Data Centre Jobs in the South East

Data Center
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 127 54 182
Rank change year-on-year -73 +128 -48
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 376 718 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.11% 5.22% 2.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.30% 12.36% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 289 205 254
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,475
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,250 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +3.45% +5.45%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,969 5,810 8,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.51% 42.25% 42.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,817 3,047 4,493
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,677 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% +3.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £87,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the South East

Data Centre
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the South East 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
Thames Valley -44 167 £50,000 -4.49% 47
Berkshire -31 89 £59,000 +12.70% 31
Surrey -8 65 £53,500 -6.96% 14
Buckinghamshire -24 62 £40,000 -36.00% 9
Hampshire -103 50 £62,500 +25.63% 20
West Sussex +2 40 £65,000 -1.52% 12
Kent -36 25 £65,000 +57.58% 8
Oxfordshire -12 16 £51,000 +78.95% 7
Sussex - 11 £35,000 -
Middlesex - 9 £40,000 - 1
East Sussex -45 8 £65,000 +52.94% 3
Home Counties +12 1 £48,000 -49.47%
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 14 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (22.61%) AWS
2 65 (17.29%) Azure
3 54 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 15 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (3.99%) CloudFront
7 13 (3.46%) OCI
8 11 (2.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.66%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.39%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.39%) Route 53
10 9 (2.39%) Serverless
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.60%) GCP
11 6 (1.60%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 58 (15.43%) Firewall
2 49 (13.03%) WAN
3 37 (9.84%) LAN
4 29 (7.71%) VPN
5 25 (6.65%) SAN
6 22 (5.85%) DNS
6 22 (5.85%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (5.59%) OSPF
8 20 (5.32%) DHCP
8 20 (5.32%) Network Security
9 19 (5.05%) BGP
10 17 (4.52%) SD-WAN
11 16 (4.26%) Unified Communications
11 16 (4.26%) Wireless
12 14 (3.72%) Internet
12 14 (3.72%) Structured Cabling
13 12 (3.19%) IPsec
14 10 (2.66%) Cisco Firepower
14 10 (2.66%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (1.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (1.60%) Power BI
2 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.33%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.80%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.86%) JIRA
3 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.60%) JBehave
3 6 (1.60%) Selenium
3 6 (1.60%) SpecFlow
3 6 (1.60%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (4.26%) Finance
3 12 (3.19%) Legal
3 12 (3.19%) Manufacturing
4 11 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.39%) Public Sector
6 7 (1.86%) Retail
7 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.33%) Advertising
8 5 (1.33%) Automotive
8 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.06%) Marketing
10 3 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.53%) Electronics
11 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (19.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (13.56%) Architect
2 51 (13.56%) Senior
3 38 (10.11%) Data Centre Engineer
4 36 (9.57%) Consultant
5 29 (7.71%) Network Engineer
6 26 (6.91%) Senior Architect
7 24 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (6.12%) Lead
9 22 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (5.05%) Data Centre Manager
10 19 (5.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (5.05%) Security Architect
10 19 (5.05%) Team Leader
11 17 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 16 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (4.26%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 16 (4.26%) Server Engineer
13 15 (3.99%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (1.60%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.60%) Gherkin
2 6 (1.60%) LDAP
3 5 (1.33%) Web Services
3 5 (1.33%) YAML
4 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.24%) Driving Licence
2 25 (6.65%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.52%) Public Cloud
6 15 (3.99%) Private Cloud
7 12 (3.19%) Replication
8 8 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.60%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.33%) PMI
11 3 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.80%) CCTV
11 3 (0.80%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
11 3 (0.80%) PKI
11 3 (0.80%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (0.53%) Molecular Biology
12 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 114 (30.32%) Windows
2 82 (21.81%) Linux
3 52 (13.83%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.59%) Windows 10
5 13 (3.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.19%) Windows XP
7 9 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.86%) Android
8 7 (1.86%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.33%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (1.33%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.80%) CentOS
10 3 (0.80%) Rocky
11 2 (0.53%) OS/2
11 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (22.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 63 (16.76%) DevOps
4 59 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (14.10%) Presales
6 51 (13.56%) Project Management
7 42 (11.17%) Software Licensing
8 39 (10.37%) Computer Science
9 36 (9.57%) ITIL
10 31 (8.24%) Customer Service
10 31 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (7.98%) Mentoring
12 29 (7.71%) Agile
13 27 (7.18%) Storage Management
14 24 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (6.12%) Information Security
15 23 (6.12%) Service Delivery
16 22 (5.85%) Data Protection
16 22 (5.85%) Security Management
17 21 (5.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.71%) Python
2 19 (5.05%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.46%) SQL
4 5 (1.33%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.27%) Bash
5 1 (0.27%) Korn
5 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 111 (29.52%) Degree
2 48 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 46 (12.23%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (10.64%) SC Cleared
5 37 (9.84%) CCNA
6 35 (9.31%) CCNP
7 31 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (7.71%) AWS Certification
9 21 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (4.26%) DV Cleared
11 13 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.93%) Azure Certification
13 10 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.39%) CCIE
14 9 (2.39%) MCP
15 8 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
16 7 (1.86%) A+ Certification
16 7 (1.86%) CISSP
16 7 (1.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.93%) SLA
3 10 (2.66%) NIST
4 9 (2.39%) GDPR
5 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.06%) COBIT
7 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.80%) QA
8 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 61 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 40 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (8.78%) Docker
4 24 (6.38%) Hyper-V
5 21 (5.59%) Firmware
6 19 (5.05%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (2.93%) vSphere
8 4 (1.06%) KVM
8 4 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.53%) QEMU
10 2 (0.53%) Xen
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.51%) vCenter Server
3 26 (6.91%) Ansible
4 22 (5.85%) Terraform
5 17 (4.52%) Puppet
6 16 (4.26%) SCCM
7 15 (3.99%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (3.46%) WSUS
9 12 (3.19%) NetBackup
9 12 (3.19%) SCOM
10 10 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (2.66%) ZABBIX
11 9 (2.39%) Stealthwatch
12 6 (1.60%) VxRail
13 5 (1.33%) CASB
13 5 (1.33%) Prometheus
13 5 (1.33%) Suricata
14 3 (0.80%) Nagios
15 2 (0.53%) vRealize
16 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 98 (26.06%) Microsoft
2 76 (20.21%) VMware
3 60 (15.96%) Cisco
4 42 (11.17%) Adobe
4 42 (11.17%) Apple
5 40 (10.64%) Dell
6 38 (10.11%) HP
7 29 (7.71%) Palo Alto
8 27 (7.18%) Juniper
9 25 (6.65%) Veeam
10 19 (5.05%) Meraki
11 17 (4.52%) Fortinet
12 16 (4.26%) Aruba
12 16 (4.26%) EMC
12 16 (4.26%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (4.26%) Oracle
13 14 (3.72%) 3PAR
14 12 (3.19%) Red Hat
14 12 (3.19%) Symantec
15 11 (2.93%) Samsung