Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Analytical Skills
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 55 30 40
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.15% 15.54% 9.39%
As % of the General category 19.64% 25.21% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 22 21
10th Percentile £308 £248 £165
25th Percentile £400 £388 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £390
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +20.51% -17.89%
75th Percentile £555 £580 £488
90th Percentile £608 £599 £590
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £525 £390
% change year-on-year -14.29% +34.62% -22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £12.33 £18.00
25th Percentile - £12.81 £20.25
Median hourly rate - £13.75 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year - -39.11% -
75th Percentile - £14.81 £23.82
90th Percentile - £15.38 £24.07
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.58
% change year-on-year - -37.11% -

All General Skills
Milton Keynes

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 280 119 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 41.48% 61.66% 55.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 86 170
10th Percentile £304 £231 £218
25th Percentile £400 £400 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £507 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +6.63% +2.98%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £508 £475
% change year-on-year +0.99% +6.84% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 19
10th Percentile - £13.30 £17.93
25th Percentile - £15.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -20.00% +137.50%
75th Percentile £25.24 £53.75 £25.72
90th Percentile £31.70 £63.50 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £21.70 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +52.80% -40.83% -8.57%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Milton Keynes

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.27%) CMS
1 4 (7.27%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.64%) Anypoint
3 2 (3.64%) Confluence
4 1 (1.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (9.09%) SAP R/3
1 5 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (7.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.64%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.45%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) Collibra
4 2 (3.64%) AWS
4 2 (3.64%) OCI
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.82%) dbt
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.82%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) DNS
1 1 (1.82%) LAN
1 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Power BI
2 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.64%) Metadata
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) Big Data
4 1 (1.82%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
1 2 (3.64%) Selenium
1 2 (3.64%) WebDriver
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) JUnit
2 1 (1.82%) Storybook
General
1 36 (65.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Retail
6 3 (5.45%) Law
7 2 (3.64%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (45.45%) Analyst
2 16 (29.09%) Data Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
5 4 (7.27%) Lead
6 3 (5.45%) Desktop Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Desktop Support
6 3 (5.45%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Business Change Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Business Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Change Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Project Accountant
7 2 (3.64%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.64%) Middleware
2 2 (3.64%) Playwright
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.82%) PySpark
3 1 (1.82%) React
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) SOAP
3 1 (1.82%) Spring
3 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.82%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Management Information System
1 7 (12.73%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (7.27%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Windows
2 2 (3.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (27.27%) Agile
3 13 (23.64%) Decision-Making
4 12 (21.82%) Project Management
5 10 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (16.36%) Analytics
6 9 (16.36%) Migration
7 8 (14.55%) Data Analysis
7 8 (14.55%) ETL
8 7 (12.73%) Business Strategy
8 7 (12.73%) ERP
8 7 (12.73%) Impact Assessments
9 6 (10.91%) Change Management
9 6 (10.91%) Data Modelling
9 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (10.91%) Workflow
10 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 5 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.27%) Python
1 4 (7.27%) SQL
2 2 (3.64%) C#
2 2 (3.64%) Java
2 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
2 2 (3.64%) VBA
3 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Degree
5 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.64%) ACCA
6 2 (3.64%) APMG
6 2 (3.64%) CIMA
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.82%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) SLA
2 5 (9.09%) QA
3 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.45%) GDPR
4 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) SAP
3 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.64%) Databricks
6 2 (3.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.82%) Google
7 1 (1.82%) Informatica
7 1 (1.82%) MapR
7 1 (1.82%) Splunk
7 1 (1.82%) Tanium