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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 7 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.43% 1.65% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.97% 4.63% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £534 £274 £466
25th Percentile £566 £363 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £483 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.12% -19.58% +30.43%
75th Percentile £716 £567 £700
90th Percentile £751 £579 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £638 £483 £600
% change year-on-year +32.12% -19.58% +17.07%

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 78 108 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.08% 35.64% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 79 112
10th Percentile £180 £312 £328
25th Percentile £345 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £625
90th Percentile £653 £651 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile - £15.22 -
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.54% +41.18%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £28.50
90th Percentile - - £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £34.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -55.60% +43.10% +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
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Centre in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 14 November 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 & 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
1 2 (28.57%) Change Control
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Presales
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Tanium
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Isilon
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) VMware