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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 12 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 5.02% 2.05% 2.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.67% 6.32% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £501 - £463
25th Percentile £514 £413 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% -13.31% +8.95%
75th Percentile £560 £438 £625
90th Percentile £646 - £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £545 £425 £490
% change year-on-year +28.24% -13.31% +8.95%

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 72 95 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 30.13% 32.53% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 72 130
10th Percentile £185 £250 £363
25th Percentile £366 £360 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £625
90th Percentile £621 £588 £755
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £493 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +9.44% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £16.83 - -
25th Percentile £22.56 £15.22 -
Median hourly rate £32.75 £16.19 -
Median % change year-on-year +102.29% - -
75th Percentile £43.56 £17.16 -
90th Percentile £49.68 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £16.19 £22.25
% change year-on-year -5.81% -27.24% +30.88%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing Data Centre as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre 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 16 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Controller
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Application Packaging
1 2 (16.67%) Change Control
1 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.33%) Presales
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ACCA
1 5 (41.67%) CIMA
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Tanium
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Isilon
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam
3 1 (8.33%) VMware