Data Centre Jobs in England

Data Center
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 60 222
Rank change year-on-year -95 +162 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,653 4,229 2,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.81% 5.02% 1.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.41% 11.49% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 1,245 1,660
10th Percentile £31,925 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £39,465 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +1.95% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,778 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.87% +8.15%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,532 36,815 67,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.46% 43.69% 47.40%
Number of salaries quoted 21,016 20,405 30,597
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,000 £34,825
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,749 £46,250
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 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in England

Data Centre
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London -22 449 £65,000 -13.33% 222
South East -69 378 £55,000 +4.76% 146
North of England -105 319 £42,500 -17.48% 46
Midlands -91 239 £50,000 -9.09% 64
North West -92 195 £41,235 -25.03% 26
South West -108 153 £55,000 -8.33% 29
West Midlands -96 124 £54,000 +2.86% 46
East Midlands -58 113 £42,500 -22.73% 18
East of England -102 111 £50,000 -9.09% 62
Yorkshire -90 92 £42,500 -16.64% 14
North East -73 32 £44,274 +4.17% 7
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 80 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 77 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (2.48%) Apache
4 19 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 14 (0.85%) Skype for Business
6 12 (0.73%) IIS
7 10 (0.60%) Confluence
8 9 (0.54%) WordPress
9 7 (0.42%) nginx
10 5 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.24%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.18%) SAS
13 1 (0.060%) CMS
13 1 (0.060%) Site Server
13 1 (0.060%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.18%) SPSS
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.18%) Primavera
2 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.060%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.060%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.060%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.060%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.060%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.060%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 359 (21.72%) Azure
2 321 (19.42%) Microsoft 365
3 251 (15.18%) AWS
4 73 (4.42%) Entra ID
5 66 (3.99%) Amazon S3
6 62 (3.75%) SaaS
7 51 (3.09%) IaaS
8 44 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
9 43 (2.60%) GCP
10 37 (2.24%) Power Platform
11 34 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (1.81%) PaaS
13 26 (1.57%) OCI
14 21 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.03%) CloudFront
15 17 (1.03%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (0.91%) Nutanix
16 15 (0.91%) Rubrik
17 14 (0.85%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 382 (23.11%) Firewall
2 256 (15.49%) WAN
3 215 (13.01%) LAN
4 193 (11.68%) VPN
5 149 (9.01%) DNS
6 130 (7.86%) Network Security
7 127 (7.68%) SD-WAN
8 125 (7.56%) Wi-Fi
9 117 (7.08%) DHCP
10 108 (6.53%) Wireless
11 100 (6.05%) Internet
12 95 (5.75%) SAN
13 93 (5.63%) MPLS
14 82 (4.96%) BGP
15 77 (4.66%) OSPF
16 74 (4.48%) TCP/IP
17 69 (4.17%) VLAN
18 67 (4.05%) IPsec
19 57 (3.45%) SNMP
20 54 (3.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (2.96%) MongoDB
2 40 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 39 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
4 32 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (1.63%) Power BI
6 23 (1.39%) MySQL
7 20 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (0.97%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.42%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.36%) DB2
14 5 (0.30%) Big Data
14 5 (0.30%) Redis
14 5 (0.30%) Tableau
15 3 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.18%) Metadata
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (2.00%) JIRA
2 16 (0.97%) Git
3 12 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.36%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.36%) JBehave
4 6 (0.36%) RStudio
4 6 (0.36%) Selenium
4 6 (0.36%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.36%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.18%) Subversion
7 2 (0.12%) GitLab
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.060%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.060%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.060%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 382 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 232 (14.04%) Finance
3 122 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (4.48%) Banking
5 68 (4.11%) Retail
6 62 (3.75%) Legal
7 55 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 45 (2.72%) Law
11 38 (2.30%) Public Sector
12 29 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.51%) Aerospace
14 20 (1.21%) Billing
15 16 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.91%) Marketing
17 14 (0.85%) Automotive
17 14 (0.85%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.67%) Investment Banking
19 9 (0.54%) German Language
Job Titles
1 268 (16.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 251 (15.18%) Senior
3 186 (11.25%) Architect
4 164 (9.92%) Network Engineer
5 124 (7.50%) Consultant
6 118 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
7 105 (6.35%) Lead
8 79 (4.78%) Senior Architect
9 68 (4.11%) Administrator
9 68 (4.11%) Project Manager
10 64 (3.87%) Analyst
11 63 (3.81%) IT Engineer
12 60 (3.63%) Data Centre Manager
13 58 (3.51%) IT Manager
14 56 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
15 52 (3.15%) Infrastructure Architect
16 51 (3.09%) Support Engineer
17 50 (3.02%) Infrastructure Manager
18 49 (2.96%) Team Leader
19 47 (2.84%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
2 37 (2.24%) 802.1X
3 35 (2.12%) YAML
4 12 (0.73%) LDAP
5 11 (0.67%) .NET
5 11 (0.67%) HTML
5 11 (0.67%) SAML
5 11 (0.67%) Web Services
6 9 (0.54%) XML
7 8 (0.48%) Middleware
8 7 (0.42%) JSON
9 6 (0.36%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.36%) Gherkin
9 6 (0.36%) Kafka
10 5 (0.30%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (0.30%) XMPP
11 4 (0.24%) LAMP
12 3 (0.18%) React
12 3 (0.18%) REST
13 2 (0.12%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.96%) Management Information System
2 99 (5.99%) Public Cloud
3 81 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
4 63 (3.81%) Driving Licence
5 47 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (2.72%) Private Cloud
7 38 (2.30%) Replication
8 28 (1.69%) PKI
9 26 (1.57%) CCTV
9 26 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 25 (1.51%) Mainframe
11 20 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 14 (0.85%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.79%) SCADA
15 12 (0.73%) Clustering
16 11 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
17 10 (0.60%) CMDB
17 10 (0.60%) PMI
18 9 (0.54%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 508 (30.73%) Windows
2 313 (18.94%) Linux
3 216 (13.07%) Windows Server
4 62 (3.75%) Windows 10
5 41 (2.48%) Unix
6 38 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 34 (2.06%) Data ONTAP
7 34 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.03%) Android
11 16 (0.97%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.91%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.73%) Windows XP
14 11 (0.67%) zOS
15 10 (0.60%) SUSE
16 9 (0.54%) CentOS
17 7 (0.42%) VMS
18 5 (0.30%) Kali Linux
19 3 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 317 (19.18%) Cybersecurity
3 267 (16.15%) ITIL
4 227 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (12.22%) Project Management
6 201 (12.16%) Presales
7 175 (10.59%) Mentoring
8 154 (9.32%) DevOps
9 131 (7.92%) Roadmaps
10 128 (7.74%) Project Delivery
11 127 (7.68%) Software Licensing
12 122 (7.38%) Agile
13 105 (6.35%) Customer Service
13 105 (6.35%) Migration
14 104 (6.29%) Disaster Recovery
15 99 (5.99%) Information Security
16 92 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 92 (5.57%) Service Delivery
17 88 (5.32%) Infrastructure Management
18 86 (5.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 138 (8.35%) PowerShell
2 136 (8.23%) Python
3 103 (6.23%) SQL
4 30 (1.81%) C#
5 24 (1.45%) Bash
6 21 (1.27%) Java
7 10 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.60%) RPG
8 9 (0.54%) PHP
9 7 (0.42%) Go
10 6 (0.36%) R
11 5 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.24%) Ruby
13 3 (0.18%) C
13 3 (0.18%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.18%) Swift
14 2 (0.12%) Korn
14 2 (0.12%) Scala
14 2 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 334 (20.21%) Degree
2 187 (11.31%) Cisco Certification
3 149 (9.01%) CCNP
3 149 (9.01%) Security Cleared
4 137 (8.29%) CCNA
5 105 (6.35%) SC Cleared
6 86 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.84%) AWS Certification
9 39 (2.36%) MCP
10 36 (2.18%) Azure Certification
10 36 (2.18%) DV Cleared
11 32 (1.94%) CISSP
11 32 (1.94%) MCSE
12 29 (1.75%) CCIE
13 28 (1.69%) MCSA
14 26 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 23 (1.39%) DBS Check
16 21 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (1.03%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.69%) SLA
2 45 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (2.66%) GDPR
4 22 (1.33%) NIST
5 20 (1.21%) QA
6 18 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.73%) PMO
9 11 (0.67%) NCSC
10 7 (0.42%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.42%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.30%) COBIT
12 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 298 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 282 (17.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (6.72%) Hyper-V
4 91 (5.51%) VMware ESXi
5 86 (5.20%) Docker
6 83 (5.02%) vSphere
7 45 (2.72%) Firmware
8 25 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.85%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.54%) KVM
11 9 (0.54%) vCloud
12 5 (0.30%) XenApp
13 4 (0.24%) pfSense
13 4 (0.24%) Xen
13 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.18%) NFS
14 3 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 116 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 79 (4.78%) Ansible
3 77 (4.66%) vCenter Server
4 60 (3.63%) Terraform
5 48 (2.90%) WSUS
6 43 (2.60%) SCCM
7 39 (2.36%) Prometheus
8 38 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (1.81%) SCOM
9 30 (1.81%) Stealthwatch
10 26 (1.57%) Puppet
11 20 (1.21%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.97%) CASB
12 16 (0.97%) Nagios
13 15 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
13 15 (0.91%) ZABBIX
14 13 (0.79%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.60%) Grafana
15 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 507 (30.67%) Microsoft
2 403 (24.38%) VMware
3 353 (21.36%) Cisco
4 131 (7.92%) Apple
5 127 (7.68%) Adobe
6 126 (7.62%) Dell
7 115 (6.96%) HP
8 111 (6.72%) Palo Alto
9 100 (6.05%) Veeam
10 96 (5.81%) NetApp
11 87 (5.26%) Juniper
12 85 (5.14%) Citrix
13 81 (4.90%) Meraki
14 68 (4.11%) Fortinet
15 63 (3.81%) Red Hat
16 51 (3.09%) CheckPoint
17 50 (3.02%) Oracle
18 49 (2.96%) ServiceNow
19 43 (2.60%) SolarWinds
20 42 (2.54%) F5