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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 42 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.05% 1.65% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.96% 4.00% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £276 £510
25th Percentile £513 £368 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -22.86% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £574 -
90th Percentile - £582 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £540 £700
% change year-on-year -2.78% -22.86% +33.33%

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 101 100 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 26.51% 41.32% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 75 118
10th Percentile £185 £320 £203
25th Percentile £402 £411 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +9.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £580 £629 £624
90th Percentile £638 £675 £920
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £495 £548 £500
% change year-on-year -9.59% +9.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £22.35
25th Percentile - - £22.86
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £28.50
90th Percentile - - £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.71 £53.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year -68.92% +123.96% +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 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) vCloud
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Tanium
1 2 (50.00%) VMware