Data Centre Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Center
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Centre over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 53 105
Rank change year-on-year -79 +52 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 121 377 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.67% 5.61% 2.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.13% 14.85% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 92 110 154
10th Percentile £24,800 £35,000 £34,650
25th Percentile £40,375 £40,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £62,813 £67,500 £56,972
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,125 £63,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,360 2,539 2,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.66% 37.75% 39.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 982 1,751
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £30,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,108 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Centre in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Centre in the West Midlands

Data Centre
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -43 46 £47,000 -24.80% 8
Staffordshire -38 18 £55,000 +30.95% 6
Warwickshire +29 11 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Coventry +12 10 £54,000 +13.68% 3
Wolverhampton -9 4 £55,250 -21.07% 2
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Solihull -24 2 £62,500 +53.37% 2
Worcestershire -17 1 £105,000 +75.00% 2
Shropshire -23 1 £43,072 +23.06% 4
Data Centre
England

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 21 (17.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (9.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.48%) Apache
3 3 (2.48%) IIS
3 3 (2.48%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (46.28%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (40.50%) Azure
3 26 (21.49%) Entra ID
4 19 (15.70%) AWS
5 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.96%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.96%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.31%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.48%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.83%) GCP
8 1 (0.83%) IaaS
8 1 (0.83%) PaaS
8 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.66%) WAN
2 23 (19.01%) SD-WAN
3 21 (17.36%) Firewall
4 19 (15.70%) DHCP
4 19 (15.70%) DNS
5 17 (14.05%) LAN
6 12 (9.92%) SNMP
7 11 (9.09%) MPLS
8 10 (8.26%) TCP/IP
8 10 (8.26%) Wireless
9 8 (6.61%) FTP
9 8 (6.61%) HTTP
9 8 (6.61%) SMTP
9 8 (6.61%) SSH
9 8 (6.61%) SSL
9 8 (6.61%) Telnet
9 8 (6.61%) Unified Communications
10 6 (4.96%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (4.96%) Intranet
10 6 (4.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.65%) MySQL
2 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (23.14%) Finance
2 22 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Retail
5 6 (4.96%) Local Government
6 5 (4.13%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Automotive
8 2 (1.65%) Law
8 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (14.88%) Senior
2 17 (14.05%) Infrastructure Manager
3 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.92%) Architect
5 10 (8.26%) Cisco Architect
5 10 (8.26%) IT Manager
5 10 (8.26%) Senior Architect
5 10 (8.26%) Senior Cisco Architect
6 9 (7.44%) Consultant
6 9 (7.44%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 8 (6.61%) IT Support
7 8 (6.61%) IT Support Technician
7 8 (6.61%) IT Technician
7 8 (6.61%) Network Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Support Technician
7 8 (6.61%) Technical Consultant
8 6 (4.96%) 1st Line Support Technician
8 6 (4.96%) Data Centre Manager
8 6 (4.96%) Help Desk Technician
8 6 (4.96%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.65%) Web Services
2 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.83%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 9 (7.44%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.61%) EFT
4 7 (5.79%) CMDB
5 6 (4.96%) CCTV
6 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.48%) Clustering
8 3 (2.48%) Wiki
9 2 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.65%) EPoS
9 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.65%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (34.71%) Windows
2 19 (15.70%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.92%) Linux
3 12 (9.92%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.31%) VMS
5 3 (2.48%) Unix
6 2 (1.65%) Android
6 2 (1.65%) zOS
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.88%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (25.62%) ITIL
3 26 (21.49%) Presales
3 26 (21.49%) Software Licensing
4 19 (15.70%) Time Management
5 14 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (11.57%) Migration
6 13 (10.74%) Information Security
6 13 (10.74%) Line Management
6 13 (10.74%) Project Management
7 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 10 (8.26%) Customer Engagement
8 10 (8.26%) DevOps
8 10 (8.26%) Problem Management
8 10 (8.26%) Service Management
9 9 (7.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (7.44%) Roadmaps
9 9 (7.44%) Service Delivery
10 8 (6.61%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.88%) PowerShell
2 16 (13.22%) SQL
3 6 (4.96%) Bash
3 6 (4.96%) Python
4 2 (1.65%) C
5 1 (0.83%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 37 (30.58%) Degree
2 22 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (16.53%) CCNA
4 18 (14.88%) CCNP
5 16 (13.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.61%) MCP
7 7 (5.79%) MCSE
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Certification
8 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared
8 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
9 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.31%) CCIE
9 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.48%) CCDA
10 3 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (2.48%) MCSA
11 2 (1.65%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (6.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (3.31%) NIST
2 4 (3.31%) SLA
3 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.65%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.65%) QA
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (34.71%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.61%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (4.13%) Docker
7 4 (3.31%) pfSense
8 2 (1.65%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.92%) SCCM
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.61%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.96%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.96%) Terraform
5 5 (4.13%) CASB
5 5 (4.13%) Stealthwatch
6 4 (3.31%) Nagios
7 3 (2.48%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.48%) SCOM
8 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.83%) Ansible
8 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (58.68%) Microsoft
2 31 (25.62%) VMware
3 28 (23.14%) Apple
3 28 (23.14%) Cisco
4 26 (21.49%) Adobe
5 12 (9.92%) Meraki
6 11 (9.09%) Citrix
7 8 (6.61%) Globalscape
8 7 (5.79%) Dell
9 5 (4.13%) F5
9 5 (4.13%) Juniper
9 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.13%) Veeam
9 5 (4.13%) Zerto
10 4 (3.31%) BroadSoft
10 4 (3.31%) Brocade
10 4 (3.31%) Dell Compellent
10 4 (3.31%) Fortinet
10 4 (3.31%) QNAP
10 4 (3.31%) Ubiquiti