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 in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 132 56
Rank change year-on-year -39 -76 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 25 121 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.56% 1.67% 5.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 4.90% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12 92 108
10th Percentile £36,250 £24,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,125 £40,375 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,300 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -1.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £53,397 £62,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £53,688 £70,000 £79,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,338 2,470 3,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.97% 34.12% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 698 1,708 979
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +15.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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
Staffordshire +14 10 £53,300 -3.09% 9
Warwickshire -19 10 £25,000 -64.29% 6
Birmingham -12 2 - - 19
Solihull +8 1 - -
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 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) IBM Notes
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) IaaS
3 5 (20.00%) PaaS
3 5 (20.00%) SaaS
4 4 (16.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (8.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) LAN
1 10 (40.00%) WAN
2 9 (36.00%) Firewall
3 4 (16.00%) Network Security
4 3 (12.00%) SAN
5 2 (8.00%) BGP
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (8.00%) MPLS
5 2 (8.00%) OSPF
5 2 (8.00%) VLAN
5 2 (8.00%) VPN
6 1 (4.00%) DHCP
6 1 (4.00%) DNS
6 1 (4.00%) TACACS
6 1 (4.00%) VoIP
6 1 (4.00%) VSAN
6 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Police
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Technical Support
2 6 (24.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 8 (32.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (28.00%) Availability Management
5 7 (28.00%) Release Management
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (24.00%) ITIL
6 6 (24.00%) SIEM
7 5 (20.00%) Change Management
7 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
8 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (16.00%) Business Case
8 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
8 4 (16.00%) Matrix Management
8 4 (16.00%) Server Management
9 3 (12.00%) Performance Management
9 3 (12.00%) Project Management
10 2 (8.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) VxRail
1 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) SCOM
2 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) VMware
2 11 (44.00%) Dell
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco
4 6 (24.00%) Juniper
4 6 (24.00%) McAfee
5 4 (16.00%) Citrix
6 3 (12.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (12.00%) Isilon
6 3 (12.00%) Veeam
7 2 (8.00%) Aruba
7 2 (8.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (8.00%) Meraki
7 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.00%) EMC
8 1 (4.00%) Lotus
8 1 (4.00%) NetApp
8 1 (4.00%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.00%) YouTube