Data Center
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies. 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 150 64 218
Rank change year-on-year -86 +154 -34
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,936 4,781 3,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 4.91% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.47% 11.48% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,419 1,960
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,242
25th Percentile £39,720 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,778 £60,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.87% +3.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Top 19 Job Locations

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 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
England -93 1,616 £53,000 -11.67% 528
UK excluding London -111 1,347 £50,000 -4.76% 317
Work from Home +10 770 £55,000 -15.38% 165
London -17 442 £65,000 -13.33% 218
South East -70 364 £55,000 +4.76% 111
North of England -111 312 £42,500 -17.48% 57
Midlands -82 237 £50,000 -9.09% 57
North West -83 187 £41,235 -21.46% 29
South West -112 148 £55,000 -8.33% 25
West Midlands -82 123 £54,000 +2.86% 35
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% 20
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 87 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.25%) Apache
4 28 (1.45%) Skype for Business
5 26 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 16 (0.83%) IIS
7 10 (0.52%) Confluence
8 9 (0.46%) WordPress
9 7 (0.36%) nginx
10 5 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.21%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.15%) SAS
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.052%) JOnAS
14 1 (0.052%) Site Server
14 1 (0.052%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.15%) SPSS
8 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Primavera
2 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.052%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.052%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.052%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.052%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 431 (22.26%) Azure
2 341 (17.61%) Microsoft 365
3 307 (15.86%) AWS
4 88 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 81 (4.18%) Entra ID
5 81 (4.18%) IaaS
6 70 (3.62%) SaaS
7 54 (2.79%) GCP
8 53 (2.74%) PaaS
9 45 (2.32%) OCI
10 44 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (2.07%) Power Platform
13 23 (1.19%) Nutanix
14 22 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (1.08%) OneDrive
16 18 (0.93%) Mimecast
17 17 (0.88%) CloudFront
18 15 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (0.77%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 481 (24.85%) Firewall
2 322 (16.63%) WAN
3 279 (14.41%) LAN
4 252 (13.02%) VPN
5 203 (10.49%) DNS
6 147 (7.59%) SD-WAN
7 142 (7.33%) Network Security
8 137 (7.08%) DHCP
9 136 (7.02%) Wireless
10 133 (6.87%) Wi-Fi
11 131 (6.77%) Internet
12 118 (6.10%) SAN
13 106 (5.48%) TCP/IP
14 101 (5.22%) MPLS
15 96 (4.96%) IPsec
16 89 (4.60%) BGP
17 84 (4.34%) OSPF
18 79 (4.08%) VLAN
19 78 (4.03%) SNMP
20 66 (3.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.56%) MongoDB
2 59 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
3 55 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 31 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (1.55%) Power BI
6 23 (1.19%) MySQL
7 20 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.72%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.52%) Big Data
13 9 (0.46%) GIS
14 8 (0.41%) Tableau
15 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.31%) DB2
17 5 (0.26%) Redis
18 3 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
18 3 (0.15%) EDRMS
18 3 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (1.81%) JIRA
2 18 (0.93%) Git
3 12 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.31%) JBehave
4 6 (0.31%) RStudio
4 6 (0.31%) Selenium
4 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.31%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.15%) Subversion
7 2 (0.10%) GitLab
7 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.052%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.052%) ScriptRunner
General
1 470 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 270 (13.95%) Finance
3 146 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (3.67%) Banking
6 70 (3.62%) Telecoms
7 69 (3.56%) Retail
8 60 (3.10%) Legal
9 57 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 50 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 46 (2.38%) Law
12 44 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.08%) Billing
15 21 (1.08%) Marketing
16 16 (0.83%) Local Government
17 14 (0.72%) Automotive
17 14 (0.72%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 331 (17.10%) Senior
2 283 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 221 (11.42%) Architect
4 192 (9.92%) Network Engineer
5 171 (8.83%) Consultant
6 152 (7.85%) Data Centre Engineer
7 107 (5.53%) Lead
8 80 (4.13%) Senior Architect
9 71 (3.67%) Analyst
9 71 (3.67%) Project Manager
10 69 (3.56%) Administrator
11 68 (3.51%) Data Centre Manager
12 63 (3.25%) IT Engineer
13 60 (3.10%) Security Architect
14 58 (3.00%) IT Manager
14 58 (3.00%) Senior Network Engineer
15 57 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
16 56 (2.89%) Support Engineer
16 56 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
17 54 (2.79%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
2 55 (2.84%) YAML
3 38 (1.96%) 802.1X
4 19 (0.98%) HTML
5 12 (0.62%) LDAP
6 11 (0.57%) .NET
6 11 (0.57%) SAML
6 11 (0.57%) Web Services
7 10 (0.52%) Middleware
8 9 (0.46%) XML
9 8 (0.41%) Kafka
10 6 (0.31%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.31%) Gherkin
10 6 (0.31%) JSON
11 5 (0.26%) WebSphere MQ
11 5 (0.26%) XMPP
12 4 (0.21%) LAMP
13 3 (0.15%) React
13 3 (0.15%) REST
14 2 (0.10%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.18%) Management Information System
2 117 (6.04%) Public Cloud
3 95 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 71 (3.67%) Replication
5 69 (3.56%) Driving Licence
6 56 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (2.32%) Private Cloud
8 31 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 29 (1.50%) PKI
9 29 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.45%) Mainframe
11 26 (1.34%) CCTV
12 20 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (0.88%) Cyberattack
14 15 (0.77%) IoT
15 14 (0.72%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.72%) Clustering
16 13 (0.67%) SCADA
17 12 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
17 12 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 575 (29.70%) Windows
2 377 (19.47%) Linux
3 244 (12.60%) Windows Server
4 66 (3.41%) Windows 10
5 54 (2.79%) Data ONTAP
6 51 (2.63%) Unix
7 43 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 36 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 33 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (1.14%) Ubuntu
12 17 (0.88%) Android
12 17 (0.88%) CentOS
13 15 (0.77%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.62%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.62%) zOS
15 11 (0.57%) SUSE
16 10 (0.52%) Solaris
17 9 (0.46%) VMS
18 8 (0.41%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 343 (17.72%) Cybersecurity
3 315 (16.27%) ITIL
4 280 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
5 249 (12.86%) Project Management
6 229 (11.83%) Presales
7 214 (11.05%) Mentoring
8 170 (8.78%) DevOps
9 162 (8.37%) Roadmaps
10 154 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 146 (7.54%) Migration
12 142 (7.33%) Customer Service
12 142 (7.33%) Project Delivery
13 133 (6.87%) Agile
14 124 (6.40%) Software Licensing
15 115 (5.94%) Information Security
16 114 (5.89%) Infrastructure Management
17 108 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (5.01%) Actionable Insight
19 95 (4.91%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 170 (8.78%) Python
2 145 (7.49%) PowerShell
3 107 (5.53%) SQL
4 30 (1.55%) C#
5 26 (1.34%) Bash
6 24 (1.24%) Java
7 10 (0.52%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.52%) RPG
8 9 (0.46%) Go
8 9 (0.46%) PHP
9 6 (0.31%) R
10 5 (0.26%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.26%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.21%) C
11 4 (0.21%) Ruby
12 3 (0.15%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.15%) Swift
13 2 (0.10%) Scala
13 2 (0.10%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 370 (19.11%) Degree
2 236 (12.19%) Cisco Certification
3 205 (10.59%) Security Cleared
4 167 (8.63%) CCNA
5 153 (7.90%) CCNP
6 148 (7.64%) SC Cleared
7 96 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 69 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (3.25%) AWS Certification
10 50 (2.58%) Azure Certification
10 50 (2.58%) CISSP
11 44 (2.27%) DV Cleared
12 40 (2.07%) MCP
12 40 (2.07%) MCSE
13 35 (1.81%) MCSA
14 29 (1.50%) CCIE
14 29 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 26 (1.34%) DBS Check
16 25 (1.29%) CISM
17 21 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (3.36%) SLA
3 46 (2.38%) GDPR
4 26 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (1.34%) QA
5 23 (1.19%) NIST
5 23 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 21 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 12 (0.62%) PMO
9 11 (0.57%) NCSC
10 7 (0.36%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.31%) COBIT
11 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.26%) IASME
12 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 14000
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.10%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 347 (17.92%) Active Directory
2 345 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (6.35%) Hyper-V
4 116 (5.99%) Docker
5 92 (4.75%) VMware ESXi
6 84 (4.34%) vSphere
7 58 (3.00%) Firmware
8 39 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (1.39%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
12 13 (0.67%) KVM
13 10 (0.52%) vCloud
14 4 (0.21%) pfSense
14 4 (0.21%) Xen
15 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.15%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.15%) NFS
15 3 (0.15%) QEMU
15 3 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 147 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 139 (7.18%) Ansible
3 100 (5.17%) vCenter Server
4 77 (3.98%) Terraform
5 59 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 56 (2.89%) SCCM
7 50 (2.58%) WSUS
8 44 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.86%) SCOM
10 33 (1.70%) FortiGate
11 27 (1.39%) Stealthwatch
12 25 (1.29%) Puppet
13 17 (0.88%) Nagios
14 16 (0.83%) CASB
14 16 (0.83%) ZABBIX
15 15 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
16 13 (0.67%) NetBackup
17 12 (0.62%) Grafana
18 11 (0.57%) Progress Chef
19 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 572 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 487 (25.15%) VMware
3 414 (21.38%) Cisco
4 156 (8.06%) Palo Alto
5 137 (7.08%) NetApp
6 128 (6.61%) Apple
7 127 (6.56%) Dell
8 124 (6.40%) Adobe
9 118 (6.10%) Oracle
10 117 (6.04%) HP
11 107 (5.53%) Veeam
12 103 (5.32%) Juniper
13 93 (4.80%) Red Hat
14 92 (4.75%) Citrix
15 87 (4.49%) Meraki
16 79 (4.08%) Fortinet
17 61 (3.15%) CheckPoint
18 54 (2.79%) IBM
18 54 (2.79%) SolidFire
19 52 (2.69%) ServiceNow