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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 - 221
Rank change year-on-year - - -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre Operations 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.023% - 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% - 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,500 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile £45,500 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.46% +12.00%

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 5,963 2,927 4,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.17% 84.62% 78.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,478 1,854 2,880
10th Percentile £31,738 £28,650 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 31 August 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
Staffordshire - 2 £43,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Server Management
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
1 2 (100.00%) VMware