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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 15 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.38% 2.82% 2.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.06% 10.77% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £456 £534 -
25th Percentile £484 £566 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £638 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +50.00% -15.00%
75th Percentile £769 £716 £475
90th Percentile £780 £751 £543
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £610 £638 £425
% change year-on-year -4.31% +50.00% -15.00%
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 186 65 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 29.48% 26.21% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 49 70
10th Percentile £363 £237 £250
25th Percentile £464 £363 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.78% +8.89% -10.89%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £530
90th Percentile £627 £655 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +12.24% +8.89% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - £15.22
Median hourly rate £38.72 £13.00 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year +197.85% -19.70% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £17.16
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £12.84 £15.25 £16.19
% change year-on-year -15.80% -5.81% -27.24%

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 29 September 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 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (40.00%) VSAN
3 4 (26.67%) Firewall
3 4 (26.67%) LAN
3 4 (26.67%) SD-WAN
3 4 (26.67%) VPN
3 4 (26.67%) WAN
4 3 (20.00%) BGP
4 3 (20.00%) BIG-IP
4 3 (20.00%) DNS
4 3 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (20.00%) IPsec
4 3 (20.00%) MPLS
4 3 (20.00%) OSPF
4 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (20.00%) VLAN
5 2 (13.33%) Network Security
5 2 (13.33%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) NOC Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Network Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (13.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (13.33%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Network Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
2 4 (26.67%) Zero Trust
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (20.00%) Presales
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) CCNP
2 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (20.00%) CCSE
3 3 (20.00%) CCSM
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) VCAP
4 2 (13.33%) CCIE
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
2 4 (26.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (46.67%) VMware NSX
3 6 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) VMware
2 7 (46.67%) Cisco
2 7 (46.67%) Palo Alto
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (20.00%) F5
4 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) Broadcom
5 2 (13.33%) Google