Data Centre Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Center
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 60 142
Rank change year-on-year -44 +82 -44
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 167 280 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.35% 4.91% 2.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.24% 12.10% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 105 82 68
10th Percentile £30,850 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,350 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -8.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,306 2,314 2,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 32.43% 40.60% 40.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 1,106 1,456
10th Percentile £28,850 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,000 £73,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,677 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.78% +3.05% +4.76%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -31 89 £59,000 +12.70% 31
Buckinghamshire -24 62 £40,000 -36.00% 9
Oxfordshire -12 16 £51,000 +78.95% 7
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (3.59%) Apache
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) nginx
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.36%) Azure
2 23 (13.77%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (11.38%) AWS
4 12 (7.19%) OCI
5 9 (5.39%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.79%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.40%) GCP
9 3 (1.80%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.20%) SaaS
10 2 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Akamai
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.60%) GitHub
11 1 (0.60%) IaaS
11 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.56%) Firewall
2 21 (12.57%) WAN
3 20 (11.98%) DNS
4 19 (11.38%) VPN
5 18 (10.78%) DHCP
6 17 (10.18%) SD-WAN
7 14 (8.38%) SAN
8 13 (7.78%) Network Security
9 12 (7.19%) Internet
10 10 (5.99%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (5.99%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (5.39%) OSPF
12 8 (4.79%) Unified Communications
13 7 (4.19%) BGP
13 7 (4.19%) IPsec
14 6 (3.59%) LAN
15 5 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (2.99%) SNMP
15 5 (2.99%) Wireless
16 4 (2.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.80%) MySQL
4 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 31 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.79%) Finance
3 7 (4.19%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.59%) Legal
4 6 (3.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.99%) Automotive
6 4 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.80%) Marketing
7 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.20%) Electronics
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Billing
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Senior
2 27 (16.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (14.97%) Architect
4 22 (13.17%) Data Centre Engineer
5 19 (11.38%) Consultant
6 16 (9.58%) Security Architect
7 14 (8.38%) Cisco Architect
7 14 (8.38%) Senior Architect
7 14 (8.38%) Senior Cisco Architect
8 11 (6.59%) Data Centre Manager
9 10 (5.99%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) DataOps Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Cisco Security Architect
10 9 (5.39%) Senior Security Architect
11 8 (4.79%) PowerShell Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Technical Consultant
11 8 (4.79%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Lead
12 7 (4.19%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (2.99%) Web Services
2 5 (2.99%) YAML
3 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.19%) Private Cloud
2 10 (5.99%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.59%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.40%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.80%) EMC VNX
6 3 (1.80%) PKI
7 2 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.20%) Molecular Biology
7 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.20%) Replication
7 2 (1.20%) Robotics
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (33.53%) Windows
2 46 (27.54%) Linux
3 21 (12.57%) Windows 10
4 18 (10.78%) Windows Server
5 13 (7.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (7.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (7.19%) Windows XP
7 5 (2.99%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.99%) Kali Linux
8 3 (1.80%) CentOS
8 3 (1.80%) Rocky
9 2 (1.20%) Android
9 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.20%) OS/2
9 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.74%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (26.35%) Presales
3 42 (25.15%) Software Licensing
4 38 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (16.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (14.97%) Project Management
7 21 (12.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (11.38%) ITIL
8 19 (11.38%) Time Management
9 17 (10.18%) Storage Management
10 14 (8.38%) Customer Engagement
10 14 (8.38%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (8.38%) Server Management
11 12 (7.19%) Break/Fix
11 12 (7.19%) Converged Infrastructure
11 12 (7.19%) Performance Monitoring
11 12 (7.19%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (7.19%) Proactive Monitoring
11 12 (7.19%) Service Delivery
12 11 (6.59%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.78%) PowerShell
2 15 (8.98%) Python
3 8 (4.79%) SQL
4 5 (2.99%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.60%) Bash
5 1 (0.60%) Korn
5 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (35.93%) Degree
2 31 (18.56%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (17.96%) CCNP
4 29 (17.37%) CCNA
5 24 (14.37%) Security Cleared
6 17 (10.18%) SC Cleared
7 15 (8.98%) DV Cleared
8 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (5.39%) AWS Certification
9 9 (5.39%) MCP
10 7 (4.19%) CISSP
11 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.20%) CCIE
13 2 (1.20%) ISACA
14 1 (0.60%) CCSE
14 1 (0.60%) CISA
14 1 (0.60%) MCSE
14 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) SLA
2 10 (5.99%) NIST
3 8 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 5 (2.99%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.40%) COBIT
5 4 (2.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 31 (18.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.58%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (8.38%) Docker
5 13 (7.78%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.79%) Firmware
7 2 (1.20%) KVM
7 2 (1.20%) QEMU
7 2 (1.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (11.98%) vCenter Server
2 16 (9.58%) SCCM
3 15 (8.98%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (8.38%) Kubernetes
5 13 (7.78%) WSUS
6 12 (7.19%) NetBackup
6 12 (7.19%) SCOM
7 11 (6.59%) Ansible
8 9 (5.39%) Stealthwatch
9 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.99%) CASB
10 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
10 5 (2.99%) Suricata
11 3 (1.80%) Nagios
11 3 (1.80%) Terraform
12 1 (0.60%) Grafana
12 1 (0.60%) Nessus
12 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 64 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 42 (25.15%) Adobe
2 42 (25.15%) Apple
3 34 (20.36%) Cisco
4 27 (16.17%) VMware
5 26 (15.57%) Juniper
6 24 (14.37%) Dell
6 24 (14.37%) HP
6 24 (14.37%) Palo Alto
7 17 (10.18%) Meraki
8 16 (9.58%) Extreme Networks
9 15 (8.98%) EMC
9 15 (8.98%) Oracle
9 15 (8.98%) Veeam
10 12 (7.19%) 3PAR
10 12 (7.19%) Symantec
11 11 (6.59%) Samsung
12 7 (4.19%) Red Hat
13 6 (3.59%) Intel
14 5 (2.99%) NetApp