Data Center
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 65 218
Rank change year-on-year -88 +153 -35
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,905 4,816 3,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 4.75% 1.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.44% 11.12% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 1,447 1,933
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £39,790 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -1.44% +2.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,985 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% +1.97% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the UK

Data Centre
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England -96 1,580 £54,000 -6.16% 496
UK excluding London -112 1,312 £50,000 -1.93% 293
Work from Home +17 762 £54,556 -12.71% 241
London -5 442 £65,000 -7.14% 217
South East -80 346 £51,000 -2.58% 98
North of England -99 304 £42,500 -15.00% 63
Midlands -80 238 £50,000 -9.09% 39
North West -89 180 £44,274 -14.03% 31
South West -114 140 £55,000 -25.42% 36
West Midlands -83 124 £54,000 -1.82% 23
East Midlands -55 112 £42,500 -22.73% 16
East of England -99 105 £50,000 -9.09% 42
Yorkshire -72 94 £42,500 -5.56% 18
Wales -14 82 £36,476 -47.89% 10
Scotland -155 80 £55,000 +29.41% 24
North East -71 30 £44,274 +10.69% 14
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -23 7 £46,750 -6.50% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 88 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.31%) Apache
4 28 (1.47%) OpenStack
4 28 (1.47%) Skype for Business
5 14 (0.73%) IIS
6 13 (0.68%) Confluence
7 9 (0.47%) WordPress
8 7 (0.37%) nginx
9 5 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.21%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.16%) SAS
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.052%) JOnAS
13 1 (0.052%) Site Server
13 1 (0.052%) WebLogic
Applications
1 72 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Primavera
2 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.10%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.052%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.052%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.052%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.052%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.052%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 433 (22.73%) Azure
2 348 (18.27%) Microsoft 365
3 306 (16.06%) AWS
4 90 (4.72%) Amazon S3
5 84 (4.41%) Entra ID
6 80 (4.20%) IaaS
7 63 (3.31%) SaaS
8 53 (2.78%) GCP
9 50 (2.62%) PaaS
10 45 (2.36%) OCI
11 44 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
13 38 (1.99%) Power Platform
14 22 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.15%) Nutanix
15 20 (1.05%) OneDrive
16 19 (1.00%) CloudFront
17 18 (0.94%) Mimecast
18 15 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (0.73%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 479 (25.14%) Firewall
2 318 (16.69%) WAN
3 283 (14.86%) LAN
4 255 (13.39%) VPN
5 202 (10.60%) DNS
6 141 (7.40%) Network Security
7 138 (7.24%) SD-WAN
8 135 (7.09%) DHCP
9 134 (7.03%) Wi-Fi
9 134 (7.03%) Wireless
10 131 (6.88%) Internet
11 125 (6.56%) SAN
12 104 (5.46%) TCP/IP
13 98 (5.14%) MPLS
14 94 (4.93%) IPsec
15 90 (4.72%) BGP
16 82 (4.30%) OSPF
17 81 (4.25%) SNMP
18 79 (4.15%) VLAN
19 65 (3.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (3.67%) MongoDB
2 60 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
3 55 (2.89%) SQL Server
4 30 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (1.52%) Power BI
6 23 (1.21%) MySQL
7 20 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 13 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.52%) Big Data
13 9 (0.47%) GIS
14 8 (0.42%) Tableau
15 7 (0.37%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.31%) DB2
16 6 (0.31%) Redis
17 3 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
17 3 (0.16%) EDRMS
17 3 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (1.78%) JIRA
2 17 (0.89%) Git
3 11 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.31%) JBehave
4 6 (0.31%) RStudio
4 6 (0.31%) Selenium
4 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.31%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.16%) Subversion
7 2 (0.10%) GitLab
7 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.052%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.052%) ScriptRunner
General
1 477 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 273 (14.33%) Finance
3 148 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 67 (3.52%) Banking
6 67 (3.52%) Retail
7 55 (2.89%) Public Sector
8 54 (2.83%) Legal
9 53 (2.78%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.57%) Law
11 42 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.15%) Billing
15 21 (1.10%) Marketing
16 16 (0.84%) Local Government
17 14 (0.73%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 320 (16.80%) Senior
2 280 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 219 (11.50%) Architect
4 190 (9.97%) Network Engineer
5 165 (8.66%) Consultant
6 141 (7.40%) Data Centre Engineer
7 105 (5.51%) Lead
8 74 (3.88%) Senior Architect
9 69 (3.62%) Administrator
9 69 (3.62%) Analyst
10 66 (3.46%) Project Manager
11 64 (3.36%) IT Manager
12 63 (3.31%) IT Engineer
13 60 (3.15%) Infrastructure Manager
14 59 (3.10%) Data Centre Manager
15 57 (2.99%) Security Architect
15 57 (2.99%) Senior Network Engineer
15 57 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
16 56 (2.94%) Support Engineer
17 55 (2.89%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
2 55 (2.89%) YAML
3 38 (1.99%) 802.1X
4 19 (1.00%) HTML
5 14 (0.73%) LDAP
6 12 (0.63%) .NET
7 11 (0.58%) SAML
7 11 (0.58%) Web Services
8 10 (0.52%) Middleware
9 9 (0.47%) XML
10 8 (0.42%) Kafka
11 6 (0.31%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.31%) Gherkin
11 6 (0.31%) JSON
12 5 (0.26%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (0.26%) XMPP
13 4 (0.21%) LAMP
14 3 (0.16%) React
14 3 (0.16%) REST
15 2 (0.10%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 142 (7.45%) Management Information System
2 120 (6.30%) Public Cloud
3 93 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (3.88%) Replication
5 72 (3.78%) Driving Licence
6 57 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 44 (2.31%) Private Cloud
8 36 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 30 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.47%) Mainframe
10 28 (1.47%) PKI
11 26 (1.36%) CCTV
12 20 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
13 19 (1.00%) Cyberattack
14 16 (0.84%) Clustering
15 14 (0.73%) IoT
16 13 (0.68%) Client/Server
16 13 (0.68%) SCADA
17 12 (0.63%) iPhone
17 12 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 579 (30.39%) Windows
2 372 (19.53%) Linux
3 249 (13.07%) Windows Server
4 65 (3.41%) Windows 10
5 55 (2.89%) Data ONTAP
5 55 (2.89%) Unix
6 41 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 33 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 29 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (1.21%) Ubuntu
11 16 (0.84%) Android
12 15 (0.79%) CentOS
13 14 (0.73%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.63%) SUSE
14 12 (0.63%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.63%) zOS
15 10 (0.52%) Solaris
16 9 (0.47%) AIX
16 9 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 339 (17.80%) Cybersecurity
3 325 (17.06%) ITIL
4 280 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
5 245 (12.86%) Project Management
6 219 (11.50%) Presales
7 215 (11.29%) Mentoring
8 166 (8.71%) DevOps
9 162 (8.50%) Roadmaps
10 153 (8.03%) Disaster Recovery
11 145 (7.61%) Customer Service
12 143 (7.51%) Project Delivery
13 140 (7.35%) Migration
14 136 (7.14%) Agile
15 118 (6.19%) Information Security
15 118 (6.19%) Software Licensing
16 113 (5.93%) Infrastructure Management
17 104 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
18 100 (5.25%) Storage Management
19 98 (5.14%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 169 (8.87%) Python
2 152 (7.98%) PowerShell
3 118 (6.19%) SQL
4 32 (1.68%) C#
5 30 (1.57%) Bash
6 24 (1.26%) Java
7 11 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.52%) RPG
9 9 (0.47%) Go
9 9 (0.47%) PHP
10 6 (0.31%) C
10 6 (0.31%) R
11 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.26%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.21%) Ruby
13 3 (0.16%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.16%) Swift
14 2 (0.10%) Scala
14 2 (0.10%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 362 (19.00%) Degree
2 227 (11.92%) Cisco Certification
3 207 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 160 (8.40%) CCNA
5 148 (7.77%) SC Cleared
6 147 (7.72%) CCNP
7 97 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 68 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (3.41%) AWS Certification
10 52 (2.73%) Azure Certification
10 52 (2.73%) CISSP
11 45 (2.36%) DV Cleared
12 43 (2.26%) MCSE
13 41 (2.15%) MCP
14 37 (1.94%) MCSA
15 33 (1.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 29 (1.52%) CCIE
17 27 (1.42%) CISM
18 26 (1.36%) DBS Check
19 21 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (3.36%) SLA
3 45 (2.36%) GDPR
4 26 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.21%) NIST
6 23 (1.21%) QA
7 22 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 15 (0.79%) ISO 9001
9 13 (0.68%) PMO
10 10 (0.52%) NCSC
11 7 (0.37%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.31%) COBIT
12 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.26%) IASME
13 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.16%) ISO 14000
14 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.10%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 358 (18.79%) Active Directory
2 353 (18.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (6.35%) Hyper-V
4 115 (6.04%) Docker
5 90 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
6 84 (4.41%) vSphere
7 57 (2.99%) Firmware
8 39 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (1.42%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
12 12 (0.63%) vCloud
13 10 (0.52%) KVM
14 5 (0.26%) DFS Replication
15 4 (0.21%) pfSense
16 3 (0.16%) Xen
16 3 (0.16%) XenApp
17 2 (0.10%) BitLocker
17 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 143 (7.51%) Ansible
1 143 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.09%) vCenter Server
3 77 (4.04%) Terraform
4 59 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 58 (3.04%) SCCM
6 50 (2.62%) WSUS
7 43 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (1.94%) SCOM
9 33 (1.73%) FortiGate
10 23 (1.21%) Puppet
11 21 (1.10%) Stealthwatch
12 16 (0.84%) CASB
13 14 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
13 14 (0.73%) Nagios
13 14 (0.73%) ZABBIX
14 13 (0.68%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.63%) Grafana
15 12 (0.63%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 569 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 496 (26.04%) VMware
3 402 (21.10%) Cisco
4 153 (8.03%) Palo Alto
5 138 (7.24%) NetApp
6 126 (6.61%) Dell
7 122 (6.40%) Apple
8 121 (6.35%) Oracle
9 119 (6.25%) HP
10 118 (6.19%) Adobe
11 108 (5.67%) Veeam
12 101 (5.30%) Juniper
13 93 (4.88%) Red Hat
14 91 (4.78%) Citrix
15 78 (4.09%) Meraki
16 72 (3.78%) Fortinet
17 59 (3.10%) CheckPoint
18 54 (2.83%) SolidFire
19 53 (2.78%) IBM
20 52 (2.73%) ServiceNow