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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 830 930 1184
Rank change year-on-year +100 +254 -354
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 84 34 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.033% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.034% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 63 24 30
10th Percentile £35,750 £34,580 £37,623
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,833 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% -29.17%
75th Percentile £62,750 £75,000 £55,313
90th Percentile £74,750 £86,750 £62,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £41,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +39.39% -2.94% -15.00%

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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +145 75 £57,500 +27.78% 31
UK excluding London +32 61 £57,500 +39.39% 13
Work from Home +111 44 £60,918 +35.37% 7
London +135 21 £60,918 -7.89% 18
East of England +37 21 - -
North West - 16 £41,235 - 3
North of England - 16 £41,235 - 3
South East +27 9 £60,000 +73.51% 9
Scotland -57 7 £57,500 -23.33%
West Midlands +20 4 £57,500 +27.78% 1
Midlands +17 4 £57,500 +27.78% 1
South West -27 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Site Server
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) Azure
1 18 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (11.90%) Entra ID
3 6 (7.14%) AWS
3 6 (7.14%) SaaS
4 5 (5.95%) IaaS
4 5 (5.95%) PaaS
5 4 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (26.19%) SAN
2 14 (16.67%) LAN
3 12 (14.29%) Wireless
4 11 (13.10%) WAN
5 8 (9.52%) DNS
5 8 (9.52%) Internet
6 7 (8.33%) Firewall
6 7 (8.33%) NGFW
6 7 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (8.33%) WLAN
7 6 (7.14%) Network Security
8 4 (4.76%) DHCP
8 4 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (4.76%) iSCSI
8 4 (4.76%) SD-WAN
8 4 (4.76%) SNMP
8 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.38%) IP Telephony
9 2 (2.38%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 33 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Finance
6 2 (2.38%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (25.00%) Administrator
1 21 (25.00%) IT Administrator
1 21 (25.00%) Server Administrator
2 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (13.10%) Data Centre Manager
3 11 (13.10%) Data Manager
3 11 (13.10%) Operations Manager
4 8 (9.52%) Data Centre Operations Manager
4 8 (9.52%) Data Centre Operator
4 8 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) IT Manager
5 7 (8.33%) Lead
6 5 (5.95%) Data Centre Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) IT Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 84 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 30 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.19%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 35 (41.67%) Windows
2 30 (35.71%) Linux
3 28 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.76%) VMS
6 2 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.14%) Server Management
2 23 (27.38%) Vulnerability Management
3 22 (26.19%) ITIL
4 21 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 21 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 21 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 15 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (15.48%) Project Delivery
7 11 (13.10%) Project Management
8 9 (10.71%) Change Management
8 9 (10.71%) Line Management
9 8 (9.52%) DevOps
9 8 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
9 8 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (8.33%) Demand Management
10 7 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.19%) Bash
3 1 (1.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.05%) Degree
3 6 (7.14%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (44.05%) Active Directory
2 18 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.90%) vSphere
4 6 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.76%) pfSense
6 3 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) SCCM
1 2 (2.38%) vCenter Server
1 2 (2.38%) vRealize
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Nagios
2 1 (1.19%) Pingdom
2 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (46.43%) Microsoft
1 39 (46.43%) VMware
2 25 (29.76%) Citrix
3 21 (25.00%) NetApp
4 14 (16.67%) Cisco
5 13 (15.48%) Veeam
6 10 (11.90%) ServiceNow
7 8 (9.52%) Palo Alto
8 4 (4.76%) BroadSoft
8 4 (4.76%) Brocade
8 4 (4.76%) Dell
8 4 (4.76%) Dell Compellent
8 4 (4.76%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.76%) QNAP
8 4 (4.76%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (4.76%) Zerto
9 3 (3.57%) Oracle
10 2 (2.38%) BMC
10 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.38%) Remedy