Data Centre Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Center
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 170 207
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 -41
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 744 928 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.20% 2.15% 2.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.22% 5.56% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 502 662 805
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,217 £46,350 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,588 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +0.15% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,969 16,689 30,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.47% 38.68% 46.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,194 11,986 16,731
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,938 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre.

Data Centre salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Data Centre salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 59 (7.93%) Apache
2 49 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.90%) SharePoint
4 28 (3.76%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.21%) WordPress
6 6 (0.81%) IIS
7 5 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.54%) nginx
8 4 (0.54%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.40%) SAS
10 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.40%) SPSS
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 148 (19.89%) Azure
2 135 (18.15%) AWS
3 130 (17.47%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (11.42%) Amazon S3
5 43 (5.78%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.78%) IaaS
6 32 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (3.23%) SaaS
8 21 (2.82%) GCP
9 19 (2.55%) PaaS
10 17 (2.28%) CloudFront
11 16 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.88%) Nutanix
13 11 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (1.34%) Route 53
14 10 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 206 (27.69%) Firewall
2 148 (19.89%) VPN
3 146 (19.62%) WAN
4 120 (16.13%) LAN
5 94 (12.63%) DNS
6 77 (10.35%) IPsec
7 73 (9.81%) DHCP
8 72 (9.68%) Internet
9 68 (9.14%) SD-WAN
10 65 (8.74%) SNMP
11 61 (8.20%) Network Security
12 57 (7.66%) SAN
13 55 (7.39%) TCP/IP
14 53 (7.12%) Wireless
15 50 (6.72%) Wi-Fi
16 42 (5.65%) MPLS
17 38 (5.11%) BGP
17 38 (5.11%) VLAN
18 34 (4.57%) Unified Communications
19 33 (4.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.93%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (7.26%) MongoDB
3 18 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.81%) Big Data
7 6 (0.81%) Power BI
8 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.67%) DB2
8 5 (0.67%) Redis
9 3 (0.40%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.40%) MySQL
9 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.27%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.27%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.27%) Flink
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.27%) Presto
Development Applications
1 10 (1.34%) Git
2 9 (1.21%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.21%) JIRA
3 6 (0.81%) Cucumber
3 6 (0.81%) JBehave
3 6 (0.81%) Selenium
3 6 (0.81%) SpecFlow
3 6 (0.81%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.13%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 202 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 140 (18.82%) Finance
3 34 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.30%) Banking
4 32 (4.30%) Retail
5 29 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (3.76%) Legal
7 27 (3.63%) Law
8 14 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.61%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.21%) Publishing
12 8 (1.08%) Advertising
12 8 (1.08%) Marketing
12 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.54%) Games
15 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 112 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 108 (14.52%) Consultant
3 101 (13.58%) Senior
4 87 (11.69%) Architect
5 59 (7.93%) Network Engineer
6 54 (7.26%) NetApp Consultant
7 46 (6.18%) Lead
8 37 (4.97%) Senior Architect
9 34 (4.57%) Administrator
10 31 (4.17%) Project Manager
11 30 (4.03%) Cisco Architect
11 30 (4.03%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 29 (3.90%) Infrastructure Manager
12 29 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (3.76%) IT Manager
14 27 (3.63%) Technical Consultant
15 25 (3.36%) IT Administrator
15 25 (3.36%) Security Architect
16 24 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.60%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (7.26%) YAML
3 10 (1.34%) LDAP
4 8 (1.08%) HTML
4 8 (1.08%) Kafka
5 6 (0.81%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.81%) Gherkin
5 6 (0.81%) Middleware
5 6 (0.81%) Web Services
6 5 (0.67%) .NET
6 5 (0.67%) XMPP
7 4 (0.54%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (0.40%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.40%) JSON
9 2 (0.27%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.27%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.27%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (0.27%) REST
9 2 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.81%) Public Cloud
2 62 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 60 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (4.44%) Private Cloud
5 26 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.28%) Replication
7 11 (1.48%) PKI
7 11 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.34%) IBM Mainframe
8 10 (1.34%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.21%) IoT
10 8 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.08%) Blog
10 8 (1.08%) EFT
11 7 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.94%) Driving Licence
11 7 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.81%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.67%) CMDB
13 5 (0.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 258 (34.68%) Windows
2 170 (22.85%) Linux
3 87 (11.69%) Windows Server
4 54 (7.26%) Data ONTAP
5 36 (4.84%) Unix
6 35 (4.70%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.48%) zOS
8 9 (1.21%) AIX
8 9 (1.21%) Apple iOS
9 8 (1.08%) Android
9 8 (1.08%) Solaris
9 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.27%) CentOS
11 2 (0.27%) VMS
12 1 (0.13%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (20.30%) Cybersecurity
1 151 (20.30%) Presales
2 145 (19.49%) Project Management
3 144 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 141 (18.95%) ITIL
5 124 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 110 (14.78%) Software Licensing
7 105 (14.11%) Mentoring
8 100 (13.44%) DevOps
9 81 (10.89%) Agile
10 79 (10.62%) Storage Management
11 78 (10.48%) Infrastructure Management
12 76 (10.22%) Migration
13 63 (8.47%) Roadmaps
14 62 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
15 61 (8.20%) Release Management
16 60 (8.06%) Information Security
17 56 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
18 55 (7.39%) Project Planning
19 48 (6.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 111 (14.92%) Python
2 66 (8.87%) PowerShell
3 29 (3.90%) SQL
4 18 (2.42%) Java
5 15 (2.02%) C#
6 11 (1.48%) Bash
7 7 (0.94%) Go
8 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.40%) PHP
9 3 (0.40%) Swift
9 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.27%) Korn
10 2 (0.27%) XPath
11 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 201 (27.02%) Degree
2 81 (10.89%) Cisco Certification
3 78 (10.48%) Security Cleared
4 63 (8.47%) CCNP
5 57 (7.66%) CCNA
6 52 (6.99%) SC Cleared
7 48 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (4.03%) AWS Certification
10 26 (3.49%) MCP
11 19 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (2.15%) APMP
13 15 (2.02%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 11 (1.48%) Azure Certification
15 11 (1.48%) CISSP
16 10 (1.34%) CCIE
17 9 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
18 8 (1.08%) MCSE
19 7 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (2.15%) SLA
3 14 (1.88%) GDPR
4 11 (1.48%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.48%) QA
5 8 (1.08%) NIST
5 8 (1.08%) PMO
6 6 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.54%) COBIT
8 1 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 168 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 164 (22.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (12.90%) Docker
4 54 (7.26%) Hyper-V
5 30 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (3.09%) vSphere
7 16 (2.15%) Firmware
8 14 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.67%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 120 (16.13%) Ansible
2 119 (15.99%) Kubernetes
3 63 (8.47%) vCenter Server
4 59 (7.93%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.97%) WSUS
6 27 (3.63%) Terraform
7 20 (2.69%) SCCM
8 15 (2.02%) CASB
8 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (2.02%) Stealthwatch
9 14 (1.88%) FortiGate
10 12 (1.61%) ZABBIX
11 11 (1.48%) Puppet
12 9 (1.21%) Grafana
12 9 (1.21%) SCOM
13 7 (0.94%) Nagios
14 5 (0.67%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.54%) SolarWinds Orion
16 3 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 274 (36.83%) Microsoft
2 218 (29.30%) VMware
3 162 (21.77%) Cisco
4 110 (14.78%) Adobe
4 110 (14.78%) Apple
5 88 (11.83%) Palo Alto
6 87 (11.69%) NetApp
7 66 (8.87%) Red Hat
8 54 (7.26%) SolidFire
9 50 (6.72%) Citrix
9 50 (6.72%) Meraki
10 49 (6.59%) Dell
11 46 (6.18%) HP
12 37 (4.97%) Veeam
13 30 (4.03%) Samsung
14 29 (3.90%) Juniper
15 28 (3.76%) IBM
16 25 (3.36%) Oracle
17 23 (3.09%) SolarWinds
18 20 (2.69%) F5