Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Center
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 42 55
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 12 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.79% 1.63% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.79% 5.56% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £501 - £463
25th Percentile £514 £413 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% -13.31% +8.95%
75th Percentile £560 £438 £625
90th Percentile £646 - £700
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Generic Skills
Buckinghamshire

Data Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 87 108 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 27.44% 29.35% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 80 151
10th Percentile £185 £250 £350
25th Percentile £363 £368 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £630
90th Percentile £616 £635 £800
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile £13.25 - £21.03
25th Percentile £14.19 £15.22 £21.06
Median hourly rate £15.25 £16.19 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -27.24% +30.88%
75th Percentile £15.38 £17.16 £23.56
90th Percentile £24.50 - £23.68
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +132.12%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre in Buckinghamshire

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Buckinghamshire

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Centre.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +11 12 £545 +28.24% 6
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Controller
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Application Packaging
1 2 (16.67%) Change Control
1 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (8.33%) Presales
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ACCA
1 5 (41.67%) CIMA
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Tanium
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Isilon
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam
3 1 (8.33%) VMware