Data Centre Jobs in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 56 167
Rank change year-on-year -73 +111 -38
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 349 739 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.07% 5.16% 2.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.03% 12.20% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 267 228 263
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £66,000 £73,781 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,250 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -11.25% +2.56% +1.74%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,787 6,058 8,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.30% 42.32% 41.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,738 3,157 4,540
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,963 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley -42 159 £50,000 -4.49% 34
Berkshire -28 82 £59,000 +12.54% 24
Surrey -10 65 £53,500 -10.83% 10
Buckinghamshire -27 62 £40,000 -36.00% 4
Hampshire -101 46 £62,500 +25.63% 11
West Sussex -3 29 £64,000 +6.67% 9
Kent -37 23 £65,000 +85.71% 9
Oxfordshire -11 15 £51,000 +78.95% 6
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 1
Middlesex - 9 £40,000 -
East Sussex -40 6 £65,000 +44.44% 4
Home Counties +13 1 £48,000 -49.47%
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (4.58%) OpenStack
2 14 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (22.92%) AWS
2 62 (17.77%) Azure
3 55 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (6.88%) Amazon S3
5 23 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (4.30%) CloudFront
7 13 (3.72%) OCI
8 11 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (2.87%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.58%) Route 53
10 9 (2.58%) Serverless
11 8 (2.29%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.72%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.43%) Nutanix
13 5 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (15.47%) Firewall
2 46 (13.18%) WAN
3 36 (10.32%) LAN
4 28 (8.02%) VPN
5 25 (7.16%) SAN
6 23 (6.59%) DNS
7 22 (6.30%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (5.73%) DHCP
8 20 (5.73%) OSPF
9 19 (5.44%) BGP
10 18 (5.16%) Network Security
11 16 (4.58%) Unified Communications
11 16 (4.58%) Wireless
12 15 (4.30%) SD-WAN
13 14 (4.01%) Internet
13 14 (4.01%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (3.44%) IPsec
15 10 (2.87%) Intrusion Detection
16 8 (2.29%) Cisco Firepower
17 7 (2.01%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (1.72%) Power BI
3 5 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.01%) JIRA
3 6 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.72%) JBehave
3 6 (1.72%) Selenium
3 6 (1.72%) SpecFlow
3 6 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (4.87%) Finance
3 12 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (3.44%) Manufacturing
4 10 (2.87%) Legal
5 7 (2.01%) Retail
6 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.43%) Advertising
7 5 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.43%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.15%) Marketing
9 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.86%) Automotive
10 2 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Law
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (20.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (14.33%) Architect
3 47 (13.47%) Senior
4 34 (9.74%) Consultant
5 31 (8.88%) Data Centre Engineer
6 26 (7.45%) Network Engineer
7 25 (7.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (7.16%) Senior Architect
8 22 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (5.44%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.16%) Lead
10 18 (5.16%) Security Architect
11 17 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.87%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 16 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (4.58%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 16 (4.58%) Server Engineer
13 15 (4.30%) Administrator
13 15 (4.30%) Infrastructure Architect
14 14 (4.01%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (1.72%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.72%) Gherkin
2 6 (1.72%) LDAP
3 5 (1.43%) Web Services
3 5 (1.43%) YAML
4 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.29%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.46%) Driving Licence
2 24 (6.88%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.87%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.01%) Private Cloud
7 12 (3.44%) Replication
8 9 (2.58%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.43%) PMI
11 4 (1.15%) PKI
12 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.86%) CCTV
12 3 (0.86%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.86%) Raspberry Pi
13 2 (0.57%) EMC VNX
13 2 (0.57%) Molecular Biology
13 2 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 116 (33.24%) Windows
2 74 (21.20%) Linux
3 54 (15.47%) Windows Server
4 21 (6.02%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.01%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.44%) Windows XP
7 7 (2.01%) Android
7 7 (2.01%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.43%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.57%) CentOS
10 2 (0.57%) OS/2
10 2 (0.57%) Rocky
10 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (23.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 60 (17.19%) DevOps
4 59 (16.91%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (14.90%) Presales
6 49 (14.04%) Project Management
7 41 (11.75%) Software Licensing
8 40 (11.46%) Computer Science
9 36 (10.32%) ITIL
10 32 (9.17%) Customer Service
11 30 (8.60%) Disaster Recovery
12 29 (8.31%) Agile
12 29 (8.31%) Mentoring
13 28 (8.02%) Storage Management
14 24 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (6.30%) Data Protection
15 22 (6.30%) Project Delivery
16 20 (5.73%) Information Security
16 20 (5.73%) Service Delivery
17 19 (5.44%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.74%) Python
2 20 (5.73%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.72%) SQL
4 3 (0.86%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.29%) Bash
5 1 (0.29%) Korn
5 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 109 (31.23%) Degree
2 46 (13.18%) Security Cleared
3 43 (12.32%) Cisco Certification
4 38 (10.89%) SC Cleared
5 34 (9.74%) CCNA
6 32 (9.17%) CCNP
7 31 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (8.31%) AWS Certification
9 21 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (4.58%) DV Cleared
11 13 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.15%) Azure Certification
13 10 (2.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (2.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.58%) CCIE
14 9 (2.58%) MCP
15 8 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
16 7 (2.01%) A+ Certification
16 7 (2.01%) MCSE
17 6 (1.72%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.15%) SLA
3 10 (2.87%) NIST
4 9 (2.58%) GDPR
5 5 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.15%) COBIT
7 3 (0.86%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.86%) QA
8 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 61 (17.48%) Active Directory
2 39 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (9.46%) Docker
4 23 (6.59%) Hyper-V
5 21 (6.02%) Firmware
6 19 (5.44%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.15%) vSphere
8 4 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.86%) KVM
9 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.57%) QEMU
10 2 (0.57%) Xen
11 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.60%) vCenter Server
3 26 (7.45%) Ansible
4 22 (6.30%) Terraform
5 15 (4.30%) SCCM
6 14 (4.01%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (4.01%) Puppet
6 14 (4.01%) WSUS
7 12 (3.44%) NetBackup
7 12 (3.44%) SCOM
8 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (2.87%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.29%) Stealthwatch
10 6 (1.72%) VxRail
11 5 (1.43%) CASB
11 5 (1.43%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.43%) Suricata
12 2 (0.57%) Grafana
12 2 (0.57%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 96 (27.51%) Microsoft
2 75 (21.49%) VMware
3 56 (16.05%) Cisco
4 41 (11.75%) Adobe
4 41 (11.75%) Apple
4 41 (11.75%) Dell
5 37 (10.60%) HP
6 27 (7.74%) Juniper
6 27 (7.74%) Palo Alto
7 24 (6.88%) Veeam
8 17 (4.87%) Meraki
9 16 (4.58%) Extreme Networks
10 15 (4.30%) EMC
10 15 (4.30%) Oracle
11 14 (4.01%) 3PAR
11 14 (4.01%) Aruba
11 14 (4.01%) Fortinet
12 12 (3.44%) Red Hat
12 12 (3.44%) Symantec
13 11 (3.15%) Samsung