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 have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 61 224
Rank change year-on-year -89 +163 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1,974 4,779 3,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 5.04% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.50% 11.68% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 1,420 1,963
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £39,930 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,778 £60,000 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.87% +8.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £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 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £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 £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 2 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 2 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 1,653 £52,750 -12.08% 545
UK excluding London -117 1,378 £50,000 -4.76% 344
Work from Home -2 778 £55,000 -15.38% 197
London -22 449 £65,000 -13.33% 221
South East -69 378 £55,000 +4.76% 131
North of England -105 319 £42,500 -17.48% 49
Midlands -91 239 £50,000 -9.09% 65
North West -92 195 £41,235 -25.03% 30
South West -108 153 £55,000 -8.33% 29
West Midlands -96 124 £54,000 +2.86% 47
East Midlands -58 113 £42,500 -22.73% 18
East of England -102 111 £50,000 -9.09% 59
Yorkshire -90 92 £42,500 -16.64% 13
Wales -11 81 £36,476 -47.89% 5
Scotland -146 79 £55,000 - 30
North East -73 32 £44,274 +4.17% 7
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Northern Ireland -31 6 £51,000 +2.00% 4
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 86 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.19%) Apache
4 28 (1.42%) Skype for Business
5 26 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 16 (0.81%) IIS
7 10 (0.51%) Confluence
8 9 (0.46%) WordPress
9 7 (0.35%) nginx
10 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.20%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.15%) SAS
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.051%) CMS
14 1 (0.051%) Site Server
14 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.15%) SPSS
8 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Primavera
2 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.051%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.051%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.051%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.051%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.051%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.051%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 431 (21.83%) Azure
2 341 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
3 309 (15.65%) AWS
4 88 (4.46%) Amazon S3
5 81 (4.10%) Entra ID
6 79 (4.00%) IaaS
7 76 (3.85%) SaaS
8 57 (2.89%) GCP
9 54 (2.74%) PaaS
10 45 (2.28%) OCI
11 44 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
12 43 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
13 41 (2.08%) Power Platform
14 23 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (1.11%) Nutanix
16 21 (1.06%) OneDrive
17 18 (0.91%) Mimecast
18 17 (0.86%) CloudFront
19 15 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 15 (0.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 478 (24.21%) Firewall
2 325 (16.46%) WAN
3 278 (14.08%) LAN
4 248 (12.56%) VPN
5 200 (10.13%) DNS
6 150 (7.60%) SD-WAN
7 145 (7.35%) Network Security
8 138 (6.99%) DHCP
9 136 (6.89%) Wireless
10 134 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
11 131 (6.64%) Internet
12 115 (5.83%) SAN
13 105 (5.32%) TCP/IP
14 104 (5.27%) MPLS
15 95 (4.81%) IPsec
16 88 (4.46%) BGP
17 84 (4.26%) OSPF
18 78 (3.95%) VLAN
19 77 (3.90%) SNMP
20 66 (3.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.50%) MongoDB
2 59 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
3 54 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (1.57%) Power BI
6 23 (1.17%) MySQL
7 20 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.51%) Big Data
13 9 (0.46%) GIS
14 8 (0.41%) Tableau
15 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.30%) DB2
17 5 (0.25%) Redis
18 3 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
18 3 (0.15%) EDRMS
18 3 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (1.82%) JIRA
2 18 (0.91%) Git
3 12 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.30%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.30%) JBehave
4 6 (0.30%) RStudio
4 6 (0.30%) Selenium
4 6 (0.30%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.30%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.15%) Subversion
7 2 (0.10%) GitLab
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
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 (0.051%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.051%) ScriptRunner
General
1 474 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 275 (13.93%) Finance
3 145 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (3.85%) Banking
5 74 (3.75%) Retail
6 72 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 62 (3.14%) Legal
9 61 (3.09%) Public Sector
10 48 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 45 (2.28%) Law
11 45 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (1.27%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.06%) Marketing
15 20 (1.01%) Billing
16 16 (0.81%) Local Government
17 14 (0.71%) Automotive
17 14 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (17.27%) Senior
2 286 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 227 (11.50%) Architect
4 193 (9.78%) Network Engineer
5 173 (8.76%) Consultant
6 161 (8.16%) Data Centre Engineer
7 113 (5.72%) Lead
8 85 (4.31%) Senior Architect
9 74 (3.75%) Project Manager
10 73 (3.70%) Data Centre Manager
11 70 (3.55%) Analyst
12 69 (3.50%) Administrator
13 66 (3.34%) IT Engineer
14 65 (3.29%) Security Architect
15 62 (3.14%) Support Engineer
16 59 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
17 58 (2.94%) IT Manager
17 58 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
18 57 (2.89%) Senior Network Engineer
19 54 (2.74%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
2 55 (2.79%) YAML
3 37 (1.87%) 802.1X
4 19 (0.96%) HTML
5 12 (0.61%) LDAP
6 11 (0.56%) .NET
6 11 (0.56%) SAML
6 11 (0.56%) Web Services
7 10 (0.51%) Middleware
8 9 (0.46%) XML
9 8 (0.41%) Kafka
10 7 (0.35%) JSON
11 6 (0.30%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.30%) Gherkin
12 5 (0.25%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (0.25%) XMPP
13 4 (0.20%) LAMP
13 4 (0.20%) REST
14 3 (0.15%) React
15 2 (0.10%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 145 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 118 (5.98%) Public Cloud
3 95 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
4 70 (3.55%) Replication
5 69 (3.50%) Driving Licence
6 56 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (2.28%) Private Cloud
8 31 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 28 (1.42%) Mainframe
9 28 (1.42%) PKI
9 28 (1.42%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.32%) CCTV
11 20 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
12 18 (0.91%) Cyberattack
13 15 (0.76%) IoT
14 14 (0.71%) Client/Server
14 14 (0.71%) Clustering
15 13 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
15 13 (0.66%) SCADA
16 12 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 574 (29.08%) Windows
2 380 (19.25%) Linux
3 244 (12.36%) Windows Server
4 66 (3.34%) Windows 10
5 54 (2.74%) Data ONTAP
6 51 (2.58%) Unix
7 42 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 38 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 30 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (1.06%) Ubuntu
12 17 (0.86%) Android
12 17 (0.86%) CentOS
13 15 (0.76%) Apple iOS
14 12 (0.61%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.61%) zOS
15 10 (0.51%) Solaris
15 10 (0.51%) SUSE
16 8 (0.41%) AIX
16 8 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (17.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 345 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
3 313 (15.86%) ITIL
4 279 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
5 250 (12.66%) Project Management
6 230 (11.65%) Presales
7 214 (10.84%) Mentoring
8 175 (8.87%) DevOps
9 162 (8.21%) Roadmaps
10 154 (7.80%) Disaster Recovery
11 145 (7.35%) Project Delivery
12 144 (7.29%) Migration
13 142 (7.19%) Customer Service
14 135 (6.84%) Agile
15 127 (6.43%) Software Licensing
16 119 (6.03%) Information Security
17 115 (5.83%) Infrastructure Management
18 108 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
19 99 (5.02%) Service Delivery
20 97 (4.91%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 172 (8.71%) Python
2 142 (7.19%) PowerShell
3 107 (5.42%) SQL
4 30 (1.52%) C#
5 26 (1.32%) Bash
6 24 (1.22%) Java
7 10 (0.51%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.51%) RPG
8 9 (0.46%) Go
8 9 (0.46%) PHP
9 6 (0.30%) 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 (0.10%) Korn
13 2 (0.10%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 376 (19.05%) Degree
2 243 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
3 206 (10.44%) Security Cleared
4 170 (8.61%) CCNA
5 161 (8.16%) CCNP
6 149 (7.55%) SC Cleared
7 96 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 70 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (3.24%) AWS Certification
10 53 (2.68%) Azure Certification
11 51 (2.58%) CISSP
12 44 (2.23%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.98%) MCP
14 38 (1.93%) MCSE
15 34 (1.72%) MCSA
16 31 (1.57%) CCIE
17 30 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 26 (1.32%) CISM
18 26 (1.32%) DBS Check
19 21 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (3.50%) SLA
3 46 (2.33%) GDPR
4 27 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.37%) QA
5 23 (1.17%) NIST
5 23 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 13 (0.66%) ISO 9001
8 12 (0.61%) PMO
9 11 (0.56%) NCSC
10 7 (0.35%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.30%) COBIT
11 6 (0.30%) IASME
11 6 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 14000
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.10%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 348 (17.63%) Active Directory
2 346 (17.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (6.23%) Hyper-V
4 115 (5.83%) Docker
5 91 (4.61%) VMware ESXi
6 85 (4.31%) vSphere
7 57 (2.89%) Firmware
8 39 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (1.37%) VMware NSX
10 17 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
12 13 (0.66%) KVM
13 9 (0.46%) vCloud
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%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 147 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 141 (7.14%) Ansible
3 98 (4.96%) vCenter Server
4 77 (3.90%) Terraform
5 59 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 57 (2.89%) SCCM
7 48 (2.43%) WSUS
8 43 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.82%) SCOM
10 34 (1.72%) FortiGate
11 30 (1.52%) Stealthwatch
12 26 (1.32%) Puppet
13 16 (0.81%) CASB
13 16 (0.81%) Nagios
13 16 (0.81%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
15 13 (0.66%) NetBackup
16 11 (0.56%) Grafana
16 11 (0.56%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 579 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 488 (24.72%) VMware
3 422 (21.38%) Cisco
4 158 (8.00%) Palo Alto
5 137 (6.94%) NetApp
6 131 (6.64%) Apple
7 127 (6.43%) Adobe
7 127 (6.43%) Dell
8 120 (6.08%) HP
9 119 (6.03%) Oracle
10 105 (5.32%) Veeam
11 102 (5.17%) Juniper
12 95 (4.81%) Red Hat
13 94 (4.76%) Citrix
14 93 (4.71%) Meraki
15 83 (4.20%) Fortinet
16 62 (3.14%) CheckPoint
17 54 (2.74%) IBM
17 54 (2.74%) SolidFire
18 52 (2.63%) ServiceNow