Data Centre Jobs in the North West

Data Center
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 124 36 149
Rank change year-on-year -88 +113 -25
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 194 558 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.82% 7.55% 2.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.88% 17.73% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 146 104 124
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £43,625 £40,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,235 £54,250 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +1.40% +24.42%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £77,625 £77,125
England median annual salary £53,250 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +3.45% +5.45%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,300 3,147 4,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.93% 42.58% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,296 1,462 2,158
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,536 £28,266
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,839
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.09% +5.68%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,543
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,056 £81,250
England 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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the North West

Data Centre
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the North West 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
Manchester -36 148 £38,000 -27.62% 16
Merseyside -58 21 £42,153 -26.37% 4
Lancashire -59 17 £55,000 +124.49% 2
Cheshire -58 6 £57,500 -23.33% 2
Cumbria -12 2 £40,000 +45.45%
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (5.15%) Apache
2 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.06%) CloudStack
3 4 (2.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (10.31%) Azure
3 14 (7.22%) Amazon S3
4 11 (5.67%) IaaS
5 9 (4.64%) AWS
6 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.58%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.58%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.03%) GCP
9 2 (1.03%) Kong
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.52%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.52%) OCI
10 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.92%) Firewall
2 22 (11.34%) WAN
3 18 (9.28%) IPsec
3 18 (9.28%) Network Security
3 18 (9.28%) VPN
4 17 (8.76%) SD-WAN
5 16 (8.25%) Wireless
6 15 (7.73%) LAN
7 12 (6.19%) DNS
8 11 (5.67%) Internet
8 11 (5.67%) SNMP
8 11 (5.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 11 (5.67%) WLAN
9 10 (5.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (4.12%) NGFW
10 8 (4.12%) Unified Communications
11 7 (3.61%) DHCP
11 7 (3.61%) SAN
12 5 (2.58%) SSL
12 5 (2.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (5.15%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.58%) Power BI
2 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (11.34%) Finance
2 21 (10.82%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.67%) Law
5 8 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.52%) Banking
6 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (28.35%) Senior
2 34 (17.53%) Data Centre Engineer
3 24 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (10.82%) Architect
5 20 (10.31%) Consultant
6 14 (7.22%) Cisco Architect
6 14 (7.22%) Senior Architect
6 14 (7.22%) Senior Cisco Architect
7 13 (6.70%) Network Engineer
7 13 (6.70%) Security Architect
8 10 (5.15%) NetApp Consultant
9 9 (4.64%) Cisco Security Architect
9 9 (4.64%) Senior Security Architect
9 9 (4.64%) Senior Technical Support
9 9 (4.64%) Technical Consultant
9 9 (4.64%) Technical Support
10 8 (4.12%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 8 (4.12%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 8 (4.12%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 8 (4.12%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (5.15%) YAML
2 4 (2.06%) LAMP
3 1 (0.52%) .NET
3 1 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.34%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.25%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.19%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.64%) Private Cloud
5 8 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.06%) PKI
7 3 (1.55%) CCTV
8 2 (1.03%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.52%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 64 (32.99%) Windows
2 33 (17.01%) Linux
3 12 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.67%) Unix
4 11 (5.67%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.15%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.52%) HPUX
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.52%) Solaris
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (34.54%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (26.80%) Presales
3 50 (25.77%) ITIL
4 42 (21.65%) Software Licensing
5 40 (20.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (13.92%) Mentoring
7 23 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (11.86%) Project Management
8 22 (11.34%) Cloud Security
9 18 (9.28%) Time Management
10 17 (8.76%) Customer Service
10 17 (8.76%) Data Centre Operations
11 15 (7.73%) Change Management
11 15 (7.73%) Information Security
11 15 (7.73%) Service Delivery
12 14 (7.22%) Analytics
12 14 (7.22%) Customer Engagement
13 13 (6.70%) Coaching
13 13 (6.70%) DevOps
13 13 (6.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.76%) Python
2 5 (2.58%) SQL
3 1 (0.52%) Java
3 1 (0.52%) PHP
3 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (22.68%) Degree
2 21 (10.82%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (9.79%) CCNP
4 18 (9.28%) CCNA
5 13 (6.70%) CISSP
6 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.64%) MCP
7 9 (4.64%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.58%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.06%) CISM
9 4 (2.06%) CRISC
9 4 (2.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 4 (2.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 4 (2.06%) ISSMP
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (2.06%) GDPR
2 4 (2.06%) NIST
3 2 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) PMO
4 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 26 (13.40%) Active Directory
1 26 (13.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (7.22%) Hyper-V
3 11 (5.67%) Docker
4 8 (4.12%) vSphere
5 1 (0.52%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.52%) Firmware
5 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.52%) XenApp
5 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (6.19%) Ansible
2 11 (5.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.15%) Prometheus
3 10 (5.15%) vCenter Server
4 9 (4.64%) Stealthwatch
5 5 (2.58%) CASB
5 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.06%) cPanel
6 4 (2.06%) Plesk
7 2 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.03%) vRealize
8 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.52%) Nagios
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 52 (26.80%) Cisco
3 42 (21.65%) Adobe
3 42 (21.65%) Apple
4 32 (16.49%) VMware
5 23 (11.86%) Dell
6 22 (11.34%) Palo Alto
7 21 (10.82%) NetApp
8 16 (8.25%) HP
9 15 (7.73%) Meraki
10 12 (6.19%) Dynatrace
11 11 (5.67%) Red Hat
11 11 (5.67%) Samsung
12 10 (5.15%) SolidFire
12 10 (5.15%) Splunk
13 7 (3.61%) Veeam
14 6 (3.09%) Intel
15 5 (2.58%) Citrix
15 5 (2.58%) Databricks
16 4 (2.06%) Juniper