Data Centre Operations Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Center Operations
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Centre Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 199 179
Rank change year-on-year +25 -20 +106
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.038% 0.024% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.026% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £36,975
25th Percentile - £52,500 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +21.55% -43.44%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £52,063
90th Percentile - - £55,325
England median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Centre Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,371 3,850 3,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.30% 90.91% 87.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,266 1,714 2,612
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Centre Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Centre Operations job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Centre Operations
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Centre Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Centre Operations

Data Centre Operations
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 Operations within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 January 2026. 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
Shropshire - 1 £60,000 -
Birmingham - 1 - -
Data Centre Operations
England

Data Centre Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata