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 29 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 54 28 44
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.11% 14.89% 12.39%
As % of the General category 18.56% 20.90% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 23 22
10th Percentile £314 £210 £165
25th Percentile £412 £315 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £393 £275
Median % change year-on-year +22.10% +42.73% -40.22%
75th Percentile £544 £467 £438
90th Percentile £594 £578 £586
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £399 £373
% change year-on-year +19.12% +7.05% -21.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - - £17.17
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.12 £22.54
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -32.92% +66.10%
75th Percentile - £15.44 £23.97
90th Percentile - £15.62 £26.10
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £14.20 £22.54
% change year-on-year +23.24% -37.00% +66.10%

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 291 134 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 38.34% 71.28% 58.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 92 142
10th Percentile £310 £213 £212
25th Percentile £415 £334 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £590
90th Percentile £638 £718 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £462 £450
% change year-on-year +13.64% +2.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 11
10th Percentile £17.50 £14.23 £17.64
25th Percentile £17.71 £15.12 £17.82
Median hourly rate £18.32 £15.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -31.11% +65.81%
75th Percentile - £20.50 £24.13
90th Percentile £21.78 £57.00 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.50 £14.20 £24.43
% change year-on-year +58.45% -41.87% +80.03%

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 29 June 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 (7.41%) CMS
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (5.56%) SAP R/3
2 3 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.85%) AWS
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.85%) Collibra
4 1 (1.85%) dbt
4 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) GitHub
4 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) OCI
4 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) LAN
1 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.85%) Metadata
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.85%) PowerPivot
2 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.85%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
1 2 (3.70%) Selenium
1 2 (3.70%) WebDriver
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JUnit
2 1 (1.85%) MSI
2 1 (1.85%) Storybook
General
1 31 (57.41%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Automotive
5 3 (5.56%) Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Law
5 3 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) German Language
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Analyst
2 9 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 9 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (9.26%) Service Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle Specialist
4 4 (7.41%) Service Transition Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Transition Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Commercial Data Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Lead
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Report Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Middleware
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (5.56%) REST
2 3 (5.56%) SOAP
3 2 (3.70%) Playwright
4 1 (1.85%) CSS
4 1 (1.85%) HTML
4 1 (1.85%) PySpark
4 1 (1.85%) React
4 1 (1.85%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.85%) Spring
4 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (5.56%) CMDB
2 3 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (37.04%) Agile
3 15 (27.78%) Decision-Making
4 12 (22.22%) Analytics
5 10 (18.52%) ITIL
6 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (14.81%) Project Management
7 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.96%) ETL
9 6 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (11.11%) Business Analysis
9 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.11%) Data Analysis
9 6 (11.11%) ITSM
10 5 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.26%) Migration
10 5 (9.26%) SIEM
10 5 (9.26%) User Stories
11 4 (7.41%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.41%) SQL
3 2 (3.70%) C#
3 2 (3.70%) Java
3 2 (3.70%) Python
3 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.52%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Degree
5 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.85%) HNC
6 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.41%) SLA
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.85%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) SCOM
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) ServiceNow
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) SAP
3 3 (5.56%) IBM
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.70%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) MapR
5 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.85%) Tanium