Data Centre Jobs in England

Data Center
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 63 221
Rank change year-on-year -93 +158 -39
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,616 4,232 2,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.82% 4.89% 1.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.38% 11.29% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 1,241 1,657
10th Percentile £32,400 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £39,380 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +1.95% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,778 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.87% +3.57%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,056 37,480 66,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.82% 43.29% 47.19%
Number of salaries quoted 20,895 20,548 30,615
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,686 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in England.

Salary trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -17 442 £65,000 -13.33% 216
South East -70 364 £55,000 +4.76% 111
North of England -111 312 £42,500 -17.48% 55
Midlands -82 237 £50,000 -9.09% 57
North West -83 187 £41,235 -21.46% 28
South West -112 148 £55,000 -8.33% 25
West Midlands -82 123 £54,000 +2.86% 35
East Midlands -56 112 £42,500 -22.73% 22
East of England -106 108 £50,000 -9.09% 64
Yorkshire -80 94 £42,500 -16.64% 19
North East -70 31 £44,274 +18.06% 10
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 80 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 78 (4.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (2.54%) Apache
4 19 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 14 (0.87%) Skype for Business
6 12 (0.74%) IIS
7 10 (0.62%) Confluence
8 9 (0.56%) WordPress
9 7 (0.43%) nginx
10 5 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.25%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.19%) SAS
13 1 (0.062%) Site Server
13 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.19%) SPSS
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Primavera
2 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.062%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.062%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.062%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.062%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.062%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 360 (22.28%) Azure
2 321 (19.86%) Microsoft 365
3 250 (15.47%) AWS
4 73 (4.52%) Entra ID
5 66 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 56 (3.47%) SaaS
7 53 (3.28%) IaaS
8 43 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (2.48%) GCP
10 36 (2.23%) Power Platform
11 35 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
12 29 (1.79%) PaaS
13 26 (1.61%) OCI
14 20 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.05%) CloudFront
15 17 (1.05%) OneDrive
16 16 (0.99%) Nutanix
17 15 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (0.93%) Rubrik
18 14 (0.87%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 385 (23.82%) Firewall
2 253 (15.66%) WAN
3 217 (13.43%) LAN
4 197 (12.19%) VPN
5 152 (9.41%) DNS
6 127 (7.86%) Network Security
7 124 (7.67%) SD-WAN
7 124 (7.67%) Wi-Fi
8 116 (7.18%) DHCP
9 108 (6.68%) Wireless
10 100 (6.19%) Internet
11 98 (6.06%) SAN
12 90 (5.57%) MPLS
13 83 (5.14%) BGP
14 77 (4.76%) OSPF
15 75 (4.64%) TCP/IP
16 70 (4.33%) VLAN
17 68 (4.21%) IPsec
18 58 (3.59%) SNMP
19 54 (3.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 41 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 39 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
4 31 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (1.61%) Power BI
6 23 (1.42%) MySQL
7 20 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.37%) DB2
14 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 5 (0.31%) Redis
14 5 (0.31%) Tableau
15 3 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.19%) EDRMS
15 3 (0.19%) GIS
15 3 (0.19%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 32 (1.98%) JIRA
2 16 (0.99%) Git
3 12 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.37%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.37%) JBehave
4 6 (0.37%) RStudio
4 6 (0.37%) Selenium
4 6 (0.37%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.37%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.19%) Subversion
7 2 (0.12%) GitLab
7 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.062%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.062%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.062%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 379 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 227 (14.05%) Finance
3 123 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (4.27%) Banking
5 63 (3.90%) Retail
6 60 (3.71%) Legal
7 55 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.91%) Telecoms
10 46 (2.85%) Law
11 35 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 29 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.49%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.30%) Billing
15 15 (0.93%) Marketing
15 15 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.87%) Automotive
16 14 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.68%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.56%) French Language
Job Titles
1 265 (16.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 242 (14.98%) Senior
3 181 (11.20%) Architect
4 163 (10.09%) Network Engineer
5 122 (7.55%) Consultant
6 109 (6.75%) Data Centre Engineer
7 99 (6.13%) Lead
8 75 (4.64%) Senior Architect
9 68 (4.21%) Administrator
10 65 (4.02%) Analyst
10 65 (4.02%) Project Manager
11 60 (3.71%) IT Engineer
12 58 (3.59%) IT Manager
13 55 (3.40%) Data Centre Manager
14 53 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
14 53 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
15 50 (3.09%) Infrastructure Manager
16 45 (2.78%) Support Engineer
16 45 (2.78%) Team Leader
17 43 (2.66%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
2 38 (2.35%) 802.1X
3 35 (2.17%) YAML
4 12 (0.74%) LDAP
5 11 (0.68%) .NET
5 11 (0.68%) HTML
5 11 (0.68%) SAML
5 11 (0.68%) Web Services
6 9 (0.56%) XML
7 8 (0.50%) Middleware
8 6 (0.37%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.37%) Gherkin
8 6 (0.37%) JSON
8 6 (0.37%) Kafka
9 5 (0.31%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (0.31%) XMPP
10 4 (0.25%) LAMP
11 3 (0.19%) React
12 2 (0.12%) Sass
12 2 (0.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (6.81%) Management Information System
2 98 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 81 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
4 63 (3.90%) Driving Licence
5 47 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (2.78%) Private Cloud
7 39 (2.41%) Replication
8 29 (1.79%) PKI
9 27 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.61%) CCTV
11 25 (1.55%) Mainframe
12 20 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
13 19 (1.18%) Onboarding
14 14 (0.87%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.80%) SCADA
16 12 (0.74%) Clustering
17 11 (0.68%) CMDB
17 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
18 10 (0.62%) PMI
19 9 (0.56%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 509 (31.50%) Windows
2 310 (19.18%) Linux
3 216 (13.37%) Windows Server
4 62 (3.84%) Windows 10
5 41 (2.54%) Unix
6 39 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 34 (2.10%) Data ONTAP
8 32 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.05%) Android
10 17 (1.05%) Ubuntu
11 15 (0.93%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.74%) Windows XP
13 11 (0.68%) SUSE
13 11 (0.68%) zOS
14 9 (0.56%) CentOS
15 8 (0.50%) VMS
16 5 (0.31%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (20.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 316 (19.55%) Cybersecurity
3 269 (16.65%) ITIL
4 228 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (12.44%) Project Management
6 200 (12.38%) Presales
7 175 (10.83%) Mentoring
8 149 (9.22%) DevOps
9 132 (8.17%) Roadmaps
10 125 (7.74%) Project Delivery
11 124 (7.67%) Software Licensing
12 120 (7.43%) Agile
13 107 (6.62%) Migration
14 105 (6.50%) Customer Service
15 104 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
16 96 (5.94%) Information Security
17 92 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
18 87 (5.38%) Infrastructure Management
18 87 (5.38%) Service Delivery
19 86 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 141 (8.73%) PowerShell
2 134 (8.29%) Python
3 103 (6.37%) SQL
4 30 (1.86%) C#
5 24 (1.49%) Bash
6 21 (1.30%) Java
7 10 (0.62%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.62%) RPG
8 9 (0.56%) PHP
9 7 (0.43%) Go
10 6 (0.37%) R
11 5 (0.31%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.25%) C
12 4 (0.25%) Ruby
13 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.19%) Swift
14 2 (0.12%) Korn
14 2 (0.12%) Scala
14 2 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 328 (20.30%) Degree
2 181 (11.20%) Cisco Certification
3 149 (9.22%) Security Cleared
4 141 (8.73%) CCNP
5 134 (8.29%) CCNA
6 105 (6.50%) SC Cleared
7 86 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.91%) AWS Certification
10 40 (2.48%) MCP
11 36 (2.23%) DV Cleared
12 34 (2.10%) Azure Certification
12 34 (2.10%) MCSE
13 32 (1.98%) CISSP
14 29 (1.79%) MCSA
15 27 (1.67%) CCIE
16 25 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 23 (1.42%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 17 (1.05%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.53%) SLA
2 44 (2.72%) GDPR
3 43 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.36%) NIST
5 20 (1.24%) QA
6 18 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.74%) PMO
9 11 (0.68%) NCSC
10 7 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.43%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.31%) COBIT
12 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 298 (18.44%) Active Directory
2 281 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (6.87%) Hyper-V
4 92 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
5 87 (5.38%) Docker
6 82 (5.07%) vSphere
7 46 (2.85%) Firmware
8 25 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.87%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.62%) vCloud
11 9 (0.56%) KVM
12 4 (0.25%) pfSense
12 4 (0.25%) Xen
13 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.19%) NFS
13 3 (0.19%) QEMU
13 3 (0.19%) XenApp
14 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 116 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 79 (4.89%) vCenter Server
3 77 (4.76%) Ansible
4 60 (3.71%) Terraform
5 50 (3.09%) WSUS
6 42 (2.60%) SCCM
7 39 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 39 (2.41%) Prometheus
8 30 (1.86%) SCOM
9 27 (1.67%) Stealthwatch
10 25 (1.55%) Puppet
11 19 (1.18%) FortiGate
12 17 (1.05%) Nagios
13 16 (0.99%) CASB
14 15 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
14 15 (0.93%) ZABBIX
15 13 (0.80%) NetBackup
16 11 (0.68%) Grafana
17 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
18 9 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 500 (30.94%) Microsoft
2 402 (24.88%) VMware
3 345 (21.35%) Cisco
4 128 (7.92%) Apple
5 126 (7.80%) Dell
6 124 (7.67%) Adobe
7 112 (6.93%) HP
8 109 (6.75%) Palo Alto
9 102 (6.31%) Veeam
10 96 (5.94%) NetApp
11 88 (5.45%) Juniper
12 83 (5.14%) Citrix
13 75 (4.64%) Meraki
14 64 (3.96%) Fortinet
15 61 (3.77%) Red Hat
16 50 (3.09%) CheckPoint
17 49 (3.03%) Oracle
17 49 (3.03%) ServiceNow
18 45 (2.78%) SolarWinds
19 40 (2.48%) F5