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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 41 97
Rank change year-on-year -102 +56 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 123 371 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.54% 6.37% 2.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.96% 16.35% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 88 106 164
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,813 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,139 £41,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £81,875 £66,375
England median annual salary £53,250 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +3.45% +5.45%

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 2,479 2,269 3,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.95% 38.96% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,695 969 1,813
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,000 £31,000
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 £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £81,250
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -36 53 £52,750 -15.60% 16
Staffordshire -50 16 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Warwickshire -3 9 £70,000 +55.56% 17
Coventry -2 8 £60,000 +26.32% 4
Wolverhampton -7 4 £55,250 -38.61%
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Solihull -26 3 £62,500 +52.44% 3
Worcestershire -24 1 £105,000 +75.00% 1
Shropshire -31 1 £43,072 +23.06%
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 17 (13.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.44%) Apache
3 3 (2.44%) IIS
3 3 (2.44%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.90%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (38.21%) Azure
3 25 (20.33%) Entra ID
4 17 (13.82%) AWS
5 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.88%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.25%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.44%) DigitalOcean
9 2 (1.63%) GCP
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.81%) IaaS
10 1 (0.81%) PaaS
10 1 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (24.39%) WAN
2 29 (23.58%) SD-WAN
3 22 (17.89%) Firewall
4 18 (14.63%) DHCP
4 18 (14.63%) DNS
5 16 (13.01%) LAN
6 12 (9.76%) MPLS
6 12 (9.76%) Wireless
7 11 (8.94%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (8.13%) SNMP
9 8 (6.50%) TCP/IP
9 8 (6.50%) Unified Communications
10 6 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (4.88%) FTP
10 6 (4.88%) HTTP
10 6 (4.88%) Intranet
10 6 (4.88%) SMTP
10 6 (4.88%) SSL
10 6 (4.88%) Telnet
10 6 (4.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.63%) MySQL
2 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (21.14%) Finance
2 23 (18.70%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.50%) Retail
5 6 (4.88%) Local Government
6 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.63%) Automotive
7 2 (1.63%) Law
7 2 (1.63%) Legal
7 2 (1.63%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing
8 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (22.76%) Senior
2 17 (13.82%) Architect
3 15 (12.20%) Senior Architect
4 14 (11.38%) Cisco Architect
4 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Manager
4 14 (11.38%) Senior Cisco Architect
5 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) Consultant
7 10 (8.13%) Security Architect
7 10 (8.13%) Senior Security Architect
8 9 (7.32%) Cisco Security Architect
9 8 (6.50%) IT Support
9 8 (6.50%) IT Support Technician
9 8 (6.50%) IT Technician
9 8 (6.50%) Network Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Support Technician
9 8 (6.50%) Technical Consultant
10 7 (5.69%) IT Manager
11 6 (4.88%) 1st Line Support
11 6 (4.88%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.63%) Web Services
2 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Private Cloud
2 9 (7.32%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.69%) CMDB
4 6 (4.88%) CCTV
4 6 (4.88%) EFT
4 6 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.63%) EPoS
6 2 (1.63%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (1.63%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.63%) Replication
6 2 (1.63%) Wiki
7 1 (0.81%) Clustering
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.81%) SCADA
7 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 39 (31.71%) Windows
2 14 (11.38%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.76%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.94%) Linux
5 4 (3.25%) VMS
6 2 (1.63%) Android
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.63%) zOS
7 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (39.02%) Cybersecurity
2 30 (24.39%) ITIL
2 30 (24.39%) Presales
2 30 (24.39%) Software Licensing
3 23 (18.70%) Time Management
4 14 (11.38%) Customer Engagement
4 14 (11.38%) Migration
5 13 (10.57%) Information Security
5 13 (10.57%) Line Management
5 13 (10.57%) Project Delivery
6 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (8.94%) Analytics
7 11 (8.94%) DevOps
7 11 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (8.94%) Project Management
8 10 (8.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (8.13%) Problem Management
8 10 (8.13%) Service Management
9 9 (7.32%) Risk Management
9 9 (7.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.01%) PowerShell
1 16 (13.01%) SQL
2 6 (4.88%) Bash
2 6 (4.88%) Python
3 2 (1.63%) C
4 1 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 42 (34.15%) Degree
2 28 (22.76%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (19.51%) CCNA
3 24 (19.51%) CCNP
4 16 (13.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (7.32%) Azure Certification
5 9 (7.32%) Security Cleared
6 8 (6.50%) MCP
6 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.88%) CCIE
8 5 (4.07%) MCSE
8 5 (4.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.44%) CCDA
10 3 (2.44%) CESG Certified Professional
10 3 (2.44%) CISM
10 3 (2.44%) CISSP
10 3 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (6.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (4.07%) NIST
3 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.25%) SLA
4 2 (1.63%) GDPR
4 2 (1.63%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (1.63%) NCSC
4 2 (1.63%) QA
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (31.71%) Active Directory
2 22 (17.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.07%) Docker
6 4 (3.25%) pfSense
7 2 (1.63%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.63%) vSphere
7 2 (1.63%) XenApp
7 2 (1.63%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (7.32%) Stealthwatch
2 8 (6.50%) SCCM
3 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.88%) Terraform
3 6 (4.88%) vCenter Server
4 5 (4.07%) CASB
5 4 (3.25%) Nagios
6 3 (2.44%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.81%) SCOM
7 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 34 (27.64%) Cisco
3 32 (26.02%) Apple
4 30 (24.39%) Adobe
5 29 (23.58%) VMware
6 18 (14.63%) Meraki
7 11 (8.94%) Citrix
8 8 (6.50%) F5
9 7 (5.69%) Dell
9 7 (5.69%) Fortinet
10 6 (4.88%) Globalscape
10 6 (4.88%) Juniper
10 6 (4.88%) Veeam
10 6 (4.88%) Zerto
11 5 (4.07%) CheckPoint
11 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
11 5 (4.07%) ServiceNow
12 4 (3.25%) Aruba
12 4 (3.25%) BroadSoft
12 4 (3.25%) Brocade