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 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 17 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.26% 5.19% 3.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.29% 17.74% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile - £501 £378
25th Percentile £456 £514 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +28.24% -11.56%
75th Percentile £769 £560 £550
90th Percentile £780 £646 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £563 £545 £425
% change year-on-year +3.21% +28.24% -11.56%
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 205 62 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.30% 29.25% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 43 80
10th Percentile £378 £203 £189
25th Percentile £456 £355 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +3.52% -4.36%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £575
90th Percentile £643 £650 £603
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £500 £484
% change year-on-year +7.50% +3.31% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - £20.65 £15.95
25th Percentile - £32.13 £17.04
Median hourly rate £17.50 £52.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +197.62% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.88 £19.34
90th Percentile - £66.75 £22.39
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £15.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.75% -39.00% -23.08%

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 13 July 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 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (47.06%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (35.29%) Firewall
4 6 (35.29%) WAN
5 5 (29.41%) LAN
5 5 (29.41%) SD-WAN
5 5 (29.41%) VPN
5 5 (29.41%) VSAN
6 4 (23.53%) BGP
6 4 (23.53%) IPsec
6 4 (23.53%) MPLS
6 4 (23.53%) OSPF
7 3 (17.65%) BIG-IP
7 3 (17.65%) DNS
7 3 (17.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (17.65%) Network Security
7 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
7 3 (17.65%) VLAN
8 2 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) 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 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) 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%) 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%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (11.76%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Load Balancing
2 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
2 6 (35.29%) SIEM
3 5 (29.41%) Change Management
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
3 5 (29.41%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (29.41%) Presales
3 5 (29.41%) Zero Trust
4 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (11.76%) DDoS Mitigation
6 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) CCNP
1 9 (52.94%) 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 3 (17.65%) CCIE
5 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 3 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) CCDA
6 1 (5.88%) CCDP
6 1 (5.88%) CCIP
6 1 (5.88%) CCNA
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) SLA
2 6 (35.29%) NCSC
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
4 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) CASB
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco
2 11 (64.71%) Palo Alto
3 6 (35.29%) CheckPoint
3 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (23.53%) F5
4 4 (23.53%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.76%) Google
6 1 (5.88%) Arista
6 1 (5.88%) Aruba
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) Juniper
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) Tanium
6 1 (5.88%) Zscaler