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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 28 44
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Centre 7 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.04% 4.48% 1.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.05% 9.89% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile - £376 £393
25th Percentile £456 £499 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £538 £560 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%

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 173 91 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 25.63% 45.27% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 70 93
10th Percentile £355 £303 £200
25th Percentile £413 £468 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £600
90th Percentile £643 £678 £695
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £560 £505
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.89% -0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 13
10th Percentile - £53.13 £18.11
25th Percentile - £55.94 £22.61
Median hourly rate - £61.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - +155.21% -
75th Percentile - £65.94 £24.43
90th Percentile - £68.38 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.71 £52.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -68.18% +110.00% -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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (42.86%) IaaS
1 3 (42.86%) PaaS
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (42.86%) VXLAN
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) NX-OS
3 2 (28.57%) VSAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) IPv6
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) Multicast
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SNMP
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Presales
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) SOAR
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) CCSE
3 2 (28.57%) CCSM
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) CCDA
4 1 (14.29%) CCDP
4 1 (14.29%) CCIE
4 1 (14.29%) CCIP
4 1 (14.29%) CCNA
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) vCloud
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
4 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
4 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (14.29%) Arista
6 1 (14.29%) Aruba
6 1 (14.29%) F5
6 1 (14.29%) HP
6 1 (14.29%) Juniper
6 1 (14.29%) Meraki
6 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 1 (14.29%) Tanium
6 1 (14.29%) Zscaler