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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 35 38
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 19 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.50% 2.11% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.12% 7.95% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 4
10th Percentile £456 £534 -
25th Percentile £516 £566 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £638 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +50.00% -15.00%
75th Percentile £769 £716 £475
90th Percentile £780 £751 £543
South East median daily rate £525 £413 £520
% change year-on-year +27.27% -20.67% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.13 - -
90th Percentile £21.70 - -
South East median hourly rate £25.50 - £12.08
% change year-on-year - - -84.22%

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 234 88 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 30.83% 26.59% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 55 79
10th Percentile £363 £211 £245
25th Percentile £461 £339 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.03% +8.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £610 £568 £539
90th Percentile £652 £640 £626
South East median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 1
10th Percentile - £13.23 -
25th Percentile £12.84 £13.72 £15.22
Median hourly rate £14.05 £15.25 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -5.81% -27.24%
75th Percentile £22.75 £15.38 £17.16
90th Percentile £67.75 £16.29 -
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +6.57% -42.37% +4.27%

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 4 October 2026.

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 4 October 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 -21 15 £610 -4.31% 13
High Wycombe - 1 £550 - 8
Marlow - 1 - - 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 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco Firepower
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco Nexus
1 7 (36.84%) VSAN
2 6 (31.58%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (26.32%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) LAN
3 5 (26.32%) WAN
4 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) BGP
5 3 (15.79%) BIG-IP
5 3 (15.79%) DNS
5 3 (15.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (15.79%) IPsec
5 3 (15.79%) MPLS
5 3 (15.79%) OSPF
5 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.79%) VLAN
6 2 (10.53%) Network Security
6 2 (10.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.79%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
1 6 (31.58%) Network Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Lead Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Network Technical Architect
3 3 (15.79%) NOC Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
4 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (26.32%) Private Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) TOGAF
3 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
3 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (21.05%) Network Architecture
3 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (21.05%) Zero Trust
4 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.79%) High Availability
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) Presales
4 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.79%) SIEM
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) DV Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (36.84%) CCNP
3 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (21.05%) Degree
4 4 (21.05%) VCAP
5 3 (15.79%) CCSE
5 3 (15.79%) CCSM
5 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) SLA
2 4 (21.05%) NCSC
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (42.11%) VMware NSX
3 7 (36.84%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) vCenter Server
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) VMware
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Palo Alto
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.79%) Broadcom
4 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
4 3 (15.79%) F5
4 3 (15.79%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
5 2 (10.53%) Google
6 1 (5.26%) Autodesk
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle