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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 96 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 -45 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 4 50 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.29% 1.81% 4.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 5.47% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 28 49
10th Percentile - - £40,050
25th Percentile £90,000 £38,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +85.37% -18.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £100,000 £58,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - £61,125 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £47,844 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.40% +2.86% +16.67%

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 452 914 673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.26% 33.15% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 227 712 470
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,015 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,087 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -8.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,750 £88,750 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Business Development
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) People Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Facebook
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) YouTube