Data Centre Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Center
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 24 32
Rank change year-on-year -33 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 17 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.19% 4.93% 2.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.46% 16.67% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 4
10th Percentile - £501 £351
25th Percentile £456 £514 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +28.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £769 £560 £438
90th Percentile £780 £646 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £605 £545 £425
% change year-on-year +11.01% +28.24% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 - -

All Generic Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 228 66 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 29.38% 29.60% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 48 73
10th Percentile £363 £245 £179
25th Percentile £445 £363 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £508 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +15.34% -12.87%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £540
90th Percentile £640 £679 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile - £16.83 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.56 £15.22
Median hourly rate £38.72 £32.75 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year +18.23% +102.29% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £43.56 £17.16
90th Percentile - £49.68 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.75% -44.55% +22.22%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Centre in Milton Keynes

Data Centre
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Centre

Data Centre
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (64.71%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco Firepower
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (47.06%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (35.29%) VSAN
4 5 (29.41%) Firewall
4 5 (29.41%) LAN
4 5 (29.41%) WAN
5 4 (23.53%) SD-WAN
5 4 (23.53%) VPN
6 3 (17.65%) BGP
6 3 (17.65%) BIG-IP
6 3 (17.65%) DNS
6 3 (17.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (17.65%) IPsec
6 3 (17.65%) MPLS
6 3 (17.65%) Network Security
6 3 (17.65%) OSPF
6 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (17.65%) VLAN
7 2 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
2 5 (29.41%) Retail
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
1 6 (35.29%) Network Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Network Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Network Technical Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (11.76%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) Change Management
2 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
2 5 (29.41%) Network Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (29.41%) Presales
2 5 (29.41%) SIEM
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
3 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
3 4 (23.53%) Zero Trust
4 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
4 3 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) DDoS Mitigation
5 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) CCNP
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (29.41%) CCSE
4 5 (29.41%) CCSM
5 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (17.65%) Degree
7 2 (11.76%) CCIE
8 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (5.88%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) SLA
2 5 (29.41%) NCSC
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
4 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco
2 10 (58.82%) Palo Alto
3 5 (29.41%) CheckPoint
3 5 (29.41%) Fortinet
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (23.53%) F5
5 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
6 2 (11.76%) Google
7 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
7 1 (5.88%) Tanium