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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 52 100
Rank change year-on-year -79 +48 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 122 377 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.68% 5.75% 2.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.17% 15.19% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 92 110 161
10th Percentile £24,800 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,854 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +19.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £55,389
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,125 £63,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £57,936
% change year-on-year -6.09% -0.75% +0.76%

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 2,362 2,482 2,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.48% 37.84% 39.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,709 982 1,774
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,075
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,500
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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -41 47 £50,000 -20.00% 8
Staffordshire -47 18 £55,000 +33.66% 5
Warwickshire +23 12 £70,000 +55.56%
Coventry +8 10 £54,000 +13.68% 5
Wolverhampton -9 4 £55,250 -21.07% 1
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Solihull -23 2 £62,500 +52.44% 2
Worcestershire -19 1 £105,000 +75.00% 2
Shropshire -31 1 £43,072 +23.06% 2
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 (17.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.46%) Apache
3 3 (2.46%) IIS
3 3 (2.46%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.08%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (39.34%) Azure
3 26 (21.31%) Entra ID
4 19 (15.57%) AWS
5 7 (5.74%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.92%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.28%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.46%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.82%) GCP
9 1 (0.82%) IaaS
9 1 (0.82%) PaaS
9 1 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.31%) WAN
2 25 (20.49%) SD-WAN
3 21 (17.21%) Firewall
4 19 (15.57%) DHCP
4 19 (15.57%) DNS
5 16 (13.11%) LAN
6 12 (9.84%) SNMP
7 11 (9.02%) MPLS
7 11 (9.02%) Wireless
8 10 (8.20%) TCP/IP
9 8 (6.56%) FTP
9 8 (6.56%) HTTP
9 8 (6.56%) SMTP
9 8 (6.56%) SSH
9 8 (6.56%) SSL
9 8 (6.56%) Telnet
9 8 (6.56%) Unified Communications
10 7 (5.74%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (4.92%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (4.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.64%) MySQL
2 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (22.95%) Finance
2 22 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.20%) Retail
5 6 (4.92%) Local Government
6 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Automotive
8 2 (1.64%) Law
8 2 (1.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (16.39%) Senior
2 17 (13.93%) Infrastructure Manager
3 15 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (10.66%) Architect
5 11 (9.02%) Cisco Architect
5 11 (9.02%) Senior Architect
5 11 (9.02%) Senior Cisco Architect
6 10 (8.20%) Consultant
6 10 (8.20%) IT Manager
7 9 (7.38%) IT Infrastructure Manager
8 8 (6.56%) IT Support
8 8 (6.56%) IT Support Technician
8 8 (6.56%) IT Technician
8 8 (6.56%) Support Technician
8 8 (6.56%) Technical Consultant
9 7 (5.74%) Network Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) 1st Line Support
10 6 (4.92%) Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Help Desk Support
10 6 (4.92%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.64%) Web Services
2 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.02%) Private Cloud
2 9 (7.38%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.56%) EFT
4 7 (5.74%) CMDB
5 6 (4.92%) CCTV
5 6 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.46%) Clustering
8 2 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.64%) EPoS
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.64%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (1.64%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.64%) Wiki
9 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Replication
9 1 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 41 (33.61%) Windows
2 18 (14.75%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.84%) Linux
3 12 (9.84%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.28%) VMS
5 3 (2.46%) Unix
6 2 (1.64%) Android
6 2 (1.64%) zOS
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.25%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (25.41%) ITIL
3 27 (22.13%) Presales
3 27 (22.13%) Software Licensing
4 20 (16.39%) Time Management
5 14 (11.48%) Information Security
5 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (11.48%) Migration
6 13 (10.66%) Line Management
6 13 (10.66%) Project Management
7 12 (9.84%) Project Delivery
8 11 (9.02%) Customer Engagement
8 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (8.20%) DevOps
9 10 (8.20%) Problem Management
9 10 (8.20%) Service Management
10 9 (7.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (7.38%) Risk Management
10 9 (7.38%) Roadmaps
10 9 (7.38%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 16 (13.11%) SQL
3 6 (4.92%) Bash
3 6 (4.92%) Python
4 2 (1.64%) C
5 1 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 38 (31.15%) Degree
2 24 (19.67%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (17.21%) CCNA
4 20 (16.39%) CCNP
5 16 (13.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.56%) MCP
6 8 (6.56%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.74%) MCSE
7 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.10%) CCIE
10 4 (3.28%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.46%) CCDA
11 3 (2.46%) CISSP
11 3 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (2.46%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (4.10%) NIST
3 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.28%) SLA
4 2 (1.64%) GDPR
4 2 (1.64%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (1.64%) NCSC
4 2 (1.64%) QA
5 1 (0.82%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.82%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.82%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (33.61%) Active Directory
2 21 (17.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.20%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (4.10%) Docker
7 4 (3.28%) pfSense
8 2 (1.64%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (9.84%) SCCM
2 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.56%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.92%) Stealthwatch
4 6 (4.92%) Terraform
5 5 (4.10%) CASB
6 4 (3.28%) Nagios
7 3 (2.46%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.46%) SCOM
8 1 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.82%) Ansible
8 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.82%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (59.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (24.59%) VMware
3 29 (23.77%) Apple
3 29 (23.77%) Cisco
4 27 (22.13%) Adobe
5 14 (11.48%) Meraki
6 11 (9.02%) Citrix
7 8 (6.56%) Globalscape
8 7 (5.74%) Dell
9 6 (4.92%) F5
10 5 (4.10%) Fortinet
10 5 (4.10%) Juniper
10 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.10%) Veeam
10 5 (4.10%) Zerto
11 4 (3.28%) BroadSoft
11 4 (3.28%) Brocade
11 4 (3.28%) CheckPoint
11 4 (3.28%) Dell Compellent
11 4 (3.28%) QNAP