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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 141 54
Rank change year-on-year -28 -87 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 21 121 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.50% 1.61% 6.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 4.78% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 88 110
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,000 £35,375
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,854 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £66,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £71,500 £79,250
England median annual salary £57,750 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% +1.95%

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 1,347 2,531 2,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.22% 33.73% 46.33%
Number of salaries quoted 646 1,685 956
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
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 22 May 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 22 May 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
Warwickshire -2 8 £25,000 -64.29% 8
Staffordshire +12 4 £53,688 -6.63% 42
Birmingham -3 4 £95,000 +80.95% 49
Solihull +5 1 - - 1
Coventry -12 1 - - 32
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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 3 (14.29%) IaaS
3 3 (14.29%) PaaS
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure AI
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (9.52%) Cloudflare
4 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) WAN
2 10 (47.62%) Firewall
3 9 (42.86%) LAN
4 4 (19.05%) Network Security
4 4 (19.05%) VPN
5 2 (9.52%) BGP
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (9.52%) DNS
5 2 (9.52%) MPLS
5 2 (9.52%) OSPF
5 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
5 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 1 (4.76%) SAN
6 1 (4.76%) TACACS
6 1 (4.76%) VoIP
6 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 9 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Technical Support
1 6 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Data Centre Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Data Manager
4 2 (9.52%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (9.52%) NHS
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Proactive Monitoring
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (28.57%) ITIL
3 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 6 (28.57%) SIEM
4 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) Project Management
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Server Management
6 3 (14.29%) Availability Management
6 3 (14.29%) Change Management
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 3 (14.29%) Performance Management
6 3 (14.29%) Release Management
7 2 (9.52%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
7 2 (9.52%) Service Management
7 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
7 2 (9.52%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bicep
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.52%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) SLA
2 3 (14.29%) NIST
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) VMware
2 9 (42.86%) Dell
3 8 (38.10%) Cisco
4 6 (28.57%) Juniper
4 6 (28.57%) McAfee
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 4 (19.05%) Meraki
6 3 (14.29%) Citrix
6 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 3 (14.29%) Isilon
7 2 (9.52%) Aruba
7 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
7 2 (9.52%) Databricks
7 2 (9.52%) Lotus
7 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.76%) Facebook
8 1 (4.76%) NetApp
8 1 (4.76%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (4.76%) YouTube