Data Centre Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Center
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 144 141 212
Rank change year-on-year -3 +71 -35
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 775 936 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.23% 2.43% 2.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.35% 6.25% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 513 685 839
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £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 £67,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,993 £102,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,850
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.95% +6.12%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,201 14,971 35,232
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.12% 38.93% 47.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,269 11,057 17,188
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,544 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,533 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Centre trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Centre.

Data Centre salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Centre over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Data Centre salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 59 (7.61%) Apache
2 50 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 25 (3.23%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.16%) WordPress
6 8 (1.03%) IIS
7 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.39%) SAS
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.26%) Confluence
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.39%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.13%) HiPortfolio
1 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 152 (19.61%) Azure
2 137 (17.68%) AWS
3 133 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 40 (5.16%) IaaS
6 39 (5.03%) Entra ID
7 34 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (3.10%) SaaS
9 20 (2.58%) PaaS
10 19 (2.45%) GCP
11 17 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (1.94%) CloudFront
13 14 (1.81%) Nutanix
14 11 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.42%) Power Platform
15 9 (1.16%) Serverless
16 8 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 210 (27.10%) Firewall
2 158 (20.39%) WAN
3 142 (18.32%) VPN
4 117 (15.10%) LAN
5 89 (11.48%) DNS
6 81 (10.45%) SD-WAN
7 74 (9.55%) IPsec
8 73 (9.42%) Internet
9 69 (8.90%) DHCP
10 63 (8.13%) SNMP
11 61 (7.87%) Network Security
12 53 (6.84%) Wireless
13 52 (6.71%) SAN
13 52 (6.71%) TCP/IP
14 51 (6.58%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (5.42%) MPLS
16 40 (5.16%) VLAN
17 35 (4.52%) Unified Communications
18 33 (4.26%) BGP
19 31 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
2 54 (6.97%) MongoDB
3 22 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.81%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.03%) Power BI
8 6 (0.77%) Big Data
9 5 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.65%) DB2
9 5 (0.65%) Redis
10 3 (0.39%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.39%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.26%) Flink
11 2 (0.26%) Presto
11 2 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (1.55%) Git
2 10 (1.29%) JIRA
3 8 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.77%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.77%) JBehave
4 6 (0.77%) Selenium
4 6 (0.77%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.77%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.13%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 212 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 136 (17.55%) Finance
3 39 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (4.00%) Legal
5 30 (3.87%) Banking
5 30 (3.87%) Retail
6 25 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.10%) Law
8 17 (2.19%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.90%) Advertising
12 7 (0.90%) Automotive
12 7 (0.90%) Marketing
13 6 (0.77%) Publishing
14 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.52%) Games
14 4 (0.52%) German Language
14 4 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 121 (15.61%) Senior
2 111 (14.32%) Consultant
3 110 (14.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 104 (13.42%) Architect
5 68 (8.77%) Network Engineer
6 54 (6.97%) NetApp Consultant
7 49 (6.32%) Senior Architect
8 47 (6.06%) Lead
9 42 (5.42%) Cisco Architect
9 42 (5.42%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 37 (4.77%) Security Architect
11 34 (4.39%) Administrator
12 32 (4.13%) Project Manager
13 30 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.61%) Technical Consultant
15 27 (3.48%) Cisco Security Architect
15 27 (3.48%) Infrastructure Manager
15 27 (3.48%) Senior Security Architect
16 25 (3.23%) IT Administrator
16 25 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (6.97%) YAML
3 8 (1.03%) HTML
3 8 (1.03%) Kafka
3 8 (1.03%) LDAP
3 8 (1.03%) Middleware
4 6 (0.77%) Gherkin
4 6 (0.77%) Web Services
5 5 (0.65%) .NET
5 5 (0.65%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.65%) XMPP
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (0.26%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.26%) JSON
7 2 (0.26%) REST
7 2 (0.26%) RESTful
7 2 (0.26%) XML
7 2 (0.26%) XSD
7 2 (0.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.55%) Public Cloud
2 62 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 61 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (4.39%) Private Cloud
5 26 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.06%) Replication
7 13 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.29%) IBM Mainframe
8 10 (1.29%) IoT
8 10 (1.29%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.29%) PKI
9 8 (1.03%) Blog
10 7 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.77%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.77%) EFT
11 6 (0.77%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.65%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 257 (33.16%) Windows
2 177 (22.84%) Linux
3 84 (10.84%) Windows Server
4 54 (6.97%) Data ONTAP
5 35 (4.52%) Windows 10
6 31 (4.00%) Unix
7 11 (1.42%) Android
7 11 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (1.42%) zOS
8 10 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.03%) AIX
10 8 (1.03%) Solaris
11 2 (0.26%) CentOS
12 1 (0.13%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (21.81%) Presales
2 168 (21.68%) Cybersecurity
3 153 (19.74%) Project Management
4 148 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (17.68%) ITIL
6 132 (17.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 124 (16.00%) Software Licensing
8 106 (13.68%) DevOps
9 103 (13.29%) Mentoring
10 83 (10.71%) Agile
11 79 (10.19%) Infrastructure Management
12 75 (9.68%) Migration
13 73 (9.42%) Storage Management
14 66 (8.52%) Information Security
15 62 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
15 62 (8.00%) Roadmaps
16 61 (7.87%) Disaster Recovery
16 61 (7.87%) Release Management
17 60 (7.74%) Time Management
18 55 (7.10%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 114 (14.71%) Python
2 56 (7.23%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.97%) SQL
4 18 (2.32%) Java
5 14 (1.81%) C#
6 9 (1.16%) Bash
7 7 (0.90%) Go
8 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.39%) PHP
9 3 (0.39%) Swift
9 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.26%) Korn
10 2 (0.26%) XPath
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 223 (28.77%) Degree
2 100 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
3 81 (10.45%) CCNP
4 73 (9.42%) Security Cleared
5 69 (8.90%) CCNA
6 49 (6.32%) SC Cleared
7 48 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (5.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (3.87%) AWS Certification
10 26 (3.35%) MCP
11 19 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (2.06%) APMP
12 16 (2.06%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.94%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.55%) CCIE
15 11 (1.42%) CISSP
15 11 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.19%) GDPR
3 15 (1.94%) SLA
4 14 (1.81%) QA
5 10 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.03%) NIST
7 7 (0.90%) PMO
8 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.52%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (21.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 158 (20.39%) Active Directory
3 94 (12.13%) Docker
4 57 (7.35%) Hyper-V
5 28 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
5 28 (3.61%) vSphere
6 23 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (2.32%) Firmware
8 14 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.52%) XenApp
10 4 (0.52%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.26%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) Postfix
12 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (15.74%) Kubernetes
2 114 (14.71%) Ansible
3 62 (8.00%) vCenter Server
4 59 (7.61%) Prometheus
5 34 (4.39%) WSUS
6 27 (3.48%) Stealthwatch
7 25 (3.23%) Terraform
8 18 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (2.32%) SCCM
9 17 (2.19%) Puppet
10 15 (1.94%) CASB
11 13 (1.68%) FortiGate
12 12 (1.55%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.90%) Grafana
13 7 (0.90%) Nagios
13 7 (0.90%) SCOM
14 5 (0.65%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
17 2 (0.26%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 284 (36.65%) Microsoft
2 216 (27.87%) VMware
3 182 (23.48%) Cisco
4 124 (16.00%) Adobe
4 124 (16.00%) Apple
5 90 (11.61%) Palo Alto
6 83 (10.71%) NetApp
7 66 (8.52%) Red Hat
8 64 (8.26%) Meraki
9 54 (6.97%) Citrix
9 54 (6.97%) SolidFire
10 50 (6.45%) Dell
10 50 (6.45%) HP
11 35 (4.52%) Veeam
12 32 (4.13%) Samsung
13 31 (4.00%) Juniper
14 30 (3.87%) IBM
15 27 (3.48%) Fortinet
16 23 (2.97%) F5
17 22 (2.84%) Dynatrace