Data Centre Operations Engineer Jobs

Data Centre Operations Engineer
UK

As of 5 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Data Centre Operations Engineer salary in the UK.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 900 962
Rank change year-on-year +215 +62 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Operations Engineer 2 14 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.014% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.015% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £30,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £30,000 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 47,606 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,326 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Centre Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Operations Engineer.

Salary trend for Data Centre Operations Engineer in the UK

Data Centre Operations Engineer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Operations Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +174 2 - - 5
London - 2 - - 3

Data Centre Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Data Centre Operations Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Centre Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) CCSA
1 2 (100.00%) CCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki

Data Centre Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSA
1 2 (100.00%) CCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds