Data Centre Jobs in the North of England

Data Center
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 146 31 169
Rank change year-on-year -115 +138 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 318 1,176 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.69% 7.29% 2.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.63% 17.83% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 249 207 206
10th Percentile £25,600 £30,650 £32,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £64,000 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £53,250 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +3.45% +5.45%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,644 6,597 8,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.93% 40.88% 44.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,013 3,000 4,343
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the North of England

Data Centre
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West -88 194 £41,235 -23.99% 24
Yorkshire -86 92 £42,500 -16.64% 14
North East -72 32 £44,274 +4.17% 7
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 15 (4.72%) Apache
2 14 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.83%) WordPress
4 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.26%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.04%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (12.89%) Azure
3 21 (6.60%) AWS
3 21 (6.60%) IaaS
4 19 (5.97%) Amazon S3
5 11 (3.46%) Mimecast
6 10 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.52%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.89%) GCP
9 5 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.57%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.57%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.26%) SaaS
11 3 (0.94%) GitHub
11 3 (0.94%) PaaS
11 3 (0.94%) Serverless
12 2 (0.63%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 67 (21.07%) Firewall
2 37 (11.64%) VPN
3 35 (11.01%) WAN
4 30 (9.43%) Network Security
5 24 (7.55%) LAN
5 24 (7.55%) SD-WAN
6 23 (7.23%) Internet
6 23 (7.23%) IPsec
7 20 (6.29%) DNS
8 17 (5.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 16 (5.03%) SAN
9 16 (5.03%) SNMP
9 16 (5.03%) Wireless
10 13 (4.09%) DHCP
10 13 (4.09%) WLAN
11 12 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (3.46%) NAS
12 11 (3.46%) VLAN
13 10 (3.14%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (3.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.49%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.77%) MySQL
5 9 (2.83%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.57%) Power BI
6 5 (1.57%) Redis
7 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.31%) JIRA
General
1 56 (17.61%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.95%) Finance
3 34 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.60%) Manufacturing
5 13 (4.09%) Law
6 10 (3.14%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.26%) Banking
8 3 (0.94%) Marketing
8 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Retail
10 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Online Betting
10 1 (0.31%) Police
10 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (17.92%) Senior
2 41 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 36 (11.32%) Data Centre Engineer
4 34 (10.69%) Lead
5 29 (9.12%) Architect
6 27 (8.49%) Consultant
7 20 (6.29%) Team Leader
8 19 (5.97%) Infrastructure Team Leader
8 19 (5.97%) Network Engineer
9 17 (5.35%) Analyst
10 16 (5.03%) IT Manager
11 15 (4.72%) NetApp Consultant
12 14 (4.40%) Cisco Architect
12 14 (4.40%) Security Architect
12 14 (4.40%) Senior Architect
12 14 (4.40%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 14 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (4.09%) Service Analyst
13 13 (4.09%) Service Desk Analyst
14 11 (3.46%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.03%) YAML
2 15 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (1.89%) .NET
4 5 (1.57%) Middleware
5 4 (1.26%) LAMP
6 2 (0.63%) Web Services
7 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.31%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.31%) JSON
7 1 (0.31%) REST
7 1 (0.31%) SAML
7 1 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.09%) Management Information System
2 37 (11.64%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.03%) Driving Licence
4 15 (4.72%) Mainframe
5 12 (3.77%) SCADA
6 10 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.83%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.89%) PKI
10 5 (1.57%) IoT
11 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.94%) Blog
12 3 (0.94%) CCTV
12 3 (0.94%) EPoS
12 3 (0.94%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.94%) Wiki
13 2 (0.63%) IBM Mainframe
13 2 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 1 (0.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 121 (38.05%) Windows
2 66 (20.75%) Linux
3 34 (10.69%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.29%) Unix
5 15 (4.72%) Data ONTAP
6 11 (3.46%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.26%) CentOS
10 3 (0.94%) Android
10 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.94%) zOS
11 1 (0.31%) HPUX
11 1 (0.31%) Solaris
11 1 (0.31%) SUSE
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (25.79%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (22.64%) ITIL
3 60 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 54 (16.98%) Presales
5 50 (15.72%) Mentoring
6 42 (13.21%) Software Licensing
7 36 (11.32%) Roadmaps
8 35 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (10.38%) Project Management
10 30 (9.43%) Customer Service
11 29 (9.12%) Coaching
12 28 (8.81%) Information Security
12 28 (8.81%) Infrastructure Management
13 26 (8.18%) Change Management
13 26 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (7.55%) DevOps
14 24 (7.55%) Incident Management
15 23 (7.23%) Cloud Security
16 20 (6.29%) Storage Management
16 20 (6.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.86%) SQL
2 24 (7.55%) Python
3 13 (4.09%) C#
4 5 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
5 3 (0.94%) Swift
6 2 (0.63%) Bash
7 1 (0.31%) Java
7 1 (0.31%) JCL
7 1 (0.31%) PHP
7 1 (0.31%) REXX
7 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (17.61%) Degree
2 31 (9.75%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (8.49%) CCNP
4 21 (6.60%) CCNA
5 18 (5.66%) CISSP
6 17 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (4.40%) Security Cleared
8 9 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.83%) MCP
8 9 (2.83%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.20%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.26%) CISM
11 4 (1.26%) Citrix Certification
11 4 (1.26%) CRISC
11 4 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (1.26%) ISSMP
11 4 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.72%) SLA
2 13 (4.09%) GDPR
3 11 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.26%) NIST
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.31%) NCSC
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 53 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 48 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (8.49%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.35%) Docker
5 16 (5.03%) vSphere
6 5 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.94%) Firmware
8 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.31%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.31%) KVM
9 1 (0.31%) NFS
9 1 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.31%) XenApp
9 1 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.29%) Prometheus
3 19 (5.97%) Ansible
4 18 (5.66%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.83%) Stealthwatch
6 7 (2.20%) FortiGate
6 7 (2.20%) Nagios
7 6 (1.89%) SCOM
8 5 (1.57%) CASB
8 5 (1.57%) Grafana
8 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.26%) cPanel
9 4 (1.26%) Plesk
10 3 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.94%) Terraform
11 2 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.63%) vRealize
12 1 (0.31%) SCCM
12 1 (0.31%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 103 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 84 (26.42%) Cisco
3 65 (20.44%) VMware
4 42 (13.21%) Adobe
4 42 (13.21%) Apple
5 39 (12.26%) Dell
6 36 (11.32%) NetApp
7 28 (8.81%) HP
7 28 (8.81%) Palo Alto
8 22 (6.92%) Dynatrace
9 21 (6.60%) Meraki
10 20 (6.29%) Red Hat
11 17 (5.35%) ServiceNow
11 17 (5.35%) Splunk
12 16 (5.03%) Veeam
13 15 (4.72%) SolidFire
14 11 (3.46%) IBM
14 11 (3.46%) Juniper
14 11 (3.46%) Samsung
15 10 (3.14%) CheckPoint