (1.56%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.70%) WordPress
7 8 (0.62%) Confluence
7 8 (0.62%) IIS
8 4 (0.31%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.31%) nginx
9 1 (0.078%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 49 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.16%) Shopify
2 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.078%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 258 (20.06%) Microsoft 365
2 256 (19.91%) Azure
3 175 (13.61%) AWS
4 77 (5.99%) Amazon S3
5 68 (5.29%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.97%) IaaS
7 40 (3.11%) GCP
8 31 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (2.41%) SaaS
9 28 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
10 27 (2.10%) Power Platform
11 25 (1.94%) PaaS
12 24 (1.87%) OCI
13 21 (1.63%) Nutanix
14 20 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (1.40%) OneDrive
16 16 (1.24%) CloudFront
16 16 (1.24%) Mimecast
17 15 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 333 (25.89%) Firewall
2 190 (14.77%) WAN
3 166 (12.91%) VPN
4 156 (12.13%) LAN
5 125 (9.72%) DNS
6 87 (6.77%) Internet
6 87 (6.77%) SD-WAN
6 87 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
7 84 (6.53%) DHCP
8 81 (6.30%) SAN
9 79 (6.14%) Wireless
10 77 (5.99%) IPsec
11 74 (5.75%) Network Security
12 66 (5.13%) TCP/IP
13 62 (4.82%) SNMP
14 43 (3.34%) Unified Communications
15 39 (3.03%) OSPF
16 38 (2.95%) BGP
17 33 (2.57%) VLAN
18 27 (2.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.82%) MongoDB
2 55 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
3 37 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.63%) MySQL
4 21 (1.63%) Power BI
5 18 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.70%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.47%) GIS
11 6 (0.47%) Redis
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.16%) Big Data
13 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.078%) DB2
14 1 (0.078%) Oracle Database 12c
14 1 (0.078%) Oracle9i Database
14 1 (0.078%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 17 (1.32%) JIRA
2 11 (0.86%) Git
3 9 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.47%) JBehave
4 6 (0.47%) RStudio
4 6 (0.47%) Selenium
4 6 (0.47%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.16%) GitLab
5 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.078%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.078%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 317 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 157 (12.21%) Finance
3 92 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (3.97%) Manufacturing
5 47 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (3.58%) Retail
7 43 (3.34%) Telecoms
8 31 (2.41%) Legal
9 29 (2.26%) Banking
10 22 (1.71%) Law
10 22 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.63%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.32%) Local Government
14 16 (1.24%) Public Sector
15 12 (0.93%) Marketing
16 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.78%) Automotive
17 10 (0.78%) Police
18 7 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (18.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 206 (16.02%) Senior
3 134 (10.42%) Consultant
4 120 (9.33%) Architect
5 109 (8.48%) Network Engineer
6 73 (5.68%) Lead
7 69 (5.37%) Data Centre Engineer
8 59 (4.59%) Administrator
9 49 (3.81%) NetApp Consultant
10 48 (3.73%) IT Engineer
11 47 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (3.50%) Senior Architect
13 44 (3.42%) Team Leader
14 43 (3.34%) Support Engineer
15 42 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 42 (3.27%) IT Manager
15 42 (3.27%) IT Support
16 41 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 40 (3.11%) Analyst
18 39 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (3.89%) YAML
3 10 (0.78%) 802.1X
3 10 (0.78%) LDAP
4 8 (0.62%) .NET
5 7 (0.54%) Middleware
5 7 (0.54%) Web Services
6 6 (0.47%) Gherkin
7 5 (0.39%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.31%) HTML
8 4 (0.31%) JSON
8 4 (0.31%) LAMP
9 3 (0.23%) REST
9 3 (0.23%) SAML
10 2 (0.16%) Laravel
10 2 (0.16%) React
10 2 (0.16%) Sass
10 2 (0.16%) ServiceStack
10 2 (0.16%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (0.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.08%) Management Information System
2 88 (6.84%) Public Cloud
3 85 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 38 (2.95%) Private Cloud
6 37 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (2.72%) Replication
8 28 (2.18%) PKI
9 26 (2.02%) Mainframe
10 24 (1.87%) CCTV
11 17 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 12 (0.93%) PMI
12 12 (0.93%) SCADA
13 10 (0.78%) CMDB
13 10 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
14 9 (0.70%) Clustering
14 9 (0.70%) IBM Mainframe
14 9 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (0.62%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 466 (36.24%) Windows
2 282 (21.93%) Linux
3 214 (16.64%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.89%) Data ONTAP
4 50 (3.89%) Windows 10
5 42 (3.27%) Unix
6 25 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (1.17%) CentOS
10 14 (1.09%) Android
11 12 (0.93%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.93%) Windows XP
12 11 (0.86%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.86%) zOS
13 10 (0.78%) Solaris
14 9 (0.70%) VMS
15 8 (0.62%) AIX
16 3 (0.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 258 (20.06%) ITIL
3 248 (19.28%) Cybersecurity
4 227 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (14.93%) Project Management
6 163 (12.67%) Presales
7 148 (11.51%) Mentoring
8 124 (9.64%) DevOps
9 119 (9.25%) Customer Service
10 107 (8.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 106 (8.24%) Project Delivery
12 100 (7.78%) Software Licensing
13 92 (7.15%) Actionable Insight
14 89 (6.92%) Agile
15 85 (6.61%) Change Management
15 85 (6.61%) Roadmaps
16 83 (6.45%) Migration
16 83 (6.45%) Storage Management
17 80 (6.22%) Service Delivery
18 77 (5.99%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 103 (8.01%) Python
2 90 (7.00%) PowerShell
3 82 (6.38%) SQL
4 25 (1.94%) C#
5 15 (1.17%) Bash
6 14 (1.09%) Java
7 7 (0.54%) C
8 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.47%) R
9 4 (0.31%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.31%) PHP
10 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.23%) Swift
11 2 (0.16%) Ruby
11 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.078%) JCL
12 1 (0.078%) Korn
12 1 (0.078%) ProC
12 1 (0.078%) REXX
Qualifications
1 258 (20.06%) Degree
2 162 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 153 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
4 125 (9.72%) CCNA
5 121 (9.41%) SC Cleared
6 91 (7.08%) CCNP
7 69 (5.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (3.19%) MCP
10 39 (3.03%) AWS Certification
11 36 (2.80%) DV Cleared
12 28 (2.18%) CISSP
12 28 (2.18%) MCSE
13 24 (1.87%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (1.48%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.24%) CCIE
16 16 (1.24%) MCSA
16 16 (1.24%) PMI Certification
17 13 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (3.81%) SLA
3 33 (2.57%) GDPR
4 19 (1.48%) NIST
5 16 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 12 (0.93%) QA
8 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.86%) PMO
9 7 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.47%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.39%) COBIT
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 14000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.23%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.16%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 262 (20.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 249 (19.36%) Active Directory
3 101 (7.85%) Docker
4 98 (7.62%) Hyper-V
5 50 (3.89%) vSphere
6 49 (3.81%) VMware ESXi
7 45 (3.50%) Firmware
8 34 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (1.79%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.54%) KVM
11 6 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.31%) pfSense
14 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.16%) QEMU
14 2 (0.16%) Xen
15 1 (0.078%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.078%) NFS
15 1 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 119 (9.25%) Ansible
2 116 (9.02%) Kubernetes
3 89 (6.92%) vCenter Server
4 58 (4.51%) Terraform
5 54 (4.20%) Prometheus
6 53 (4.12%) SCCM
7 40 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.57%) WSUS
9 30 (2.33%) FortiGate
10 26 (2.02%) SCOM
11 15 (1.17%) CASB
11 15 (1.17%) Stealthwatch
12 14 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (1.09%) Nagios
13 13 (1.01%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.93%) Puppet
15 11 (0.86%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.62%) Grafana
17 7 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 6 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 410 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 371 (28.85%) VMware
3 285 (22.16%) Cisco
4 109 (8.48%) NetApp
5 108 (8.40%) Palo Alto
6 104 (8.09%) Apple
7 100 (7.78%) Adobe
8 87 (6.77%) Dell
9 83 (6.45%) HP
10 75 (5.83%) Red Hat
11 68 (5.29%) Veeam
12 64 (4.98%) Meraki
13 58 (4.51%) Citrix
14 57 (4.43%) Oracle
15 54 (4.20%) Juniper
16 49 (3.81%) SolidFire
17 44 (3.42%) Fortinet
18 42 (3.27%) ServiceNow
19 34 (2.64%) CheckPoint
20 20 (1.56%) Splunk