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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 58 94
Rank change year-on-year -41 +36 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 45 93 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.67% 4.59% 3.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.03% 13.64% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 28 54 59
10th Percentile £36,300 £40,650 £41,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £57,500 £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 £73,211 £57,500
90th Percentile - £78,750 £64,500
West Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £56,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -

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 894 682 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.16% 33.65% 39.42%
Number of salaries quoted 704 468 875
10th Percentile £30,650 £34,486 £31,250
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% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,375 £85,000 £86,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%

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 19 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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.67%) Apache
3 3 (6.67%) IIS
3 3 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (48.89%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (31.11%) Azure
3 12 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (22.22%) AWS
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.89%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.67%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (4.44%) IaaS
7 2 (4.44%) PaaS
7 2 (4.44%) SaaS
8 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) WAN
2 13 (28.89%) SD-WAN
3 11 (24.44%) DHCP
3 11 (24.44%) DNS
4 10 (22.22%) Firewall
5 8 (17.78%) Unified Communications
6 6 (13.33%) SNMP
7 4 (8.89%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (8.89%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (8.89%) iSCSI
8 3 (6.67%) LAN
9 2 (4.44%) FTP
9 2 (4.44%) HTTP
9 2 (4.44%) SMTP
9 2 (4.44%) SSH
9 2 (4.44%) SSL
9 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
9 2 (4.44%) Telnet
10 1 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (2.22%) VPN
General
1 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Legal
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (2.22%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Local Government
4 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Cisco Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Consultant
2 8 (17.78%) Senior Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Senior Cisco Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Technical Consultant
3 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Cisco Security Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Cisco Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 4 (8.89%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (8.89%) IT Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Cisco Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Security Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.44%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 8 (17.78%) Public Cloud
3 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.44%) EFT
5 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (48.89%) Windows
2 12 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.89%) VMS
5 1 (2.22%) Linux
5 1 (2.22%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (53.33%) Presales
2 24 (53.33%) Software Licensing
3 12 (26.67%) Time Management
4 8 (17.78%) Customer Engagement
4 8 (17.78%) Service Delivery
5 7 (15.56%) Information Security
5 7 (15.56%) ITIL
5 7 (15.56%) Migration
6 6 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
7 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.11%) Project Management
8 4 (8.89%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (8.89%) DevOps
8 4 (8.89%) IT Strategy
8 4 (8.89%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (4.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (44.44%) Degree
2 10 (22.22%) CCNA
2 10 (22.22%) CCNP
2 10 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (17.78%) MCP
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CCDA
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (24.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.89%) pfSense
4 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.89%) CASB
2 4 (8.89%) Stealthwatch
3 3 (6.67%) SCCM
4 2 (4.44%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.22%) Ansible
5 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (53.33%) Adobe
2 24 (53.33%) Apple
3 16 (35.56%) Cisco
4 13 (28.89%) VMware
5 8 (17.78%) Meraki
6 5 (11.11%) Veeam
6 5 (11.11%) Zerto
7 4 (8.89%) BroadSoft
7 4 (8.89%) Brocade
7 4 (8.89%) Dell
7 4 (8.89%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (8.89%) Fortinet
7 4 (8.89%) QNAP
7 4 (8.89%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (6.67%) Citrix
9 2 (4.44%) Globalscape
9 2 (4.44%) NetApp
9 2 (4.44%) Sun
10 1 (2.22%) Nimble Storage