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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 32 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.99% 2.42% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.12% 5.56% 2.56%
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% +11.68%
75th Percentile £538 £574 -
90th Percentile - £582 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%

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 97 90 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.01% 43.48% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 66 116
10th Percentile £181 £344 £208
25th Percentile £404 £434 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £575 £503
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% +14.43% -4.29%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £605
90th Percentile £646 £675 £924
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £515 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -10.44% +9.52% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £18.11
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - +191.67% -
75th Percentile - - £24.43
90th Percentile - - £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.71 £55.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -69.63% +129.17% +41.18%

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
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 3 (75.00%) IaaS
1 3 (75.00%) PaaS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) CCDA
3 1 (25.00%) CCDP
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CCIP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) vCloud
2 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Tanium
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler