Big Data Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Big Data
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 47 50
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Big Data 11 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.99% 0.74% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.42% 6.45% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £314 £541 £311
25th Percentile £322 £541 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £543 £440
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +23.44% -12.10%
75th Percentile £438 £544 £520
90th Percentile £488 £545 £568
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £406 £543 £440
% change year-on-year -25.12% +23.44% -12.10%

All Database & BI Skills
Milton Keynes

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 67 31 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 18.21% 11.44% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 21 54
10th Percentile £307 £200 £289
25th Percentile £351 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £502 £540 £523
90th Percentile £581 £565 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.60
25th Percentile - - £32.58
Median hourly rate - - £42.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +134.84%
75th Percentile - - £52.83
90th Percentile - - £58.63
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £42.86
% change year-on-year - - +134.84%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Milton Keynes

Big Data
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 (36.36%) Confluence
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) ChatGPT
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (36.36%) Star Schema
2 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
2 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Scientist
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Hugging Face
1 4 (36.36%) NumPy
1 4 (36.36%) Pandas
1 4 (36.36%) PyTorch
1 4 (36.36%) scikit-learn
2 3 (27.27%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Data Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Data Science
2 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
3 4 (36.36%) A/B Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) Data Lineage
3 4 (36.36%) Data Privacy
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) LLM
3 4 (36.36%) OCR
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (36.36%) Time Series Forecasting
3 4 (36.36%) Use Case
3 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Sage