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 advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 55 90
Rank change year-on-year -44 +35 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 47 94 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.73% 4.67% 3.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.22% 13.82% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 28 55 60
10th Percentile £36,300 £39,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £54,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% +38.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,558 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,125 £78,750 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +22.22% -

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 900 680 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.11% 33.78% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 705 471 854
10th Percentile £30,700 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +9.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £85,000 £85,875
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.38%) Apache
3 3 (6.38%) IIS
3 3 (6.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (27.66%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) Entra ID
4 10 (21.28%) AWS
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.51%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.38%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) IaaS
7 1 (2.13%) PaaS
7 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (38.30%) WAN
2 15 (31.91%) SD-WAN
3 11 (23.40%) DHCP
3 11 (23.40%) DNS
3 11 (23.40%) Firewall
4 8 (17.02%) Unified Communications
5 6 (12.77%) SNMP
6 5 (10.64%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (8.51%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (8.51%) iSCSI
7 4 (8.51%) LAN
8 2 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (4.26%) IPsec
8 2 (4.26%) MPLS
8 2 (4.26%) SSH
8 2 (4.26%) SSL
8 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.26%) VoIP
8 2 (4.26%) VPN
8 2 (4.26%) WAAS
General
1 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (2.13%) Law
3 1 (2.13%) Legal
3 1 (2.13%) Local Government
3 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Senior
2 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Cisco Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Senior Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Senior Cisco Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Consultant
3 8 (17.02%) Technical Consultant
4 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (10.64%) Cisco Security Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Cisco Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Security Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Cisco Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Security Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 4 (8.51%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (8.51%) IT Manager
6 4 (8.51%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Private Cloud
2 8 (17.02%) Public Cloud
3 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.26%) EFT
5 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Replication
6 1 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (46.81%) Windows
2 12 (25.53%) Windows 10
3 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.51%) VMS
5 1 (2.13%) Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Unix
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (72.34%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (55.32%) Presales
2 26 (55.32%) Software Licensing
3 14 (29.79%) Time Management
4 10 (21.28%) Customer Engagement
5 8 (17.02%) Migration
5 8 (17.02%) Service Delivery
6 7 (14.89%) Information Security
6 7 (14.89%) ITIL
7 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (10.64%) Analytics
8 5 (10.64%) Data Centre Operations
8 5 (10.64%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.64%) Project Management
9 4 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (8.51%) DevOps
9 4 (8.51%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) SQL
2 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Degree
2 13 (27.66%) CCNA
2 13 (27.66%) CCNP
2 13 (27.66%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (17.02%) MCP
3 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) CCDA
6 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
2 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (55.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.51%) pfSense
4 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.64%) CASB
2 5 (10.64%) Stealthwatch
3 3 (6.38%) SCCM
4 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.13%) Ansible
5 1 (2.13%) Terraform
5 1 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (80.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (55.32%) Adobe
2 26 (55.32%) Apple
3 18 (38.30%) Cisco
4 12 (25.53%) VMware
5 11 (23.40%) Meraki
6 5 (10.64%) Veeam
6 5 (10.64%) Zerto
7 4 (8.51%) BroadSoft
7 4 (8.51%) Brocade
7 4 (8.51%) Dell
7 4 (8.51%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (8.51%) Fortinet
7 4 (8.51%) QNAP
7 4 (8.51%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (6.38%) Citrix
9 2 (4.26%) Avaya
9 2 (4.26%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.26%) Juniper
9 2 (4.26%) Sun