Data Centre Engineer Jobs in England

Data Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Centre Engineer salary in England is £36,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 870 1133
Rank change year-on-year +140 +263 -273
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 118 44 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.052% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.057% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 110 39 33
10th Percentile £22,900 £26,250 £25,800
25th Percentile £28,000 £35,625 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - -32.20%
75th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £70,600 £82,500
UK median annual salary £36,250 £53,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -32.56% +34.38% -32.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Centre Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
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 Engineer 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
South East +22 39 £30,000 -50.00% 7
North of England +65 36 £35,000 +27.27%
North West - 34 £35,000 -
London +115 27 £47,500 +25.00% 16
East of England -1 12 £50,000 -20.00% 1
Midlands -12 4 £23,000 -16.36% 5
West Midlands -8 3 £18,000 -68.70% 3
North East - 2 £23,000 -
East Midlands -18 1 £28,000 +1.82% 2
Data Centre Engineer
UK

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Data Centre Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 26 (22.03%) Structured Cabling
3 20 (16.95%) Windows
4 17 (14.41%) Social Skills
5 16 (13.56%) Linux
6 13 (11.02%) Legal
7 12 (10.17%) Break/Fix
7 12 (10.17%) Presales
8 11 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
8 11 (9.32%) Security Cleared
9 10 (8.47%) DataOps
9 10 (8.47%) Cisco
10 9 (7.63%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (7.63%) Degree
11 8 (6.78%) GDPR
11 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
11 8 (6.78%) Microsoft
11 8 (6.78%) VMware
11 8 (6.78%) Banking
11 8 (6.78%) Retail
12 7 (5.93%) Incident Management
12 7 (5.93%) SAN
12 7 (5.93%) NAS
12 7 (5.93%) Process Improvement
12 7 (5.93%) Budget Management
13 6 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (5.08%) Firewall
13 6 (5.08%) Data Analysis
14 5 (4.24%) MATLAB

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (3.39%) CloudStack
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.69%) SaaS
2 1 (0.85%) Azure
2 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (0.85%) IaaS
2 1 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.03%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (5.93%) NAS
2 7 (5.93%) SAN
3 6 (5.08%) Firewall
4 5 (4.24%) Extranet
4 5 (4.24%) LAN
4 5 (4.24%) WAN
4 5 (4.24%) Wireless
5 4 (3.39%) DHCP
5 4 (3.39%) DNS
5 4 (3.39%) Internet
5 4 (3.39%) Network Security
6 2 (1.69%) BGP
6 2 (1.69%) OSPF
6 2 (1.69%) VPN
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.85%) VLAN
General
1 17 (14.41%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.02%) Legal
3 8 (6.78%) Banking
3 8 (6.78%) Retail
4 4 (3.39%) Automotive
5 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.39%) LAMP
2 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 118 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.39%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.39%) Life Science
3 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.95%) Windows
2 16 (13.56%) Linux
3 2 (1.69%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (10.17%) Break/Fix
1 12 (10.17%) Presales
2 11 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (8.47%) DataOps
4 9 (7.63%) Customer Requirements
5 7 (5.93%) Budget Management
5 7 (5.93%) Incident Management
5 7 (5.93%) Process Improvement
6 6 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (5.08%) Data Analysis
7 5 (4.24%) B2B
7 5 (4.24%) Data Centre Operations
8 4 (3.39%) Asset Management
8 4 (3.39%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (3.39%) Data Management
8 4 (3.39%) ITIL
8 4 (3.39%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (3.39%) Project Management
8 4 (3.39%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (3.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.24%) MATLAB
1 5 (4.24%) Python
2 1 (0.85%) Bicep
2 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
1 11 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.63%) Degree
3 4 (3.39%) A+ Certification
3 4 (3.39%) CCNP
3 4 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (3.39%) JNCIP
3 4 (3.39%) Server+ Certification
4 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) GDPR
2 3 (2.54%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.54%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.39%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) cPanel
1 4 (3.39%) Plesk
2 1 (0.85%) Nagios
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (8.47%) Cisco
2 8 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) VMware
3 4 (3.39%) Dell
3 4 (3.39%) EMC
3 4 (3.39%) IBM
3 4 (3.39%) Juniper
3 4 (3.39%) Oracle
3 4 (3.39%) Sun
4 1 (0.85%) NetApp
4 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto
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