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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 57 36 45
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.13% 17.73% 10.09%
As % of the General category 21.35% 29.27% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 24 25
10th Percentile £308 £251 £184
25th Percentile £400 £370 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £385
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +20.39% -16.30%
75th Percentile £560 £567 £488
90th Percentile £621 £597 £686
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £525 £385
% change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -18.95%
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 267 123 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 42.79% 60.59% 56.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 87 182
10th Percentile £302 £214 £219
25th Percentile £400 £378 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £619
90th Percentile £640 £650 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% +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 £14.42 £24.00
% change year-on-year +50.47% -39.92% -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 30 March 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 (7.02%) CMS
1 4 (7.02%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.51%) Anypoint
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) SAP R/3
1 5 (8.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (7.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.51%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.02%) Azure
3 4 (7.02%) OCI
4 3 (5.26%) AWS
4 3 (5.26%) Collibra
4 3 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (3.51%) GCP
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.75%) dbt
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
1 1 (1.75%) LAN
1 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Power BI
2 4 (7.02%) Data Lake
2 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (3.51%) Metadata
5 1 (1.75%) Big Data
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
1 2 (3.51%) Selenium
1 2 (3.51%) WebDriver
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) JUnit
2 1 (1.75%) Storybook
General
1 38 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Banking
4 6 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.02%) Retail
7 3 (5.26%) Law
8 2 (3.51%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.75%) Automotive
9 1 (1.75%) Marketing
9 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) Analyst
2 16 (28.07%) Data Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Oracle Specialist
4 5 (8.77%) Senior
5 4 (7.02%) Lead
6 3 (5.26%) Desktop Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Desktop Support
6 3 (5.26%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Business Change Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Business Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Change Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Project Accountant
7 2 (3.51%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (5.26%) REST
2 3 (5.26%) SOAP
3 2 (3.51%) Middleware
3 2 (3.51%) Playwright
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) HTML
4 1 (1.75%) PySpark
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) Spring
4 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.75%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
1 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
2 2 (3.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (29.82%) Agile
3 13 (22.81%) Decision-Making
4 12 (21.05%) Project Management
5 11 (19.30%) Analytics
6 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (17.54%) ETL
6 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (15.79%) ERP
7 9 (15.79%) Migration
8 8 (14.04%) Data Analysis
9 7 (12.28%) Business Strategy
9 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.28%) Impact Assessments
10 6 (10.53%) Change Management
10 6 (10.53%) Data Modelling
10 6 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.53%) Workflow
11 5 (8.77%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) SQL
2 5 (8.77%) Python
3 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.51%) C#
4 2 (3.51%) Java
4 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.51%) VBA
5 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.53%) Degree
5 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.51%) ACCA
6 2 (3.51%) APMG
6 2 (3.51%) CIMA
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) SLA
2 5 (8.77%) QA
3 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.26%) GDPR
4 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) SAP
3 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.26%) IBM
6 2 (3.51%) Databricks
6 2 (3.51%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.51%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) Informatica
7 1 (1.75%) MapR
7 1 (1.75%) Tanium