Data Centre Jobs

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 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 149 60 221
Rank change year-on-year -89 +161 -36
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 2,014 4,750 3,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 5.10% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.49% 11.84% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,461 1,397 1,952
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,600 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.87% +8.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £91,925
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 36,675 40,106 83,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 43.08% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,359 22,226 34,621
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,570 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 June 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 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
England -96 1,694 £54,000 -10.00% 506
UK excluding London -116 1,414 £50,000 -4.76% 330
Work from Home -2 786 £55,000 -15.38% 196
London -32 455 £65,000 -13.33% 194
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
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 84 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.13%) Apache
4 28 (1.39%) Skype for Business
5 26 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 16 (0.79%) IIS
7 9 (0.45%) WordPress
8 8 (0.40%) Confluence
9 7 (0.35%) nginx
10 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.20%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.15%) SAS
13 2 (0.099%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.099%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.050%) CMS
14 1 (0.050%) JOnAS
14 1 (0.050%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.15%) SPSS
8 2 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Primavera
2 2 (0.099%) HiPortfolio
2 2 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.099%) Shopify
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.050%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 431 (21.40%) Azure
2 335 (16.63%) Microsoft 365
3 313 (15.54%) AWS
4 88 (4.37%) Amazon S3
5 83 (4.12%) SaaS
6 80 (3.97%) IaaS
7 78 (3.87%) Entra ID
8 56 (2.78%) GCP
9 55 (2.73%) PaaS
10 45 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (2.23%) OCI
11 44 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
12 43 (2.14%) Power Platform
13 24 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.09%) Nutanix
15 21 (1.04%) OneDrive
16 18 (0.89%) Mimecast
17 17 (0.84%) CloudFront
18 15 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (0.74%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 478 (23.73%) Firewall
2 330 (16.39%) WAN
3 276 (13.70%) LAN
4 249 (12.36%) VPN
5 200 (9.93%) DNS
6 152 (7.55%) SD-WAN
7 145 (7.20%) Network Security
8 139 (6.90%) Wireless
9 138 (6.85%) DHCP
10 133 (6.60%) Wi-Fi
11 131 (6.50%) Internet
12 111 (5.51%) SAN
13 107 (5.31%) MPLS
14 105 (5.21%) TCP/IP
15 95 (4.72%) IPsec
16 90 (4.47%) BGP
17 86 (4.27%) OSPF
18 79 (3.92%) VLAN
19 77 (3.82%) SNMP
20 66 (3.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.43%) MongoDB
2 59 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
3 58 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 33 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (1.64%) Power BI
5 23 (1.14%) MySQL
6 18 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
8 14 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.50%) Big Data
11 9 (0.45%) GIS
12 8 (0.40%) Tableau
13 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.30%) DB2
14 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.25%) Redis
16 3 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (1.59%) JIRA
2 18 (0.89%) Git
3 11 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.30%) RStudio
5 5 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.25%) JBehave
5 5 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.25%) Selenium
5 5 (0.25%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.25%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.15%) Subversion
8 2 (0.099%) GitLab
8 2 (0.099%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.099%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.050%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.050%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.050%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 480 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 285 (14.15%) Finance
3 147 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (3.92%) Banking
5 72 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (3.57%) Retail
6 67 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 62 (3.08%) Legal
8 61 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 50 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 47 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.23%) Law
12 25 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 25 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.09%) Marketing
14 19 (0.94%) Billing
15 16 (0.79%) Local Government
16 14 (0.70%) Automotive
16 14 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 350 (17.38%) Senior
2 292 (14.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 232 (11.52%) Architect
4 195 (9.68%) Network Engineer
5 176 (8.74%) Consultant
6 170 (8.44%) Data Centre Engineer
7 121 (6.01%) Lead
8 88 (4.37%) Senior Architect
9 77 (3.82%) Data Centre Manager
10 76 (3.77%) Project Manager
11 70 (3.48%) Analyst
12 68 (3.38%) Security Architect
13 67 (3.33%) IT Engineer
14 65 (3.23%) Administrator
15 63 (3.13%) Support Engineer
16 62 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
17 59 (2.93%) IT Manager
17 59 (2.93%) Senior Network Engineer
18 58 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
19 54 (2.68%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
2 55 (2.73%) YAML
3 37 (1.84%) 802.1X
4 19 (0.94%) HTML
5 12 (0.60%) LDAP
6 11 (0.55%) .NET
6 11 (0.55%) SAML
6 11 (0.55%) Web Services
7 10 (0.50%) Middleware
8 9 (0.45%) XML
9 8 (0.40%) Kafka
10 7 (0.35%) JSON
11 6 (0.30%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.25%) Gherkin
12 5 (0.25%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (0.25%) XMPP
13 4 (0.20%) LAMP
13 4 (0.20%) REST
14 2 (0.099%) Laravel
14 2 (0.099%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 148 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 121 (6.01%) Public Cloud
3 89 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 72 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 69 (3.43%) Replication
6 55 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (2.23%) Private Cloud
8 31 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 29 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.39%) Mainframe
10 28 (1.39%) PKI
11 26 (1.29%) CCTV
12 20 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (0.89%) Cyberattack
14 16 (0.79%) IoT
15 14 (0.70%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.70%) Clustering
15 14 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
16 13 (0.65%) SCADA
17 12 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 570 (28.30%) Windows
2 385 (19.12%) Linux
3 241 (11.97%) Windows Server
4 67 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 54 (2.68%) Data ONTAP
6 50 (2.48%) Unix
7 42 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 39 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 37 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 30 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (1.09%) Ubuntu
12 17 (0.84%) Android
12 17 (0.84%) CentOS
13 15 (0.74%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.60%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.60%) zOS
15 10 (0.50%) Solaris
16 9 (0.45%) SUSE
17 8 (0.40%) AIX
17 8 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 351 (17.43%) Cybersecurity
3 315 (15.64%) ITIL
4 283 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
5 252 (12.51%) Project Management
6 233 (11.57%) Presales
7 217 (10.77%) Mentoring
8 180 (8.94%) DevOps
9 159 (7.89%) Roadmaps
10 152 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 145 (7.20%) Project Delivery
12 141 (7.00%) Customer Service
13 140 (6.95%) Migration
14 138 (6.85%) Agile
15 130 (6.45%) Software Licensing
16 123 (6.11%) Information Security
17 116 (5.76%) Infrastructure Management
18 110 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 103 (5.11%) Service Delivery
20 97 (4.82%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 173 (8.59%) Python
2 138 (6.85%) PowerShell
3 108 (5.36%) SQL
4 30 (1.49%) C#
5 28 (1.39%) Bash
6 24 (1.19%) Java
7 10 (0.50%) RPG
8 9 (0.45%) Go
8 9 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.45%) PHP
9 6 (0.30%) R
10 5 (0.25%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.20%) Ruby
12 3 (0.15%) C
12 3 (0.15%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.15%) Swift
13 2 (0.099%) Korn
13 2 (0.099%) Scala
13 2 (0.099%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 383 (19.02%) Degree
2 250 (12.41%) Cisco Certification
3 204 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 174 (8.64%) CCNA
5 165 (8.19%) CCNP
6 146 (7.25%) SC Cleared
7 94 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 69 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (3.23%) AWS Certification
10 53 (2.63%) Azure Certification
11 51 (2.53%) CISSP
12 44 (2.18%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.94%) MCP
14 36 (1.79%) MCSE
15 34 (1.69%) CCIE
16 32 (1.59%) MCSA
17 29 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 26 (1.29%) CISM
18 26 (1.29%) DBS Check
19 21 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.77%) SLA
2 75 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.28%) GDPR
4 27 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.34%) QA
5 23 (1.14%) NIST
5 23 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 12 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.60%) NCSC
7 12 (0.60%) PMO
8 7 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.30%) COBIT
9 6 (0.30%) IASME
9 6 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.15%) ISO 14000
11 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.099%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 349 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 340 (16.88%) Active Directory
3 122 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 115 (5.71%) Docker
5 94 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
6 84 (4.17%) vSphere
7 58 (2.88%) Firmware
8 39 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
9 28 (1.39%) VMware NSX
10 18 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
12 13 (0.65%) KVM
13 8 (0.40%) vCloud
14 5 (0.25%) XenApp
15 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.20%) NFS
15 4 (0.20%) pfSense
15 4 (0.20%) Xen
15 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 150 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 142 (7.05%) Ansible
3 101 (5.01%) vCenter Server
4 78 (3.87%) Terraform
5 59 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 57 (2.83%) SCCM
7 48 (2.38%) WSUS
8 41 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.79%) SCOM
10 35 (1.74%) FortiGate
11 33 (1.64%) Stealthwatch
12 29 (1.44%) Puppet
13 16 (0.79%) CASB
13 16 (0.79%) Nagios
13 16 (0.79%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
15 13 (0.65%) NetBackup
16 11 (0.55%) Grafana
16 11 (0.55%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 582 (28.90%) Microsoft
2 486 (24.13%) VMware
3 434 (21.55%) Cisco
4 160 (7.94%) Palo Alto
5 134 (6.65%) Apple
6 132 (6.55%) NetApp
7 130 (6.45%) Adobe
7 130 (6.45%) Dell
8 122 (6.06%) HP
9 119 (5.91%) Oracle
10 107 (5.31%) Veeam
11 104 (5.16%) Juniper
12 98 (4.87%) Red Hat
13 97 (4.82%) Meraki
14 91 (4.52%) Citrix
15 87 (4.32%) Fortinet
16 64 (3.18%) CheckPoint
17 54 (2.68%) IBM
17 54 (2.68%) SolidFire
18 53 (2.63%) ServiceNow