NOC Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Network Operations Centre Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Network Operations Centre Engineer daily rate in Milton Keynes is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a NOC Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 687 156 366
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.35% 92.86% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 118 278
10th Percentile £353 £286 £269
25th Percentile £438 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £598 £588 £587
90th Percentile £638 £650 £691
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 5 24
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.90 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £17.91
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -15.74% +94.73%
75th Percentile £39.63 £53.75 £27.75
90th Percentile - £63.50 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £14.85 £23.48
% change year-on-year +23.37% -36.76% +78.44%

NOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'NOC Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

NOC Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

NOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 3 May 2026, NOC Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring NOC Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSE
1 2 (100.00%) CCSM
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
1 2 (100.00%) Windows

NOC Engineer Skill Set
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSE
1 2 (100.00%) CCSM
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
NOC Engineer jobs