Data Centre Operations Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Center Operations
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.10% - 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36,975
25th Percentile - - £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £45,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.44%
75th Percentile - - £52,063
90th Percentile - - £55,325
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £47,750 £45,250
% change year-on-year +25.65% +5.52% -43.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,467 1,621 1,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 76.77% 94.24% 88.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 777 1,440
10th Percentile £31,300 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,042 £93,750 £83,751
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Centre Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata