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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 44 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 7 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.05% 1.78% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.29% 5.47% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile £534 £294 £468
25th Percentile £566 £413 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £425 £540
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -21.34% +20.06%
75th Percentile £716 £438 £700
90th Percentile £751 £528 £730
South East median daily rate £413 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -17.50% - -2.44%

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 96 128 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 28.15% 32.49% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 90 138
10th Percentile £250 £250 £309
25th Percentile £363 £354 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £625
90th Percentile £650 £656 £800
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £13.23 £18.82 £21.10
25th Percentile £13.72 £24.23 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.25 £34.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +43.10% +41.18%
75th Percentile £15.38 £44.60 -
90th Percentile £16.29 £50.09 -
South East median hourly rate £26.50 £55.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -51.82% +1.97% +124.73%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 18 October 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 October 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 +7 7 £638 +50.00% 4
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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
1 2 (28.57%) Change Control
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Presales
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Tanium
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Isilon
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) VMware