Data Centre Engineer Jobs in England

Data Centre Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Centre Engineer salary in England is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 849 1149
Rank change year-on-year +119 +300 -275
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Engineer 133 45 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.055% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.060% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 123 40 33
10th Percentile £23,200 £26,250 £25,800
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,938 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £52,950 £67,550 £82,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +25.00% -25.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Centre Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Centre Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre Engineer in England

Data Centre Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +14 46 £35,000 -41.67% 8
North of England +44 37 £35,000 +27.27%
North West - 35 £35,000 -
London +105 33 £47,500 +25.00% 10
East of England -6 12 £50,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands -37 5 £23,000 -16.36% 3
West Midlands -7 4 £18,000 -68.70% 1
North East - 2 £23,000 -
East Midlands -32 1 £28,000 +1.82% 2
Data Centre Engineer
UK

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Data Centre Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Data Centre Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 26 (19.55%) Structured Cabling
3 22 (16.54%) Linux
4 21 (15.79%) Windows
5 20 (15.04%) Social Skills
6 16 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (9.77%) Legal
8 12 (9.02%) Cisco
8 12 (9.02%) Presales
8 12 (9.02%) Break/Fix
8 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared
8 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
9 10 (7.52%) Degree
9 10 (7.52%) DataOps
10 9 (6.77%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
11 8 (6.02%) Microsoft
11 8 (6.02%) VMware
11 8 (6.02%) Banking
11 8 (6.02%) Retail
11 8 (6.02%) GDPR
12 7 (5.26%) Incident Management
12 7 (5.26%) NAS
12 7 (5.26%) Process Improvement
12 7 (5.26%) Firewall
12 7 (5.26%) SAN
12 7 (5.26%) Budget Management
13 6 (4.51%) Wireless
13 6 (4.51%) Data Analysis
13 6 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement

Data Centre Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (3.01%) CloudStack
Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.50%) SaaS
2 1 (0.75%) Azure
2 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
2 1 (0.75%) IaaS
2 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.55%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (5.26%) Firewall
2 7 (5.26%) NAS
2 7 (5.26%) SAN
3 6 (4.51%) Wireless
4 5 (3.76%) Extranet
4 5 (3.76%) LAN
4 5 (3.76%) Network Security
4 5 (3.76%) WAN
5 4 (3.01%) DHCP
5 4 (3.01%) DNS
5 4 (3.01%) Internet
6 3 (2.26%) BGP
6 3 (2.26%) OSPF
6 3 (2.26%) VPN
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.75%) VLAN
General
1 20 (15.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.77%) Legal
3 8 (6.02%) Banking
3 8 (6.02%) Retail
4 4 (3.01%) Automotive
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) LAMP
2 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.75%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.01%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.01%) Life Science
3 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.54%) Linux
2 21 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) OS/2
4 1 (0.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (9.02%) Break/Fix
2 12 (9.02%) Presales
3 10 (7.52%) DataOps
4 9 (6.77%) Customer Requirements
5 7 (5.26%) Budget Management
5 7 (5.26%) Incident Management
5 7 (5.26%) Process Improvement
6 6 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (4.51%) Data Analysis
7 5 (3.76%) Asset Management
7 5 (3.76%) B2B
7 5 (3.76%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (3.76%) Data Centre Operations
7 5 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (3.76%) ITIL
8 4 (3.01%) Data Acquisition
8 4 (3.01%) Experimental Design
8 4 (3.01%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (3.01%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.76%) MATLAB
1 5 (3.76%) Python
2 1 (0.75%) Bicep
2 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared
1 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.52%) Degree
3 5 (3.76%) A+ Certification
3 5 (3.76%) Server+ Certification
4 4 (3.01%) CCNP
4 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.01%) JNCIP
5 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) Dell Certification
6 1 (0.75%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) GDPR
2 3 (2.26%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.26%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) cPanel
1 4 (3.01%) Plesk
2 2 (1.50%) Nagios
3 1 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (9.02%) Cisco
2 8 (6.02%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) VMware
3 5 (3.76%) Dell
3 5 (3.76%) IBM
3 5 (3.76%) Oracle
3 5 (3.76%) Sun
4 4 (3.01%) EMC
4 4 (3.01%) Juniper
5 1 (0.75%) HP
5 1 (0.75%) NetApp
5 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto