Data Centre Jobs in the South West

Data Center
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 159 47 208
Rank change year-on-year -112 +161 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 148 409 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.52% 6.09% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.09% 15.09% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 97 67 59
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,700 £26,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £36,138
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +21.21% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £87,419 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £115,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £58,850
% change year-on-year -11.67% +1.95% +7.00%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,910 2,711 3,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.96% 40.35% 41.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,039 1,376 1,837
10th Percentile £27,989 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,050 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +3.33% +16.73%
75th Percentile £66,137 £70,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £87,500
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the South West

Data Centre
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire -8 61 £57,500 -13.21% 9
Bristol -45 28 £50,686 -49.31% 8
Devon -35 27 £57,500 +34.50% 4
Gloucestershire -69 13 £42,786 -12.23%
Somerset -31 10 £52,500 +22.09% 6
Dorset -79 6 £41,536 -53.85% 1
Cornwall - 1 - -
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.05%) Skype for Business
3 4 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) HiPortfolio
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.95%) Azure
2 14 (9.46%) AWS
3 13 (8.78%) SaaS
4 12 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.43%) GCP
6 10 (6.76%) OCI
7 6 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.05%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.05%) Nutanix
7 6 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.70%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.35%) GitHub
9 2 (1.35%) PaaS
9 2 (1.35%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (40.54%) Firewall
2 26 (17.57%) VPN
3 22 (14.86%) WAN
4 20 (13.51%) LAN
5 16 (10.81%) SD-WAN
6 15 (10.14%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (8.78%) Network Security
8 11 (7.43%) VSAN
9 10 (6.76%) Internet
9 10 (6.76%) TCP/IP
10 8 (5.41%) Wireless
11 7 (4.73%) BGP
11 7 (4.73%) VXLAN
12 6 (4.05%) OSPF
12 6 (4.05%) Skype
12 6 (4.05%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (4.05%) Unified Communications
13 5 (3.38%) Ethernet VPN
14 4 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (2.70%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.05%) Data Lake
1 6 (4.05%) Power BI
2 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) DB2
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.05%) RStudio
2 4 (2.70%) Git
General
1 26 (17.57%) Finance
2 23 (15.54%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.46%) Aerospace
4 9 (6.08%) Retail
5 8 (5.41%) Banking
6 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.38%) Billing
9 4 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Military
10 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.03%) Law
10 3 (2.03%) Legal
10 3 (2.03%) Marketing
10 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (31.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (16.89%) Network Engineer
3 14 (9.46%) Administrator
3 14 (9.46%) Network Manager
4 13 (8.78%) Architect
4 13 (8.78%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (8.78%) Systems Administrator
5 11 (7.43%) VMWare Administrator
6 10 (6.76%) Infrastructure Architect
6 10 (6.76%) Lead
6 10 (6.76%) Senior
7 9 (6.08%) Analyst
7 9 (6.08%) Project Manager
8 8 (5.41%) Consultant
9 7 (4.73%) Network Operations Manager
9 7 (4.73%) NOC Manager
9 7 (4.73%) Operations Manager
10 6 (4.05%) Network Security Manager
10 6 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.70%) 802.1X
1 4 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (2.70%) YAML
2 2 (1.35%) CakePHP
2 2 (1.35%) CSS
2 2 (1.35%) HTML
2 2 (1.35%) Laravel
2 2 (1.35%) React
2 2 (1.35%) REST
2 2 (1.35%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (1.35%) Sass
2 2 (1.35%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (1.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.78%) PKI
2 7 (4.73%) CCTV
3 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.03%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (2.03%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.35%) Clustering
6 2 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.68%) CMDB
7 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.97%) Windows
2 32 (21.62%) Linux
3 23 (15.54%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.05%) Unix
6 4 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.70%) zOS
7 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (14.19%) Collaborative Working
2 21 (14.19%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (14.19%) Project Delivery
2 21 (14.19%) Service Delivery
3 20 (13.51%) Security Patching
4 19 (12.84%) ITIL
4 19 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (12.16%) Agile
6 17 (11.49%) Network Monitoring
7 16 (10.81%) Project Management
8 14 (9.46%) Office Automation
9 12 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (8.11%) IT Strategy
9 12 (8.11%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (7.43%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.43%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 10 (6.76%) Release Management
12 9 (6.08%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.16%) Python
2 12 (8.11%) Java
3 9 (6.08%) C#
4 6 (4.05%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.05%) R
5 4 (2.70%) SQL
6 2 (1.35%) Bash
6 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.35%) PHP
6 2 (1.35%) Ruby
7 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.81%) Degree
3 14 (9.46%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.78%) CCNA
5 12 (8.11%) CCNP
6 9 (6.08%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.70%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.70%) SLA
3 3 (2.03%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (14.19%) vSphere
3 18 (12.16%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (8.78%) Active Directory
5 11 (7.43%) VMware NSX
6 10 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (4.05%) Firmware
8 4 (2.70%) Docker
9 3 (2.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (9.46%) WSUS
2 6 (4.05%) Ansible
2 6 (4.05%) vCenter Server
3 4 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.70%) SCCM
4 3 (2.03%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) Icinga
5 1 (0.68%) Nagios
Vendors
1 44 (29.73%) VMware
2 37 (25.00%) Cisco
3 34 (22.97%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.76%) Google
4 10 (6.76%) Oracle
5 9 (6.08%) Fortinet
6 8 (5.41%) Meraki
7 6 (4.05%) Alteryx
7 6 (4.05%) Databricks
7 6 (4.05%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.38%) Dell
8 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.38%) Veeam
9 4 (2.70%) Citrix
9 4 (2.70%) IBM
9 4 (2.70%) NetApp
9 4 (2.70%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.70%) SolidFire
10 3 (2.03%) CheckPoint