Data Centre Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Center
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 56 143
Rank change year-on-year -42 +87 -48
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 175 276 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.36% 4.96% 2.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.43% 12.38% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 109 77 75
10th Percentile £30,950 £30,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,350 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -8.96% +6.98%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.06% -4.82% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,355 2,230 3,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 31.80% 40.04% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 1,102 1,488
10th Percentile £28,833 £32,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,750 £73,875 £72,938
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,408 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.90% +4.38% +4.76%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the Thames Valley

Data Centre
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -30 96 £59,000 +12.70% 28
Buckinghamshire -22 63 £40,000 -41.28% 13
Oxfordshire -24 16 £51,000 +85.45% 6
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (3.43%) Apache
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.86%) Azure
2 22 (12.57%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (10.86%) AWS
4 12 (6.86%) OCI
5 9 (5.14%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.29%) GCP
9 3 (1.71%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.14%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.14%) SaaS
10 2 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Akamai
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.57%) GitHub
11 1 (0.57%) IaaS
11 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (21.14%) Firewall
2 25 (14.29%) WAN
3 20 (11.43%) DNS
4 19 (10.86%) SD-WAN
4 19 (10.86%) VPN
5 18 (10.29%) DHCP
6 13 (7.43%) Network Security
6 13 (7.43%) SAN
7 12 (6.86%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (6.86%) Internet
8 11 (6.29%) OSPF
9 10 (5.71%) Structured Cabling
10 8 (4.57%) Unified Communications
11 7 (4.00%) BGP
11 7 (4.00%) IPsec
12 6 (3.43%) LAN
13 5 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (2.86%) SNMP
13 5 (2.86%) Wireless
14 4 (2.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 31 (17.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.57%) Finance
3 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.43%) Legal
4 6 (3.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.86%) Automotive
6 3 (1.71%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.71%) Marketing
6 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.14%) Electronics
7 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Billing
8 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) Senior
2 27 (15.43%) Architect
3 26 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (13.71%) Data Centre Engineer
5 19 (10.86%) Consultant
6 18 (10.29%) Security Architect
7 16 (9.14%) Cisco Architect
7 16 (9.14%) Senior Architect
7 16 (9.14%) Senior Cisco Architect
8 12 (6.86%) Data Centre Manager
9 11 (6.29%) Cisco Security Architect
9 11 (6.29%) Senior Security Architect
10 10 (5.71%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) DataOps Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) PowerShell Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Technical Consultant
11 8 (4.57%) VMware Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Junior
12 7 (4.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.57%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (2.86%) Web Services
2 5 (2.86%) YAML
3 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.57%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Private Cloud
2 10 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.14%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.43%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.43%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.71%) EMC VNX
5 3 (1.71%) PKI
6 2 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.14%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.14%) Replication
6 2 (1.14%) Robotics
6 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 55 (31.43%) Windows
2 46 (26.29%) Linux
3 21 (12.00%) Windows 10
4 17 (9.71%) Windows Server
5 13 (7.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (6.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (6.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (6.86%) Windows XP
7 5 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.86%) Kali Linux
8 3 (1.71%) CentOS
8 3 (1.71%) Rocky
9 2 (1.14%) Android
9 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.14%) OS/2
9 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (26.29%) Presales
3 44 (25.14%) Software Licensing
4 40 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (14.29%) Project Management
7 21 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (12.00%) Time Management
8 18 (10.29%) ITIL
9 17 (9.71%) Storage Management
10 16 (9.14%) Customer Engagement
11 14 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (8.00%) Server Management
12 12 (6.86%) Break/Fix
12 12 (6.86%) Converged Infrastructure
12 12 (6.86%) Mentoring
12 12 (6.86%) Performance Monitoring
12 12 (6.86%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (6.86%) Proactive Monitoring
12 12 (6.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 15 (8.57%) Python
3 8 (4.57%) SQL
4 5 (2.86%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.57%) Bash
5 1 (0.57%) Korn
5 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (35.43%) Degree
2 33 (18.86%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (18.29%) CCNP
4 31 (17.71%) CCNA
5 25 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 16 (9.14%) SC Cleared
7 15 (8.57%) DV Cleared
8 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (5.14%) AWS Certification
9 9 (5.14%) MCP
10 7 (4.00%) CISSP
11 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.14%) CCIE
13 2 (1.14%) ISACA
14 1 (0.57%) CCSE
14 1 (0.57%) CISA
14 1 (0.57%) MCSE
14 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.43%) SLA
2 10 (5.71%) NIST
3 8 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 5 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.29%) COBIT
5 4 (2.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 30 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.14%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (8.00%) Docker
5 13 (7.43%) Hyper-V
6 10 (5.71%) Firmware
7 2 (1.14%) KVM
7 2 (1.14%) QEMU
7 2 (1.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (11.43%) vCenter Server
2 16 (9.14%) SCCM
3 15 (8.57%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (7.43%) WSUS
6 12 (6.86%) NetBackup
6 12 (6.86%) SCOM
7 11 (6.29%) Ansible
7 11 (6.29%) Stealthwatch
8 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.86%) CASB
9 5 (2.86%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.86%) Suricata
10 3 (1.71%) Nagios
10 3 (1.71%) Terraform
11 1 (0.57%) Grafana
11 1 (0.57%) Nessus
11 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 66 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 44 (25.14%) Adobe
2 44 (25.14%) Apple
3 36 (20.57%) Cisco
4 28 (16.00%) Juniper
5 26 (14.86%) VMware
6 24 (13.71%) Dell
6 24 (13.71%) HP
6 24 (13.71%) Palo Alto
7 19 (10.86%) Meraki
8 18 (10.29%) Extreme Networks
9 15 (8.57%) EMC
9 15 (8.57%) Oracle
9 15 (8.57%) Veeam
10 12 (6.86%) 3PAR
10 12 (6.86%) Symantec
11 11 (6.29%) Samsung
12 7 (4.00%) Red Hat
13 6 (3.43%) Intel
14 5 (2.86%) NetApp