Data Centre Job Trends in West Sussex

Data Center
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 31 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 12 14 13
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 3.02% 4.53% 2.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.01% 8.75% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 13
10th Percentile - £34,375 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £61,250 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +57.05% -38.34%
75th Percentile £68,438 £80,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 - £68,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Generic Skills
West Sussex

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 109 160 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 27.46% 51.78% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 80 71 116
10th Percentile £27,450 £25,750 £36,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £69,063 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Data Centre
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in West Sussex over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in West Sussex

Data Centre
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Haywards Heath 0 10 £51,250 -35.94% 4
Crawley -1 2 - - 11
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Artifactory
General
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Lead
1 10 (83.33%) Team Leader
2 6 (50.00%) Help Desk Team Lead
2 6 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Project Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Project Leader
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Project Leader
4 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) FinOps
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) People Management
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Perl
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (8.33%) LPIC
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) ZABBIX
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet