Data Centre Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Center
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 160 202
Rank change year-on-year +14 +42 -36
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 759 921 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.25% 2.25% 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.31% 5.84% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 510 672 833
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,036 £46,350 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,556 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.71% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,100 £101,125 £92,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.87% +3.45%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,034 15,760 32,666
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.74% 38.47% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,245 11,514 16,982
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre.

Data Centre salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Data Centre salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 59 (7.77%) Apache
2 50 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 27 (3.56%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.19%) WordPress
6 7 (0.92%) IIS
7 5 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.53%) nginx
8 4 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.40%) SAS
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.40%) SPSS
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 150 (19.76%) Azure
2 137 (18.05%) AWS
3 130 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (11.20%) Amazon S3
5 44 (5.80%) IaaS
6 40 (5.27%) Entra ID
7 33 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (3.16%) SaaS
9 20 (2.64%) PaaS
10 19 (2.50%) GCP
11 17 (2.24%) CloudFront
12 16 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (1.84%) Nutanix
14 11 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.19%) Serverless
17 8 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.05%) Power Platform
17 8 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 206 (27.14%) Firewall
2 151 (19.89%) WAN
3 145 (19.10%) VPN
4 118 (15.55%) LAN
5 91 (11.99%) DNS
6 76 (10.01%) IPsec
7 74 (9.75%) SD-WAN
8 72 (9.49%) Internet
9 68 (8.96%) DHCP
10 64 (8.43%) SNMP
11 62 (8.17%) Network Security
12 55 (7.25%) SAN
13 53 (6.98%) TCP/IP
13 53 (6.98%) Wireless
14 50 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
15 39 (5.14%) MPLS
16 38 (5.01%) VLAN
17 36 (4.74%) BGP
18 35 (4.61%) Unified Communications
19 31 (4.08%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.77%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (7.11%) MongoDB
3 20 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.79%) Big Data
7 6 (0.79%) Power BI
8 5 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.66%) DB2
8 5 (0.66%) Redis
9 3 (0.40%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Pinot
10 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.26%) Flink
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.26%) Presto
10 2 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (1.58%) Git
2 9 (1.19%) JIRA
3 8 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.79%) JBehave
4 6 (0.79%) Selenium
4 6 (0.79%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.79%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.13%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 207 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 140 (18.45%) Finance
3 38 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.22%) Retail
5 31 (4.08%) Banking
6 29 (3.82%) Legal
7 26 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.43%) Law
8 16 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.05%) Marketing
13 7 (0.92%) Advertising
13 7 (0.92%) Publishing
14 5 (0.66%) Automotive
15 4 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Games
15 4 (0.53%) Military
16 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 112 (14.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 109 (14.36%) Senior
3 108 (14.23%) Consultant
4 95 (12.52%) Architect
5 60 (7.91%) Network Engineer
6 54 (7.11%) NetApp Consultant
7 46 (6.06%) Lead
8 43 (5.67%) Senior Architect
9 36 (4.74%) Cisco Architect
9 36 (4.74%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 35 (4.61%) Administrator
11 33 (4.35%) Project Manager
12 31 (4.08%) Security Architect
13 29 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.69%) Infrastructure Manager
15 27 (3.56%) Technical Consultant
16 26 (3.43%) IT Manager
17 25 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (3.29%) IT Administrator
18 24 (3.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.43%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (7.11%) YAML
3 10 (1.32%) LDAP
4 8 (1.05%) HTML
4 8 (1.05%) Kafka
4 8 (1.05%) Middleware
5 6 (0.79%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.79%) Gherkin
5 6 (0.79%) Web Services
6 5 (0.66%) .NET
6 5 (0.66%) XMPP
7 4 (0.53%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.26%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.26%) JSON
8 2 (0.26%) REST
8 2 (0.26%) RESTful
8 2 (0.26%) XML
8 2 (0.26%) XSD
8 2 (0.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.49%) Public Cloud
2 63 (8.30%) Management Information System
3 59 (7.77%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 26 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.24%) Replication
7 12 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.45%) PKI
9 10 (1.32%) IBM Mainframe
9 10 (1.32%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.19%) IoT
11 8 (1.05%) Blog
12 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.92%) Driving Licence
12 7 (0.92%) EFT
13 6 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.79%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.66%) CMDB
14 5 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 258 (33.99%) Windows
2 175 (23.06%) Linux
3 86 (11.33%) Windows Server
4 54 (7.11%) Data ONTAP
5 35 (4.61%) Windows 10
6 33 (4.35%) Unix
7 11 (1.45%) zOS
8 10 (1.32%) Android
8 10 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 9 (1.19%) AIX
10 8 (1.05%) Solaris
10 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.26%) CentOS
12 2 (0.26%) VMS
13 1 (0.13%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
2 160 (21.08%) Presales
3 151 (19.89%) Project Management
4 147 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (18.18%) ITIL
6 131 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 118 (15.55%) Software Licensing
8 104 (13.70%) Mentoring
9 101 (13.31%) DevOps
10 83 (10.94%) Agile
11 79 (10.41%) Infrastructure Management
12 75 (9.88%) Storage Management
13 74 (9.75%) Migration
14 63 (8.30%) Information Security
15 62 (8.17%) Actionable Insight
16 61 (8.04%) Release Management
16 61 (8.04%) Roadmaps
17 58 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
18 55 (7.25%) Project Planning
19 53 (6.98%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (14.62%) Python
2 61 (8.04%) PowerShell
3 27 (3.56%) SQL
4 18 (2.37%) Java
5 14 (1.84%) C#
6 10 (1.32%) Bash
7 7 (0.92%) Go
8 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.40%) PHP
8 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.40%) Swift
8 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.26%) Korn
9 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.26%) XPath
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 214 (28.19%) Degree
2 89 (11.73%) Cisco Certification
3 76 (10.01%) Security Cleared
4 71 (9.35%) CCNP
5 62 (8.17%) CCNA
6 51 (6.72%) SC Cleared
7 48 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (3.95%) AWS Certification
10 26 (3.43%) MCP
11 19 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (2.11%) APMP
13 15 (1.98%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.71%) Azure Certification
15 12 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 11 (1.45%) CISSP
17 10 (1.32%) CCIE
18 9 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
19 8 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (2.11%) GDPR
2 16 (2.11%) SLA
3 14 (1.84%) QA
4 11 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.05%) NIST
5 8 (1.05%) PMO
6 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.53%) COBIT
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 164 (21.61%) Active Directory
2 163 (21.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (12.65%) Docker
4 54 (7.11%) Hyper-V
5 29 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (3.29%) vSphere
7 23 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (2.24%) Firmware
9 14 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.40%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.26%) XenApp
12 2 (0.26%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.13%) Postfix
13 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 116 (15.28%) Ansible
3 62 (8.17%) vCenter Server
4 59 (7.77%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.87%) WSUS
6 25 (3.29%) Terraform
7 21 (2.77%) Stealthwatch
8 20 (2.64%) SCCM
9 17 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (1.98%) CASB
11 13 (1.71%) Puppet
12 12 (1.58%) FortiGate
13 11 (1.45%) ZABBIX
14 8 (1.05%) Grafana
14 8 (1.05%) SCOM
15 6 (0.79%) Nagios
16 5 (0.66%) Pingdom
17 4 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
17 4 (0.53%) SolarWinds Orion
18 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 278 (36.63%) Microsoft
2 215 (28.33%) VMware
3 169 (22.27%) Cisco
4 118 (15.55%) Adobe
4 118 (15.55%) Apple
5 87 (11.46%) Palo Alto
6 84 (11.07%) NetApp
7 66 (8.70%) Red Hat
8 55 (7.25%) Meraki
9 54 (7.11%) SolidFire
10 51 (6.72%) Citrix
11 49 (6.46%) Dell
11 49 (6.46%) HP
12 35 (4.61%) Veeam
13 32 (4.22%) Samsung
14 29 (3.82%) IBM
14 29 (3.82%) Juniper
15 23 (3.03%) Oracle
16 22 (2.90%) Dynatrace
16 22 (2.90%) SolarWinds