Data Centre Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Center
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 152 41 178
Rank change year-on-year -111 +137 -19
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,347 3,777 1,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.82% 6.50% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.56% 15.84% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 983 759 993
10th Percentile £30,800 £32,000 £31,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £54,778 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.87% +3.57%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,245 23,840 32,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.76% 41.04% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,258 10,953 15,965
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the UK excluding London 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
South East -70 364 £55,000 +4.76% 111
North of England -111 312 £42,500 -17.48% 60
Midlands -82 237 £50,000 -9.09% 58
North West -83 187 £41,235 -21.46% 31
South West -112 148 £55,000 -8.33% 28
West Midlands -82 123 £54,000 +2.86% 36
East Midlands -56 112 £42,500 -22.73% 22
East of England -106 108 £50,000 -9.09% 63
Yorkshire -80 94 £42,500 -16.64% 21
Wales -12 81 £36,476 -47.89% 6
Scotland -147 79 £55,000 +4.76% 22
North East -70 31 £44,274 +18.06% 10
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -31 6 £51,000 +2.00% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 61 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.01%) Apache
4 24 (1.78%) OpenStack
5 20 (1.48%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.67%) WordPress
7 8 (0.59%) Confluence
7 8 (0.59%) IIS
8 4 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.30%) nginx
9 1 (0.074%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 51 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.074%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.074%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 260 (19.30%) Azure
2 255 (18.93%) Microsoft 365
3 185 (13.73%) AWS
4 76 (5.64%) Amazon S3
5 67 (4.97%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.79%) IaaS
7 41 (3.04%) GCP
8 36 (2.67%) SaaS
9 33 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (2.38%) Power Platform
11 29 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (1.93%) PaaS
13 24 (1.78%) OCI
14 21 (1.56%) Nutanix
14 21 (1.56%) OneDrive
15 19 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (1.26%) Mimecast
17 15 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (1.11%) CloudFront
18 11 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 337 (25.02%) Firewall
2 200 (14.85%) WAN
3 161 (11.95%) VPN
4 149 (11.06%) LAN
5 124 (9.21%) DNS
6 101 (7.50%) SD-WAN
7 88 (6.53%) Internet
8 85 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
9 83 (6.16%) DHCP
10 81 (6.01%) Wireless
11 77 (5.72%) SAN
12 76 (5.64%) IPsec
13 75 (5.57%) Network Security
14 64 (4.75%) TCP/IP
15 61 (4.53%) SNMP
16 43 (3.19%) Unified Communications
17 37 (2.75%) OSPF
18 34 (2.52%) BGP
19 33 (2.45%) Cisco Firepower
19 33 (2.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.53%) MongoDB
2 54 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.71%) Power BI
5 21 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (1.48%) MySQL
7 18 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.04%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.45%) GIS
11 5 (0.37%) Redis
12 2 (0.15%) Big Data
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.074%) DB2
13 1 (0.074%) Oracle Database 12c
13 1 (0.074%) Oracle9i Database
13 1 (0.074%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 18 (1.34%) JIRA
2 13 (0.97%) Git
3 9 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.45%) JBehave
4 6 (0.45%) RStudio
4 6 (0.45%) Selenium
4 6 (0.45%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.074%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.074%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 318 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 157 (11.66%) Finance
3 94 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (3.79%) Retail
5 49 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 44 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (3.04%) Telecoms
8 39 (2.90%) Legal
9 36 (2.67%) Banking
10 24 (1.78%) Aerospace
10 24 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.63%) Public Sector
12 20 (1.48%) Law
13 19 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.19%) Local Government
15 14 (1.04%) Automotive
16 12 (0.89%) Marketing
17 11 (0.82%) Police
18 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
19 7 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (17.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 226 (16.78%) Senior
3 140 (10.39%) Consultant
4 134 (9.95%) Architect
5 110 (8.17%) Network Engineer
6 85 (6.31%) Data Centre Engineer
7 77 (5.72%) Lead
8 60 (4.45%) Administrator
9 57 (4.23%) Senior Architect
10 49 (3.64%) IT Engineer
10 49 (3.64%) NetApp Consultant
11 47 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 47 (3.49%) Team Leader
12 45 (3.34%) IT Support
12 45 (3.34%) Support Engineer
13 44 (3.27%) Security Architect
14 43 (3.19%) Analyst
14 43 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
15 42 (3.12%) Cisco Architect
15 42 (3.12%) Senior Cisco Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (3.71%) YAML
3 10 (0.74%) 802.1X
4 9 (0.67%) LDAP
4 9 (0.67%) Web Services
5 7 (0.52%) .NET
5 7 (0.52%) Middleware
6 6 (0.45%) Gherkin
7 5 (0.37%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.30%) HTML
8 4 (0.30%) LAMP
9 3 (0.22%) JSON
9 3 (0.22%) REST
9 3 (0.22%) SAML
10 2 (0.15%) Laravel
10 2 (0.15%) React
10 2 (0.15%) Sass
10 2 (0.15%) ServiceStack
10 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (6.83%) Management Information System
2 88 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 86 (6.38%) Public Cloud
4 62 (4.60%) Driving Licence
5 37 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 36 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (2.67%) Replication
7 29 (2.15%) PKI
8 26 (1.93%) Mainframe
9 25 (1.86%) CCTV
10 20 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 13 (0.97%) SCADA
13 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
13 12 (0.89%) PMI
14 11 (0.82%) CMDB
14 11 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.67%) IBM Mainframe
16 7 (0.52%) EFT
16 7 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 462 (34.30%) Windows
2 290 (21.53%) Linux
3 206 (15.29%) Windows Server
4 51 (3.79%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.64%) Data ONTAP
6 38 (2.82%) Unix
7 28 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 23 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (1.26%) Android
12 16 (1.19%) CentOS
13 15 (1.11%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.89%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.82%) zOS
16 10 (0.74%) Solaris
16 10 (0.74%) Ubuntu
17 9 (0.67%) VMS
18 8 (0.59%) AIX
19 5 (0.37%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 265 (19.67%) Cybersecurity
3 245 (18.19%) ITIL
4 233 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
5 194 (14.40%) Project Management
6 179 (13.29%) Presales
7 150 (11.14%) Mentoring
8 127 (9.43%) DevOps
9 123 (9.13%) Customer Service
10 114 (8.46%) Software Licensing
11 107 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
12 102 (7.57%) Project Delivery
13 90 (6.68%) Actionable Insight
14 87 (6.46%) Agile
15 85 (6.31%) Migration
16 83 (6.16%) Roadmaps
16 83 (6.16%) Service Delivery
17 82 (6.09%) Change Management
18 80 (5.94%) Storage Management
19 79 (5.86%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (8.09%) Python
2 89 (6.61%) PowerShell
3 73 (5.42%) SQL
4 23 (1.71%) C#
5 15 (1.11%) Bash
6 14 (1.04%) Java
7 6 (0.45%) R
8 5 (0.37%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.30%) C
9 4 (0.30%) PHP
10 3 (0.22%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.22%) Swift
11 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.15%) Ruby
11 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.074%) C++
12 1 (0.074%) Korn
12 1 (0.074%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.074%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 282 (20.94%) Degree
2 169 (12.55%) Cisco Certification
3 161 (11.95%) Security Cleared
4 137 (10.17%) CCNA
5 121 (8.98%) SC Cleared
6 105 (7.80%) CCNP
7 73 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (3.04%) AWS Certification
10 40 (2.97%) MCP
11 32 (2.38%) CISSP
11 32 (2.38%) DV Cleared
12 27 (2.00%) Azure Certification
13 26 (1.93%) MCSE
14 21 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 20 (1.48%) DBS Check
16 19 (1.41%) CCIE
17 16 (1.19%) MCSA
18 14 (1.04%) PMI Certification
19 12 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (3.49%) SLA
3 36 (2.67%) GDPR
4 21 (1.56%) NIST
5 17 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.11%) QA
7 13 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (0.89%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.37%) COBIT
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.37%) NCSC
11 3 (0.22%) ISO 14000
11 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 255 (18.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 245 (18.19%) Active Directory
3 101 (7.50%) Hyper-V
4 100 (7.42%) Docker
5 55 (4.08%) vSphere
6 53 (3.93%) VMware ESXi
7 47 (3.49%) Firmware
8 34 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (1.78%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.67%) KVM
11 6 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.30%) pfSense
14 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.15%) QEMU
14 2 (0.15%) Xen
14 2 (0.15%) XenApp
14 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.074%) NFS
15 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 122 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 115 (8.54%) Ansible
3 91 (6.76%) vCenter Server
4 55 (4.08%) Terraform
5 54 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 53 (3.93%) SCCM
7 41 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.45%) WSUS
9 29 (2.15%) FortiGate
10 27 (2.00%) Stealthwatch
11 24 (1.78%) SCOM
12 17 (1.26%) Puppet
13 16 (1.19%) Nagios
14 15 (1.11%) CASB
14 15 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
15 13 (0.97%) NetBackup
15 13 (0.97%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.59%) Grafana
17 7 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 6 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 425 (31.55%) Microsoft
2 363 (26.95%) VMware
3 302 (22.42%) Cisco
4 118 (8.76%) Apple
5 114 (8.46%) Adobe
6 112 (8.31%) Palo Alto
7 111 (8.24%) NetApp
8 93 (6.90%) Dell
9 88 (6.53%) HP
10 78 (5.79%) Meraki
11 73 (5.42%) Red Hat
12 71 (5.27%) Veeam
13 58 (4.31%) Citrix
14 56 (4.16%) Juniper
15 52 (3.86%) Oracle
16 50 (3.71%) Fortinet
17 49 (3.64%) SolidFire
18 45 (3.34%) ServiceNow
19 34 (2.52%) CheckPoint
20 23 (1.71%) Dynatrace