Data Centre Jobs

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 cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 60 223
Rank change year-on-year -86 +163 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 2,036 4,752 3,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 5.12% 1.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.53% 11.87% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,479 1,400 1,947
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,713 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,556 £60,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% +0.87% +8.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,200
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 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36,819 40,020 83,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 43.09% 48.75%
Number of salaries quoted 23,488 22,252 34,538
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,591 £46,558 £45,372
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 £85,000 £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 11 June 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 11 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
England -95 1,715 £53,500 -10.83% 491
UK excluding London -117 1,430 £50,000 -4.76% 312
Work from Home +1 789 £55,000 -15.38% 165
London -26 462 £65,000 -13.33% 191
South East -82 395 £55,000 +4.91% 119
North of England -108 340 £42,500 -19.05% 46
Midlands -104 242 £50,000 -4.76% 46
North West -88 209 £41,235 -27.66% 26
South West -105 163 £55,000 -12.00% 31
West Midlands -102 128 £54,500 +3.81% 31
East Midlands -72 112 £42,500 -22.73% 15
East of England -100 110 £50,000 -9.09% 59
Yorkshire -82 97 £42,500 -16.64% 15
Scotland -140 82 £55,000 - 23
Wales -15 80 £36,476 -47.89% 6
North East -74 34 £44,274 -6.79% 6
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -31 6 £51,000 +2.00% 5
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 84 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.09%) Apache
4 28 (1.38%) Skype for Business
5 26 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 17 (0.83%) IIS
7 9 (0.44%) WordPress
8 8 (0.39%) Confluence
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
10 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.20%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.15%) SAS
14 2 (0.098%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.098%) Jupyter
15 1 (0.049%) CMS
15 1 (0.049%) JOnAS
15 1 (0.049%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.15%) SPSS
8 2 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Primavera
2 2 (0.098%) HiPortfolio
2 2 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.098%) Shopify
3 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.049%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.049%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.049%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 433 (21.27%) Azure
2 333 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
3 313 (15.37%) AWS
4 88 (4.32%) Amazon S3
5 84 (4.13%) SaaS
6 81 (3.98%) IaaS
7 78 (3.83%) Entra ID
8 57 (2.80%) GCP
9 56 (2.75%) PaaS
10 45 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (2.16%) OCI
12 43 (2.11%) Power Platform
13 24 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.08%) Nutanix
15 21 (1.03%) OneDrive
16 18 (0.88%) Mimecast
17 17 (0.83%) CloudFront
18 15 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 479 (23.53%) Firewall
2 333 (16.36%) WAN
3 276 (13.56%) LAN
4 248 (12.18%) VPN
5 201 (9.87%) DNS
6 154 (7.56%) SD-WAN
7 146 (7.17%) Network Security
8 142 (6.97%) Wireless
9 138 (6.78%) DHCP
10 134 (6.58%) Wi-Fi
11 131 (6.43%) Internet
12 109 (5.35%) MPLS
12 109 (5.35%) SAN
13 104 (5.11%) TCP/IP
14 95 (4.67%) IPsec
15 91 (4.47%) BGP
16 87 (4.27%) OSPF
17 80 (3.93%) VLAN
18 77 (3.78%) SNMP
19 67 (3.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.39%) MongoDB
2 59 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
2 59 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.62%) Power BI
4 23 (1.13%) MySQL
5 18 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
8 14 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (0.54%) Big Data
10 9 (0.44%) GIS
11 8 (0.39%) Tableau
12 7 (0.34%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.29%) DB2
13 6 (0.29%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.25%) Redis
15 4 (0.20%) Relational Database
16 3 (0.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (1.57%) JIRA
2 18 (0.88%) Git
3 11 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.29%) RStudio
5 5 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.25%) JBehave
5 5 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.25%) Selenium
5 5 (0.25%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.25%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.15%) Subversion
8 2 (0.098%) GitLab
8 2 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.098%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.049%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.049%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.049%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 485 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 288 (14.15%) Finance
3 146 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (3.93%) Banking
5 73 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 73 (3.59%) Retail
6 66 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 62 (3.05%) Legal
8 61 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 51 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.21%) Law
12 25 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 25 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.08%) Marketing
14 19 (0.93%) Billing
15 16 (0.79%) Local Government
16 14 (0.69%) Automotive
16 14 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 348 (17.09%) Senior
2 291 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 236 (11.59%) Architect
4 196 (9.63%) Network Engineer
5 178 (8.74%) Consultant
6 175 (8.60%) Data Centre Engineer
7 126 (6.19%) Lead
8 88 (4.32%) Senior Architect
9 79 (3.88%) Data Centre Manager
10 78 (3.83%) Project Manager
11 72 (3.54%) Analyst
12 70 (3.44%) IT Engineer
13 68 (3.34%) Security Architect
14 66 (3.24%) Support Engineer
15 64 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
16 63 (3.09%) Administrator
17 59 (2.90%) IT Manager
18 58 (2.85%) Senior Network Engineer
18 58 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
19 55 (2.70%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
2 55 (2.70%) YAML
3 38 (1.87%) 802.1X
4 19 (0.93%) HTML
5 12 (0.59%) LDAP
6 11 (0.54%) .NET
6 11 (0.54%) SAML
6 11 (0.54%) Web Services
7 10 (0.49%) Middleware
8 9 (0.44%) XML
9 8 (0.39%) Kafka
10 7 (0.34%) JSON
11 6 (0.29%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.25%) Gherkin
12 5 (0.25%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (0.25%) XMPP
13 4 (0.20%) LAMP
13 4 (0.20%) REST
14 2 (0.098%) Laravel
14 2 (0.098%) React
Miscellaneous
1 149 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 125 (6.14%) Public Cloud
3 87 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
4 72 (3.54%) Driving Licence
5 69 (3.39%) Replication
6 56 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (2.21%) Private Cloud
8 31 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 30 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.38%) Mainframe
10 28 (1.38%) PKI
11 26 (1.28%) CCTV
12 20 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (0.88%) Cyberattack
14 17 (0.83%) IoT
15 15 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
15 15 (0.74%) SCADA
16 14 (0.69%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.69%) Clustering
17 13 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 567 (27.85%) Windows
2 384 (18.86%) Linux
3 237 (11.64%) Windows Server
4 67 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 54 (2.65%) Data ONTAP
6 50 (2.46%) Unix
7 42 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 40 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 37 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 30 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (1.08%) Ubuntu
12 17 (0.83%) Android
12 17 (0.83%) CentOS
13 15 (0.74%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.59%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.59%) zOS
15 11 (0.54%) Solaris
16 9 (0.44%) SUSE
17 8 (0.39%) AIX
17 8 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 353 (17.34%) Cybersecurity
3 315 (15.47%) ITIL
4 285 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
5 253 (12.43%) Project Management
6 234 (11.49%) Presales
7 223 (10.95%) Mentoring
8 185 (9.09%) DevOps
9 161 (7.91%) Roadmaps
10 153 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 146 (7.17%) Project Delivery
12 142 (6.97%) Agile
13 140 (6.88%) Customer Service
14 139 (6.83%) Migration
15 130 (6.39%) Software Licensing
16 123 (6.04%) Information Security
17 116 (5.70%) Infrastructure Management
18 113 (5.55%) Continuous Improvement
19 103 (5.06%) Service Delivery
20 96 (4.72%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 174 (8.55%) Python
2 137 (6.73%) PowerShell
3 107 (5.26%) SQL
4 30 (1.47%) C#
5 29 (1.42%) Bash
6 25 (1.23%) Java
7 10 (0.49%) RPG
8 9 (0.44%) Go
8 9 (0.44%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.44%) PHP
9 6 (0.29%) R
10 5 (0.25%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.20%) Ruby
12 3 (0.15%) C
12 3 (0.15%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.15%) Swift
13 2 (0.098%) Korn
13 2 (0.098%) Perl
13 2 (0.098%) XPath
Qualifications
1 384 (18.86%) Degree
2 249 (12.23%) Cisco Certification
3 205 (10.07%) Security Cleared
4 171 (8.40%) CCNA
5 166 (8.15%) CCNP
6 146 (7.17%) SC Cleared
7 94 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 69 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (3.09%) AWS Certification
10 53 (2.60%) Azure Certification
11 51 (2.50%) CISSP
12 45 (2.21%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.92%) MCP
14 36 (1.77%) CCIE
14 36 (1.77%) MCSE
15 32 (1.57%) MCSA
16 29 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 26 (1.28%) CISM
17 26 (1.28%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.78%) SLA
2 74 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.26%) GDPR
4 27 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.33%) QA
5 23 (1.13%) NIST
5 23 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.64%) NCSC
8 12 (0.59%) ISO 9001
8 12 (0.59%) PMO
9 7 (0.34%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.29%) COBIT
10 6 (0.29%) IASME
10 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.15%) ISO 14000
12 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.098%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 349 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 339 (16.65%) Active Directory
3 122 (5.99%) Hyper-V
4 115 (5.65%) Docker
5 94 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
6 84 (4.13%) vSphere
7 59 (2.90%) Firmware
8 39 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
9 28 (1.38%) VMware NSX
10 18 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
12 13 (0.64%) KVM
13 8 (0.39%) vCloud
14 5 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.25%) XenApp
15 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.20%) pfSense
15 4 (0.20%) Xen
15 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 150 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 142 (6.97%) Ansible
3 101 (4.96%) vCenter Server
4 78 (3.83%) Terraform
5 59 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 57 (2.80%) SCCM
7 48 (2.36%) WSUS
8 41 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.77%) SCOM
10 35 (1.72%) FortiGate
11 33 (1.62%) Stealthwatch
12 29 (1.42%) Puppet
13 16 (0.79%) CASB
13 16 (0.79%) Nagios
13 16 (0.79%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
15 13 (0.64%) NetBackup
16 11 (0.54%) Grafana
16 11 (0.54%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 580 (28.49%) Microsoft
2 483 (23.72%) VMware
3 435 (21.37%) Cisco
4 160 (7.86%) Palo Alto
5 134 (6.58%) Apple
6 133 (6.53%) Dell
7 131 (6.43%) NetApp
8 130 (6.39%) Adobe
9 123 (6.04%) HP
10 117 (5.75%) Oracle
11 108 (5.30%) Veeam
12 106 (5.21%) Juniper
13 98 (4.81%) Red Hat
14 97 (4.76%) Meraki
15 89 (4.37%) Citrix
16 88 (4.32%) Fortinet
17 64 (3.14%) CheckPoint
18 55 (2.70%) IBM
19 54 (2.65%) SolidFire
20 53 (2.60%) ServiceNow