Data Centre Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Data Center
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Centre in permanent job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Centre over the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 42 74
Rank change year-on-year -28 +32 -22
Permanent jobs citing Data Centre 1 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 0.12% 1.77% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.78% 6.67% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile - £56,250 £42,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £60,875 £66,875
90th Percentile - £64,700 £73,650
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £25,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year +135.29% -38.18% -34.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 128 75 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 14.95% 26.60% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 90 56 241
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,375 £29,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,001
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £87,500 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +33.33% -14.29%

Data Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Centre relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Data Centre job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Data Centre
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Data Centre.

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