Data Centre Jobs in the North of England

Data Center
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 39 161
Rank change year-on-year -102 +122 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 308 1,196 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.74% 7.11% 2.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.68% 17.99% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 242 212 195
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,243 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% +2.49% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,188 £62,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,850
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.95% +2.78%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,419 6,647 8,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.60% 39.52% 44.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,992 3,064 4,282
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
England 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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
North West -89 183 £41,504 -20.94% 34
Yorkshire -82 93 £42,500 -16.64% 15
North East -70 32 £44,274 +10.69% 8
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 15 (4.87%) Apache
2 14 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.92%) WordPress
4 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.30%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (12.66%) Azure
3 21 (6.82%) IaaS
4 20 (6.49%) AWS
5 19 (6.17%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 10 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.62%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.30%) GCP
11 4 (1.30%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.97%) GitHub
12 3 (0.97%) SaaS
13 2 (0.65%) Cloudflare
13 2 (0.65%) PaaS
13 2 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (22.40%) Firewall
2 40 (12.99%) VPN
3 35 (11.36%) WAN
4 30 (9.74%) Network Security
5 29 (9.42%) LAN
6 24 (7.79%) Internet
7 23 (7.47%) IPsec
8 22 (7.14%) SD-WAN
9 20 (6.49%) DNS
10 17 (5.52%) Software-Defined Networking
11 16 (5.19%) SAN
11 16 (5.19%) SNMP
12 15 (4.87%) Wireless
13 14 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (4.55%) WLAN
14 13 (4.22%) DHCP
15 11 (3.57%) NAS
15 11 (3.57%) VLAN
16 10 (3.25%) TCP/IP
17 8 (2.60%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.77%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.90%) MySQL
5 10 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.62%) Redis
8 4 (1.30%) Power BI
9 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (11.36%) Finance
3 23 (7.47%) Manufacturing
4 12 (3.90%) Law
5 9 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.30%) Banking
7 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.65%) Marketing
8 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Police
9 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (17.21%) Senior
2 43 (13.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (10.71%) Lead
4 31 (10.06%) Data Centre Engineer
5 26 (8.44%) Architect
6 24 (7.79%) Consultant
7 20 (6.49%) Network Engineer
7 20 (6.49%) Team Leader
8 19 (6.17%) Infrastructure Team Leader
9 17 (5.52%) Analyst
10 15 (4.87%) IT Manager
10 15 (4.87%) NetApp Consultant
11 14 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (4.22%) Cisco Architect
12 13 (4.22%) Security Architect
12 13 (4.22%) Senior Architect
12 13 (4.22%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 13 (4.22%) Service Analyst
12 13 (4.22%) Service Desk Analyst
13 12 (3.90%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.19%) YAML
2 15 (4.87%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (1.95%) .NET
4 5 (1.62%) Middleware
5 4 (1.30%) LAMP
6 2 (0.65%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.26%) Management Information System
2 35 (11.36%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.19%) Driving Licence
4 15 (4.87%) Mainframe
5 12 (3.90%) SCADA
6 10 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.92%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.60%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.95%) PKI
10 5 (1.62%) IoT
11 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.97%) Blog
12 3 (0.97%) CCTV
12 3 (0.97%) EPoS
12 3 (0.97%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.97%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.97%) Wiki
13 2 (0.65%) IBM Mainframe
13 2 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 122 (39.61%) Windows
2 67 (21.75%) Linux
3 33 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.49%) Unix
5 15 (4.87%) Data ONTAP
6 11 (3.57%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.30%) CentOS
10 3 (0.97%) Android
10 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.97%) zOS
11 1 (0.32%) HPUX
11 1 (0.32%) Solaris
11 1 (0.32%) SUSE
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (26.30%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (23.70%) ITIL
3 63 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 54 (17.53%) Presales
5 49 (15.91%) Mentoring
6 41 (13.31%) Software Licensing
7 39 (12.66%) Roadmaps
8 36 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (11.04%) Project Management
10 30 (9.74%) Customer Service
11 28 (9.09%) Coaching
12 27 (8.77%) Information Security
12 27 (8.77%) Infrastructure Management
13 26 (8.44%) Change Management
14 25 (8.12%) Incident Management
15 24 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (7.47%) Cloud Security
17 21 (6.82%) DevOps
17 21 (6.82%) Migration
18 20 (6.49%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.12%) SQL
2 23 (7.47%) Python
3 13 (4.22%) C#
4 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.97%) Kotlin
5 3 (0.97%) Swift
6 2 (0.65%) Bash
7 1 (0.32%) Java
7 1 (0.32%) JCL
7 1 (0.32%) PHP
7 1 (0.32%) REXX
7 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (17.21%) Degree
2 27 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (7.47%) CCNP
4 21 (6.82%) CCNA
5 18 (5.84%) CISSP
6 17 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.22%) Security Cleared
8 11 (3.57%) MCP
9 8 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.60%) SC Cleared
10 6 (1.95%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.30%) CISM
12 4 (1.30%) CRISC
12 4 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (1.30%) ISSMP
12 4 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.87%) SLA
2 13 (4.22%) GDPR
3 11 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.30%) NIST
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) PMO
6 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 53 (17.21%) Active Directory
2 50 (16.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.52%) Docker
5 15 (4.87%) vSphere
6 5 (1.62%) Firmware
6 5 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.32%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
8 1 (0.32%) NFS
8 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.49%) Prometheus
3 18 (5.84%) Ansible
3 18 (5.84%) vCenter Server
4 8 (2.60%) FortiGate
4 8 (2.60%) Stealthwatch
5 7 (2.27%) Nagios
6 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.95%) SCOM
7 5 (1.62%) CASB
7 5 (1.62%) Grafana
8 4 (1.30%) cPanel
8 4 (1.30%) Plesk
9 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.97%) Terraform
10 2 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.65%) vRealize
11 1 (0.32%) SCCM
11 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 99 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 80 (25.97%) Cisco
3 67 (21.75%) VMware
4 41 (13.31%) Adobe
4 41 (13.31%) Apple
5 39 (12.66%) Dell
6 36 (11.69%) NetApp
7 28 (9.09%) HP
8 27 (8.77%) Palo Alto
9 22 (7.14%) Dynatrace
10 20 (6.49%) Red Hat
11 17 (5.52%) Meraki
11 17 (5.52%) ServiceNow
11 17 (5.52%) Splunk
12 16 (5.19%) Veeam
13 15 (4.87%) SolidFire
14 11 (3.57%) IBM
14 11 (3.57%) Samsung
15 10 (3.25%) CheckPoint
15 10 (3.25%) Juniper