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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 37 176
Rank change year-on-year -116 +139 -17
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,414 3,766 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.79% 6.77% 2.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.58% 16.23% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 746 994
10th Percentile £30,800 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £62,892 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £75,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.87% +8.15%

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 25,319 23,208 33,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.05% 41.70% 44.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15,468 10,824 16,109
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £85,000 £82,550
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 9 June 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 9 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 -74 392 £55,000 +4.91% 132
North of England -109 331 £42,500 -19.05% 48
Midlands -102 241 £50,000 -4.76% 46
North West -85 203 £41,235 -26.37% 31
South West -103 160 £55,000 -8.33% 34
West Midlands -103 126 £54,000 +2.86% 32
East Midlands -72 113 £42,500 -22.73% 14
East of England -104 111 £50,000 -9.09% 62
Yorkshire -80 95 £42,500 -16.64% 13
Wales -12 81 £36,476 -47.89% 5
Scotland -143 80 £55,000 - 24
North East -74 33 £44,274 -6.79% 5
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -33 6 £51,000 +2.00% 5
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 58 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.82%) Apache
4 24 (1.70%) OpenStack
5 20 (1.41%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.64%) WordPress
7 8 (0.57%) Confluence
7 8 (0.57%) IIS
8 4 (0.28%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.071%) CMS
9 1 (0.071%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
Applications
1 51 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) HiPortfolio
1 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.14%) Shopify
2 1 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 261 (18.46%) Azure
2 255 (18.03%) Microsoft 365
3 192 (13.58%) AWS
4 76 (5.37%) Amazon S3
5 65 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 50 (3.54%) IaaS
7 49 (3.47%) SaaS
8 44 (3.11%) GCP
9 35 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
9 35 (2.48%) Power Platform
10 28 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
11 27 (1.91%) PaaS
12 24 (1.70%) OCI
13 21 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (1.49%) OneDrive
14 20 (1.41%) Nutanix
15 17 (1.20%) Mimecast
16 15 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (1.06%) CloudFront
17 14 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 336 (23.76%) Firewall
2 207 (14.64%) WAN
3 160 (11.32%) VPN
4 144 (10.18%) LAN
5 124 (8.77%) DNS
6 106 (7.50%) SD-WAN
7 88 (6.22%) Internet
8 84 (5.94%) DHCP
9 83 (5.87%) Wi-Fi
9 83 (5.87%) Wireless
10 79 (5.59%) Network Security
11 75 (5.30%) IPsec
11 75 (5.30%) SAN
12 63 (4.46%) TCP/IP
13 60 (4.24%) SNMP
14 43 (3.04%) Unified Communications
15 41 (2.90%) Cisco Firepower
16 39 (2.76%) OSPF
17 34 (2.40%) BGP
17 34 (2.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.31%) MongoDB
2 54 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
3 38 (2.69%) SQL Server
4 26 (1.84%) Power BI
5 23 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (1.41%) MySQL
7 18 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.64%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.42%) GIS
10 6 (0.42%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.35%) Redis
12 2 (0.14%) Big Data
12 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.071%) DB2
13 1 (0.071%) Oracle Database 12c
13 1 (0.071%) Oracle9i Database
13 1 (0.071%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 18 (1.27%) JIRA
2 13 (0.92%) Git
3 8 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.42%) RStudio
5 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.35%) JBehave
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.35%) Selenium
5 5 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.14%) GitLab
6 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.071%) ScriptRunner
General
1 326 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 175 (12.38%) Finance
3 96 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (3.82%) Retail
5 50 (3.54%) Manufacturing
6 47 (3.32%) Banking
7 44 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (2.90%) Legal
9 38 (2.69%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.91%) Public Sector
11 25 (1.77%) Aerospace
11 25 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.34%) Law
12 19 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.13%) Local Government
14 14 (0.99%) Automotive
14 14 (0.99%) Marketing
15 11 (0.78%) Police
16 10 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.57%) French Language
Job Titles
1 249 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 241 (17.04%) Senior
3 147 (10.40%) Architect
4 144 (10.18%) Consultant
5 109 (7.71%) Network Engineer
6 100 (7.07%) Data Centre Engineer
7 89 (6.29%) Lead
8 64 (4.53%) Senior Architect
9 56 (3.96%) Administrator
10 54 (3.82%) Team Leader
11 51 (3.61%) IT Engineer
11 51 (3.61%) Security Architect
11 51 (3.61%) Support Engineer
12 49 (3.47%) Data Centre Manager
12 49 (3.47%) NetApp Consultant
13 48 (3.39%) Cisco Architect
13 48 (3.39%) Senior Cisco Architect
13 48 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 46 (3.25%) IT Support
15 42 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (3.54%) YAML
3 11 (0.78%) 802.1X
4 9 (0.64%) LDAP
4 9 (0.64%) Web Services
5 7 (0.50%) .NET
5 7 (0.50%) Middleware
6 5 (0.35%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.35%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.28%) HTML
7 4 (0.28%) JSON
7 4 (0.28%) LAMP
7 4 (0.28%) REST
8 3 (0.21%) SAML
9 2 (0.14%) CakePHP
9 2 (0.14%) CSS
9 2 (0.14%) Laravel
9 2 (0.14%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.14%) Sass
9 2 (0.14%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.07%) Management Information System
2 92 (6.51%) Public Cloud
3 85 (6.01%) Self-Motivation
4 65 (4.60%) Driving Licence
5 38 (2.69%) Replication
6 37 (2.62%) Private Cloud
7 36 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (1.98%) PKI
9 26 (1.84%) Mainframe
10 25 (1.77%) CCTV
11 20 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 13 (0.92%) SCADA
14 12 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (0.85%) PMI
15 11 (0.78%) CMDB
15 11 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
16 9 (0.64%) IBM Mainframe
17 7 (0.50%) Clustering
17 7 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 458 (32.39%) Windows
2 303 (21.43%) Linux
3 206 (14.57%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.68%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.47%) Data ONTAP
6 37 (2.62%) Unix
7 30 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 24 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.20%) Android
11 16 (1.13%) CentOS
12 15 (1.06%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.85%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.85%) Windows XP
14 11 (0.78%) zOS
15 10 (0.71%) Solaris
16 8 (0.57%) AIX
16 8 (0.57%) VMS
17 6 (0.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (20.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 272 (19.24%) Cybersecurity
3 246 (17.40%) ITIL
4 233 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
5 195 (13.79%) Project Management
6 185 (13.08%) Presales
7 156 (11.03%) Mentoring
8 137 (9.69%) DevOps
9 123 (8.70%) Customer Service
10 120 (8.49%) Software Licensing
11 108 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
12 103 (7.28%) Project Delivery
13 93 (6.58%) Service Delivery
14 92 (6.51%) Agile
15 90 (6.36%) Actionable Insight
16 86 (6.08%) Information Security
17 84 (5.94%) Time Management
18 83 (5.87%) Change Management
18 83 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 81 (5.73%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (7.92%) Python
2 86 (6.08%) PowerShell
3 79 (5.59%) SQL
4 23 (1.63%) C#
5 17 (1.20%) Bash
6 14 (0.99%) Java
7 6 (0.42%) R
8 5 (0.35%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.28%) PHP
10 3 (0.21%) C
10 3 (0.21%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.21%) Swift
11 2 (0.14%) Ruby
11 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.071%) C++
12 1 (0.071%) Korn
12 1 (0.071%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.071%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.071%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 297 (21.00%) Degree
2 179 (12.66%) Cisco Certification
3 158 (11.17%) Security Cleared
4 141 (9.97%) CCNA
5 117 (8.27%) SC Cleared
6 115 (8.13%) CCNP
7 73 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 57 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 42 (2.97%) AWS Certification
10 39 (2.76%) MCP
11 32 (2.26%) CISSP
11 32 (2.26%) DV Cleared
12 29 (2.05%) Azure Certification
13 24 (1.70%) MCSE
14 23 (1.63%) CCIE
15 21 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (1.41%) DBS Check
17 15 (1.06%) MCSA
17 15 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 14 (0.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (3.89%) SLA
3 36 (2.55%) GDPR
4 21 (1.49%) NIST
5 17 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.06%) QA
7 13 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (0.85%) PMO
9 6 (0.42%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.35%) COBIT
10 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.35%) NCSC
11 3 (0.21%) ISO 14000
11 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 262 (18.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 242 (17.11%) Active Directory
3 99 (7.00%) Docker
3 99 (7.00%) Hyper-V
4 57 (4.03%) vSphere
5 54 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
6 47 (3.32%) Firmware
7 35 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (1.84%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.64%) KVM
9 9 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.28%) pfSense
11 4 (0.28%) XenApp
11 4 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.14%) QEMU
12 2 (0.14%) Xen
13 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 125 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 119 (8.42%) Ansible
3 93 (6.58%) vCenter Server
4 57 (4.03%) Terraform
5 54 (3.82%) Prometheus
5 54 (3.82%) SCCM
6 38 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (2.33%) Stealthwatch
8 32 (2.26%) WSUS
9 30 (2.12%) FortiGate
10 24 (1.70%) SCOM
11 21 (1.49%) Puppet
12 15 (1.06%) CASB
12 15 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (1.06%) Nagios
13 13 (0.92%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.92%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.50%) Grafana
14 7 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 438 (30.98%) Microsoft
2 366 (25.88%) VMware
3 320 (22.63%) Cisco
4 124 (8.77%) Apple
5 120 (8.49%) Adobe
6 115 (8.13%) Palo Alto
7 107 (7.57%) NetApp
8 95 (6.72%) Dell
9 94 (6.65%) HP
10 87 (6.15%) Meraki
11 78 (5.52%) Red Hat
12 75 (5.30%) Veeam
13 57 (4.03%) Juniper
14 55 (3.89%) Citrix
14 55 (3.89%) Fortinet
14 55 (3.89%) Oracle
15 49 (3.47%) SolidFire
16 46 (3.25%) ServiceNow
17 34 (2.40%) CheckPoint
18 23 (1.63%) Dynatrace