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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 63 217
Rank change year-on-year -89 +154 -33
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,916 4,792 3,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 4.86% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.44% 11.39% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,409 1,414 1,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,580 £34,000
25th Percentile £39,720 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,556 £60,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% +0.87% +3.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £91,250
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 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £46,350 £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 £86,250 £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 23 May 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 23 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
England -95 1,595 £52,500 -12.50% 506
UK excluding London -111 1,329 £50,000 -4.76% 299
Work from Home +18 759 £54,556 -16.07% 169
London -14 439 £65,000 -13.33% 221
South East -70 359 £55,000 +1.85% 108
North of England -102 309 £42,500 -16.64% 61
Midlands -90 234 £50,000 -9.09% 53
North West -85 185 £41,235 -21.46% 35
South West -107 146 £55,000 -15.38% 24
West Midlands -83 120 £54,000 +2.86% 34
East Midlands -47 112 £42,500 -22.73% 19
East of England -101 103 £50,000 -9.09% 45
Yorkshire -81 93 £42,500 -16.64% 19
Wales -7 81 £36,476 -47.89% 11
Scotland -146 79 £55,000 +7.87% 23
North East -73 31 £44,274 +10.69% 8
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -26 6 £51,000 +2.00% 1
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 85 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.29%) Apache
4 28 (1.46%) Skype for Business
5 26 (1.36%) OpenStack
6 15 (0.78%) IIS
7 12 (0.63%) Confluence
8 9 (0.47%) WordPress
9 7 (0.37%) nginx
10 5 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.21%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.16%) SAS
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.052%) JOnAS
14 1 (0.052%) Site Server
14 1 (0.052%) WebLogic
Applications
1 72 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Primavera
2 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.052%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.052%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.052%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.052%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 425 (22.18%) Azure
2 338 (17.64%) Microsoft 365
3 303 (15.81%) AWS
4 88 (4.59%) Amazon S3
5 80 (4.18%) IaaS
6 79 (4.12%) Entra ID
7 70 (3.65%) SaaS
8 53 (2.77%) GCP
9 52 (2.71%) PaaS
10 45 (2.35%) OCI
11 44 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
12 42 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (2.04%) Power Platform
14 22 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.15%) Nutanix
15 20 (1.04%) OneDrive
16 18 (0.94%) Mimecast
17 17 (0.89%) CloudFront
18 15 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (0.78%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 477 (24.90%) Firewall
2 319 (16.65%) WAN
3 281 (14.67%) LAN
4 250 (13.05%) VPN
5 203 (10.59%) DNS
6 143 (7.46%) SD-WAN
7 141 (7.36%) Network Security
8 137 (7.15%) DHCP
9 135 (7.05%) Wireless
10 132 (6.89%) Wi-Fi
11 131 (6.84%) Internet
12 118 (6.16%) SAN
13 104 (5.43%) TCP/IP
14 101 (5.27%) MPLS
15 96 (5.01%) IPsec
16 89 (4.65%) BGP
17 84 (4.38%) OSPF
18 79 (4.12%) VLAN
19 78 (4.07%) SNMP
20 66 (3.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.60%) MongoDB
2 59 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
3 54 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 30 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (1.57%) Power BI
5 22 (1.15%) MySQL
6 20 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (0.84%) NoSQL
9 14 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.52%) Big Data
12 9 (0.47%) GIS
13 8 (0.42%) Tableau
14 7 (0.37%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.31%) DB2
16 5 (0.26%) Redis
17 3 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
17 3 (0.16%) EDRMS
17 3 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (1.88%) JIRA
2 18 (0.94%) Git
3 12 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.31%) JBehave
4 6 (0.31%) RStudio
4 6 (0.31%) Selenium
4 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.31%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.16%) Subversion
7 2 (0.10%) GitLab
7 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.052%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.052%) ScriptRunner
General
1 468 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 270 (14.09%) Finance
3 146 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (3.65%) Banking
6 69 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 67 (3.50%) Retail
8 58 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 57 (2.97%) Legal
10 50 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 47 (2.45%) Law
12 43 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.25%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.10%) Billing
15 21 (1.10%) Marketing
16 16 (0.84%) Local Government
17 14 (0.73%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.68%) Automotive
18 13 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 324 (16.91%) Senior
2 279 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 218 (11.38%) Architect
4 190 (9.92%) Network Engineer
5 168 (8.77%) Consultant
6 151 (7.88%) Data Centre Engineer
7 107 (5.58%) Lead
8 77 (4.02%) Senior Architect
9 70 (3.65%) Analyst
10 69 (3.60%) Administrator
10 69 (3.60%) Project Manager
11 65 (3.39%) Data Centre Manager
12 62 (3.24%) IT Engineer
13 58 (3.03%) IT Manager
13 58 (3.03%) Security Architect
13 58 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
14 57 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (2.92%) Support Engineer
16 55 (2.87%) Systems Engineer
17 54 (2.82%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
2 55 (2.87%) YAML
3 38 (1.98%) 802.1X
4 19 (0.99%) HTML
5 11 (0.57%) .NET
5 11 (0.57%) LDAP
5 11 (0.57%) SAML
5 11 (0.57%) Web Services
6 10 (0.52%) Middleware
7 9 (0.47%) XML
8 8 (0.42%) Kafka
9 6 (0.31%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.31%) Gherkin
9 6 (0.31%) JSON
10 5 (0.26%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (0.26%) XMPP
11 4 (0.21%) LAMP
12 3 (0.16%) React
12 3 (0.16%) REST
13 2 (0.10%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.25%) Management Information System
2 117 (6.11%) Public Cloud
3 94 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 70 (3.65%) Driving Licence
4 70 (3.65%) Replication
5 56 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 44 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 33 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 29 (1.51%) PKI
8 29 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 28 (1.46%) Mainframe
10 26 (1.36%) CCTV
11 20 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
12 18 (0.94%) Cyberattack
13 15 (0.78%) IoT
14 14 (0.73%) Client/Server
14 14 (0.73%) Clustering
15 13 (0.68%) SCADA
16 12 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
16 12 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 571 (29.80%) Windows
2 371 (19.36%) Linux
3 242 (12.63%) Windows Server
4 65 (3.39%) Windows 10
5 54 (2.82%) Data ONTAP
6 51 (2.66%) Unix
7 42 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 35 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (1.15%) Ubuntu
12 16 (0.84%) Android
12 16 (0.84%) CentOS
13 14 (0.73%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.63%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.63%) zOS
15 11 (0.57%) SUSE
16 10 (0.52%) Solaris
17 9 (0.47%) VMS
18 8 (0.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 341 (17.80%) Cybersecurity
3 313 (16.34%) ITIL
4 277 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
5 246 (12.84%) Project Management
6 224 (11.69%) Presales
7 213 (11.12%) Mentoring
8 168 (8.77%) DevOps
9 163 (8.51%) Roadmaps
10 152 (7.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 144 (7.52%) Migration
12 141 (7.36%) Customer Service
12 141 (7.36%) Project Delivery
13 134 (6.99%) Agile
14 121 (6.32%) Software Licensing
15 115 (6.00%) Information Security
16 114 (5.95%) Infrastructure Management
17 105 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (5.06%) Actionable Insight
19 95 (4.96%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 170 (8.87%) Python
2 144 (7.52%) PowerShell
3 108 (5.64%) SQL
4 30 (1.57%) C#
5 26 (1.36%) Bash
6 24 (1.25%) Java
7 10 (0.52%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.52%) RPG
8 9 (0.47%) Go
8 9 (0.47%) PHP
9 6 (0.31%) R
10 5 (0.26%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.21%) C
11 4 (0.21%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.21%) Ruby
12 3 (0.16%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.16%) Swift
13 2 (0.10%) Scala
13 2 (0.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 365 (19.05%) Degree
2 231 (12.06%) Cisco Certification
3 203 (10.59%) Security Cleared
4 165 (8.61%) CCNA
5 149 (7.78%) CCNP
6 146 (7.62%) SC Cleared
7 94 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 69 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (3.34%) AWS Certification
10 51 (2.66%) CISSP
11 50 (2.61%) Azure Certification
12 44 (2.30%) DV Cleared
13 40 (2.09%) MCP
14 39 (2.04%) MCSE
15 35 (1.83%) MCSA
16 29 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 26 (1.36%) CCIE
17 26 (1.36%) CISM
17 26 (1.36%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (3.39%) SLA
3 45 (2.35%) GDPR
4 25 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (1.25%) QA
6 23 (1.20%) NIST
6 23 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.68%) ISO 9001
9 12 (0.63%) PMO
10 11 (0.57%) NCSC
11 7 (0.37%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.31%) COBIT
12 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.26%) IASME
13 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.16%) ISO 14000
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.10%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 345 (18.01%) Active Directory
2 344 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (6.37%) Hyper-V
4 115 (6.00%) Docker
5 91 (4.75%) VMware ESXi
6 84 (4.38%) vSphere
7 58 (3.03%) Firmware
8 39 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (1.41%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
12 13 (0.68%) KVM
13 10 (0.52%) vCloud
14 4 (0.21%) pfSense
14 4 (0.21%) Xen
15 3 (0.16%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.16%) QEMU
15 3 (0.16%) XenApp
16 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 145 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 139 (7.25%) Ansible
3 98 (5.11%) vCenter Server
4 77 (4.02%) Terraform
5 59 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 54 (2.82%) SCCM
7 50 (2.61%) WSUS
8 43 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.88%) SCOM
10 31 (1.62%) FortiGate
11 24 (1.25%) Puppet
11 24 (1.25%) Stealthwatch
12 16 (0.84%) CASB
12 16 (0.84%) Nagios
13 15 (0.78%) ZABBIX
14 14 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
15 13 (0.68%) NetBackup
16 12 (0.63%) Grafana
17 11 (0.57%) Progress Chef
18 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 563 (29.38%) Microsoft
2 484 (25.26%) VMware
3 408 (21.29%) Cisco
4 154 (8.04%) Palo Alto
5 136 (7.10%) NetApp
6 127 (6.63%) Dell
7 125 (6.52%) Apple
8 121 (6.32%) Adobe
9 118 (6.16%) Oracle
10 117 (6.11%) HP
11 106 (5.53%) Veeam
12 101 (5.27%) Juniper
13 92 (4.80%) Red Hat
14 91 (4.75%) Citrix
15 82 (4.28%) Meraki
16 74 (3.86%) Fortinet
17 60 (3.13%) CheckPoint
18 54 (2.82%) IBM
18 54 (2.82%) SolidFire
19 52 (2.71%) ServiceNow