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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 66 214
Rank change year-on-year -89 +148 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,900 4,823 3,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.93% 4.65% 1.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.43% 10.88% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 1,460 1,940
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,000 £33,590
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £44,609
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,985 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% +1.97% -

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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £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 £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -94 1,573 £54,000 -6.09% 524
UK excluding London -112 1,299 £50,000 -1.93% 322
Work from Home +21 756 £54,500 -12.80% 180
London +4 447 £65,000 -7.14% 224
South East -77 339 £51,000 -2.58% 113
North of England -107 303 £42,500 -10.53% 63
Midlands -71 235 £50,000 -9.09% 37
North West -85 181 £44,274 -14.03% 32
South West -114 139 £55,000 -24.14% 48
West Midlands -86 122 £54,000 -1.82% 21
East Midlands -49 111 £42,500 -22.73% 16
East of England -104 103 £50,000 -9.09% 39
Yorkshire -81 94 £42,500 -5.56% 18
Wales -8 83 £36,476 -47.89% 12
Scotland -146 80 £55,000 +29.41% 28
North East -76 28 £44,274 +4.17% 13
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -19 7 £46,750 -6.50% 2
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 88 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.32%) Apache
4 29 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 28 (1.47%) Skype for Business
6 14 (0.74%) Confluence
7 13 (0.68%) IIS
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 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.053%) JOnAS
14 1 (0.053%) Site Server
14 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 71 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.16%) SPSS
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Primavera
2 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.11%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.053%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.053%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.053%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 432 (22.74%) Azure
2 348 (18.32%) Microsoft 365
3 302 (15.89%) AWS
4 90 (4.74%) Amazon S3
5 85 (4.47%) Entra ID
6 80 (4.21%) IaaS
7 63 (3.32%) SaaS
8 52 (2.74%) GCP
9 50 (2.63%) PaaS
10 45 (2.37%) OCI
11 42 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
13 37 (1.95%) Power Platform
14 23 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (1.16%) Nutanix
16 19 (1.00%) CloudFront
16 19 (1.00%) OneDrive
17 18 (0.95%) Mimecast
18 15 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (0.74%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 484 (25.47%) Firewall
2 318 (16.74%) WAN
3 287 (15.11%) LAN
4 258 (13.58%) VPN
5 206 (10.84%) DNS
6 143 (7.53%) Network Security
7 138 (7.26%) DHCP
8 137 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
9 134 (7.05%) SD-WAN
9 134 (7.05%) Wireless
10 130 (6.84%) Internet
11 127 (6.68%) SAN
12 103 (5.42%) TCP/IP
13 101 (5.32%) MPLS
14 97 (5.11%) IPsec
15 93 (4.89%) BGP
16 83 (4.37%) OSPF
17 82 (4.32%) SNMP
18 80 (4.21%) VLAN
19 64 (3.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (3.68%) MongoDB
2 60 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
3 55 (2.89%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.53%) Power BI
5 28 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (1.21%) MySQL
7 20 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 13 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.53%) Big Data
13 9 (0.47%) GIS
14 8 (0.42%) Tableau
15 7 (0.37%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.32%) DB2
16 6 (0.32%) Redis
17 3 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
17 3 (0.16%) EDRMS
17 3 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 34 (1.79%) JIRA
2 17 (0.89%) Git
3 12 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.32%) JBehave
4 6 (0.32%) RStudio
4 6 (0.32%) Selenium
4 6 (0.32%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.32%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.16%) Subversion
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.053%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.053%) ScriptRunner
General
1 479 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 270 (14.21%) Finance
3 148 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (3.68%) Telecoms
6 66 (3.47%) Banking
7 65 (3.42%) Retail
8 54 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 53 (2.79%) Legal
9 53 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 48 (2.53%) Law
11 42 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.21%) Billing
14 22 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.11%) Marketing
16 16 (0.84%) Local Government
17 15 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 318 (16.74%) Senior
2 282 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 219 (11.53%) Architect
4 193 (10.16%) Network Engineer
5 166 (8.74%) Consultant
6 138 (7.26%) Data Centre Engineer
7 106 (5.58%) Lead
8 71 (3.74%) Senior Architect
9 69 (3.63%) Analyst
10 68 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 67 (3.53%) Administrator
12 65 (3.42%) IT Manager
13 63 (3.32%) Infrastructure Manager
13 63 (3.32%) IT Engineer
14 58 (3.05%) Data Centre Manager
14 58 (3.05%) Infrastructure Architect
14 58 (3.05%) Senior Network Engineer
15 57 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
16 54 (2.84%) Security Architect
16 54 (2.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
2 55 (2.89%) YAML
3 38 (2.00%) 802.1X
4 19 (1.00%) HTML
5 15 (0.79%) LDAP
6 12 (0.63%) .NET
7 11 (0.58%) SAML
8 10 (0.53%) Web Services
9 9 (0.47%) Middleware
9 9 (0.47%) XML
10 8 (0.42%) Kafka
11 7 (0.37%) ARM Templates
11 7 (0.37%) JSON
12 6 (0.32%) Gherkin
13 5 (0.26%) WebSphere MQ
13 5 (0.26%) XMPP
14 4 (0.21%) LAMP
15 3 (0.16%) React
15 3 (0.16%) REST
16 2 (0.11%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 142 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 123 (6.47%) Public Cloud
3 95 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (3.89%) Replication
5 73 (3.84%) Driving Licence
6 55 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 46 (2.42%) Private Cloud
8 38 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 32 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 30 (1.58%) PKI
11 27 (1.42%) Mainframe
12 26 (1.37%) CCTV
13 20 (1.05%) Cyberattack
13 20 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
14 16 (0.84%) Clustering
15 14 (0.74%) IoT
16 13 (0.68%) Client/Server
16 13 (0.68%) iPhone
16 13 (0.68%) SCADA
17 12 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 583 (30.68%) Windows
2 375 (19.74%) Linux
3 253 (13.32%) Windows Server
4 67 (3.53%) Windows 10
5 56 (2.95%) Unix
6 55 (2.89%) Data ONTAP
7 43 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 33 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 26 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (1.26%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.79%) Android
12 15 (0.79%) CentOS
13 14 (0.74%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.68%) SUSE
15 12 (0.63%) Windows XP
15 12 (0.63%) zOS
16 10 (0.53%) Solaris
16 10 (0.53%) VMS
17 9 (0.47%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (18.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 335 (17.63%) Cybersecurity
3 327 (17.21%) ITIL
4 280 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
5 244 (12.84%) Project Management
6 218 (11.47%) Mentoring
6 218 (11.47%) Presales
7 166 (8.74%) DevOps
8 164 (8.63%) Roadmaps
9 152 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 146 (7.68%) Project Delivery
11 145 (7.63%) Customer Service
12 143 (7.53%) Migration
13 134 (7.05%) Agile
14 117 (6.16%) Information Security
15 115 (6.05%) Software Licensing
16 113 (5.95%) Infrastructure Management
17 105 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 101 (5.32%) Storage Management
19 99 (5.21%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 172 (9.05%) Python
2 153 (8.05%) PowerShell
3 116 (6.11%) SQL
4 33 (1.74%) Bash
5 32 (1.68%) C#
6 24 (1.26%) Java
7 11 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.53%) RPG
9 9 (0.47%) Go
9 9 (0.47%) PHP
10 7 (0.37%) C
11 6 (0.32%) R
12 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.26%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.21%) Ruby
14 3 (0.16%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.16%) Swift
15 2 (0.11%) Korn
15 2 (0.11%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 356 (18.74%) Degree
2 227 (11.95%) Cisco Certification
3 212 (11.16%) Security Cleared
4 158 (8.32%) CCNA
5 152 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 147 (7.74%) CCNP
7 95 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 68 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (3.42%) AWS Certification
10 52 (2.74%) CISSP
11 50 (2.63%) Azure Certification
12 48 (2.53%) DV Cleared
13 44 (2.32%) MCSE
14 41 (2.16%) MCP
15 38 (2.00%) MCSA
16 32 (1.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 31 (1.63%) CCIE
18 28 (1.47%) CISM
19 26 (1.37%) DBS Check
20 21 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (3.37%) SLA
3 44 (2.32%) GDPR
4 26 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.21%) QA
6 22 (1.16%) NIST
7 15 (0.79%) ISO 9001
8 12 (0.63%) PMO
9 10 (0.53%) NCSC
10 7 (0.37%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.32%) COBIT
11 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.26%) IASME
12 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.16%) ISO 14000
14 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 361 (19.00%) Active Directory
2 354 (18.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (6.42%) Hyper-V
4 116 (6.11%) Docker
5 90 (4.74%) VMware ESXi
6 82 (4.32%) vSphere
7 56 (2.95%) Firmware
8 39 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (1.42%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
12 13 (0.68%) vCloud
13 10 (0.53%) KVM
14 5 (0.26%) DFS Replication
15 4 (0.21%) pfSense
16 3 (0.16%) Xen
17 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
17 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.11%) NFS
17 2 (0.11%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 147 (7.74%) Ansible
2 142 (7.47%) Kubernetes
3 97 (5.11%) vCenter Server
4 77 (4.05%) Terraform
5 59 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 57 (3.00%) SCCM
7 51 (2.68%) WSUS
8 42 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 37 (1.95%) SCOM
10 36 (1.89%) FortiGate
11 22 (1.16%) Puppet
12 18 (0.95%) Stealthwatch
13 16 (0.84%) CASB
14 15 (0.79%) Nagios
14 15 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
15 14 (0.74%) Grafana
15 14 (0.74%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.68%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 566 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 499 (26.26%) VMware
3 401 (21.11%) Cisco
4 154 (8.11%) Palo Alto
5 140 (7.37%) NetApp
6 128 (6.74%) Dell
7 123 (6.47%) Oracle
8 119 (6.26%) Apple
8 119 (6.26%) HP
9 115 (6.05%) Adobe
10 110 (5.79%) Veeam
11 104 (5.47%) Juniper
12 96 (5.05%) Red Hat
13 90 (4.74%) Citrix
14 75 (3.95%) Meraki
15 72 (3.79%) Fortinet
16 61 (3.21%) CheckPoint
17 54 (2.84%) SolidFire
18 52 (2.74%) IBM
19 51 (2.68%) ServiceNow