Data Centre Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Center
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 133 129
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 25 25 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.75% 0.76% 1.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 2.55% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 37
10th Percentile - £46,000 £31,200
25th Percentile £25,500 £49,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £53,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.19% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £32,000 £64,250 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £106,289
England median annual salary £58,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.85% +1.74% -0.43%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,004 980 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.28% 29.91% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 515 397 857
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £89,417
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in Yorkshire

Data Centre
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Yorkshire -7 10 £32,000 -41.82% 12
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
North Yorkshire -5 2 £26,750 - 8
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) WAN
2 13 (52.00%) Firewall
2 13 (52.00%) LAN
3 11 (44.00%) TCP/IP
3 11 (44.00%) VPN
4 7 (28.00%) ADSL
4 7 (28.00%) BGP
4 7 (28.00%) MPLS
4 7 (28.00%) SD-WAN
4 7 (28.00%) VoIP
4 7 (28.00%) WebEx
4 7 (28.00%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (24.00%) Broadband
5 6 (24.00%) WLAN
6 4 (16.00%) DHCP
6 4 (16.00%) DNS
6 4 (16.00%) Network Security
7 2 (8.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Local Government
2 4 (16.00%) Military
2 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) IT Support
1 11 (44.00%) IT Support Technician
1 11 (44.00%) IT Technician
1 11 (44.00%) Support Technician
2 9 (36.00%) Senior
3 7 (28.00%) Analyst
3 7 (28.00%) Senior IT Support
3 7 (28.00%) Senior IT Technician
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Support Technician
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Technician
3 7 (28.00%) Support Analyst
4 6 (24.00%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (24.00%) Technical Support
4 6 (24.00%) Technical Support Analyst
5 5 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (28.00%) Replication
3 6 (24.00%) Handset
4 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (16.00%) NHS
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
1 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (28.00%) Android
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) ITIL
2 14 (56.00%) Customer Service
3 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) Service Delivery
5 7 (28.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (24.00%) Supplier Management
7 4 (16.00%) Agile
7 4 (16.00%) Business Development
7 4 (16.00%) Data Security
7 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
8 2 (8.00%) Technology Roadmap
9 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security
9 1 (4.00%) Incident Management
9 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (4.00%) Migration
9 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineering
9 1 (4.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (28.00%) CCNA
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (44.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
1 13 (52.00%) VMware
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Fortinet
2 7 (28.00%) Huawei
2 7 (28.00%) Meraki
2 7 (28.00%) Polycom
2 7 (28.00%) Veeam
3 6 (24.00%) Aruba
4 4 (16.00%) Adobe