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 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.94% 1.77% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.29% 4.20% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £276 £489
25th Percentile £513 £368 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +19.57%
75th Percentile £538 £574 -
90th Percentile - £582 -
South East median daily rate £445 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -1.11% -2.70% -11.90%

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 152 119 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 28.46% 42.20% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 83 116
10th Percentile £173 £284 £201
25th Percentile £379 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +15.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £598 £630 £600
90th Percentile £640 £671 £652
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 18
10th Percentile - £51.50 £19.29
25th Percentile £15.62 £51.88 £22.61
Median hourly rate £16.71 £55.00 £24.22
Median % change year-on-year -69.63% +127.13% +42.44%
75th Percentile £17.79 £63.75 £30.00
90th Percentile - £67.50 £36.75
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £33.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -28.95% +9.20%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Data Centre job vacancy trend 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
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 24 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -13 5 £525 -2.78% 2
Data Centre
South East

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (60.00%) IaaS
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) IPv6
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) SOAR
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) CCDA
4 1 (20.00%) CCDP
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE
4 1 (20.00%) CCIP
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) vCloud
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) Arista
4 1 (20.00%) Aruba
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) F5
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Meraki
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Tanium
4 1 (20.00%) Zscaler