Data Centre Jobs in the Midlands

Data Center
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 47 112
Rank change year-on-year -75 +65 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 235 578 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.02% 6.01% 2.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.28% 15.86% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 183 129 245
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,250 £35,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,100 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £79,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,745 3,645 4,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.14% 37.88% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,663 1,483 2,712
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,875 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,837 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £77,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the Midlands

Data Centre
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands -79 123 £54,000 -1.82% 25
East Midlands -46 110 £42,500 +6.25% 14
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 23 (9.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.96%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.40%) Apache
4 5 (2.13%) Confluence
5 4 (1.70%) IIS
6 3 (1.28%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (9.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (42.98%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (29.36%) Azure
3 37 (15.74%) AWS
4 32 (13.62%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.26%) SaaS
6 9 (3.83%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.40%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.55%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.70%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.28%) DigitalOcean
11 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.85%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.85%) IaaS
11 2 (0.85%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.85%) PaaS
11 2 (0.85%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (18.72%) Firewall
2 30 (12.77%) WAN
3 28 (11.91%) DNS
4 26 (11.06%) DHCP
5 23 (9.79%) SD-WAN
6 22 (9.36%) LAN
6 22 (9.36%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (7.23%) SNMP
8 14 (5.96%) VPN
9 11 (4.68%) MPLS
9 11 (4.68%) Wireless
10 10 (4.26%) SAN
10 10 (4.26%) TCP/IP
11 9 (3.83%) Internet
12 8 (3.40%) FTP
12 8 (3.40%) HTTP
12 8 (3.40%) IPsec
12 8 (3.40%) SMTP
12 8 (3.40%) SSL
12 8 (3.40%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.70%) MySQL
3 4 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.85%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) Big Data
5 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (3.40%) JIRA
2 4 (1.70%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (17.87%) Finance
2 33 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 19 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.23%) Retail
5 16 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.96%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.83%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.98%) Automotive
8 7 (2.98%) Local Government
9 6 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.13%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Electronics
12 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (18.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (13.62%) Senior
3 29 (12.34%) Consultant
4 28 (11.91%) IT Engineer
5 19 (8.09%) 1st Line Support
5 19 (8.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (7.23%) Infrastructure Manager
7 15 (6.38%) Architect
7 15 (6.38%) IT Support
8 14 (5.96%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) IT Manager
10 11 (4.68%) Administrator
11 10 (4.26%) Cisco Architect
11 10 (4.26%) Lead
11 10 (4.26%) Network Consultant
11 10 (4.26%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Senior Architect
11 10 (4.26%) Senior Cisco Architect
11 10 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (2.13%) YAML
2 3 (1.28%) LDAP
3 2 (0.85%) .NET
3 2 (0.85%) SAML
3 2 (0.85%) ServiceStack
3 2 (0.85%) Web Services
4 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.81%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.53%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.68%) Private Cloud
4 8 (3.40%) EFT
5 7 (2.98%) CMDB
5 7 (2.98%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (2.55%) CCTV
6 6 (2.55%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.55%) PKI
7 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.13%) PMI
8 4 (1.70%) Clustering
9 3 (1.28%) IBM Mainframe
9 3 (1.28%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.28%) Wiki
10 2 (0.85%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.85%) EPoS
10 2 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 103 (43.83%) Windows
2 46 (19.57%) Windows Server
3 23 (9.79%) Linux
4 14 (5.96%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.55%) VMS
6 5 (2.13%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (2.13%) Unix
7 4 (1.70%) Android
8 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.28%) zOS
9 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (35.74%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (21.28%) ITIL
3 46 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (17.45%) Project Management
5 29 (12.34%) Presales
6 28 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (11.49%) Mentoring
8 26 (11.06%) Software Licensing
9 25 (10.64%) Service Management
10 22 (9.36%) Information Security
11 20 (8.51%) Customer Service
11 20 (8.51%) ITSM
11 20 (8.51%) Project Delivery
11 20 (8.51%) Roadmaps
12 19 (8.09%) Change Management
12 19 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (8.09%) Time Management
13 18 (7.66%) Migration
14 17 (7.23%) DevOps
15 16 (6.81%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.64%) SQL
2 23 (9.79%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.81%) Python
4 8 (3.40%) Bash
5 3 (1.28%) C
6 2 (0.85%) C#
6 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.43%) Bicep
7 1 (0.43%) Java
7 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (25.96%) Degree
2 28 (11.91%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (11.06%) CCNA
4 21 (8.94%) CCNP
4 21 (8.94%) MCP
5 20 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.53%) DBS Check
7 11 (4.68%) MCSE
8 10 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (3.83%) SC Cleared
9 9 (3.83%) Security Cleared
10 7 (2.98%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.98%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.13%) MCSA
11 5 (2.13%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.70%) CCIE
12 4 (1.70%) CISSP
12 4 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
1 11 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 8 (3.40%) SLA
3 7 (2.98%) PMO
4 6 (2.55%) NIST
4 6 (2.55%) QA
4 6 (2.55%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.13%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.85%) ISO 31000
6 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.43%) COBIT
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (26.81%) Active Directory
2 50 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.66%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.96%) Docker
5 8 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.70%) pfSense
8 2 (0.85%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (7.66%) SCCM
2 15 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.53%) vCenter Server
4 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (4.26%) Terraform
6 9 (3.83%) Ansible
7 5 (2.13%) CASB
7 5 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.13%) Stealthwatch
7 5 (2.13%) WSUS
8 4 (1.70%) Nagios
9 3 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.28%) SCOM
10 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.43%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 106 (45.11%) Microsoft
2 66 (28.09%) VMware
3 45 (19.15%) Cisco
4 30 (12.77%) Apple
5 26 (11.06%) Adobe
6 18 (7.66%) ServiceNow
7 14 (5.96%) Meraki
8 11 (4.68%) Citrix
9 8 (3.40%) Globalscape
9 8 (3.40%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.98%) Dell
11 6 (2.55%) F5
11 6 (2.55%) NetApp
11 6 (2.55%) Veeam
12 5 (2.13%) Juniper
12 5 (2.13%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.13%) SolidFire
12 5 (2.13%) Zerto
13 4 (1.70%) Brocade
13 4 (1.70%) Fortinet