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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 15 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.99% 3.91% 3.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.85% 13.46% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 7
10th Percentile - £498 £378
25th Percentile £456 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £535 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +25.88% -11.56%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £550
90th Percentile £780 £560 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £535 £425
% change year-on-year -1.87% +25.88% -11.56%

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 191 52 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.37% 29.05% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 38 73
10th Percentile £363 £247 £178
25th Percentile £450 £361 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -8.42%
75th Percentile £598 £590 £575
90th Percentile £642 £650 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £464
% change year-on-year +5.00% +7.82% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £20.65 £16.43
25th Percentile - £32.13 £17.64
Median hourly rate £17.50 £52.50 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +157.01% -
75th Percentile - £61.88 £23.82
90th Percentile - £66.75 £24.13
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 23 June 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 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (20.00%) IaaS
4 3 (20.00%) PaaS
4 3 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 7 (46.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (33.33%) VSAN
5 4 (26.67%) BGP
5 4 (26.67%) Firewall
5 4 (26.67%) WAN
6 3 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (20.00%) LAN
6 3 (20.00%) Network Security
6 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (20.00%) VPN
6 3 (20.00%) VXLAN
7 2 (13.33%) IPsec
7 2 (13.33%) MPLS
7 2 (13.33%) NGFW
7 2 (13.33%) NX-OS
7 2 (13.33%) OSPF
8 1 (6.67%) DNS
8 1 (6.67%) IPv6
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 5 (33.33%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (40.00%) SIEM
3 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (33.33%) Presales
4 4 (26.67%) Network Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case
7 1 (6.67%) Application Packaging
7 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
7 1 (6.67%) Network Design
7 1 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) CCNP
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) CCSE
3 5 (33.33%) CCSM
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) CCDA
5 1 (6.67%) CCDP
5 1 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (6.67%) CCIP
5 1 (6.67%) CCNA
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
2 4 (26.67%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (26.67%) VMware NSX
4 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (13.33%) vCloud
6 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) CASB
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) VMware
2 11 (73.33%) Cisco
3 9 (60.00%) Palo Alto
4 6 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (40.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (13.33%) F5
6 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (6.67%) Arista
7 1 (6.67%) Aruba
7 1 (6.67%) HP
7 1 (6.67%) Juniper
7 1 (6.67%) Meraki
7 1 (6.67%) Tanium
7 1 (6.67%) Zscaler