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 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 127 57 178
Rank change year-on-year -70 +121 -51
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 364 723 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 5.13% 2.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.19% 12.21% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 277 212 255
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,000 £71,438 £70,838
90th Percentile £73,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £58,850
% change year-on-year -11.67% +1.95% +7.00%

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 5,881 5,921 8,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.78% 42.01% 41.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,778 3,071 4,512
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,919 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £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 28 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 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
Thames Valley -30 165 £50,000 -4.49% 41
Berkshire -38 87 £59,000 +12.70% 28
Surrey -10 64 £51,750 -13.75% 12
Buckinghamshire -32 62 £40,000 -36.00% 8
Hampshire -99 49 £62,500 +25.63% 10
West Sussex -5 32 £65,000 +8.33% 12
Kent -38 25 £65,000 +62.50% 8
Oxfordshire -10 16 £51,000 +78.95% 5
Sussex - 11 £35,000 - 2
Middlesex - 9 £40,000 -
East Sussex -42 8 £65,000 +44.44% 4
Home Counties +12 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 (4.40%) OpenStack
2 14 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.35%) AWS
2 67 (18.41%) Azure
3 54 (14.84%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (6.59%) Amazon S3
6 15 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (4.12%) CloudFront
7 13 (3.57%) OCI
8 11 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (2.75%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.47%) Route 53
10 9 (2.47%) Serverless
11 6 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.65%) GCP
11 6 (1.65%) Nutanix
11 6 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 57 (15.66%) Firewall
2 48 (13.19%) WAN
3 36 (9.89%) LAN
4 29 (7.97%) VPN
5 25 (6.87%) SAN
6 23 (6.32%) DNS
7 22 (6.04%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (5.77%) OSPF
9 20 (5.49%) BGP
9 20 (5.49%) DHCP
10 19 (5.22%) Network Security
11 17 (4.67%) SD-WAN
12 16 (4.40%) Unified Communications
12 16 (4.40%) Wireless
13 14 (3.85%) Internet
13 14 (3.85%) Structured Cabling
14 13 (3.57%) IPsec
15 10 (2.75%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (2.75%) Intrusion Detection
16 7 (1.92%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (1.65%) Power BI
2 6 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.37%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.20%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.92%) JIRA
3 6 (1.65%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.65%) JBehave
3 6 (1.65%) Selenium
3 6 (1.65%) SpecFlow
3 6 (1.65%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 16 (4.40%) Finance
3 12 (3.30%) Legal
3 12 (3.30%) Manufacturing
4 11 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 7 (1.92%) Retail
6 6 (1.65%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.37%) Advertising
7 5 (1.37%) Automotive
7 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.10%) Marketing
9 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.55%) Electronics
10 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 74 (20.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (14.01%) Architect
2 51 (14.01%) Senior
3 36 (9.89%) Consultant
4 34 (9.34%) Data Centre Engineer
5 28 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 26 (7.14%) Senior Architect
7 25 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (5.22%) Lead
9 19 (5.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (5.22%) Security Architect
10 17 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (4.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 16 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
11 16 (4.40%) Data Centre Manager
11 16 (4.40%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 16 (4.40%) Server Engineer
12 15 (4.12%) Infrastructure Architect
12 15 (4.12%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (1.65%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.65%) Gherkin
2 6 (1.65%) LDAP
3 5 (1.37%) Web Services
3 5 (1.37%) YAML
4 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.52%) Driving Licence
2 25 (6.87%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.67%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.12%) Private Cloud
7 12 (3.30%) Replication
8 9 (2.47%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.37%) PMI
11 4 (1.10%) PKI
12 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.82%) CCTV
12 3 (0.82%) EMC VNX
12 3 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.82%) Raspberry Pi
13 2 (0.55%) Molecular Biology
13 2 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 115 (31.59%) Windows
2 77 (21.15%) Linux
3 53 (14.56%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.30%) Windows XP
7 8 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.92%) Android
8 7 (1.92%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (1.37%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.82%) CentOS
10 3 (0.82%) Rocky
11 2 (0.55%) OS/2
11 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (23.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 62 (17.03%) DevOps
4 60 (16.48%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (14.56%) Presales
6 51 (14.01%) Project Management
7 42 (11.54%) Software Licensing
8 40 (10.99%) Computer Science
9 36 (9.89%) ITIL
10 31 (8.52%) Customer Service
10 31 (8.52%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (8.24%) Mentoring
12 29 (7.97%) Agile
13 27 (7.42%) Storage Management
14 24 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (6.04%) Data Protection
15 22 (6.04%) Information Security
15 22 (6.04%) Service Delivery
16 21 (5.77%) Project Delivery
16 21 (5.77%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.97%) Python
2 20 (5.49%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.57%) SQL
4 5 (1.37%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.27%) Bash
5 1 (0.27%) Korn
5 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 112 (30.77%) Degree
2 48 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 45 (12.36%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (10.99%) SC Cleared
5 36 (9.89%) CCNA
6 34 (9.34%) CCNP
7 31 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (7.97%) AWS Certification
9 21 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (4.40%) DV Cleared
11 13 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.02%) Azure Certification
13 10 (2.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.47%) CCIE
14 9 (2.47%) MCP
15 8 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
16 7 (1.92%) A+ Certification
16 7 (1.92%) CISSP
16 7 (1.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.02%) SLA
3 10 (2.75%) NIST
4 9 (2.47%) GDPR
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.10%) COBIT
7 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.82%) QA
8 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 62 (17.03%) Active Directory
2 41 (11.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (9.34%) Docker
4 25 (6.87%) Hyper-V
5 21 (5.77%) Firmware
6 20 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.02%) vSphere
8 4 (1.10%) KVM
8 4 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.55%) QEMU
10 2 (0.55%) Xen
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.79%) vCenter Server
3 26 (7.14%) Ansible
4 22 (6.04%) Terraform
5 16 (4.40%) Puppet
5 16 (4.40%) SCCM
6 15 (4.12%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (3.85%) WSUS
8 12 (3.30%) NetBackup
8 12 (3.30%) SCOM
9 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (2.75%) ZABBIX
10 9 (2.47%) Stealthwatch
11 6 (1.65%) VxRail
12 5 (1.37%) CASB
12 5 (1.37%) Prometheus
12 5 (1.37%) Suricata
13 3 (0.82%) Nagios
14 2 (0.55%) Grafana
14 2 (0.55%) Nessus
Vendors
1 99 (27.20%) Microsoft
2 77 (21.15%) VMware
3 59 (16.21%) Cisco
4 42 (11.54%) Adobe
4 42 (11.54%) Apple
5 41 (11.26%) Dell
6 37 (10.16%) HP
7 28 (7.69%) Juniper
7 28 (7.69%) Palo Alto
8 25 (6.87%) Veeam
9 19 (5.22%) Meraki
10 16 (4.40%) Aruba
10 16 (4.40%) EMC
10 16 (4.40%) Extreme Networks
10 16 (4.40%) Fortinet
10 16 (4.40%) Oracle
11 14 (3.85%) 3PAR
12 12 (3.30%) Red Hat
12 12 (3.30%) Symantec
13 11 (3.02%) Samsung