Data Centre Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Center
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 42 177
Rank change year-on-year -114 +135 -18
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,318 3,810 1,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.84% 6.44% 2.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.48% 15.75% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 966 771 989
10th Percentile £30,875 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.87% +3.45%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,071 24,193 31,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.60% 40.89% 43.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15,209 11,146 15,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the UK excluding London

Data Centre
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East -73 349 £53,500 +2.05% 122
North of England -110 310 £42,500 -16.64% 63
Midlands -81 235 £50,000 -9.09% 52
North West -85 184 £41,774 -20.43% 35
South West -103 144 £55,000 -15.38% 29
West Midlands -88 121 £54,000 +2.86% 28
East Midlands -51 112 £42,500 -22.73% 24
East of England -106 102 £50,000 -9.09% 52
Yorkshire -80 94 £42,500 -16.64% 20
Wales -9 81 £36,476 -47.89% 11
Scotland -154 79 £55,000 +10.00% 23
North East -69 32 £44,274 +18.06% 8
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -26 7 £46,750 -6.50% 2
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Data Centre
UK

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 61 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.10%) Apache
4 24 (1.82%) OpenStack
5 20 (1.52%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.68%) WordPress
7 8 (0.61%) Confluence
7 8 (0.61%) IIS
8 4 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.30%) nginx
9 1 (0.076%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 50 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.076%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 255 (19.35%) Azure
1 255 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
2 178 (13.51%) AWS
3 76 (5.77%) Amazon S3
4 67 (5.08%) Entra ID
5 51 (3.87%) IaaS
6 38 (2.88%) GCP
7 34 (2.58%) SaaS
8 32 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (2.28%) Power Platform
10 28 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (1.90%) PaaS
12 24 (1.82%) OCI
13 20 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (1.52%) Nutanix
13 20 (1.52%) OneDrive
14 17 (1.29%) Mimecast
15 15 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (1.14%) CloudFront
16 12 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 336 (25.49%) Firewall
2 195 (14.80%) WAN
3 161 (12.22%) VPN
4 151 (11.46%) LAN
5 123 (9.33%) DNS
6 94 (7.13%) SD-WAN
7 89 (6.75%) Internet
8 86 (6.53%) Wi-Fi
9 82 (6.22%) DHCP
10 80 (6.07%) Wireless
11 78 (5.92%) SAN
12 75 (5.69%) IPsec
13 74 (5.61%) Network Security
14 63 (4.78%) TCP/IP
15 61 (4.63%) SNMP
16 43 (3.26%) Unified Communications
17 37 (2.81%) OSPF
18 36 (2.73%) BGP
19 32 (2.43%) VLAN
20 29 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.70%) MongoDB
2 55 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 34 (2.58%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.67%) Power BI
5 20 (1.52%) MySQL
6 19 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.14%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.46%) GIS
10 6 (0.46%) Redis
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.15%) Big Data
12 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.076%) DB2
13 1 (0.076%) Oracle Database 12c
13 1 (0.076%) Oracle9i Database
13 1 (0.076%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 17 (1.29%) JIRA
2 13 (0.99%) Git
3 9 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.46%) JBehave
4 6 (0.46%) RStudio
4 6 (0.46%) Selenium
4 6 (0.46%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.076%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.076%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 317 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 155 (11.76%) Finance
3 93 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (3.79%) Manufacturing
5 49 (3.72%) Retail
6 44 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 34 (2.58%) Legal
9 32 (2.43%) Banking
10 24 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 21 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.52%) Law
12 20 (1.52%) Public Sector
13 19 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.21%) Local Government
15 13 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.91%) Automotive
17 11 (0.83%) Police
18 9 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 234 (17.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 219 (16.62%) Senior
3 135 (10.24%) Consultant
4 130 (9.86%) Architect
5 107 (8.12%) Network Engineer
6 80 (6.07%) Data Centre Engineer
7 75 (5.69%) Lead
8 62 (4.70%) Administrator
9 54 (4.10%) Senior Architect
10 50 (3.79%) IT Engineer
11 49 (3.72%) NetApp Consultant
12 47 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (3.49%) Team Leader
14 44 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
14 44 (3.34%) IT Support
14 44 (3.34%) Support Engineer
15 42 (3.19%) Security Architect
16 41 (3.11%) Analyst
17 39 (2.96%) Senior Cisco Architect
17 39 (2.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (3.79%) YAML
3 10 (0.76%) 802.1X
4 9 (0.68%) LDAP
4 9 (0.68%) Web Services
5 7 (0.53%) .NET
5 7 (0.53%) Middleware
6 6 (0.46%) Gherkin
7 5 (0.38%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.30%) HTML
8 4 (0.30%) LAMP
9 3 (0.23%) JSON
9 3 (0.23%) REST
9 3 (0.23%) SAML
10 2 (0.15%) Laravel
10 2 (0.15%) React
10 2 (0.15%) Sass
10 2 (0.15%) ServiceStack
10 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 86 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 85 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 64 (4.86%) Driving Licence
5 37 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (2.73%) Private Cloud
6 36 (2.73%) Replication
7 29 (2.20%) PKI
8 26 (1.97%) Mainframe
9 25 (1.90%) CCTV
10 18 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 13 (0.99%) SCADA
13 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
13 12 (0.91%) PMI
14 11 (0.83%) CMDB
14 11 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
16 8 (0.61%) Clustering
17 7 (0.53%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 462 (35.05%) Windows
2 286 (21.70%) Linux
3 208 (15.78%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.79%) Data ONTAP
4 50 (3.79%) Windows 10
5 39 (2.96%) Unix
6 27 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (1.21%) Android
11 14 (1.06%) Apple iOS
11 14 (1.06%) CentOS
12 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
13 11 (0.83%) zOS
14 10 (0.76%) Solaris
14 10 (0.76%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.68%) VMS
16 8 (0.61%) AIX
17 5 (0.38%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 262 (19.88%) Cybersecurity
3 247 (18.74%) ITIL
4 228 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (14.49%) Project Management
6 173 (13.13%) Presales
7 148 (11.23%) Mentoring
8 127 (9.64%) DevOps
9 123 (9.33%) Customer Service
10 111 (8.42%) Software Licensing
11 106 (8.04%) Disaster Recovery
12 103 (7.81%) Project Delivery
13 90 (6.83%) Actionable Insight
13 90 (6.83%) Agile
14 83 (6.30%) Roadmaps
15 81 (6.15%) Migration
15 81 (6.15%) Service Delivery
15 81 (6.15%) Storage Management
16 80 (6.07%) Change Management
17 79 (5.99%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (8.04%) Python
2 90 (6.83%) PowerShell
3 77 (5.84%) SQL
4 23 (1.75%) C#
5 16 (1.21%) Bash
6 14 (1.06%) Java
7 6 (0.46%) R
8 5 (0.38%) C
9 4 (0.30%) PHP
10 3 (0.23%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.23%) Swift
11 2 (0.15%) Ruby
11 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.076%) C++
12 1 (0.076%) Korn
12 1 (0.076%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.076%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 275 (20.86%) Degree
2 162 (12.29%) Cisco Certification
3 160 (12.14%) Security Cleared
4 132 (10.02%) CCNA
5 119 (9.03%) SC Cleared
6 99 (7.51%) CCNP
7 72 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 55 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (3.11%) AWS Certification
9 41 (3.11%) MCP
10 32 (2.43%) DV Cleared
11 31 (2.35%) CISSP
12 27 (2.05%) Azure Certification
12 27 (2.05%) MCSE
13 21 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (1.52%) DBS Check
15 17 (1.29%) CCIE
16 15 (1.14%) MCSA
17 14 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 13 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (3.64%) SLA
3 35 (2.66%) GDPR
4 21 (1.59%) NIST
5 16 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.14%) QA
7 13 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.99%) PMO
8 12 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.46%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.38%) COBIT
11 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.38%) NCSC
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 14000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 255 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 244 (18.51%) Active Directory
3 101 (7.66%) Docker
4 96 (7.28%) Hyper-V
5 55 (4.17%) vSphere
6 52 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
7 47 (3.57%) Firmware
8 34 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
9 25 (1.90%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.53%) KVM
11 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.30%) pfSense
14 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.15%) QEMU
14 2 (0.15%) Xen
14 2 (0.15%) XenApp
14 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.076%) NFS
15 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 119 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 116 (8.80%) Ansible
3 89 (6.75%) vCenter Server
4 56 (4.25%) Terraform
5 54 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 53 (4.02%) SCCM
7 40 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.50%) WSUS
9 28 (2.12%) FortiGate
10 25 (1.90%) SCOM
11 24 (1.82%) Stealthwatch
12 16 (1.21%) Puppet
13 15 (1.14%) CASB
13 15 (1.14%) Nagios
14 14 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
15 13 (0.99%) NetBackup
16 12 (0.91%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.61%) Grafana
18 7 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 6 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 419 (31.79%) Microsoft
2 364 (27.62%) VMware
3 295 (22.38%) Cisco
4 115 (8.73%) Apple
5 112 (8.50%) NetApp
6 111 (8.42%) Adobe
7 109 (8.27%) Palo Alto
8 92 (6.98%) Dell
9 87 (6.60%) HP
10 73 (5.54%) Red Hat
11 72 (5.46%) Meraki
12 69 (5.24%) Veeam
13 56 (4.25%) Citrix
14 53 (4.02%) Juniper
15 52 (3.95%) Oracle
16 49 (3.72%) SolidFire
17 45 (3.41%) ServiceNow
18 44 (3.34%) Fortinet
19 32 (2.43%) CheckPoint
20 23 (1.75%) Dynatrace