Data Centre Jobs in London

Data Center
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 155 271
Rank change year-on-year -17 +116 -48
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 449 763 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.86% 2.39% 1.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.64% 5.19% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 357 528 721
10th Percentile £39,600 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £53,250 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +3.45% +5.45%

All Generic Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,684 14,702 37,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.08% 46.07% 51.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,777 10,150 15,465
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in London

Data Centre
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -37 48 £72,500 +3.57% 13
West London -8 18 £50,000 -12.28% 21
East London +3 4 £61,250 -17.43% 13
North London -4 1 £30,000 - 1
South London -9 1 £67,500 +31.71% 2
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 26 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.78%) IIS
3 8 (1.78%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.56%) Apache
5 5 (1.11%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.11%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.67%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.67%) nginx
6 3 (0.67%) SAS
7 2 (0.45%) Confluence
7 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.67%) SPSS
5 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Primavera
2 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.22%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 133 (29.62%) Azure
2 87 (19.38%) AWS
3 79 (17.59%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (5.57%) SaaS
5 23 (5.12%) IaaS
6 21 (4.68%) PaaS
7 13 (2.90%) GCP
8 12 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (2.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 10 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.23%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.23%) AWS Direct Connect
10 10 (2.23%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.78%) Rubrik
12 5 (1.11%) Datadog
12 5 (1.11%) GitHub
12 5 (1.11%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.67%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.67%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 137 (30.51%) Firewall
2 104 (23.16%) LAN
3 102 (22.72%) WAN
4 85 (18.93%) VPN
5 74 (16.48%) DNS
6 70 (15.59%) MPLS
7 58 (12.92%) Network Security
8 53 (11.80%) DHCP
9 51 (11.36%) BGP
10 45 (10.02%) VLAN
10 45 (10.02%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (10.02%) Wireless
11 44 (9.80%) OSPF
12 40 (8.91%) Internet
13 37 (8.24%) SD-WAN
14 32 (7.13%) TCP/IP
15 23 (5.12%) SAN
16 20 (4.45%) Cisco Firepower
16 20 (4.45%) IPsec
16 20 (4.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.78%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.11%) DB2
6 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.11%) Tableau
7 4 (0.89%) Power BI
8 3 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.67%) Big Data
8 3 (0.67%) EDRMS
8 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.67%) GIS
8 3 (0.67%) Metadata
8 3 (0.67%) MySQL
8 3 (0.67%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.45%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.45%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 14 (3.12%) JIRA
2 5 (1.11%) Git
3 3 (0.67%) Subversion
4 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 116 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 98 (21.83%) Finance
3 45 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.57%) Banking
5 27 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.01%) Telecoms
6 26 (5.79%) Law
7 21 (4.68%) Legal
8 14 (3.12%) Billing
9 13 (2.90%) Retail
10 12 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.78%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Japanese Language
14 4 (0.89%) Publishing
15 3 (0.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 80 (17.82%) Network Engineer
2 79 (17.59%) Senior
3 57 (12.69%) Architect
4 38 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (8.24%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.24%) Analyst
7 27 (6.01%) Data Centre Engineer
8 26 (5.79%) Data Centre Manager
9 25 (5.57%) Lead
10 23 (5.12%) IT Manager
10 23 (5.12%) Senior Network Engineer
11 22 (4.90%) Consultant
11 22 (4.90%) Infrastructure Architect
12 21 (4.68%) Security Engineer
12 21 (4.68%) Systems Engineer
13 18 (4.01%) Senior Architect
14 17 (3.79%) Data Centre Project Manager
15 16 (3.56%) Infrastructure Manager
15 16 (3.56%) Network Security Engineer
16 14 (3.12%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.01%) 802.1X
2 9 (2.00%) XML
3 8 (1.78%) SAML
4 7 (1.56%) HTML
4 7 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (1.34%) Kafka
6 5 (1.11%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (1.11%) XMPP
6 5 (1.11%) YAML
7 4 (0.89%) .NET
8 3 (0.67%) JSON
8 3 (0.67%) LDAP
8 3 (0.67%) Middleware
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.45%) RESTful
9 2 (0.45%) Web Services
9 2 (0.45%) XSD
9 2 (0.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.24%) Public Cloud
2 23 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.12%) Replication
3 18 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.90%) Client/Server
4 13 (2.90%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.78%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.78%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.56%) Clustering
7 7 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.34%) AS400
8 6 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.11%) Blog
9 5 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 104 (23.16%) Windows
2 79 (17.59%) Linux
3 33 (7.35%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (3.34%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.67%) Unix
7 10 (2.23%) Ubuntu
8 9 (2.00%) SUSE
8 9 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.22%) CentOS
11 1 (0.22%) Debian
11 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.22%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (13.81%) ITIL
3 56 (12.47%) Roadmaps
4 53 (11.80%) Mentoring
5 50 (11.14%) Cybersecurity
6 49 (10.91%) Project Management
7 43 (9.58%) Agile
8 42 (9.35%) Project Delivery
9 40 (8.91%) Migration
10 39 (8.69%) DevOps
11 36 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (7.80%) Infrastructure Management
12 35 (7.80%) Network Design
13 34 (7.57%) Disaster Recovery
13 34 (7.57%) Load Balancing
14 31 (6.90%) Technology Roadmap
15 29 (6.46%) Presales
16 28 (6.24%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
18 25 (5.57%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.80%) PowerShell
2 47 (10.47%) Python
3 28 (6.24%) SQL
4 10 (2.23%) Bash
4 10 (2.23%) RPG
5 7 (1.56%) C#
5 7 (1.56%) Go
5 7 (1.56%) Java
5 7 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.11%) PHP
7 4 (0.89%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.45%) Perl
8 2 (0.45%) Ruby
8 2 (0.45%) Scala
8 2 (0.45%) XPath
9 1 (0.22%) Korn
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (15.14%) Degree
2 54 (12.03%) Cisco Certification
3 42 (9.35%) CCNP
4 29 (6.46%) CCNA
5 21 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (4.01%) MCSA
7 17 (3.79%) Security Cleared
8 16 (3.56%) APMP
9 13 (2.90%) MCSE
9 13 (2.90%) SC Cleared
9 13 (2.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (2.45%) CCIE
11 7 (1.56%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.11%) JNCIP
13 5 (1.11%) RHCA
13 5 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.89%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.01%) SLA
2 8 (1.78%) GDPR
3 7 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.34%) NCSC
5 5 (1.11%) QA
6 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (18.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 79 (17.59%) Active Directory
3 40 (8.91%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (6.24%) vSphere
5 22 (4.90%) Hyper-V
6 15 (3.34%) Docker
7 11 (2.45%) Firmware
8 9 (2.00%) vCloud
8 9 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.67%) KVM
10 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.45%) NFS
11 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.22%) IAG
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.22%) Postfix
12 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.22%) Xen
12 1 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.45%) Terraform
3 16 (3.56%) Ansible
3 16 (3.56%) WSUS
4 11 (2.45%) SCOM
5 9 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.78%) Puppet
6 8 (1.78%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (1.11%) Pingdom
7 5 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.89%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.89%) Nessus
8 4 (0.89%) vRealize
8 4 (0.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.67%) Grafana
9 3 (0.67%) SCCM
9 3 (0.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 119 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 105 (23.39%) Cisco
2 105 (23.39%) VMware
3 43 (9.58%) Juniper
4 39 (8.69%) Palo Alto
5 35 (7.80%) Citrix
6 34 (7.57%) Dell
7 32 (7.13%) Veeam
8 29 (6.46%) HP
9 28 (6.24%) CheckPoint
10 27 (6.01%) Fortinet
11 24 (5.35%) SolarWinds
12 23 (5.12%) NetApp
13 21 (4.68%) IBM
14 20 (4.45%) F5
15 19 (4.23%) Red Hat
16 17 (3.79%) Google
16 17 (3.79%) Ruckus Wireless
17 16 (3.56%) Oracle
18 10 (2.23%) Adobe