The Data
Centre
Benchmarking
Hub
Every day, we speak to the people designing, building, operating and investing in the world’s data centres. Our Salary Survey is the largest primary research study of its kind in the sector, built from thousands of responses directly from the professionals doing these jobs. We don’t base our benchmarks on advertised salaries or scraped job-board data. They come from real people telling us what they actually earn, giving you a true picture of pay and benefits across the data centre industry.
Quick salary benchmark
Get a broad salary benchmark below or open the full tool to see how your actual salary compares to the market.
Explore the data
We’ve transformed our 2026 research into a collection of interactive tools, making it easy to explore what’s happening across salaries, reward and talent in the data centre industry.
Benchmark salaries, bonuses and pay rises, compare benefits, explore where people are looking to move and discover how the market differs by role, level and region.
What can you explore?
Benchmark salaries by role, level and region and see how they compare with the wider market.
See how bonuses and incentives compare across roles, levels and regions.
See who received a pay rise, how much increases varied, and how they compare across the market.
See who’s looking to move, which regions are most settled or open to change, and what’s driving people to consider their next move.
See which benefits people receive, which they value most, and how packages compare across the market.
Discover which industries people came from before joining data centres and how routes into the sector differ.
Compare annual leave allowances across countries and see how your package stacks up against the market.
Download the reports
These tools give you a high-level view of the market. Download the full 2026 Salary Survey for deeper salary insights by job title, experience, region and more.
