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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 43 176
Rank change year-on-year -111 +133 -14
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,317 3,808 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.84% 6.44% 2.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.47% 15.77% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 965 770 995
10th Percentile £30,850 £32,000 £31,550
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,505 £75,000
UK median annual salary £54,556 £60,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year -9.07% +0.87% +3.45%

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 24,059 24,154 31,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.58% 40.84% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15,202 11,126 15,910
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,275 £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 £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -71 349 £53,500 +1.90% 125
North of England -101 309 £42,500 -16.64% 65
Midlands -86 235 £50,000 -9.09% 53
North West -88 183 £41,504 -20.94% 36
South West -117 143 £55,000 -15.38% 30
West Midlands -86 121 £54,000 +2.86% 29
East Midlands -55 112 £42,500 -22.73% 24
East of England -106 102 £50,000 -9.09% 52
Yorkshire -78 94 £42,500 -16.64% 21
Scotland -144 81 £55,000 +10.00% 22
Wales -9 80 £36,476 -47.89% 11
North East -66 32 £44,274 +18.06% 8
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -23 7 £46,750 -6.50% 2
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 61 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.10%) Apache
4 24 (1.82%) OpenStack
5 20 (1.52%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.68%) WordPress
7 8 (0.61%) Confluence
7 8 (0.61%) IIS
8 4 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.30%) nginx
9 1 (0.076%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 50 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.076%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 254 (19.29%) Azure
2 253 (19.21%) Microsoft 365
3 179 (13.59%) AWS
4 76 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 67 (5.09%) Entra ID
6 50 (3.80%) IaaS
7 39 (2.96%) GCP
8 34 (2.58%) SaaS
9 32 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (2.28%) Power Platform
11 29 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (1.90%) PaaS
13 24 (1.82%) OCI
14 20 (1.52%) OneDrive
15 19 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (1.44%) Nutanix
16 17 (1.29%) Mimecast
17 15 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (1.14%) CloudFront
18 12 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 336 (25.51%) Firewall
2 195 (14.81%) WAN
3 161 (12.22%) VPN
4 151 (11.47%) LAN
5 123 (9.34%) DNS
6 94 (7.14%) SD-WAN
7 89 (6.76%) Internet
8 85 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
9 82 (6.23%) DHCP
10 80 (6.07%) Wireless
11 78 (5.92%) SAN
12 75 (5.69%) IPsec
13 74 (5.62%) Network Security
14 63 (4.78%) TCP/IP
15 61 (4.63%) SNMP
16 43 (3.26%) Unified Communications
17 37 (2.81%) OSPF
18 36 (2.73%) BGP
19 32 (2.43%) VLAN
20 29 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.63%) MongoDB
2 54 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.67%) Power BI
5 20 (1.52%) MySQL
6 19 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.46%) GIS
11 5 (0.38%) Redis
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.15%) Big Data
13 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.076%) DB2
14 1 (0.076%) Oracle Database 11g
14 1 (0.076%) Oracle Database 12c
14 1 (0.076%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 17 (1.29%) JIRA
2 13 (0.99%) Git
3 9 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.46%) JBehave
4 6 (0.46%) RStudio
4 6 (0.46%) Selenium
4 6 (0.46%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.076%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.076%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 315 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 154 (11.69%) Finance
3 93 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (3.80%) Manufacturing
5 49 (3.72%) Retail
6 44 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (3.04%) Telecoms
8 34 (2.58%) Legal
9 32 (2.43%) Banking
10 24 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 21 (1.59%) Public Sector
12 20 (1.52%) Law
12 20 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.21%) Local Government
15 13 (0.99%) Marketing
16 12 (0.91%) Automotive
17 11 (0.84%) Police
18 9 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (17.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 218 (16.55%) Senior
3 135 (10.25%) Consultant
4 130 (9.87%) Architect
5 107 (8.12%) Network Engineer
6 80 (6.07%) Data Centre Engineer
7 75 (5.69%) Lead
8 62 (4.71%) Administrator
9 54 (4.10%) Senior Architect
10 50 (3.80%) IT Engineer
11 49 (3.72%) NetApp Consultant
12 47 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (3.49%) Team Leader
14 45 (3.42%) Support Engineer
15 44 (3.34%) IT Support
16 43 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
17 42 (3.19%) Security Architect
18 41 (3.11%) Analyst
19 39 (2.96%) Cisco Architect
19 39 (2.96%) Senior Cisco Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (3.80%) YAML
3 10 (0.76%) 802.1X
4 9 (0.68%) LDAP
4 9 (0.68%) Web Services
5 7 (0.53%) .NET
5 7 (0.53%) Middleware
6 6 (0.46%) Gherkin
7 5 (0.38%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.30%) HTML
8 4 (0.30%) LAMP
9 3 (0.23%) JSON
9 3 (0.23%) REST
9 3 (0.23%) SAML
10 2 (0.15%) CSS
10 2 (0.15%) Laravel
10 2 (0.15%) React
10 2 (0.15%) Sass
10 2 (0.15%) ServiceStack
10 2 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (6.99%) Management Information System
2 86 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 85 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 63 (4.78%) Driving Licence
5 36 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (2.73%) Private Cloud
5 36 (2.73%) Replication
6 29 (2.20%) PKI
7 26 (1.97%) Mainframe
8 25 (1.90%) CCTV
9 18 (1.37%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.29%) Onboarding
11 13 (0.99%) SCADA
12 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
12 12 (0.91%) PMI
13 11 (0.84%) CMDB
13 11 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
15 8 (0.61%) Clustering
16 7 (0.53%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 462 (35.08%) Windows
2 287 (21.79%) Linux
3 207 (15.72%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.80%) Data ONTAP
4 50 (3.80%) Windows 10
5 39 (2.96%) Unix
6 28 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (1.21%) Android
11 15 (1.14%) CentOS
12 14 (1.06%) Apple iOS
13 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
14 11 (0.84%) zOS
15 10 (0.76%) Solaris
15 10 (0.76%) Ubuntu
16 9 (0.68%) VMS
17 8 (0.61%) AIX
18 5 (0.38%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 262 (19.89%) Cybersecurity
3 247 (18.75%) ITIL
4 229 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 190 (14.43%) Project Management
6 173 (13.14%) Presales
7 148 (11.24%) Mentoring
8 126 (9.57%) DevOps
9 123 (9.34%) Customer Service
10 111 (8.43%) Software Licensing
11 106 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 102 (7.74%) Project Delivery
13 90 (6.83%) Actionable Insight
14 88 (6.68%) Agile
15 83 (6.30%) Roadmaps
16 81 (6.15%) Migration
16 81 (6.15%) Service Delivery
16 81 (6.15%) Storage Management
17 80 (6.07%) Change Management
18 79 (6.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (8.12%) Python
2 88 (6.68%) PowerShell
3 77 (5.85%) SQL
4 23 (1.75%) C#
5 15 (1.14%) Bash
6 14 (1.06%) Java
7 6 (0.46%) R
8 5 (0.38%) C
9 4 (0.30%) PHP
10 3 (0.23%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.23%) Swift
11 2 (0.15%) Ruby
11 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.076%) Bicep
12 1 (0.076%) C++
12 1 (0.076%) Korn
12 1 (0.076%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 276 (20.96%) Degree
2 162 (12.30%) Cisco Certification
3 160 (12.15%) Security Cleared
4 132 (10.02%) CCNA
5 119 (9.04%) SC Cleared
6 99 (7.52%) CCNP
7 72 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (3.11%) AWS Certification
9 41 (3.11%) MCP
10 32 (2.43%) DV Cleared
11 31 (2.35%) CISSP
12 27 (2.05%) MCSE
13 26 (1.97%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 20 (1.52%) DBS Check
16 17 (1.29%) CCIE
17 16 (1.21%) MCSA
18 14 (1.06%) PMI Certification
19 13 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (3.57%) SLA
3 35 (2.66%) GDPR
4 21 (1.59%) NIST
5 16 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.14%) QA
7 13 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (0.91%) PMO
9 6 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.38%) COBIT
10 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.38%) NCSC
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 14000
11 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 254 (19.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 244 (18.53%) Active Directory
3 100 (7.59%) Docker
4 97 (7.37%) Hyper-V
5 55 (4.18%) vSphere
6 52 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
7 47 (3.57%) Firmware
8 34 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
9 25 (1.90%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.61%) KVM
11 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.30%) pfSense
14 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.15%) QEMU
14 2 (0.15%) Xen
14 2 (0.15%) XenApp
14 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.076%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.076%) NFS
Systems Management
1 120 (9.11%) Kubernetes
2 116 (8.81%) Ansible
3 89 (6.76%) vCenter Server
4 56 (4.25%) Terraform
5 54 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 53 (4.02%) SCCM
7 40 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.51%) WSUS
9 28 (2.13%) FortiGate
10 25 (1.90%) SCOM
11 24 (1.82%) Stealthwatch
12 15 (1.14%) CASB
12 15 (1.14%) Nagios
12 15 (1.14%) Puppet
13 14 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
14 13 (0.99%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.91%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.61%) Grafana
17 7 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 6 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 419 (31.81%) Microsoft
2 362 (27.49%) VMware
3 295 (22.40%) Cisco
4 115 (8.73%) Apple
5 112 (8.50%) NetApp
6 111 (8.43%) Adobe
7 109 (8.28%) Palo Alto
8 92 (6.99%) Dell
9 87 (6.61%) HP
10 74 (5.62%) Red Hat
11 72 (5.47%) Meraki
12 69 (5.24%) Veeam
13 57 (4.33%) Citrix
14 53 (4.02%) Juniper
15 52 (3.95%) Oracle
16 49 (3.72%) SolidFire
17 45 (3.42%) ServiceNow
18 44 (3.34%) Fortinet
19 32 (2.43%) CheckPoint
20 23 (1.75%) Dynatrace