Data Centre Jobs in Birmingham

Data Center
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 97 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 -44 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 5 57 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.37% 1.84% 4.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.11% 5.98% 12.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1 29 44
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £38,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £54,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +75.93% -13.60% +38.89%
75th Percentile £100,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £64,000 £76,443
West Midlands median annual salary £53,688 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.58% +2.86% +13.58%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 452 953 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.68% 30.76% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 234 712 455
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,923 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,625 £88,750 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% +15.79%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Data Centre in Birmingham

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Electrical Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Development
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PhD
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Facebook
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) YouTube