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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 65 216
Rank change year-on-year -95 +151 -34
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,584 4,257 2,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.83% 4.81% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.31% 11.16% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 1,241 1,656
10th Percentile £31,850 £34,000 £32,875
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.95% +2.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,200 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,556 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -9.07% +0.87% +3.45%

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 29,837 38,145 64,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.50% 43.11% 46.91%
Number of salaries quoted 20,861 20,975 30,570
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,668 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,650 £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 20 May 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 20 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
London -13 441 £65,000 -13.33% 272
South East -71 349 £53,500 +1.90% 135
North of England -101 309 £42,500 -16.64% 67
Midlands -86 235 £50,000 -9.09% 53
North West -88 183 £41,504 -20.94% 37
South West -117 143 £55,000 -15.38% 30
West Midlands -86 121 £54,000 +2.86% 29
East Midlands -55 112 £42,500 -22.73% 24
East of England -106 102 £50,000 -9.09% 52
Yorkshire -78 94 £42,500 -16.64% 21
North East -66 32 £44,274 +18.06% 9
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 77 (4.86%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (2.59%) Apache
4 19 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 14 (0.88%) Skype for Business
6 12 (0.76%) Confluence
7 10 (0.63%) IIS
8 9 (0.57%) WordPress
9 7 (0.44%) nginx
10 5 (0.32%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.25%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.19%) SAS
13 1 (0.063%) Site Server
13 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 66 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.32%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.19%) SPSS
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Primavera
2 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.13%) Shopify
3 1 (0.063%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.063%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.063%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.063%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.063%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 351 (22.16%) Azure
2 318 (20.08%) Microsoft 365
3 241 (15.21%) AWS
4 72 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 66 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 53 (3.35%) SaaS
7 51 (3.22%) IaaS
8 42 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (2.34%) GCP
10 34 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
10 34 (2.15%) Power Platform
11 27 (1.70%) PaaS
12 26 (1.64%) OCI
13 20 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.07%) CloudFront
15 16 (1.01%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (0.88%) Mimecast
17 14 (0.88%) Nutanix
17 14 (0.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 385 (24.31%) Firewall
2 251 (15.85%) WAN
3 220 (13.89%) LAN
4 197 (12.44%) VPN
5 149 (9.41%) DNS
6 126 (7.95%) Network Security
7 123 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
8 117 (7.39%) SD-WAN
9 113 (7.13%) DHCP
10 107 (6.76%) Wireless
11 101 (6.38%) Internet
12 100 (6.31%) SAN
13 88 (5.56%) MPLS
14 83 (5.24%) BGP
15 76 (4.80%) OSPF
16 73 (4.61%) TCP/IP
17 69 (4.36%) VLAN
18 67 (4.23%) IPsec
19 59 (3.72%) SNMP
20 53 (3.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.09%) MongoDB
2 39 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
2 39 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (1.58%) Power BI
5 23 (1.45%) MySQL
6 20 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.38%) DB2
13 5 (0.32%) Big Data
13 5 (0.32%) Redis
13 5 (0.32%) Tableau
14 3 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.19%) EDRMS
14 3 (0.19%) GIS
14 3 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (1.96%) JIRA
2 16 (1.01%) Git
3 12 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.38%) JBehave
4 6 (0.38%) RStudio
4 6 (0.38%) Selenium
4 6 (0.38%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.38%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.19%) Subversion
7 2 (0.13%) GitLab
7 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.063%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.063%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.063%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 379 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 226 (14.27%) Finance
3 124 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (4.23%) Banking
5 61 (3.85%) Retail
6 55 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (3.47%) Legal
7 51 (3.22%) Manufacturing
8 47 (2.97%) Law
9 45 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.15%) Public Sector
11 24 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 24 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.33%) Billing
13 16 (1.01%) Marketing
13 16 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.88%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.76%) Automotive
16 11 (0.69%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.51%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 257 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 233 (14.71%) Senior
3 180 (11.36%) Architect
4 161 (10.16%) Network Engineer
5 117 (7.39%) Consultant
6 104 (6.57%) Data Centre Engineer
7 96 (6.06%) Lead
8 72 (4.55%) Senior Architect
9 70 (4.42%) Administrator
10 64 (4.04%) Analyst
11 62 (3.91%) Project Manager
12 60 (3.79%) IT Engineer
12 60 (3.79%) IT Manager
13 55 (3.47%) Infrastructure Architect
14 51 (3.22%) Infrastructure Manager
15 50 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
16 48 (3.03%) Data Centre Manager
17 45 (2.84%) Support Engineer
18 44 (2.78%) Team Leader
19 42 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 37 (2.34%) 802.1X
3 35 (2.21%) YAML
4 11 (0.69%) .NET
4 11 (0.69%) HTML
4 11 (0.69%) LDAP
4 11 (0.69%) SAML
4 11 (0.69%) Web Services
5 9 (0.57%) XML
6 8 (0.51%) Middleware
7 6 (0.38%) ARM Templates
7 6 (0.38%) Gherkin
7 6 (0.38%) JSON
7 6 (0.38%) Kafka
8 5 (0.32%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (0.32%) XMPP
9 4 (0.25%) LAMP
10 3 (0.19%) React
11 2 (0.13%) Sass
11 2 (0.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (6.94%) Management Information System
2 98 (6.19%) Public Cloud
3 80 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (4.04%) Driving Licence
5 47 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 44 (2.78%) Private Cloud
7 39 (2.46%) Replication
8 29 (1.83%) PKI
9 27 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.64%) CCTV
11 25 (1.58%) Mainframe
12 21 (1.33%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
14 14 (0.88%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.82%) Clustering
15 13 (0.82%) SCADA
16 11 (0.69%) CMDB
16 11 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
17 10 (0.63%) PMI
18 9 (0.57%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 505 (31.88%) Windows
2 307 (19.38%) Linux
3 213 (13.45%) Windows Server
4 61 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 42 (2.65%) Unix
6 38 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 35 (2.21%) Data ONTAP
8 31 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 26 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (1.14%) Ubuntu
12 16 (1.01%) Android
13 14 (0.88%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.76%) SUSE
14 12 (0.76%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.69%) zOS
16 8 (0.51%) CentOS
16 8 (0.51%) VMS
17 5 (0.32%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (20.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 312 (19.70%) Cybersecurity
3 272 (17.17%) ITIL
4 226 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
5 197 (12.44%) Project Management
6 194 (12.25%) Presales
7 174 (10.98%) Mentoring
8 147 (9.28%) DevOps
9 133 (8.40%) Roadmaps
10 124 (7.83%) Project Delivery
11 122 (7.70%) Agile
12 121 (7.64%) Software Licensing
13 105 (6.63%) Customer Service
14 102 (6.44%) Migration
15 101 (6.38%) Disaster Recovery
16 95 (6.00%) Information Security
17 89 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 87 (5.49%) Infrastructure Management
19 86 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
19 86 (5.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (8.84%) PowerShell
2 134 (8.46%) Python
3 108 (6.82%) SQL
4 30 (1.89%) C#
5 25 (1.58%) Bash
6 21 (1.33%) Java
7 10 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.63%) RPG
8 9 (0.57%) PHP
9 7 (0.44%) Go
10 6 (0.38%) R
11 5 (0.32%) C
11 5 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.25%) Ruby
13 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.19%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.19%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.19%) Swift
14 2 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 322 (20.33%) Degree
2 173 (10.92%) Cisco Certification
3 147 (9.28%) Security Cleared
4 135 (8.52%) CCNP
5 129 (8.14%) CCNA
6 102 (6.44%) SC Cleared
7 85 (5.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.97%) AWS Certification
10 41 (2.59%) MCP
11 36 (2.27%) DV Cleared
12 35 (2.21%) MCSE
13 33 (2.08%) Azure Certification
14 31 (1.96%) CISSP
15 30 (1.89%) MCSA
16 27 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 24 (1.52%) CCIE
18 23 (1.45%) DBS Check
19 21 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 17 (1.07%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.60%) SLA
2 44 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (2.71%) GDPR
4 22 (1.39%) NIST
5 18 (1.14%) QA
6 17 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.76%) PMO
9 11 (0.69%) NCSC
10 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.44%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.32%) COBIT
13 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 295 (18.62%) Active Directory
2 280 (17.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (6.69%) Hyper-V
4 91 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
5 87 (5.49%) Docker
6 82 (5.18%) vSphere
7 46 (2.90%) Firmware
8 25 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (0.95%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.69%) vCloud
12 8 (0.51%) KVM
13 4 (0.25%) pfSense
13 4 (0.25%) Xen
14 3 (0.19%) QEMU
14 3 (0.19%) XenApp
15 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.13%) NFS
15 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 114 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 78 (4.92%) Ansible
3 76 (4.80%) vCenter Server
4 60 (3.79%) Terraform
5 50 (3.16%) WSUS
6 41 (2.59%) SCCM
7 39 (2.46%) Prometheus
8 38 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (1.96%) SCOM
10 24 (1.52%) Stealthwatch
11 23 (1.45%) Puppet
12 18 (1.14%) FortiGate
13 16 (1.01%) CASB
14 15 (0.95%) Nagios
15 14 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
15 14 (0.88%) ZABBIX
16 13 (0.82%) NetBackup
17 11 (0.69%) Grafana
18 10 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
19 9 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 493 (31.12%) Microsoft
2 400 (25.25%) VMware
3 336 (21.21%) Cisco
4 125 (7.89%) Apple
5 124 (7.83%) Dell
6 121 (7.64%) Adobe
7 112 (7.07%) HP
8 105 (6.63%) Palo Alto
9 100 (6.31%) Veeam
10 96 (6.06%) NetApp
11 85 (5.37%) Juniper
12 81 (5.11%) Citrix
13 69 (4.36%) Meraki
14 61 (3.85%) Red Hat
15 56 (3.54%) Fortinet
16 49 (3.09%) Oracle
16 49 (3.09%) ServiceNow
17 47 (2.97%) CheckPoint
18 40 (2.53%) SolarWinds
19 39 (2.46%) IBM