Data Centre Job Trends in Coventry

Data Center
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Coventry. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 4 6 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 2.09% 3.02% 6.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.56% 6.25% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 19
10th Percentile - £44,500 £45,653
25th Percentile £57,800 £47,500 £47,228
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,600 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,400 £62,500 £55,375
90th Percentile - £65,500 £57,077
West Midlands median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £51,085
% change year-on-year +36.36% +7.66% +2.17%

All Generic Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 61 96 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 31.94% 48.24% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 24 48 91
10th Percentile £27,650 £30,875 £38,250
25th Percentile £31,063 £46,250 £46,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +15.52%
75th Percentile £73,125 £61,250 £63,175
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,250 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +7.14%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Coventry

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Data Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) FTP
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) SMTP
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Telnet
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
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%) Local Government
1 2 (50.00%) Military
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Development
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft