Data Center & Facilities Skills in Demand

Facilities and data center teams keep physical infrastructure running, from power and cooling to site construction. Demand for these roles has grown alongside AI compute, and hands-on electrical and mechanical knowledge is central.

We analyzed 345 U.S. job descriptions from 114 employers for Data Center & Facilities roles. The most requested skills were HVAC and cooling (27%), Excel (17%) and Project management (17%).

4,911open U.S. roles tracked
4 yearstypical experience asked for
$147,500median advertised pay, from 393 roles that state it

Hardware

  • HVAC and cooling27%
  • Electrical systems17%
  • CAD12%
  • PCB design3%
  • FPGA3%
  • Semiconductor processes3%

Business tools

  • Excel17%
  • PowerPoint9%

Product & design

  • Project management17%
  • Prototyping5%
  • Agile3%

Operations

  • OSHA12%
  • Supply chain7%
  • Root cause analysis7%

Languages

  • Python7%
  • MATLAB3%

Cloud & infrastructure

  • Linux6%

Finance & legal

  • Regulatory compliance5%

Security

  • Incident response4%

Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since October 8, 2026. Shares show how many of the sampled descriptions mention a skill, so a low share can still be a firm requirement in the roles that list it. We sample a limited number of descriptions per employer so that no single company dominates, and we only report figures backed by several employers. Advertised pay comes from a different group of roles than H1B filings, so the two are not directly comparable.

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