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 remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 116 203
Rank change year-on-year -17 +87 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 648 902 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.32% 2.75% 2.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.75% 7.09% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 403 698 893
10th Percentile £38,000 £39,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,350 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £82,548 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £106,289 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,605 12,729 36,632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 38.79% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,855 9,924 18,426
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +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 26 July 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 58 (8.95%) Apache
2 47 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (4.78%) SharePoint
4 21 (3.24%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.85%) IIS
6 10 (1.54%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.62%) nginx
7 4 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.31%) Confluence
8 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.15%) HiPortfolio
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (19.14%) Azure
2 105 (16.20%) Microsoft 365
3 96 (14.81%) AWS
4 68 (10.49%) Amazon S3
5 35 (5.40%) Entra ID
6 21 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (3.09%) GCP
8 18 (2.78%) Power Platform
9 17 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (2.16%) SaaS
11 13 (2.01%) Kong
12 12 (1.85%) CloudFront
13 11 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.70%) IaaS
13 11 (1.70%) PaaS
14 9 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (1.23%) Nutanix
16 7 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 192 (29.63%) Firewall
2 151 (23.30%) WAN
3 134 (20.68%) VPN
4 93 (14.35%) LAN
5 87 (13.43%) SD-WAN
6 75 (11.57%) DNS
7 69 (10.65%) IPsec
8 67 (10.34%) Internet
9 61 (9.41%) DHCP
10 60 (9.26%) SNMP
11 54 (8.33%) Network Security
12 47 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
13 40 (6.17%) Cisco Firepower
13 40 (6.17%) TCP/IP
14 37 (5.71%) Wireless
15 36 (5.56%) MPLS
16 34 (5.25%) VLAN
17 22 (3.40%) BGP
18 19 (2.93%) OSPF
18 19 (2.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.10%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 22 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.85%) Power BI
5 9 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.23%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.77%) DB2
8 5 (0.77%) Redis
9 4 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.46%) Big Data
11 2 (0.31%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.31%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.31%) Flink
11 2 (0.31%) Presto
11 2 (0.31%) Tableau
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Git
2 3 (0.46%) JIRA
3 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
General
1 154 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.67%) Finance
3 42 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.48%) Law
6 19 (2.93%) Banking
7 18 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (2.47%) Legal
9 15 (2.31%) Retail
10 11 (1.70%) Automotive
10 11 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.39%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.93%) Marketing
13 6 (0.93%) Publishing
14 5 (0.77%) German Language
15 4 (0.62%) Advertising
15 4 (0.62%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.62%) French Language
Job Titles
1 117 (18.06%) Architect
2 115 (17.75%) Senior
3 96 (14.81%) Consultant
4 78 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 55 (8.49%) Network Engineer
5 55 (8.49%) Senior Architect
6 54 (8.33%) NetApp Consultant
7 51 (7.87%) Cisco Architect
7 51 (7.87%) Senior Cisco Architect
8 45 (6.94%) Security Architect
9 36 (5.56%) Cisco Security Architect
9 36 (5.56%) Senior Security Architect
10 31 (4.78%) Lead
10 31 (4.78%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (3.55%) Infrastructure Manager
13 19 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 19 (2.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (2.93%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.57%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (8.33%) YAML
3 11 (1.70%) Kafka
4 8 (1.23%) HTML
4 8 (1.23%) LDAP
4 8 (1.23%) Middleware
5 4 (0.62%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (0.46%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.46%) RESTful
6 3 (0.46%) Web Services
6 3 (0.46%) XMPP
7 2 (0.31%) .NET
7 2 (0.31%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.31%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (0.31%) REST
8 1 (0.15%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.15%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.02%) Public Cloud
2 37 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 35 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (4.78%) Private Cloud
5 19 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.70%) Blog
8 10 (1.54%) IBM Mainframe
8 10 (1.54%) IoT
8 10 (1.54%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.54%) Replication
9 9 (1.39%) PKI
10 6 (0.93%) CMDB
10 6 (0.93%) Driving Licence
10 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.77%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.77%) EFT
11 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.62%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 192 (29.63%) Windows
2 138 (21.30%) Linux
3 54 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
4 43 (6.64%) Windows Server
5 27 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 14 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (1.70%) zOS
9 9 (1.39%) Android
9 9 (1.39%) Apple iOS
10 7 (1.08%) Solaris
11 6 (0.93%) Unix
12 5 (0.77%) AIX
13 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (26.54%) Cybersecurity
2 167 (25.77%) Presales
3 149 (22.99%) Project Management
4 136 (20.99%) Software Licensing
5 130 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 86 (13.27%) ITIL
8 74 (11.42%) Agile
9 73 (11.27%) Infrastructure Management
10 72 (11.11%) Time Management
11 71 (10.96%) DevOps
11 71 (10.96%) Mentoring
12 67 (10.34%) Storage Management
13 64 (9.88%) Analytics
14 61 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
15 59 (9.10%) Release Management
16 57 (8.80%) Customer Engagement
17 56 (8.64%) Information Security
18 55 (8.49%) Project Planning
19 51 (7.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 120 (18.52%) Python
2 32 (4.94%) PowerShell
3 21 (3.24%) Java
4 17 (2.62%) SQL
5 13 (2.01%) Go
6 8 (1.23%) C#
6 8 (1.23%) MATLAB
7 6 (0.93%) Bash
8 2 (0.31%) Korn
8 2 (0.31%) PHP
9 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 204 (31.48%) Degree
2 103 (15.90%) Cisco Certification
3 85 (13.12%) CCNP
4 70 (10.80%) CCNA
5 45 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (6.33%) Security Cleared
7 33 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (4.01%) MCP
9 21 (3.24%) SC Cleared
10 17 (2.62%) CCIE
11 16 (2.47%) APMP
12 13 (2.01%) CISSP
13 12 (1.85%) Azure Certification
14 11 (1.70%) DV Cleared
15 10 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 7 (1.08%) AWS Certification
19 6 (0.93%) DBS Check
20 5 (0.77%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.01%) GDPR
4 12 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.39%) QA
6 8 (1.23%) NIST
7 7 (1.08%) SLA
8 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.62%) COBIT
9 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.46%) PMO
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 128 (19.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 122 (18.83%) Active Directory
3 82 (12.65%) Docker
4 47 (7.25%) Hyper-V
5 26 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (3.24%) vSphere
7 17 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (2.01%) Firmware
9 8 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.62%) XenApp
10 4 (0.62%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.15%) pfSense
12 1 (0.15%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 115 (17.75%) Kubernetes
2 99 (15.28%) Ansible
3 61 (9.41%) vCenter Server
4 59 (9.10%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.56%) Stealthwatch
6 33 (5.09%) WSUS
7 19 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (2.93%) Puppet
8 18 (2.78%) Terraform
9 15 (2.31%) CASB
10 14 (2.16%) SCCM
11 13 (2.01%) ZABBIX
12 10 (1.54%) Pingdom
13 8 (1.23%) Grafana
14 6 (0.93%) SCOM
15 4 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.46%) Nagios
16 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
17 2 (0.31%) Backup Exec
17 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 255 (39.35%) Microsoft
2 176 (27.16%) Cisco
3 154 (23.77%) VMware
4 136 (20.99%) Adobe
4 136 (20.99%) Apple
5 87 (13.43%) Palo Alto
6 73 (11.27%) NetApp
7 70 (10.80%) Meraki
8 63 (9.72%) Red Hat
9 62 (9.57%) Dell
10 54 (8.33%) SolidFire
11 42 (6.48%) HP
12 32 (4.94%) Samsung
13 31 (4.78%) Fortinet
14 28 (4.32%) Juniper
15 25 (3.86%) SolarWinds
16 23 (3.55%) Citrix
17 20 (3.09%) Google
17 20 (3.09%) IBM
18 18 (2.78%) Veeam