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 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 50 19 40
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.68% 11.80% 10.39%
As % of the General category 17.12% 17.43% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 16 18
10th Percentile £329 £298 £165
25th Percentile £405 £402 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £489 £343
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +42.70% -29.74%
75th Percentile £541 £567 £447
90th Percentile £600 £600 £590
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £515 £385
% change year-on-year -7.77% +33.77% -23.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - £15.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate - £15.50 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year - -31.36% -
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £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 292 109 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 38.99% 67.70% 53.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 84 144
10th Percentile £310 £228 £213
25th Percentile £402 £396 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +2.45% +8.16% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile - £13.90 £17.71
25th Percentile - £15.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -18.16% +132.15%
75th Percentile £25.24 £53.75 £24.43
90th Percentile £31.70 £63.50 £29.40
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.50 £14.20 £24.43
% change year-on-year +58.45% -41.87% -6.93%

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 17 May 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 (8.00%) CMS
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 2 (4.00%) Anypoint
4 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 4 (8.00%) SAP R/3
1 4 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.00%) Collibra
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.00%) AWS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.00%) dbt
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) LAN
1 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) PowerPivot
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.00%) Selenium
2 2 (4.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) JUnit
3 1 (2.00%) Storybook
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Automotive
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.00%) German Language
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Analyst
2 11 (22.00%) Data Analyst
3 9 (18.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle Specialist
5 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) SOC Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Report Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) SAP Data Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Reporting Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Middleware
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.00%) Playwright
2 2 (4.00%) REST
2 2 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (2.00%) CSS
3 1 (2.00%) HTML
3 1 (2.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.00%) React
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (8.00%) Cyber Defence
1 4 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (8.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.00%) CMDB
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (36.00%) Agile
3 11 (22.00%) Analytics
4 9 (18.00%) Project Management
5 8 (16.00%) Decision-Making
6 7 (14.00%) ETL
6 7 (14.00%) Migration
6 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (12.00%) Business Analysis
7 6 (12.00%) SIEM
7 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (12.00%) Workflow
8 5 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (10.00%) Data Modelling
8 5 (10.00%) ERP
8 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.00%) User Stories
9 4 (8.00%) ITIL
9 4 (8.00%) ITSM
9 4 (8.00%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) C#
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.00%) VBA
4 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) ACCA
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.00%) SLA
3 3 (6.00%) GDPR
4 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) SCOM
2 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.00%) SAP
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.00%) Databricks
3 3 (6.00%) IBM
4 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) MapR
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) Tanium