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Pay Rise Index

Does your pay rise beat the market? See how your increase compares with people doing that job, at that level, in that market.

2026 DATAX CONNECT SALARY SURVEY · RAW DATA

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2026 survey answer

What percentage of data centre professionals working in Europe received a pay rise?

Among data centre professionals working in Europe, 65% received a pay rise in the last 12 months. The most common rise among those who received one was 0-4%.

High Confidence·Statistically robust

Pay rise distribution

Europe · all Job Families

No rise
35%
0-4%
30%
4-8%
16%
8-12%
9%
12-16%
3%
16-20%
3%
20%+
4%

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Methodology: Pay-rise values are normalized as percentages before being assigned to the display bands. Confidence levels are High Confidence (50+ used responses), Moderate Confidence (20–49), and Limited Confidence (fewer than 20). C-suite data is not displayed publicly due to confidentiality and the significant variation in executive roles and reward structures. For executive-level benchmarking, Data eXec, our Executive Search company can provide tailored insight through a private and confidential conversation.

Our data comes directly from professionals working across the data centre industry, not advertised salaries or scraped job-board data. The results shown provide a broad market benchmark. When you work with us, we go deeper, adding our recruitment data and real-time market intelligence, including current salaries and candidate expectations, talent availability, competitor activity, new projects and market entrants.

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