Data Center Operations
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Centre Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 963 1164
Rank change year-on-year +159 +201 -335
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 90 30 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.029% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.030% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 69 21 30
10th Percentile £35,650 £34,580 £37,623
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £74,000 £85,000 £62,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Centre Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Centre Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Operations over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre Operations in the UK

Data Centre Operations
Top 12 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 within the UK 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
England +171 81 £55,000 +15.79% 27
UK excluding London +42 64 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Work from Home +123 44 £60,918 +35.37% 4
London +155 24 £60,000 +2.13% 13
East of England +45 22 £30,450 - 1
North West - 16 £41,235 - 2
North of England - 16 £41,235 - 2
South East +32 10 £57,500 +66.28% 9
Scotland -54 7 £57,500 -23.33%
West Midlands +28 5 £57,500 +27.78% 2
Midlands +8 5 £57,500 +27.78% 2
South West -24 4 £60,918 +63.54%

Data Centre Operations
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.22%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) Site Server
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.56%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (24.44%) Azure
3 10 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.00%) AWS
5 7 (7.78%) SaaS
6 5 (5.56%) IaaS
6 5 (5.56%) PaaS
7 4 (4.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.56%) SAN
2 15 (16.67%) Wireless
3 14 (15.56%) LAN
4 11 (12.22%) Firewall
4 11 (12.22%) WAN
5 9 (10.00%) DNS
6 8 (8.89%) Internet
7 7 (7.78%) NGFW
7 7 (7.78%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (7.78%) WLAN
8 6 (6.67%) Network Security
9 5 (5.56%) IP Telephony
10 4 (4.44%) DHCP
10 4 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (4.44%) iSCSI
10 4 (4.44%) SD-WAN
10 4 (4.44%) SNMP
10 4 (4.44%) TCP/IP
11 3 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (2.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 34 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.56%) Banking
4 4 (4.44%) Finance
5 2 (2.22%) Advertising
5 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Administrator
1 22 (24.44%) IT Administrator
2 21 (23.33%) Server Administrator
3 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Data Centre Manager
4 11 (12.22%) Data Manager
4 11 (12.22%) Operations Manager
5 9 (10.00%) Data Centre Operator
6 8 (8.89%) Data Centre Operations Manager
6 8 (8.89%) Network Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) IT Manager
7 7 (7.78%) Lead
8 5 (5.56%) Data Centre Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.44%) IT Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.44%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) IT Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 90 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 30 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.11%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
5 1 (1.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (40.00%) Windows
2 34 (37.78%) Linux
3 29 (32.22%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.78%) Windows 10
4 7 (7.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (7.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (5.56%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.44%) VMS
7 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.11%) Server Management
2 25 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (25.56%) ITIL
3 23 (25.56%) Vulnerability Management
4 21 (23.33%) Benchmarking
4 21 (23.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 21 (23.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 18 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (14.44%) Project Delivery
7 11 (12.22%) Project Management
8 10 (11.11%) Change Management
8 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (10.00%) Line Management
10 8 (8.89%) DevOps
10 8 (8.89%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.89%) Service Delivery
11 7 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (7.78%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.78%) SQL
3 1 (1.11%) Bash
3 1 (1.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.11%) Degree
3 6 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 22 (24.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.11%) vSphere
4 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.44%) pfSense
6 3 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) SCCM
2 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.22%) vRealize
3 1 (1.11%) Grafana
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.11%) Nagios
3 1 (1.11%) Pingdom
3 1 (1.11%) SCOM
3 1 (1.11%) SCSM
3 1 (1.11%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 43 (47.78%) VMware
3 26 (28.89%) Citrix
4 21 (23.33%) NetApp
5 16 (17.78%) Veeam
6 14 (15.56%) Cisco
7 10 (11.11%) ServiceNow
8 8 (8.89%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.44%) BroadSoft
9 4 (4.44%) Brocade
9 4 (4.44%) Dell
9 4 (4.44%) Dell Compellent
9 4 (4.44%) Fortinet
9 4 (4.44%) QNAP
9 4 (4.44%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (4.44%) Zerto
10 3 (3.33%) Oracle
11 2 (2.22%) BMC
11 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.22%) Remedy