Data Center
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 153 201 204
Rank change year-on-year +48 +3 -50
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,172 2,342 2,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.21% 1.91% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.01% 4.43% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,641 1,721
10th Percentile £33,210 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +7.37% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,511 52,884 56,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.05% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,245 29,698 33,809
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +41 987 £57,500 - 633
UK excluding London +33 704 £52,500 +2.94% 398
Work from Home +31 499 £60,000 -1.64% 230
London +46 371 £70,037 +0.05% 256
Midlands +72 173 £50,000 -9.09% 63
North of England +21 153 £60,000 +22.23% 94
West Midlands +78 150 £50,000 -9.09% 48
South East -30 121 £55,000 - 141
East of England +82 94 £52,500 -4.55% 35
South West +28 92 £47,500 -5.00% 49
North West +73 89 £62,500 +35.14% 39
Wales +37 51 £43,190 -4.02% 13
Yorkshire -7 49 £60,000 +20.00% 46
Scotland +23 44 £60,000 +39.37% 19
North East +40 24 £41,578 -16.85% 9
East Midlands +25 23 £55,000 -1.79% 14
Northern Ireland +39 15 £55,000 - 3

Data Centre
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 44 (3.75%) Confluence
2 43 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.24%) MS Exchange
4 13 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.34%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) JBoss
6 2 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.085%) CMS
7 1 (0.085%) nginx
7 1 (0.085%) SAS
7 1 (0.085%) Site Server
7 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 54 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.085%) SPSS
6 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 475 (40.53%) Azure
2 251 (21.42%) Microsoft 365
3 246 (20.99%) AWS
4 107 (9.13%) Entra ID
5 86 (7.34%) IaaS
6 62 (5.29%) PaaS
7 58 (4.95%) GCP
8 55 (4.69%) SaaS
9 42 (3.58%) Cloud Computing
10 32 (2.73%) OneDrive
11 21 (1.79%) Nutanix
12 17 (1.45%) Rubrik
13 15 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.28%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 11 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (0.94%) OpenShift
16 9 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 344 (29.35%) Firewall
2 238 (20.31%) WAN
3 187 (15.96%) LAN
4 146 (12.46%) VPN
5 141 (12.03%) BGP
6 131 (11.18%) DNS
7 129 (11.01%) SD-WAN
8 125 (10.67%) OSPF
9 122 (10.41%) Wireless
10 117 (9.98%) DHCP
11 107 (9.13%) Network Security
12 90 (7.68%) MPLS
13 89 (7.59%) Wi-Fi
14 88 (7.51%) Cisco ASA
15 76 (6.48%) SAN
16 72 (6.14%) Cisco Nexus
17 66 (5.63%) TCP/IP
18 58 (4.95%) IPsec
19 51 (4.35%) Internet
20 48 (4.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.37%) NoSQL
3 15 (1.28%) Power BI
4 14 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.11%) Oracle Database
5 13 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.02%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.94%) MySQL
8 10 (0.85%) Oracle Database 12c
9 9 (0.77%) Big Data
9 9 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.68%) Metadata
11 7 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (3.07%) JIRA
2 28 (2.39%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.51%) Git
5 5 (0.43%) Maven
5 5 (0.43%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.17%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.085%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.085%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.085%) GitLab
8 1 (0.085%) JBehave
8 1 (0.085%) Selenium
8 1 (0.085%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.085%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 374 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 229 (19.54%) Finance
3 76 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (5.97%) Banking
5 59 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (4.78%) Retail
7 54 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
8 48 (4.10%) Public Sector
9 39 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.90%) Law
11 30 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (2.22%) Local Government
14 20 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.62%) Police
16 18 (1.54%) Billing
17 14 (1.19%) Legal
18 12 (1.02%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.94%) Back Office
20 9 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 187 (15.96%) Senior
2 181 (15.44%) Network Engineer
3 155 (13.23%) Architect
4 154 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 70 (5.97%) Consultant
6 61 (5.20%) Support Engineer
7 55 (4.69%) Infrastructure Manager
8 54 (4.61%) Data Centre Engineer
9 52 (4.44%) Lead
10 48 (4.10%) Cisco Engineer
11 46 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
11 46 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
12 43 (3.67%) Analyst
13 42 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (3.58%) IT Engineer
14 41 (3.50%) IT Manager
15 38 (3.24%) Project Consultant
16 35 (2.99%) Network Architect
16 35 (2.99%) Project Manager
17 34 (2.90%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.39%) Spine.js
2 17 (1.45%) OpenID
3 15 (1.28%) 802.1X
3 15 (1.28%) JSON
4 14 (1.19%) Kafka
5 12 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (0.77%) Keycloak
6 9 (0.77%) OAuth
6 9 (0.77%) OAuth2
6 9 (0.77%) SAML
7 8 (0.68%) LDAP
7 8 (0.68%) YAML
8 7 (0.60%) ARM Templates
8 7 (0.60%) Web Services
9 6 (0.51%) Middleware
9 6 (0.51%) REST
10 5 (0.43%) web3js
11 3 (0.26%) HTML
11 3 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.94%) Public Cloud
2 60 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 55 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 43 (3.67%) Private Cloud
5 40 (3.41%) Replication
6 32 (2.73%) Driving Licence
6 32 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (2.05%) EFT
10 23 (1.96%) Blockchain
11 20 (1.71%) Clustering
12 19 (1.62%) CMDB
12 19 (1.62%) Mainframe
12 19 (1.62%) PKI
12 19 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.28%) IoT
14 14 (1.19%) Cyberattack
15 13 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
16 12 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 346 (29.52%) Windows
2 210 (17.92%) Linux
3 189 (16.13%) Windows Server
4 39 (3.33%) Unix
5 37 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 33 (2.82%) Mac OS
8 31 (2.65%) Ubuntu
9 23 (1.96%) Apple iOS
9 23 (1.96%) Windows 10
10 22 (1.88%) Android
10 22 (1.88%) Windows Server 2003
11 19 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (1.28%) AIX
13 14 (1.19%) SUSE
14 11 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
15 10 (0.85%) Debian
15 10 (0.85%) Solaris
16 8 (0.68%) CentOS
16 8 (0.68%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (25.60%) ITIL
2 194 (16.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 162 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
4 140 (11.95%) DevOps
5 130 (11.09%) Migration
6 124 (10.58%) Agile
7 123 (10.49%) Roadmaps
8 108 (9.22%) Project Delivery
9 102 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
10 92 (7.85%) High Availability
11 87 (7.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 84 (7.17%) Project Management
13 83 (7.08%) Disaster Recovery
14 77 (6.57%) CI/CD
14 77 (6.57%) Customer Service
15 70 (5.97%) Mentoring
16 67 (5.72%) Cloud Security
17 65 (5.55%) Service Delivery
17 65 (5.55%) Service Management
18 63 (5.38%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 152 (12.97%) PowerShell
2 119 (10.15%) SQL
3 109 (9.30%) Python
4 44 (3.75%) Bash
5 26 (2.22%) Java
6 17 (1.45%) Perl
6 17 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 13 (1.11%) C
8 12 (1.02%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.60%) C++
9 7 (0.60%) Ruby
10 6 (0.51%) Bicep
10 6 (0.51%) VBScript
11 5 (0.43%) PHP
11 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.34%) C#
12 4 (0.34%) Go
13 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 228 (19.45%) Security Cleared
2 191 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
3 172 (14.68%) Degree
3 172 (14.68%) SC Cleared
4 153 (13.05%) CCNP
5 103 (8.79%) CCNA
6 75 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (4.18%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.92%) CCIE
9 42 (3.58%) MCSE
10 38 (3.24%) CISSP
10 38 (3.24%) DV Cleared
11 34 (2.90%) AWS Certification
12 33 (2.82%) MCSA
13 31 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 22 (1.88%) CISM
15 21 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (1.71%) OSCP
17 19 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (1.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.85%) SLA
2 50 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 17 (1.45%) QA
6 13 (1.11%) NIST
7 10 (0.85%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.60%) GDPR
9 6 (0.51%) IASME
9 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.51%) PMO
9 6 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.43%) NCSC
11 1 (0.085%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.085%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 286 (24.40%) Active Directory
2 203 (17.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 70 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
5 51 (4.35%) Firmware
6 45 (3.84%) vSphere
7 30 (2.56%) VMware NSX
8 29 (2.47%) Docker
9 17 (1.45%) vCloud
10 12 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
12 6 (0.51%) DFS Replication
12 6 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.43%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.43%) Varnish
14 4 (0.34%) XenApp
15 2 (0.17%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.17%) OpenSIPS
16 1 (0.085%) KVM
16 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 114 (9.73%) Ansible
2 106 (9.04%) Terraform
3 97 (8.28%) FortiGate
4 75 (6.40%) SCCM
5 54 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 49 (4.18%) Kubernetes
7 45 (3.84%) vCenter Server
8 39 (3.33%) Puppet
9 25 (2.13%) SCOM
10 22 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.37%) Nagios
11 16 (1.37%) Progress Chef
12 14 (1.19%) Grafana
13 13 (1.11%) WSUS
14 12 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
14 12 (1.02%) Icinga
14 12 (1.02%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
16 7 (0.60%) Cacti
16 7 (0.60%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 406 (34.64%) Microsoft
2 351 (29.95%) Cisco
3 301 (25.68%) VMware
4 141 (12.03%) CheckPoint
5 116 (9.90%) Palo Alto
6 107 (9.13%) F5
7 104 (8.87%) Fortinet
8 88 (7.51%) Meraki
9 82 (7.00%) Juniper
10 78 (6.66%) ServiceNow
11 73 (6.23%) Citrix
12 64 (5.46%) Oracle
13 63 (5.38%) HP
14 57 (4.86%) Remedy
15 51 (4.35%) Veeam
16 49 (4.18%) SolarWinds
17 45 (3.84%) Aruba
18 43 (3.67%) Dell
19 36 (3.07%) NetApp
20 33 (2.82%) McAfee